MY TEAM CAREER QUESTION
I started many my team career and am still trying to figure out how it should be balanced. I decided to start with a very new team that is at the bottom of the development (similar to William and As...
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@pekish79Your right. Ai driver pace rating is the most important one. As that directly relates to how fast they are over a lap. Obviously our pace rating would be 100. So if all things being equal in terms off the teams performance ranking. For instance all cars ai and yours are maxed out. You want to set the ai difficulty so that your pace matches those ai drivers with a pace rating off 90+
I use practice sessions to gauge this as the ai on mediums laps are a good baseline as they are not pushing. Plus during the race the game uses scripts and cheats to as excite mechanics. Be it weather changes or ai boosts. Yes unfortunate but the game is designed for the casual Gamer.
Also in my team and driver career modes. The AI drivers ratings are not accurate.
The 2nd driver facilities effect all ai drivers not just your teammate.
Mercedes’, Ferrari and Redull all start with spec 2 facilities. So their drivers start off with +10 to all their stats. Up to a maximum off 100. It’s stupid. For 3 games we have been begging the devs to change it. But for some reason they don’t. And ignore any post that brings it up.
In other words, I think the best way to calibrate it would be to use the time of the first four pilots as a reference (Ferrari Red Bull) during qualification. And remove an x tot of seconds depending on the car performance difference.
Since car performance difference at the beginning of a new career is a somewhat fixed amount between 125-150 performance points. We need to find out how many seconds are, in theory, the 150-performance point difference.
My opinion is that 150 performance points equal at max 1 second making us fight for position 7-12 with the starting car at the beginning of a career as a "NEW" team. Right now the current "first season," I arrived 8-6-7-8-9-5-9, but as the gap in performance gets smaller, I don't feel my car is closing the gap :/ (honestly, I think there is almost no difference)
Now the top car is around 570-580, and my car is 500. I halved the performance gap (researching mainly weight components, downforce front and rear, and drag reduction) from 150-125. I am now 70, but the gap time overlap is not halved.
The difference of a fraction of a second is a sneeze during a perfect lap, so no matter what performance point your car has, your lap can swing +/-1 second just because of your daily mood! The gap depends on AI difficulty-level and specific track (some being more challenging than others); it is tough to factor it in. It is hard to analyze it.
