[Suggestion] Add Jack Doohan as a free agent
Hi guys,
after having successfully resolved the problems I have encountered with the Colapinto update, I thought I'm going to create a post with the suggestion I mentioned in said post.
Now, I know that Jack Doohan won't come back to Alpine, and it's understandable to bring in the replacement.
However, as compensation, there's one thing that the developers can do, and I hope this applies to future games as well.
The idea that I have is as follows:
- For Driver Career, if a driver swap happens in real life and the driver gets replaced in-game (in this case Jack Doohan), there should be a dedicated free agents tab for these drivers. There doesn't need to be a reserve driver or anything, just the drivers that are already in the game and got replaced. This would therefore allow the player to play as Jack Doohan in new saves, and AI teams can still hire him should the player take control of anyone besides Doohan.
- For My Team, in new saves, the replaced drivers would simply get added to the driver market as a free agent, and they would also be available as a possible choice when starting a new My Team career save, just like Colapinto back then.
This is a very important addition in my opinion, as the drivers that got replaced would still be in the game. Simply deleting them makes the entire game completely unrealistic, as they clearly were a part of the real F1 season, even if it was for a short time.
The thing is, the same mistake has been made with Nyck de Vries in F1 23. Instead of either adding Ricciardo to the free agents or replacing de Vries and adding him to the free agents, he just gets deleted like he never existed.
Sometimes, staying true to the real world also means having all drivers available that participated in a Grand Prix. Again, none of the reserves need to be added (getting the licensing for them would be a pain), only the main drivers that were swapped out.
Let's hope for the best.
- Nico
