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medal 5000
3 years 151 days ago
I know that there was an update that was supposed to make pit stops based on fuel and nothing else, but it's far from the case right now. I was losing close to a second on pit stops to people who had the exact same fuel as me, which ultimately cost me a win and dropped me to third place. All that I, and every other manager, wants is for pit stops to regular, either equal based on fuel, or completely equal all together. It can't be very hard to just make a standard pit stop time, rather than one that changes on random factors.  
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medal 4892 Community Manager
3 years 151 days ago
Hello Boris,

Can you show me any example of different times for the same fuel load?
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medal 5000
3 years 150 days ago

José
Hello Boris,

Can you show me any example of different times for the same fuel load?



Sometimes there is a tenth difference, but you already know it, as boss community. 

But he should be talking about pit blocks, the difference of time leaving the pit lane between two cars, or the famous pit lane overtakes. The situation is much better than before, but not perfect. 
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medal 5000
3 years 150 days ago
José
Hello Boris,

Can you show me any example of different times for the same fuel load?



It's happened to plenty of people in plenty of races, but one where I lost seconds in the pits was Belgium on I think November 25th. I compared in/out lap times to people I knew hadn't boosted, and there was a huge difference in time. Another one was Germany 2 races ago on the 17th, I lost a positions and many tenths on each stop, but pit for the same fuel as other people around me. 
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medal 4992 Moderator
3 years 150 days ago (Last edited by Frank Thomas 3 years 150 days ago)
So the pit stops are actually correctly matching the fuel load, except for that odd tenth of a second Paolo mentioned which is likely a result if tiny differences in remaining fuel in the car (also the remaining fuel in the report is at finish line, not the actual load at pits) but the time lost happens before/after the pit stop?

The in and out laps are a different matter. As Paolo wrote they are generally working much better but not completely without issue and certainly, as it should be, not always the same no matter what. There are self-inflicted things like running out of fuel, normal things like traffic effects (other cars totally shouldn't be just like air, a car just shouldn't, for no good reason, wait until the other car is 1 second+ away) and occasional issues like the known weird speed differences towards the end of /leaving pit lane.
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medal 5000
3 years 148 days ago

Frank
So the pit stops are actually correctly matching the fuel load, except for that odd tenth of a second Paolo mentioned which is likely a result if tiny differences in remaining fuel in the car (also the remaining fuel in the report is at finish line, not the actual load at pits) but the time lost happens before/after the pit stop?

The in and out laps are a different matter. As Paolo wrote they are generally working much better but not completely without issue and certainly, as it should be, not always the same no matter what. There are self-inflicted things like running out of fuel, normal things like traffic effects (other cars totally shouldn't be just like air, a car just shouldn't, for no good reason, wait until the other car is 1 second+ away) and occasional issues like the known weird speed differences towards the end of /leaving pit lane.

I only used in and out laps to measure the time gap because I can't see the actual stop times, and the person I'm comparing it against I know used the same fuel and wasn't boosting. For the most recent race I was in, I lost roughly 1.25 seconds to someone in the pits, and they put in just 6 liters less. That's 2 laps at most tracks, and I've seen plenty of people put in 2 laps extra fuel and not be affected in the slightest in pit stop time. I came in ahead of this person and came out behind by a good margin, both time and position wise. The intention of code may be that the stops are based only on fuel, but that's not what actually happening on track. 


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