Hi all,
Not sure if this has been mentioned in the past, but thought I’d get it out there for Forza, Turn10 and PGG’s to see.
I had an idea for an app for Horizon (all 3) to be made, which would include updates, all garage cars, stats, full map overview with current online players active locations, club notice boards for easy access, auction house alerts so it’s easier to bid and buy.
Also an option to buy a car, create paints and tunes.
I hope I am not the only one with this idea but I think it would really be a great add to the forza family and their players.
App name? Forza Hub. Simple.
GT: SuperQuiggs
Club: [PWN] , co-leader
Platform: Xbox One S
Sounds a great idea, never happen. This site fails to work correctly with the latest version of OSX and hasn’t worked right for more than a month, so getting them to devote resources to a handy IOS & Android app is…
To be honest, you’d have to get the proper certs/auths to be able to access the server data that handles the auction house. That alone would take ages to get finished as I presume Turn10 wouldn’t just hand out the permissions to a side dev.
It’s not an original idea. People have wanted similar apps for years.
I always bring up a major problem with doing much of what people want from an app. The app needs to have access to your save data, and there can’t be any opportunity to exploit anywhere. That’s a lot harder than it might sound. For example, if I’m playing the game on my Xbox One right now, and I’m simultaneously using the app to buy or sell cars in the auction house, both locations (game and app) need to be accessing my account information, including what vehicles I own and what parts I have for them, and my money (CR). If I boot up both the game and app and have 9,000,000 CR on hand (rounding for ease), and I go to buy a car for 8,000,000 in the auction house on the app while I’m simultaneously spending 7,000,000 in the dealership on my Xbox, we have a bit of a problem because I just spent 15,000,000 CR at the same time to acquire two cars at once, but I only have 9,000,000. Grand Theft Auto Online had a huge problem with exploiting buying/selling, as people figured out the exact moment when money gets added to your save data when you sell a car and when the car gets removed from your save data, and were able to find ways of getting the money for selling without losing the car. Rockstar kept patching the latest exploits only for people to keep finding ways around the fixes by exploiting the new routines. Gran Turismo 5 had a similar problem as people were able to exploit game saves to buy cars as much as they want, or parts like tires, and still have millions of dollars (I forget the details of the exploit at this time). Something like being able to buy and sell in the app, independent of the game, seems like a huge opportunity for exploitation.
About the only thing I could figure to do is have your money (CR) and everything on file on the server and both the game and the app have to sync to that, and then you are limited to using either your console to play the game or your mobile device for the app but not both at once, and can’t use the other until you’ve ended a session on the other. On Xbox One you can shut the console off and boot it up five days from now and resume as if you never turned the game off, so that’ll have to go out the window for the app. We can’t have your game suspended with 11 million CR, then you spend 9 million in the app, and then you resume the game on Xbox One still with 11 million CR.
The same problem could occur with cars. We can’t have you racing in a supercar on Xbox One and at the same time auctioning that car in the auction house on the app. How can you sell that car on the app while you still own it on your Xbox?
We’re not talking about trivialities, either. It’s absolutely imperative that there’s no opportunity for exploitation here. If there’s any exploitation, it would destroy the virtual economy. Cars could all become worthless if people are exploiting to duplicate cars or use free CR. There’s no point in me buying anything from the dealership if there’s cheaters dumping everything into the auction houses for the lowest buyouts allowed by the system. The auction house could be absolutely filled with rock-bottom prices on everything and suddenly CR won’t be worth much of anything.
Yeah I hope they actually see this and consider making one. If most big games have their own side apps, I’m sure Forza/PGG’s can make one. I’d use it for sure!
So no one remembers the smart glass implementation with FH1?
There was the map, you could see your track position GPS like, you could zoom, see objective, that was very cool, especially on an iPad.
Sadly, after those experiments (something similar on the same year was present on halo) they completely shut down the thing, probably because resources that went on it didn’t make it worth on the player base (=no one using it), at least that’s my interpretation
I would love to see an app that you could put on your Racing Rig that would show on my iPad the dash readout, say speed and tach. I then could put it right in front of my wheel on my Rig and it would look very much like an actual car without taking up a bunch of my racing view. I do race a lot in the cockpit veiw so I then have the dashboard to see but if I race in hood veiw it would be a lot better that the info in the lower rt corner. I realistically will probably never see this but think it round be cool.
I thought that they could maybe make a few apps, for example Forza Hub and a Forza view your garage kind of thing and also maybe a forza game or mini and speed dialogs and mini maps and other things that take up time in for
That’s a great idea! I’ve thought of a similar idea myself and I’m sure others have too but they should totally do this. You also forgot to mention it coming out on Windows phone and Windows 10 because it seems logical. I don’t see why they would support Horizon and Horizon 2 because nobody plays them anymore. Nobody uses Xbox or Xbox 360 either so it would just make unnecessary work for them. I sure hope they add this in!
This late in the life cycle of the game be glad you even get an occasional update, all resources are being directed at Motorsport 7 currently. And also it would open a back door for even more modding and exploitation than what is going on right now.
well why cant they just redo the whole forza hub because it is already on xbox so why cant they redo the same app for iOS, Android, windows phone, windows 7/8/8.1/10, etc
but just add a few tweaks and just skip the whole money part and instead do something previously mentioned like stats, dashboard incriminates, etc
That i say would be the most doable option
