No. I understand that the career boards will still have leaderboard cars.
But a few areas where career was good in FM5 but the leaderboards were lacking:
- Indycars were separate from F1.
- V8 supercars had their own series.
I don’t want 18880 leaderboards. I want career series to cater for cars such as the soapboxes, Indy lights, Formula Ford / USF 2000 and maybe a couple of others.
Once that is done I want career leaderboards to work the way you describe.
I know that in US muscle there will be a leaderboard car and in hot hatch there will be etc.
Its really the loner cars without a peer to compete with that I would like something done about.
Another less extreme solution would be this - if a loner car, or new body style is added to the game as dlc then have 1 permanent rivals event added for that car/series. Not every car in game, just cars like the soapboxes, Indy Lights, Formula cars, Chapparal, Historical Indy.
office and excell are coming to xbox one so sortable spread sheets shouldn’t be a problem as long as access to the the personal times are accessible which i assume they are since forzastats is not an official ms server.
great point. this should be highlighted.
Its a great point provided that the times people want to sort are stored on the servers.
Sorta… I haven’t confirmed this, but I’m fairly certain Forzastats gets the data from right here on fm.net
Last summer I put some macros into an Excel workbook that allowed me to pull down sets of LB data by calling server-side scripts here (pretty much the same thing that happens when you go to Forza.net: The official website of the Forza franchise).
Not what I would call a speedy process - as I recall, it sends a lot of unnecessary data in a very inefficient format. Of course, this entire site was developed in a “Form over Function” manner, so no surprise that hot-lap times are not easily accessible.
As I mentioned earlier, though, they ABSOLUTELY should be able to start making use of the Cloud resources.
I know that. The point I was trying to make is at the moment that only includes the best time per class per ribbon.
Some people are asking for more times to be stored than 1 per class/ribbon.
I don’t want anymore leaderboards, less would be better but it would be great if the game would record the best lap time achieved on every track for every car. Simply a case of clicking on the option after selecting a certain car and it brings up a list of tracks with the best lap time that car has achieved on each one. This would be very useful feature especially for cars shares in the club garage so people can see easily the worthiness of a car for particular tracks.
i would really like to be able to sort by car so I can see how fast my car is compared to other people driving the same car. I am not fast, generally 10 s behind the leader but I still keep trying.
What Forza is all about getting better and better with every lap.
If you’re 5 seconds slower than person x in two different cars. It’s likely you’ll be 5 seconds slower or more in the same car. While being able to know what the fastest time every car is capable of would be nice. All the oddball people will still be at the bottom of the board seconds off. Reason being, it’s not the car, it’s the driver.
Agreed. l can’t see any value in refining a leaderboard by car. I’ve NEVER thought “oh I wish I could refine this leaderboard to show only the car I’m using”. It means nothing unless everyone else is using the same car as me. Seems like a way for slow people to make themselves feel better; just sayin’.
If you talking about class leaderbords, the top times are the top drivers with the fastest cars. You need both to get your best time. The top 1% are all very good drivers, the car is what makes the difference.
Say in F1 the slowest driver in F1 with the fastest car would beat easy the fastest driver in the slowest car.
In a 10 lap race I wouldn’t have any issue lapping a top 1% guy/girl on the boards in the same exact car. That isn’t a very good driver.
Its a revelation; a faster car means faster laps! The difference between a Mercedes and a Marrusia was like 2-4 seconds a lap! If you’re a F1 driver you shouldn’t really be anymore than .5 slower than any other F1 driver all being equal. An F1 driver at the back of the grid is still an elite driver! You’re not really saying much there. What separates the top 1% in Forza absolutely is not the car! You can be 10 seconds slower in the same car and still be top 1%. That is to say, the guy in 1st place isn’t only better than the guy who just scraped inside the top 1% because he had a better car! Ferrari didn’t pay Michael Schumacher £25 million a year because it’s the car that makes the difference.
Michael did anything to win including cheating and Traction control.
Some people don’t, and they want to know how they fair by comparing the assists they use to others that uses the same assists.