James Greer medal 5000 8 years 52 days ago
Is there something in design that has a slowing effect on the car?
Race after race I'm being told we have the best car, but I'm also the slowest car in every race lol
It likely just my bizarre and weird tyre tests, but I'm throwing it out there just to be sure..
Jim Robinson medal 5224 8 years 51 days ago
If I had to take a guess, I think it's based on what your highest upgrade value is. Therefore, if you had one category that was at 100 and every other category was at 1, you'd still have the "best" car because your highest stat is 100.
Yunus Unia Blunion medal 5859 8 years 51 days ago
James
Is there something in design that has a slowing effect on the car?
Race after race I'm being told we have the best car, but I'm also the slowest car in every race lol
It likely just my bizarre and weird tyre tests, but I'm throwing it out there just to be sure..
It's probably your tyre testing getting in the way. Give a conventional strategy a shot and see what happens.
Testing User medal 5000 8 years 51 days ago
It's based overall / total design points. If you have them assigned less than optimally the car will be slower.
Jim Robinson medal 5224 8 years 51 days ago
It brings up a really interesting point, though. I'm still not entirely certain what the metric is that determines that, though. After spying was introduced, I went from Mercedes dominance to barely scraping together points after just three races. Apparently my rivals are getting upwards of 16 bonus points per race even though they're getting just about the same number of points from their facility as I am normally.
Jack Basford medal 6098 
CEO & CTO 8 years 51 days ago
It's because your points are not assigned in the areas optimal for performance / results at this time.
The example I keep giving to illustrate this is imagine if yo use all your points on fuel economy and none on downforce. What's that? A Toyota Prius, essentially. Now compare that with say a Red Bull F1 car that is known for being very good at producing downforce, and let's say it has sacrificed fuel economy for that. Well, it's still going to slaughter the Prius in a race.
That said, we are working on improving the balance of attributes so that people aren't penalised for choosing, say, fuel economy over downforce. We have a 3x increase on the impact of fuel economy coming soon, and we will also look at scaling back the impact of attributes like downforce slightly. I can assure you though that it is based on the total number of design points, and the "best team" has the most total design points. If that team is not performing well, they are likely assigning the points in a way that is hindering their performance, rather than actually being at a disadvantage. They have the same opportunity as the other teams to perform well.
Martin Hauck medal 5000 8 years 51 days ago
But i like it, as it is, look at my results :o)
James Greer medal 5000 8 years 50 days ago (edited 8 years 50 days ago)
OK here is what I have
I have never had any of the highlighted things past 40 before and I was a flying machine that is part of the reason why I was asking if something has a slowing affect.
Tyre saving maybe causes you to drive slow?
James Greer medal 5000 8 years 50 days ago
Finally no longer the best car, wonder if they find they have got slower
James Greer medal 5000 8 years 49 days ago (edited 8 years 49 days ago)
Super mail to read after finishing 21st & 22nd