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Weather / Simulation fixes

I totally agree with Taz and so many other posts here.  The repercussions of the track taking to long to dry is why people complain about the lap times being so off when they do practice.  It could have rained a few hours back, so even though the current weather icon shows sunny/cloudy, the lap times on slicks will be so much slower since the track is still wet.  Suggestion is really to disable this with immediate effect, and go back to the original settings.  There was nothing wrong with them in the first place!  The people who complain are the ones who cannot react quickly enough in changing conditions so it's just easier for them to moan because they are so rubbish in the first place.  As the saying goes, do not fix something that is not broken!  All this has done has broken the element of having mixed races and created so much confusion before race time.  The data I was tracking during the Singapore iGP:  It took on average 3 laps to get the track wetter by 0.1mm in the 'heavy rain'.  Now let's take this scenario further.  Race starts dry.  Lap 5 'heavy rain' starts.  DRS will only get disabled by lap 35!!?  And in between then, we running on Inters with DRS in effect.  This is just not realistic at all!  The original settings were just fine to begin with!

Jack, please, I implore you, roll back to the original settings.  There's a lot of frustrated players out there.  Listen to us please!    

I agree with Mark, the rate of change of depth of water was okay before the most recent changes. For me the only problem with weather used to be the variable synch delay between the different views (weather forecast, practice and race viewer) which resulted in conflicting information. Once this was sorted out the weather was fine.
The real issue was never the weather, it was the way advanced strategy works. I must be one of the lucky ones because I've never been surprised by advanced strat fitting the wrong tyres. However, I realise that some very experienced managers have been caught out so there must be an issue which needs to be resolved.
In my opinion rate of water level change should be rolled back to previous settings and the devs should focus on making advanced strat more..... advanced :-)

Hey Calvin, who are you calling Mark? =P

Haha. Sorry Mike, I was using my phone and predictive text was obviously programmed by the same team responsible for iGP advanced strategy... You ask for Mike and it decides to give you Mark! :-P 

Bwahahahahaha!

Completely agree with you here. The rain coming onto the track, and the laps it required to dry out were very realistic before.

We just finish Spanish race.
No rain entire race, 100% race length.
Race start on 2.5mm rain.  It end on 1.5mm rain.
It is still broken.

Hi guys

How is it possible that with 1.2mm of water in the asphalt, the SS tire gets hot just like the Intermediate tire? The logical thing is that the SS tire did not get enough temperature under these conditions. Another failure.

A Suggestion for the practice lap data.

Instead of giving us 1 lap tyre and fuel info. Set it to give out-lap, fast-lap and in-lap info.
Tyre wear and Fuel usage on the out-lap & in-lap will be slightly less than that used in the fast-lap. 
Giving us a bit of guess work to do.

For added realism why not make us wait the length of time it takes the car to go out, do the fast-lap and come back, instead of giving the info in milliseconds? 

Sorry! 1 more thing. As it's practice for the race, Engine and Car should have an accumulation of wear from doing practice laps going into the race. Also wear from Qualifying.

A lap out, fast lap and lap with waiting the entire time? Yeah because making it take 25 minutes to practice is better than 30 seconds. Simply too inconvenient, people dont want to be spending forever doing it.

Knowing engine and car wear is pointless as you cant even do anything about it.

We have basically 24 hours to do practice laps. 
If it takes the car 1:28.216 to do the fast lap, add 4 seconds on for out-lap and in-lap. That's 1:37.016 seconds of waiting time for car to complete the practice lap 1. 

It's not a matter of knowing the wear. It's a matter of wear being added to the car starting the race. Making Cooling and Reliability of the car more important in the design of the car. 

Nice update on the water depth Jack. Much appreciated.

Dose the new update stop the app closing? I'm updating it now and the weather info is miles better. Thanks

Jack,

This is a nice addition.
However, please read the thread in its entirety. All we ask is that settings being restored to its original state on how quick it takes the track to get wet and dry.

Still furious, that one race probably costed me the chance to keep up as runner up.

Practise info has improved.

Now could you please return the way the tracks wettens and dries to it original state?

If people complained about the way it was they didnt manage live.

Advanced strat and AI improvements would be nice.
Backmarkers being lapped try to race you just when you are in need of drs to stay ahead or to keep up with the raceleader who does get drs, annoying.

But, Until the wet issues are solved I do expect it to be turned of till it is fixed, advanced strat is everything but advanced if it stays wet the whole race even when it stops raining after te first lap, why the h### is there a question what tyre to use after x laps when it stops raining? Track will not dry, period!

Hey, i have a question. My account is brake, i leave league and i lost my car points and points in championship, but i didn't do something. What is happend? How fix it?

Sorry, that i wrote in different sections.

18 point's of damage doing all 5 practice runs & qualifying means starting the race with 82% health and still taking 1 point damage per lap in the race.
British iGP for example 60laps would leave the car with 22% health. It's bound to do something to increase the importance of the two? :/