Jax Nexus medal 5000 3 years 278 days ago
Please can you sort out the constantly running out of fuel? Every race there is at least a few teams and that includes managers who attend the races, that keep running out of fuel just before the pit stop. It rarely happens in racing and It is starting to get annoying and embarrassing. If a car cannot complete a full lap without running out fuel then please have the car pit a lap before running out of fuel
Gustavo Heiden medal 6649 Super Mod 3 years 278 days ago
I support this idea.
Someone in my League has been complaining about it for more than a year.
Frank Thomas medal 4865 Moderator 3 years 277 days ago
There's room to tweak this setting I think, currently the game likes to send cars onto another lap even if they run out and have to coast quite a distance. But I guess the chance is there that the change overshoots the target again and we'd be back to the posts complaining that cars pit even though they have (just) enough fuel to complete another (scheduled) lap. I suppose we know the game hits the middle ground if we see few posts both for running out and pitting too early. ;-)
Kevin Bissell medal 5002 Super Mod 3 years 277 days ago
Maybe the game believes there is enough fuel to reach the pits next time around based on an estimation from previous laps fuel consumption. Then the manager increases to PL5 for the in-lap and maybe also uses a bit of boost in an attempt to pit in front of his rivals and all of a sudden the fuel consumption for that lap is much higher than the previous laps so the car runs out of fuel.
Gustavo Heiden medal 6649 Super Mod 3 years 277 days ago
No Kevin, mostly car I see running out of fuel are people in default push and strategy.
Kevin Bissell medal 5002 Super Mod 3 years 277 days ago
Fair enough Gustavo, bad theory, thanks for letting us know.
But like Frank says, a while back people were complaining that the game was too conservative and was pitting cars when they had just enough fuel to do another lap. Seems the Devs overcooked it when they made changes.
I B medal 5793 3 years 277 days ago
It isn't a bad theory Kevin, I believe that is what happens most of the time when someone is attending and fails to make the pit but not always. There are times I've been running at lowest push for the whole race and still sailed past the pit with not enough to get around.
It's more common to see someone who isn't there so has had a constant level of push run out and I don't see any excuse for that apart from bad programming.
I've long suspected it's partly down to pit position, if you're at the end of the pitlane past the finish line then your inlap is longer than a normal lap.
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