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Change boost for ERS

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medal 5703
5 years 47 days ago
Boost is the same every race, always used at the last few laps of a race by the top teams and isn't really close to real life racing. So my suggestion is to bring in ERS. ERS will charge up by around 40% a lap, and when the player uses ERS he will get a small speed boost for an amount of time, before running out or player stops tapping/clicking on the button. If the technology level is higher the longer you can use it and the more powerful. Not as dramatic of a speed boost as what boost is, but enough to allow overtaking. ERS will start at 100% at the start of a race. 

If this does get added to the game, as it's a replacement for boost if your boost is maxed out in the technology facility, you don't need to upgrade ERS all the way up

Sorry if this doesn't make sense, often repeat myself a lot:)
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medal 5000
5 years 47 days ago
I'm really struggling to differentiate between what we currently call technology and what you're suggesting.  

Aside from the charging part in your suggestion, it still dependent to HQ development.  

The added/suggested part then becomes; 

* After consuming your initial allotted boost, the system has a max 40% availability thereafter with recharge system/lap.

* the idea of always having it available throughout the race regardless of how many times a manager uses it provided the system has a charge. 

This part I'm not following;

"if your boost is maxed out in the technology facility, you don't need to upgrade ERS all the way up"

Does this mean we'll have an added facility in HQ development? 

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medal 5000
5 years 47 days ago

James
Boost is the same every race, always used at the last few laps of a race by the top teams and isn't really close to real life racing. So my suggestion is to bring in ERS. ERS will charge up by around 40% a lap, and when the player uses ERS he will get a small speed boost for an amount of time, before running out or player stops tapping/clicking on the button. If the technology level is higher the longer you can use it and the more powerful. Not as dramatic of a speed boost as what boost is, but enough to allow overtaking. ERS will start at 100% at the start of a race. 

If this does get added to the game, as it's a replacement for boost if your boost is maxed out in the technology facility, you don't need to upgrade ERS all the way up

Sorry if this doesn't make sense, often repeat myself a lot:)


The idea of some kind of rechargeable boost has been suggested many many times on this forum. I believe that prior to the current boost system, we did have a rechargeable KERS system, but everyone was boosting at the same parts of the track and it offered less strategy options than the current system.
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medal 4994 Moderator
5 years 47 days ago
Yes, that's the problem. If it recharges everyone uses it at the most effective parts of the track. Of course you can try to use more than that for an overtake but since you have to make up that gap of about 0.3s first the one you try to overtake can easily counter it and since it does recharge there's rarely ever any reason for him to hold back. So the only small chance that someone might get overtaken is afterwards you if the car behind manages to close in through push and your car falling slightly back again due to dirty air and using your temporary weakness of having less KERS.
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medal 5000
5 years 47 days ago
We used to have teams that held off there boost right to the end of the race. I was even one of those to do that but if you do that now you are so far behind you might as well not bother. Because our league has become a lot tighter at the top you have to use that bit of boost/kers each lap to stay in the DRS zones. Drop out of the main train with us and it bloody hard to get back. Its become a real strategy race now for our league. The times also are reflecting this, not only in the race but the QF and Practice times also. 
So yes a system that would only give you so much every now and then would work. Like James said let it charge to say 33% for 3 times a race and you use that how you see fit but if you dont use the 33% in the first 3rd then you wouldnt get your full 100% over the race. This is an EXAMPLE only. 
I dont mind either way as I'm not in that front train just yet but I'm trying bloody hard to get there lol 

Good luck with the suggestions though!!
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