SETUP Vs Practice Time

Cesar Andrade
8 years 219 days ago

Hi,

It is just me, or finding the "right" setup for the car doesn´t reflect in the practice time?! Maybe even in Race or qualify.. that I don´t have sure.. but in practice, i am sure!
(how do I post a image?! I have a print screen to support this theory..)

Jack Basford

CEO & CTO
8 years 219 days ago

Drivers make mistakes during practice laps, and all laps for that matter. The laps are not always perfect. The lower the level of the driver the more mistakes they can make.

dan ruglio
8 years 219 days ago

Cesar, to post an image, you have to upload it to a site like 'https://postimage.org' copy the url of the image uploaded and paste it here between [img] [/img]

Cesar Andrade
8 years 219 days ago

Even so, jack.. I made more than one lap just expecting that.. even considering randomness of mistakes and the lower level of the driver, the diference between the perfect set-up (lap 3 and 4) and the most far set-up possible from the perfect one (lap 4 and 5) its almost the equal time in that laps.
I play for many years F1 manager games, and never seen something so close.. or even equal. In my opinion, dont make any sense...

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PS.: Thank you, Ruglio.

Jack Basford

CEO & CTO
8 years 219 days ago

The image is very small, do you have a larger one?

Cesar Andrade
8 years 219 days ago

https://s21.postimg.org/vogeygpuf/igp_practice.png

dan ruglio
8 years 219 days ago

yw ;) i'll do it for you this time Cesar:

Christian Meister
8 years 219 days ago

why do I even go through the hussle finding the ideal setup ;)

Cesar Andrade
8 years 218 days ago

Still waiting for some answers.... :/

Jack Basford

CEO & CTO
8 years 218 days ago

It might be a couple of days before we can look in to it, but we will. Thanks for waiting.

Please remember we are 3 developers working from home, and right after a big launch like this there so many things pulling for our attention. We're working through everything as fast as we can. :)

Cesar Andrade
8 years 218 days ago

But the "engine" of the simulation of the game is pretty strange, when you dont get in with the variables like the set-up.
It loose a lot of the interest of the game.. don´t you agree?! :/

Jack Basford

CEO & CTO
8 years 218 days ago (edited 8 years 218 days ago)

Of course I agree... that's why I will work on it as soon as I can. I have to check that there is not a problem with the setup, while the sim developer has to check if there is a problem with the simulator. Then we will talk and see what we find.

But I have much bigger things to work on first, things which are totally breaking the game for some people. It would be wrong to ignore that to check that a lap time is .2 too fast or too slow.

EDIT: Also, I forgot to update the thread when you posted the image. Thanks for that, I mistakenly thought I had let you know we would look into it.

Jack Basford

CEO & CTO
8 years 217 days ago

This should be fixed now. I looked in to it and identified a problem and applied a patch. It was related to the migration again, surprise surprise! :)

Now I am seeing a variety of as much as .8s per lap between a bad setup and a good setup at Europe.

Sam Leo
8 years 217 days ago (edited 8 years 217 days ago)

My practice at europe with stable push.

Setup was firm 50 50 and firm 1 1 up to ideal setup.
times were 1.38.02 - 1.38.44

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Jack Basford

CEO & CTO
8 years 217 days ago

Because of the way updates are applied to the server, it's possible that the patch was reverted because I didn't "commit" it to the system until just now. Sam, would you mind if I delete your practice laps and you try again to check if you get the same results?

Sam Leo
8 years 217 days ago

Go ahead and thank you;)

Jack Basford

CEO & CTO
8 years 217 days ago

Your laps are wiped now, you can try again.

Here are my laps for comparison. As you can see, there is a huge difference (1.2s) between a bad setup and a good one, for me. Hopefully it will show something similar for you too.