Inconsistent AI Times

I had this issue on two occasions in career mode and once in championship mode, my diagnosis is that unexpected quitting or quitting not when at stage triggers a reset of ai. On one occasion In career i restarted twice in same stage and it triggered, others have been when quitting before a service.

I have turned restarts off and always left at a service, and went through a full season without it reoccurring 

Bonjour, 

J'aimerais avoir des abandons pendant les rallyes 

Et le bug c'est que quand on crée un rallye ou un championnat ou même en carrière, on ne peut pas quitter un rallye s'il n'es pas terminé, aussi non les IA auront des temps hyper loin de nous 

Donc on attend du changement de votre part 

Merci 

As others have said I think in career It is caused by leaving the game part way through a rally. 

I am encountering issues on:

100 AI

various stages in Sardinia, Estonia, Sweden, and Croatia.

JWRC Career mode events but I haven’t done many others.

Weather condition doesn’t seem to affect the issue but across the times it has happened I have had clear to raining weather on various stages

Vehicle class a

had been JWRC

Same problem here. 

Junior wrc career, slider at 95, first week, fulvia at Mediterraneo. 

First 4 stages ok. 

Next day I booted again to continue, I had lost 1 pair of tyres and AI was 1.30 minute slower. 

• Configuración de dificultad de IA: 100 (But it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter what level you are at)
• Escenario: All
• Si es Carrera, entonces qué evento profesional es: Builder mode
• Hora del día: Everything, it doesn't matter
• Condición climática: Everything, it doesn't matter
• Clase de vehículo: Builder mode

It always happens after completing the second or third stage of the rally. In the next one, the A.I. will always go very, very slowly, with margins of 2-3 and 4 minutes.

Just ran a new test. A quick play rally, 4 stages in New Zealand, with a service after the second stage. I quit during the service and returned later, and the AI actually remained competitive during the third stage, though it did fall apart a bit in the fourth (maybe the tyre issue mentioned above?)

AI Difficulty: 80-85

Stage: All

All career events. The exact issue occurs when I return, having quit out of the career. The difficulty drops significantly, more often than not on the very first stage but sometimes the one after. But it always happens. I can be 30 seconds behind but will finish the event minutes ahead of all other AI drivers. 

Time of day: Any

Weather: Any

Vehicle class: All I've tried. 

Simply put, once an event is started I must finish it before quitting or the next stage/s will be extremely easy.

• AI Difficulty Setting: 70
• Stage: Oceania 2nd stage after quiting and reloading
• If Career, then which career event it is: Audi Hospitality 
• Time of Day:
• Weather Condition: wet
• Vehicle Class: Group B 4wd

• AI Difficulty Setting: 85
  
• Stage: various
  
• If Career, then which career event it is: various
  
• Time of Day: various
  
• Weather Condition: various
  
• Vehicle Class: Rally1 and others
  

AI difficulty has felt rather inconsistent across the career mode. Many have reported the issue where the AI gets way easier after leaving and coming back to an event, but aside from that, the AI is a bit all over the place. In my career, I had pretty good results in JWRC and WRC2, but in those seasons I would yet struggle in some of the "vintage" cars, especially on gravel. Tarmac results felt easier to come by. (Except for the one with all the rocks.) Upon getting to the WRC, my stage times are sometimes on par with the AI but other times I'm way behind and it doesn't feel like I'm doing anything especially different in those cases. Yet in one of the midseason rallies, I belive it was on tarmac, I won fairly comfortably and I don't believe that I exited the event at any point to trigger the aforementioned bug. Although some of my issues can be attributed to not yet mastering the deployment of the hybrid and adjusting to the increased speed of the Rally1 cars, I still feel like the AI is not quite there yet in terms of consistency. If I were to turn the difficulty down to be on pace more regularly, then I expect I would have some sudden blowout victories here and there. To a similar point, most of the Moments have been tuned to be trivially easy to get gold on, yet one or two were an intensely difficult struggle that required memorization of the stage. I'm not saying they should all be easy, or all difficult, but they are a bit wildly unpredictable and maybe in a way that is not intended.

• AI Difficulty Setting: 70
• Stage: Oceania 2nd stage after quiting and reloading event 
• If Career, then which career event it is: Audi hospitality 
• Time of Day: 
• Weather Condition: wet 
• Vehicle Class: Audi Quatro S2 4wd

AI difficulty dropped significantly when I continued the 2nd stage of the event after quiting the game for a while.