Developer Blog 2

To make overtaking easier we have increased the effect of DRS.

I mentioned last time that we were working on some changes to overtaking. We have broken this down into a number of smaller changes and we are ready to release the first of those which is a change to increase the effect of DRS.

Currently some of the DRS zones have little or no effect at all while some others require KERS to make a pass. We have therefore increased the effect of DRS. This is an overall setting and as such the increase will apply in the same way at all tracks. This means that some of the shorter zones now allow you to pass without KERS and some of the longer zones will allow you to pass from further behind. We have tested this extensively and believe we are at an appropriate level, but we need your feedback to tell us if we have the level correct. This change will be released on Monday morning and we hope that this will improve your gaming experience.

You may recall also that we were making some changes in an attempt to reduce crashes. We had identified a problem with the server handling the database and had upgraded it. You may have seen in an update here, that we upgraded this service again. Since then, we have not had a simulator crash. There have been some instances of all managers being removed from a race, it continues and they are able to log back into the race after 30 seconds or so. We will be monitoring the service to identify why this is happening and if you experience one of these events, please make a note of the time and let me know. We can then investigate what was happening to the system at that time.

I am pleased to report that we have some other changes we are working on and I look forward to telling you about them here soon. Please direct your questions to me.