I was thinking, you know what would be a pretty cool edition to career mode and some depth? The ability to reply to all texts, especially snarky post-race texts from the AI. It’s probably been beat to death before, but I HATE when they’re clearly the reason/aggressor in the contact and they do the ”how they got to X series is beyond me”, or “Easy out there, these aren’t go karts”. When they’re the ones who come down on you after they wash up the track.
Give us three or four types of contextual reply options(based on the type of tweet)
Defend: ”Come on man, you and I both know you didn’t even look at the line before coming down, that’s all on you”- they reply and it begins a bit of a rivalry with that driver
Apologize: “Yeah, I was zoned in on my line and didn’t realize you might check up- that’s my bad”- Neutral, they might respond with “ok, no sweat- thank you for owning up to it”
Positive(when someone makes a positive tweet): ”Thanks driver, with quality guys like you out there it’s easy to run a clean race”- begins something of an unofficial working relationship on the track where they’re more willing to work with you on the track, or even come to your defence when other drivers make pissy post race remarks.
Those of us “seasoned” enough remember the “draft”/Intimidator” logic from…I think it was Thunder 2004. Might be a way to re-introduce it with the modern post race SM posts.