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medal 5000
4 years 66 days ago
I have put a bit of thought into the car setup and how it is currently implemented.  It might take some coding, but I wonder if I might have made an improvement...

Let's start with one thing.  Drivers can tell us what feels good on the track, and sometimes have good ideas about what a car needs.  This information is not perfect in most cases.   With the changes coming in for upping the setups to a 200 point scale, I think a random number generator should be used at each race to generate a range within which a driver thinks the setup is "perfect".  This is a random number higher and a separate random number lower than true perfect.

Example... assuming that the 50 point scale translates linearly to a 200 point scale, the "perfect setup" would be the current settings multiplied by 4.  

Hungarian GP setup I have becomes ride height 28 and wing level 72.  My league just got to this track so the RNG generates 2 numbers.  The first number is 10.  The second number is 4. This means that the ride height "Perfect range" that the driver reports would fall between 38  ( 28 + 10) and 24  ( 28 minus 4)  This means that moving to halfway between the perfect setups is not the true perfect setup. Averaging these numbers yeilds 30, 2 points higher than the perfect setup. Do the same for the wing levels.  The RNG could be between 4 and 12 (or smaller if you so choose) that changes the range from one race to another, but the range is constant for all members of a league.  The random numbers would be reset every season.

Additionally, I think that there should be more settings for the cars.

Gearing 
Aero front
Aero rear
Ride height
Suspension stiffness

This will allow for the long time players to have a new challenge to iron out the perfect settings.  The aero being split in 2 means that historical aero settings are not perfect, but do offer a good base starting point.  The ride height and suspension stiffness allow for the historical ride height settings to be changed behind the scenes and to balance these out by different suspension rates.  

For the first few seasons it would be interesting in races as teams that hit the perfect settings closest take the slightest edge from race to race.  Carefully tracking these ranges could result in someone finding the perfect setups for tracks, but it would take time.
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medal 5000
4 years 65 days ago
Or perhaps the range of perfect setups can be reduced by the skill of your tech director?
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medal 4927
4 years 63 days ago

Michael
Or perhaps the range of perfect setups can be reduced by the skill of your tech director?


+ driver's experience

+ driver's knowledge 
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medal 5000
4 years 63 days ago

Patrick

Michael
Or perhaps the range of perfect setups can be reduced by the skill of your tech director?


+ driver's experience

+ driver's knowledge 



Those make sense as well. It would make a tangible use for those stats
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