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Car/Track compatibility rating

So i am looking at the French GP , my next race. And notice my car compatibility is only 3.5 stars. So i change my suppliers to try and get better downforce, handling, acceleration or braking to gain better track compatibility for my car. But changing everything did nothing!! Whether i had better handing but less acceleration or vice versa chnaged nothing !! whats the point in the car and track developement ratings if it changes nothing ??

Thoughts please?

I don't pay attention to the car compatibility rating. Making the car better in acceleration, braking, downforce, and handling actually help it.

Morgan, when you hover over the exclamation point to the right of the stars it explains what the stars mean. This rating is in relation to the track's characteristics and your level, not your opponents. 

That aside, the devs just made some dramatic changes to the DP department of the game. I'd suggest to check it out. Things don't work the same way they used to.  

Hey Hamlet. I know that it's not my opponents level, thats what i was saying!!! I adjusted MY suppliers to change my car developement ratings. I am trying to ascertain if this track compatibility star rating is for the total developement of your car regardless of individual areas, or whether certain characteristics, such as the big four Acc, Brakes, D/Force & Handling improve or have an impact on certain tracks. For example Monaco you may wish to have handling/downforce more developed by changing suppliers than say acceleration and braking. Or Monza, a fast track, if you'd have acceleration and maybe braking the highest area would it give you a better rating.

I am keeping track of points in the different areas and the tracks stats ratings and sometimes, even having 100 in the big 4 is not enough to have 5 stars.

Suppliers are included in points, I think the satings does not take suppliers into account, hence things not moving when changing suppliers.

Having the B-4 maxed still leaves you with plenty of weakness exposure.  FE is a rather sensitive area as it addresses more than just FE itself. TE follows right behind.  

The closer you get to have all car development areas maxed, the closer your car compatibility ratio to 5 stars would be.  Gone are the days when this phenomenon occurs with over a hand full of races to go in a 15 race-season. 

There's a lot more involve than just schedule, I just don't have it in me to pull a "Nick B." on you.(LOL...JK Nick B)  

Now more than ever is relatively important to stay on top of all the updates/upgrades the devs are working on or completed.

Also if the individual researched developement areas of the cars (not the overall developement) don't have anything to do with the cars compatibility to each track then how did i go from 4 stars the race before to 3.5 stars after i used 40 dev points. 

Not sure I understand this post.  All areas are relevant, some(B-4) a lot more than others. And some(Reliability) are really useless at the higher levels.

There could be two causes to this:

1: You leveled up. I think the compatibility rating is compared to your level.
2: The tracks favored different attributes of your car. Since I don't pay attention to the rating, like I said before, I'm not sure if this actually happens.

To add to this, if you used your points on a mostly useless area, this wouldn't help much on the rating.

Richard, I've been playing this since 2011. I haven't levelled up in any way. Been level 20 for ages. 

Your point 1 ; I haven't levelled up. 
Your point 2 ; You have stated exactly what i am trying to say about car and track compatibility. If the track favours different attributes of my car when i change suppliers it can noticeably change my car attributes ie. if i change engine from Murk to Rednote before a race i am effectively doing this -15 acceleration then +10 downforce and +6 fuel economy. It did nothing to change my car compatibility for the track. I can also play around with the other suppliers even more to change the car attributes massively. Yet i have just lost 15 acceleration points. And i know what you're saying i haven't paid attention to it before until recently. But my car star track rating doesn't change with massive swings in car attributes. 

Also i don't waste my points. I am quite calculating in placing my points where i need them then shuffle my suppliers to gain even more point where i need them. 


Hamlet.

You stated  The closer you get to have all car development areas maxed, the closer your car compatibility ratio to 5 stars would be.

Each track must have it's own car to track compatibility. If i had 4 stars last race and i develop my car further with 40 points (and lets say i know where to put them ;-) )  and the next race i am now only 3.5 stars track compatibility. Lost .5 star. So i then go to my suppliers and change them, like i've said, swapping them around to change my cars development in ALL areas not just key areas,  it does nothing to gain my 0.5 stars back. I have lost half a star by developing my car and no matter what i can change by my suppliers (which can be massive points changes) i can't make my car suit the next track.

Hmmm interesting, I will try to remember to look at my car's compatibility and see how the rating changes.