AI gaining Massive Speed on the straights
It’s like they have DRS the whole race
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@DavidG53Cheers. Do you think there should be a bigger gap between Max's softs to hard times? Or Charles' Brazil sprint race on 25% those tyres should be screaming by lap 4 and not be able to bang in 2 faster laps?
@DRudd13 Afaik the wear at 25% races is not 4x 100% races! So obviously the grip loss of softs isnt as bad compared to the time gain from fuel usage... And the wear is even lower than the strategy suggests, for example when it says 8% per lap it is often rather 6-7% wear and only ~4% wear per lap at 100% race distance so only 2x the tyre wear..
Hope this wasnt too many numbers haha it would be chaos if they would use 4x tyre wear at 25% race distance
Hope this wasnt too many numbers haha it would be chaos if they would use 4x tyre wear at 25% race distance
- @Meza994 Not too many numbers. I enjoy number crunching games like football manager. Thanks for explaining that, Which could explain Charles' Sprint times. Something to look into later on. But check out Max, compare his lap 5 & 8 times then lap 11 on new hards he's back at the same pace.
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@DRudd13 Yes, we max do x2 tyre wear. So, on a 25% race is really easy to manage the wear. I do not see any problem to be 100% honest.It makes sense to have X2 instead of X4. I play 100% distance and tyre wear is fine from my experience. If tyre wear was multiplied by 4 in many tracks softs wouldn't last more than 4-5 laps. Plus it doesn't make sense to have a X4 that would make a 25% distance a potential 2 stoppers...
It would be fun strategically but races would be less enjoyable. I mean we would constantly see stints of 3/4 clean laps...
- @DRudd13 Well in Spain you have C1-C3 tires these lose far less grip than C4 and C5 and the C1 is far more grippy in the game (compared to C3) than IRL so the difference in pace is mostly equalized by the loss of weight through fuel usage. If he would have no tyre wear his last full lap on softs would have been likely up to a second faster.
And another thing you should always consider for last race laps, no matter if sprint or full race, is that the AI goes half a second quicker on those lap, even if their tyres are shot they drive 100% to the limit and gain time.. I think its overtuned but it is what it is, has nothing to do with fuel usage and tyre wear, hope this helps you understand 🙂It's OP but I think it's done to prevent the user from spamming the ERS and get the fastest lap everytime even with slower cars....
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