Post by Viper on Oct 25, 2005 14:06:52 GMT -5
Ok, people mentioned this and I had said I would test, so I did this afternoon and thought I'd show you what I've found.
I set up the game so that all AI cars would be excluded from the race using Gp4 Tweaker and put myself in 4th on the grid. I ran into the first problem here, even though it's nothing big, but even though I set myself to start at 4th, since I excluded the other cars, the game pushed me to pole.
For the race, I also choose a 1 stop strategy and the race was set for 15% which in Austria (Place of my test) means 11 laps. I wanted to test the possibility of letting drivers do pitstops, y'know, to have something else. Two big problems ocurred here though. First, the game does not consider the lap where you pit, a hotlap, so we would have no means of checking it, and also the game excludes all previous hotlaps once you are out of the pits, meaning the player would have to save the hotlaps done previous to the pitstop before the same.
Third and important, no matter what I do with the speed limit on the pitlane, a car running without pitstops will finish the race first then a car with pitstops. Pitstops would really only work if we were racing more then 50% race lengths.
Lastly, the player must be aware that you must pause the game very quicly after doing the last lap, cause the game declares race over right after you do your last lap and goes out in about 5 seconds. So one would have to be smart not to lose the laps.
Conclusion: Using Quickrace mode we won't be able to take advantage of the grid positions so we'd have to keep the grid disadvantage chart. Pitstops are definately out since we can't control it, and it doesn't help, apart from allowing a slightly quicker fastest lap.
As I see it, we could use Quickrace mode cause it runs essentially the same then free practice apart from a slower first lap, but there won't be any other differences. Maybe it the only benefit would be the fact that it would eliminate that initial warm-up lap we have to do before starting the race laps.
Please comment!
I set up the game so that all AI cars would be excluded from the race using Gp4 Tweaker and put myself in 4th on the grid. I ran into the first problem here, even though it's nothing big, but even though I set myself to start at 4th, since I excluded the other cars, the game pushed me to pole.
For the race, I also choose a 1 stop strategy and the race was set for 15% which in Austria (Place of my test) means 11 laps. I wanted to test the possibility of letting drivers do pitstops, y'know, to have something else. Two big problems ocurred here though. First, the game does not consider the lap where you pit, a hotlap, so we would have no means of checking it, and also the game excludes all previous hotlaps once you are out of the pits, meaning the player would have to save the hotlaps done previous to the pitstop before the same.
Third and important, no matter what I do with the speed limit on the pitlane, a car running without pitstops will finish the race first then a car with pitstops. Pitstops would really only work if we were racing more then 50% race lengths.
Lastly, the player must be aware that you must pause the game very quicly after doing the last lap, cause the game declares race over right after you do your last lap and goes out in about 5 seconds. So one would have to be smart not to lose the laps.
Conclusion: Using Quickrace mode we won't be able to take advantage of the grid positions so we'd have to keep the grid disadvantage chart. Pitstops are definately out since we can't control it, and it doesn't help, apart from allowing a slightly quicker fastest lap.
As I see it, we could use Quickrace mode cause it runs essentially the same then free practice apart from a slower first lap, but there won't be any other differences. Maybe it the only benefit would be the fact that it would eliminate that initial warm-up lap we have to do before starting the race laps.
Please comment!
But could be interesting...less motivation to redo all the laps in case of several mistakes, etc...
