UI updates

Whilst the new AI options are a nice improvement, they have caused one big problem for me, in that they are not available in my favourite UI, and I’ve been forced to revert back to using the default UI, which I don’t really care for. I was wondering, therefore, whether there was any possibility that we could now finally get a few of the UI improvements that some of us have been asking for since day one.

In my case, these would be:

• Much smaller icons in the track, car and event selection screens, to enable many more to appear on each page.
• Scroll bars along the bottom of these screens, so that we can scroll to the required track, rather having to page through each screen.
• Open ended menus, so that when you reach one end, it just wraps straight around to the other.
• One icon per circuit, rather than one for each layout, with the different layouts appearing when you click on, or hover over, the track icon. Ditto for cars that form a complete mod (such as say, the F1 Classic 67 cars).
• Buttons that allow you to filter the cars and tracks between ‘all’, ‘official’ and ‘non-official’ content.
• Sort the location and Tag boxes into alphabetical order.
• I also think there needs to be some way to control what tags the modders are using, as, at the moment, it’s all a bit of a mess. Although I admit I’m not sure about the best way to do this. A standardised list is one method, but would probably prove too restrictive.

Also, can we not have an option to save race settings to a file, which can then be reloaded to instantly configure the game for different race types? This is one way in which we could finally have the ability to save AI settings for each car/mod, something that I feel is desperately needed (in all the current sims except AMS).

I would personally much prefer that effort was spent on an updated UI than yet another pack of cars. In fact, I didn’t even bother buying the Ready to Race pack (although I am looking forward to the Ferrari anniversary pack).