I'm trying to simulate through a season in my career and get ONLY Vettel to retire, but it seems the game is hard coded to have him and at least one other driver, Bottas or Alonso, to retire with him.Is there any way to control who retires, or is it just absolutely random?

@Dlb731 Been like this from 2020, been calling it out as ageism as they will always simply assume the oldest will definitely retire. Alonso would love that! There might be an "average" window of performance for most drivers but not everyone follows these rules as Alonso shows. Hamilton will likely stay a long time longer as he still benefits from the platform to send his message of equality as well as grabbing that 8th title rather than being drawn with another. Still insanely competitive, hungry and energetic.I don't mind retirements but it should NOT be set in stone to who goes. Seb has been one that was hard wired for season 1 retirement from 2020. It can be seen as insulting to the driver as well as frustrating for the fans who may want to race with them in their own team. I still feel a good option should be if a driver does retire then they go into a free agent roster like icons just for the player so you can effectively buy them out of retirement like can be quite popular to do irl. Options are always nice, set in stone rules not so much. Be like water my friend. Also waiting for female reserve drivers for My Team careers too. They gotta push this stuff rather than wait until it's already "trending", be the trend EA. Take that lead.

@ScarDuck14I always play the whole 10 seasons and I agree that it gets a bit boring after around Season 3, but here's what I'm trying now on F1 22 and it's been working 'well' for now:I REDUCED the Resource Points generation for me AND for the AIs as well - I kept the money generation at Normal and everything else is normal as well - and then it's taking longer to develop my car - and the AIs cars - to the maximum.And the Regulation Changes are a bigger setback now, forcing everyone to keep re-developing the car parts, etc..I'm currently at the end of Season 3 and I'm getting Regulation Changes again (it happened in Season 1, but not in Season 2) and now I'm having 3 departments being affected and maybe not enough Resource Points to save all parts on all 3 departments, I guess (I'm still trying to save them all), but on the other hand, I already have 19 parts on each one of the 4 departments (the total parts vary around 23/24), so I'm actually pretty close to full development after 3 seasons, even with a slower/smaller Resource Points generation - maybe I just got lucky by not getting too many of my developments failing, or it's actually faster/easier to develop the car on F1 22 - I wonder how easy/quick it is on Normal or even Increased Resource Points generation - maybe you can get a 100% full developed car before the end of season 2 - LOLAnyway.. long story short: I'm trying to 'stretch' that as much as possible throughout all of the 10 seasons to make it more interesting and fun - I'm also streaming my journey on Twitch, bla bla bla (sorry for advertising), but jah.. you can find me there as SexyBrigadeiro (won't put the link here.. again).. - cheers, mate!

@Apophis-STR I agree with you that by the end of a 'normal' career run (regular or MyTeam) I always end up with a LOT of unused (and pointless) money and Resource Points and this is actually my first time trying a full career with reduced RP, but I believe I'm still gonna get to about Season 5 with everything done and nothing else to do, so.. jah.. maybe I should reduce it even more, if the game allowed me to do it..BTW, I remember I finished my MyTeam career on F1 2020, for example, with literally a BILLION Dollars and nowhere to spend that money - LOL...@ScarDuck14 Thank you VERY much, my friend, just for checking out the channel(s), but also for the compliments!I know this is completely out of topic here, but jah.. I still put some stuff on the 'music channel' from time to time, but I mainly just export my Twitch lives to the gaming channel - I'm trying to focus on Twitch, where I just became Affiliate a few weeks ago, so I'm trying to make the channel grow little by little, etc..But anyway, if you stream or post stuff to YT, please, let me know and I'll follow you there too - maybe we can even play some F1 22 together sometime - feel free to add me on Steam (you can find me there with the same name, etc) - cheers, my friend and keep your daughter rocking that guitar!!!\m/

@Dlb731 Not so much random. Vettel and alonso will retire and that’s about it

@Dlb731 wrote:I'm trying to simulate through a season in my career and get ONLY Vettel to retire, but it seems the game is hard coded to have him and at least one other driver, Bottas or Alonso, to retire with him.Is there any way to control who retires, or is it just absolutely random?I've never been able to get Vettel to retire. In the two or 3 different seasons I've completed by My Team or driver career it's always Sergio Perez that retires after season 1 which is incredibly infuriating to me. However I took the opportunity in my driver career mode to jump into his Red Bull seat leaving Haas behind despite my strong efforts with R&D to lead the midfield pack. However that decision blew up my entire career mode. I go to Redbull thinking I'll be paired with Max. Nope. I join, Max leaves and ends up at Haas with Schumacher. Schwartzman ends up my team mate at Red Bull. What the hell is going on with driver transfers? Now I'm smart enough now to disable autosave before I renegotiate a contract to change teams becuase I know the stupid logic of transfers will just make a complete mess of things. Here's the funny part though... since the Red Bull plan blew up in my face I decided to go to Ferrari next time but somehow things got worse. I go to Ferrari, Leclerc ends up at Redbull, Guanyu Zhou ends up my teammate at Ferrari, and Sainz ends up at AlfaRomeo. In what world would Zhou get the 2nd ferrari seat?For the love of F1... PLEASE Codies... EA... bring back the old contract system ASAP so we can negotiate to be first or second driver, and in doing so tell us who we will be replacing and who my teammate will be. Or just... give us control of the teams/drivers! Licensing always gets thrown around as the problem preventing this, but that's nonsense to me. If Zhou can end up at Ferrari, and Leclerc at REdbull, or Max at Haas randomly it can't be a licensing matter. It's a matter of laziness and desire to create Braking Point, or F1 Life nonsense rather than improve the core gameplay modes.

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18 Replies

ScarDuck14
Legend
3 years ago
@Dlb731 Not so much random. Vettel and alonso will retire and that’s about it
Apophis-STR
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@Dlb731 There's no way to control it as of now, it's all set right at the start of the career's save file. The game probably coded a couple of different scenarios of who and when will retire, then it will randomly pick one scenario for each fresh career.

At the moment the retirements I've encountered were Vettel & Bottas (1st season), Ricciardo (2nd season). Alonso is mostly likely the next candidate with Lewis further down the line (around 5th-7th season if the game follows the same trend as the last 2 years).
CarystusGaming
New Traveler
3 years ago
@Dlb731 Been like this from 2020, been calling it out as ageism as they will always simply assume the oldest will definitely retire. Alonso would love that! There might be an "average" window of performance for most drivers but not everyone follows these rules as Alonso shows. Hamilton will likely stay a long time longer as he still benefits from the platform to send his message of equality as well as grabbing that 8th title rather than being drawn with another. Still insanely competitive, hungry and energetic.

I don't mind retirements but it should NOT be set in stone to who goes. Seb has been one that was hard wired for season 1 retirement from 2020. It can be seen as insulting to the driver as well as frustrating for the fans who may want to race with them in their own team. I still feel a good option should be if a driver does retire then they go into a free agent roster like icons just for the player so you can effectively buy them out of retirement like can be quite popular to do irl. Options are always nice, set in stone rules not so much. Be like water my friend. Also waiting for female reserve drivers for My Team careers too. They gotta push this stuff rather than wait until it's already "trending", be the trend EA. Take that lead.
petro1319
Rising Veteran
3 years ago
@Dlb731 wrote:
I'm trying to simulate through a season in my career and get ONLY Vettel to retire, but it seems the game is hard coded to have him and at least one other driver, Bottas or Alonso, to retire with him.
Is there any way to control who retires, or is it just absolutely random?
I've never been able to get Vettel to retire. In the two or 3 different seasons I've completed by My Team or driver career it's always Sergio Perez that retires after season 1 which is incredibly infuriating to me.
However I took the opportunity in my driver career mode to jump into his Red Bull seat leaving Haas behind despite my strong efforts with R&D to lead the midfield pack. However that decision blew up my entire career mode. I go to Redbull thinking I'll be paired with Max. Nope. I join, Max leaves and ends up at Haas with Schumacher. Schwartzman ends up my team mate at Red Bull. What the hell is going on with driver transfers? Now I'm smart enough now to disable autosave before I renegotiate a contract to change teams becuase I know the stupid logic of transfers will just make a complete mess of things. Here's the funny part though... since the Red Bull plan blew up in my face I decided to go to Ferrari next time but somehow things got worse. I go to Ferrari, Leclerc ends up at Redbull, Guanyu Zhou ends up my teammate at Ferrari, and Sainz ends up at AlfaRomeo. In what world would Zhou get the 2nd ferrari seat?
For the love of F1... PLEASE Codies... EA... bring back the old contract system ASAP so we can negotiate to be first or second driver, and in doing so tell us who we will be replacing and who my teammate will be. Or just... give us control of the teams/drivers! Licensing always gets thrown around as the problem preventing this, but that's nonsense to me. If Zhou can end up at Ferrari, and Leclerc at REdbull, or Max at Haas randomly it can't be a licensing matter. It's a matter of laziness and desire to create Braking Point, or F1 Life nonsense rather than improve the core gameplay modes.
SexyBrigadeiro
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
I think there is some 'randomness' in this, but definitely not any ways to 'control' (or avoid) who or when they retire.
In F1 2021, I would always ask a few other friends about who retired in their careers and we would get a lot of different and even a bit crazy and funny scenarios, like for example, to me, Kimi retired on the very first season, but for another friend, Kimi was there for all 10 seasons - LOL
Now on F1 22, I'm currently playing my one and only MyTeam career and I'm at the end of season 3, so I had so far:
Season 1 - Vettel & Alonso retired
Season 2 - Sainz retired
Season 3 - Hamilton will retire
ScarDuck14
Legend
3 years ago
@SexyBrigadeiro Never been a expert on driver retirements. Once I maxed car and facilities and won both championships. I’d get bored and Always by season 3 I’d restart and try a different starting variation off engines and upgrades. 5 seasons was the longest I lasted. So never saw many retirees.
SexyBrigadeiro
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@ScarDuck14

I always play the whole 10 seasons and I agree that it gets a bit boring after around Season 3, but here's what I'm trying now on F1 22 and it's been working 'well' for now:

I REDUCED the Resource Points generation for me AND for the AIs as well - I kept the money generation at Normal and everything else is normal as well - and then it's taking longer to develop my car - and the AIs cars - to the maximum.
And the Regulation Changes are a bigger setback now, forcing everyone to keep re-developing the car parts, etc..

I'm currently at the end of Season 3 and I'm getting Regulation Changes again (it happened in Season 1, but not in Season 2) and now I'm having 3 departments being affected and maybe not enough Resource Points to save all parts on all 3 departments, I guess (I'm still trying to save them all), but on the other hand, I already have 19 parts on each one of the 4 departments (the total parts vary around 23/24), so I'm actually pretty close to full development after 3 seasons, even with a slower/smaller Resource Points generation - maybe I just got lucky by not getting too many of my developments failing, or it's actually faster/easier to develop the car on F1 22 - I wonder how easy/quick it is on Normal or even Increased Resource Points generation - maybe you can get a 100% full developed car before the end of season 2 - LOL

Anyway.. long story short: I'm trying to 'stretch' that as much as possible throughout all of the 10 seasons to make it more interesting and fun - I'm also streaming my journey on Twitch, bla bla bla (sorry for advertising), but jah.. you can find me there as SexyBrigadeiro (won't put the link here.. again).. - cheers, mate!
ScarDuck14
Legend
3 years ago
@SexyBrigadeiro If I had twitch on my tv I’d look you up but you’ll have to come over to YouTube 😀
Apophis-STR
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@SexyBrigadeiro This, stretching out the season definitely keep it more interesting for a longer duration.

I even went a little extreme and drop the resource gain to only 25% for both me and AI by using CE. It really made prioritizing upgrade a much more important task as it'll impact everyone for way more races at a time.
SexyBrigadeiro
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@ScarDuck14

I'm actually on both places, mate, but on Twitch I'm 'live' and then I only export my F1 22 streams to YT, where I have 2 channels.. SexyBrigadeiro and SexyBrigadeiroGames - sorry for advertising again, but.. I'm just sayin'..
=P
@Apophis-STR

That sounds interesting, but I wouldn't go that far as you did, although I admit that reducing it by just 50% is being easier than I thought so far.. maybe 33% would be the ideal, I don't know.. I wish we could have more control over that matter through the game itself..
=)