FIFA Style weather.

Note - F1 and other series follows the weather to "try" and get the best weather possible for each race.. Nature deems if it wants be nice that weekend and play ball. :)

This weather system is one of the most annoying problems with iGP..

Not because it's buggy, it's because it's... errr ... crap.. tbh.

It's is less than usless on some tracks and you get to the stage where everyone in the 2D is bored stiff as you are paying to sit and push push push.. ooo full push.... ooo back to push push push push..

It's winter in mainland EU and some parts of the world which is making the racing quite bland.. So why not have a FIFA Football style weather system.

When you are setting up a game, you can choose the types of matches you play... Day / Night - Dry / Wet / Snow... and so on.... BUT.. not every country has the same set up.

If you pick a team from Egypt for example, you can't pick snow because it doesn't snow in the desert..

So I was thinking that it would be easier and far far better for each track to have it's own set of weather stats.. (Forget the fact that some are racing at 1pm GMT or 1am GMT.. They should both be about the same conditions and not +5 for one of the races and then -5 for the ones racing later on)



This is a very very basic run down of what I mean.

EG.

Australian GP

Weather chances @ Auz

Sunny 65%
Overcast 10%
Light showers 15%
Thunderstorms 10%

Average track temps are set to around the 25 Degs C for Sunny and vary for the different conditions.

Temps @ Auz

Sunny - Lowest @ 22 Deg C and the highest @ 38 Deg C..
Overcast - Lowest @ 18 Deg C and the highest @ 30 Deg C..
Light showers - Lowest @ 15 Deg C and the highest @ 30 Deg C..
Thunderstorms - Lowest @ 20 Deg C and the highest @ 38 Deg C..

Everything will still be random, but they will be within a iGP randomly generated system and it will stay within each tracks boundaries...

Each track has it's own set of default values and for tracks like Abu Dhabi, the values for Thunderstorms are set to 1% chance..




I think it would make the game more solid to build a better structer for tyres and so on, because as it stands at the moment. -2 around China and fully pushing for 6 laps to get them to heat up is a joke... 6 months later, the same tyres will be ok within 2 laps...

So it's making the game a pain for no reason except a bad weather system.. This way, you'll be able to have something solid to build on.

I have to agree. Although at first I liked the live weather, now that it is winter in Europe, and the league I race with races at night europe time, the weather is rediculous. The weather should be set within the boundaries of what would be possible at that location at the time of the year and time of day that the real life grand prix is staged. And randomised within that.

Indeed. We will still get a good variety of conditions, but they will be more suited to each track and no more 5 below 0 because it's 3am at the places we are racing.

This would be a great idea. The range of temperatures should be about the month in shich the Grand Prix usualy takes place in a F1 season.
for the predictability of the weather: it would be nice if the weather forecast for the race would be relatively unprecise 7 days before the race and every day the prediction is recalculated and more precise relatively, like in real life.
In the best case their could be a moment in which the previous day's forecast was closer to the real weather during the grand prix, but overal it's more ''wrong'', because that's also something that happens in real life.

The great thing about such a system is that there aren't any ''impossible'' scenario's like a temperature below zero, which won't happen in a real GP.

Have you been to Silverstone?

This game would suck without dynamic weather. the only problem is quali and race start.

Yeah as running around tracks with temps of -5 is so realistic..... *face palm*

I would recommend staying with the dynamic weather system but for each location automatically adjusting the temperatures by a factor that is the average temperature for that location at its normal race date. This way you keep the dynamic nature of the weather but you remove the ridiculous sub-zero snow races.

Yeh I like that idea Eyo.
Probably not as easy as it sounds though.