The strict rule of putting every car into just one category implies too many limitations in my opinion (in both Forza Horizon and Forza Motorsport series).
I’d suggest using tags instead of categories so that every car could be grouped with others based on various criteria. It’d give developers much more freedom in coming up with interesting events.
For example, 1965 Mini Cooper S is put into Classic Rally category in Forza Horizon, while Forza Motorsport 7 has it under Major Micros label. Why not combining both factors?
We could also see some categories split for more accuracy with tags. For example, Early Prototype Racers could be divided between Group C legends and prototypes from late 90s (like BMW V12). Or Group B cars separated from modern rallycross vehicles among Rally Monsters.
We need this. The fact that some categories have like 50+ cars while other have 2, is kind’ve insane. There’s not even a Modern Muscle car or Modern German sports category anymore. They’re all just tossed into a “Modern Sport Touring” category. Who calls a Challenger Hellcat a “touring car”? So bizarre. Tags or having cars in more than one division is feeling like a requirement at this point. Otherwise some cars are stuck in giant chaotic mish-mash divisions & others are practically useless stuck racing one or two different cars, which will get boring real fast.
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My pitch would be to remove divisions entirely, and use tags exclusively.
You’d have different categories of tags such as:
- Race or Road
- Body/type (e.g. full-size, compact, estate, coupe, 2+2, open-wheel, proto, etc)
- Period (e.g. antique/pre-50s, vintage/50s-70s, classic/80s-2000s, modern/2010s-present)
- Native race class (GT1-4, LMP1/2/3/LMH, IMSA GTX/O/U, etc)
- Road tier class (e.g. standard, street, sport, super, hyper; or E-X)
This isn’t meant to be exhaustive, but that would be a good start.
These tags would be only “cosmetic”, in that they would sort cars into different categories, but wouldn’t imply any sort of performance limitation.
For that, I think something like homologation from FM7 would be perfect (except not tied to division as it is in FM7, but a distinct race setting). The GT3 tag would apply to cars like the AM #7 Vantage, Bentley #17 C, AMG GT3, etc, but the GT3-homologation class could be applied to any car (road or race) that meets the requirements.
Then you could set a GT3-tag GT3-homologation race for historical accuracy, or a Race-tag GT3-homologation race to allow any race car, or GT3-tag open-homologation to allow GT3-cars without any performance limitation.
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