Developer blog 4:Smarter pit 'safe release'Many managers competing in populated two-car leagues will have experienced at one time or another the agony of being held in your pit box by an overly-cautious lollipop man in your pit crew. Sometimes this could cost a team significant number of places. In order to reduce this behaviour, Chris has set a maximum wait time of 1 second on the simulator, meaning it is still possible to lose places in the pits, but it should not be anywhere near as significant as in the past. We can further refine this value based on feedback if necessary.- See more at: http://igpmanager.com/news-article/72/developer-blog-4#sthash.Hq10X0pa.dpuf
Has this been put in the game yet? I've seen quite some 'prapes' happen still, and I lost 3-4 seconds today in the pits pitting the first time, and the second time almost 2. It quite litterly cost me the win of that race and lost me 10 points (1st to 3rd).
Apparently it isn't. I let Edrew know the article was a little misleading. I had a 3 second prape yesterday aswell lol. Went from 3rd to 6th in the stop.
I have passed this on to our sim developer to review, but it is Christmas and he is on holiday so I'm anticipating this might not get looked into until 2014 comes around.
I have passed this on to our sim developer to review, but it is Christmas and he is on holiday so I'm anticipating this might not get looked into until 2014 comes around.
fair enough, have a good Christmas break iGP Staff ;)
Thanks for giving us a heads up about this. Looks like part of the update wasn't originally applied correctly. Had a look at it this morning so hopefully it's working as intended now, but if you notice any issues let me know.
I am getting praped by cars pulling out in front of me, not by cars going past when I want to leave the box! That means the closer to the entry of the pit lane you are (the lower numbered cars from last seasons results) are being disadvantage, instead of the other way around. I got praped by the same car twice, both times that car was about 1.5sec behind me as we pulled into the pits, but his box was further up the lane, so after my stop he pulled out in front of me both times. I was virtually alongside when he slowly pulled out in front and my car had to slowdown in the pitlane. I think the system is actually WORSE and MORE UNREALISTIC now.