Car Characteristics and Development

David Snell
11 years 150 days ago

Would be good to have characteristics for you car i.e traction, cornering, aerodynamics, understeer, oversteer etc like you have with the drivers. As a result developing different areas would effect the car stats i.e increasing development on the front wing would cause more front grip, but results in more oversteer.

Also at the start of each season you can choose a base design direction i.e High Downforce, Balanced, or High Speed each giving you slightly different characteristics for the car, based on the prevous seasons development.

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Jake Goodhall
11 years 150 days ago

All good ideas and some of them may already be in development. But all idea are welcome as it gives the devs a feel for what is popular and what isn't.

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Nathan Jefferies
11 years 150 days ago

"David

Would be good to have characteristics for you car i.e traction, cornering, aerodynamics, understeer, oversteer etc like you have with the drivers. As a result developing different areas would effect the car stats i.e increasing development on the front wing would cause more front grip, but results in more oversteer.

Also at the start of each season you can choose a base design direction i.e High Downforce, Balanced, or High Speed each giving you slightly different characteristics for the car, based on the prevous seasons development.

I like it, especially the base design direction thing which could give you an advantage on a certain track and vice versa.

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Greg Broz
11 years 150 days ago

"Nathan

"David

Would be good to have characteristics for you car i.e traction, cornering, aerodynamics, understeer, oversteer etc like you have with the drivers. As a result developing different areas would effect the car stats i.e increasing development on the front wing would cause more front grip, but results in more oversteer.

Also at the start of each season you can choose a base design direction i.e High Downforce, Balanced, or High Speed each giving you slightly different characteristics for the car, based on the prevous seasons development.

I like it, especially the base design direction thing which could give you an advantage on a certain track and vice versa.

I was thinking it could also be tied to the drivers. Once they have done a few races for you, you get to find out their preferences, such as they like oversteer. So you could not only develop a car for certain tracks, but also to suit the driver.

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David Snell
11 years 149 days ago

i like the idea of it being tied into the drivers, depending on the driver standing 1st, 2nd or equal it will effect the development direction. therefore if you had drivers with different styles there would be positive and negative effects for each of them depending on the design direction

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