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@SexyBrigadeiro wrote:
@VibrantMass616The difficulty of the practice programs - the goals you need to achieve - is based on where your team sits on the team order, so.. the higher/better you are, the harder those goals are gonna be - you have the 3rd best car now, so that means the programs goals are gonna be harder for you.
One thing to make them easier, no matter how good or bad your car is, is to set the AIs to 50% (or less) during the FP sessions - that brings the programs goals down and they're pretty easy to reach - then you increase the AIs back to the desired level for the Quali and Race sessions - this is what I do myself - OR.. you simply go for the Quick Practice and don't even step on the track..
The fact is that the practice programs goals are hard to achieve if you keep the AIs on the same level you use in the Quali and Race sessions, especially if your team/car is one of the best ones.
You can also lower the AI level for the Pirelli Hotlap challenges and that also helps to get gold (1k acclaim + 100k cash).
I get what you’re saying, but if the practice programmes were relative to your car performance surely you’d struggle just as much if your car was ranked 10th but with slower target times than it would if it was ranked 3rd but with faster lap times?
In Season 2 I was qualifying comfortably in the top 8 for the first 75% of the season with a midrange car. Towards the end of the season I had some major upgrades and my car was 3rd or 4th best, I was still easily completing the practice programmes and qualifying in the top 4-6 about 1s faster than my team-mate Pouchaire. I won a few races and was finishing on the podium in others.
I tried Bahrain again last night with the same settings as last season (90% AI) and in the ‘race strategy’ programme I could only hit the target lap time in two out of the five laps, by changing ERS to ‘hotlap’ on those laps and then recharging. I did a soft tyre run at the end and I was 0.5s slower than Pouchair and was slightly ahead of Latifi.
I finished the programmes using the quick practice (I usually do FP1 just to acclimatise to the track) and then qualifying. After my first qualifying run I was 22nd and over 0.5s slower than Pouchair, I did a final run right at the end and scraped into the top 10. I haven’t done the race yet and not sure whether I will.
I understand I can lower the AI difficulty etc but for me this is another pain in the butt, I just want to set the race difficulty at the start of the season and leave it like that. Because I have to play when I get free time around my family, it’s easy to change a setting for practice or qualifying and then go back later to do the race and forget to change it back. Same with changing the tyre temperatures to ‘surface only’ when it’s wet.
Just one off those above being slightly off will translate to your on track experience. One or two being off isn’t such a big deal if it’s something that carries through every race… The problem is you get random variations off 2 or more session to session.
So the only workaround we have is to keep changing settings and difficulty to force a little balance and consistency.
Take tyre temps. If I have carcass on. At Hungary I can start on pole but will finish out off the points. With Ai80 but Next race Spa. Ai teams increase in performance rankings. Where I didn’t but I’ll beat Ai100 and often drive off into the distance. 50% races.
There will be more patch’s fixing minor bugs. But the main issues that need doing won’t be. The best we can hope for is a buff and nerf to some mechanics. But it’s more illusion so it appears more balanced.
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