Alexander
The weather simulation is absolutely ridiculous. It has NOTHING!!! to do with a simulation it is a pure chaos!
It is not a simulation, it's real data from a weather station. Weather is chaotic sometimes, but we're not controlling Earth. :P
Alexander
What I expect is that it has something to do with reality. Sure in real life weather can be a surprising thing, but nevertheless a forecast for the general situation of the next few minutes is possible but definitely not here. They told us the game weather is a few minutes behind the real weather and this is not true. Even if I checked before and afterwards the rain radar of a track it was not the situation in the game.
This is more useful and constructive feedback. If the data coming from the weather station was/is inaccurate that is another matter. Can you provide any evidence to document this and show which track it was happening on and when? That way we can investigate further.
I also realise we need to work on improving the advanced weather strategy tools to cover more situations. We're well aware that this part of the game has ways that it can basically trip over itself when the weather is erratic, and we will be assigning a developer to focus on this full-time very soon. Hopefully that provides some reassurance.
Alexander
Other games have a much better simulation like Motorsport Manager but unfortunately it is not a online manager game.
I have nothing but respect for other developers, so my opinion here is simply aimed at responding to your point. As a former competitive sim racer and now as a developer, my impression is that MM's simulation is quite basic, more so than iGP, but it is packaged in a way that feels more detailed by the visuals and UI. It works well as a single player game, but in online competitive play, in its current state, the shortcomings of the simulation would quickly be exposed. Of course, if we're just talking about the weather, it is able to provide a forecast dialog because it's making up the weather itself, rather than relying on real weather stations like iGP.
We've considered switching to faking the weather ourselves many times, especially when we hear about advanced strategy complaints. It would allow us to ensure the forecast is always accurate, and we even put it to a poll earlier this year IIRC, but people voted to keep real weather. That means we need to keep plugging away at advanced strategy solutions.
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