Yeah, it was a little late in the game to add such a feature. This I see having a lowest completion rate.
We can check achievements later. It could beat Eliminator 
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Hi - how do you capture photos of cars you do not own?
You can cruise around and wait. Or you can create race for them. Good fun both.
The problem with time is it’s limited. If you learn something today you can be very successful after this crisis. Doing chores is not the best now
Wow, taking hundreds of photos with the long loading times of the game: Great addition to the franchise.
Here are some exciting new ideas for the devs:
- Driving backwards for 500 miles - How is that for fun?
- The floor is lava - 700 jumps with DIFFERENT cars, yeah, this one is for the veterans who have a full car park
- The break is on - listen to a radio channel without moving your car for 10 hours… developers could implement random questions like “what were the 3 last songs played” so that we actually have to pay attention
- Colorful summer - change the color of your car 500 times. This means going to the festival, changing color, going back to the streets and rinse repeat! Oh I love that one… so exciting
- The floor is water - drive 500 miles on water like rivers or lakes
What other exciting and interesting challenges do you guys propose for the devs?
Requirements:
- should have nothing to do with racing
- should take a load of time
- bonus points for looking at the loading screen often
Don’t you love Horizon, too? Great unconventional ideas that really take only a couple of hours of your gaming fun.
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For those people saying that it’s a waste of time… yes it is.
Game designers (that would be me) have to come up with tasks that are fun, and related to the game itself. You don’t really want too much repetition either. If you think of a race, it is very random, in fact it is hard to take the same bend the same way each time, and the other cars complicate all that. As a game designer working on a driving game you should use a race as your template for what people wanted to see in their game. FH4 is a bit more complicated, because you have artists, and tuners, drifters, record breakers, and stunt drivers to account for as well.
If you are going to add photography to a task you should take away the repetition. You can do that by looking at the lorries that entered the game for the Eliminator update. Lots of people went out of their way to photograph these rare lorries. So you could have a task where people have to photograph some rare aspects of the game, like certain locations. A camera has an XYZ position, and a landscape has an XYZ position, and all a programmer has to do is draw a line from the camera to the landscape position to test that it is in the image, and not too far away.
Instead of 200 of those tasks, you just have 20.
I just wanted to post an example of what a game designer can come up with, and their knowledge of how to program it.
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Am I the only one who thought the numbers should have been higher? Say 250 for the Ferrari and 500 for the Porsche? I completed the 2 cars within 30 minutes and now have Promo turned off never to do it again. Sure it’s cool to get it done fast but for something “new to the game” it was to quick. Kinda of like the eliminator how the Cougar was towards the end and not 30% through.
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yeah sure, you did both cars within 30 minutes… just show a video that it really works and tell us how you did it. Because I am quite sure that you cannot do it in 30 mins. But it is the internet, so anything goes eh?
Just came here to mention the drag race idea where you can get 12 cars in one pic, of course some of you already figured that out. 
By doing one or two races with each category I got 200 pics in an hour or so - and I actually finished all the races. Use the strip at the festival as it’s one of the shortest. Couple hints: pick a high PI car for each race so you have a better chance at getting more variety in cars but it’s worth doing a second race with lower PI cars when there are quite a few available. Of course, that’s if you want to just have random grids, setting up races for certain cars is really the way to go, especially when you want to get those PO cars that you don’t own.
I personally liked this feature in the previous games, just wish it would have been here from the start because it does feel like a bit of a grind now. Though they should add back in needing to get the traffic cars as well, that made it a bit more interesting. Was it just FH2 that had that?
I hadn’t realised you could blueprint drag races! Wish I’d know before I spent hours doing the share codes for each category, where you need a couple of shots most times. Duh!
Going for all 685 cars now and this works brilliantly. I choose 50 uncaptured cars at random and run the race a few times, switching cars in between. When the AI cars start to repeat themselves, I create a new Blueprint with cars that are still left. Rinse and repeat. The numbers really rack up doing this.
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Just had the ‘Now Available’ screen where it says Horizon Promo is ‘back by popular demand’… is that true?
More to the point, if they care about ‘popular demand’, why haven’t they done the other things people have asked for a lot more than I’ve ever heard anyone ask for this photo-taking busywork.
Why not let us turn the music off, by popular demand? Why not fix the months-broken ranking system, by popular demand?
congratulation!
but you’re crazy. 
Damn, now those cameras are annoying over all the cars that I didn’t bother with, plus they have used it as an excuse to add the Lego cars to the Ai races.
How did you get the Owens in a picture?
create “only Mclaren” races and repeat, repeat and repeat.
People are complaining about the prizes…they wanted more cars …I guess…at 100 and 200 photos…we got new cars …it would be nice if we got new cars at 300, 400, 500, and 600 too…I can’t wait to see what the creators of the game have…planned next…I really want to see the 1974 Toyota Celica GT come back in the game and it would be cool to see the debut of the Toyota Supra Mark V!
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Please no. Don’t encourage them to inflict more busywork on people.
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