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Weather / Simulation fixes

Race start wearht very good

i made my option at last 5 minutes and manager to change during the race and i had no problem at all. 

This is a very cool update but quite drastic.
5mm of rain, 1 min before qualy, so I've set up wet like few other players and started on Pole position.
When the race started, it was not raining, and there was 1,5mm of water on track.

But still like the idea, it brings more dynamic races ;)

I don't know if you have different speeds for the in/decreasing of the water on the track. Since in real life it also rains at various levels and not always constantly.


But if you don't do that, I would appreciate it if you could speed up the raining (or drying: haven't seen it dry up yet) a little bit. Not as much as it used to be, but enough that it can play a strategic role within a race.

As a wish it would be ideal that two pit stops are necessary. That is in an extreme case, like either starting on a dry track and heavy rain sets in, so you go up from 0mm to 4-5mm, so that you have to change tyres twice if you started on a dry compound.
Or else that you start with rain, it stops (water decreases to 0mm for a few laps) and then it starts raining again.

I don't think that it should always be that way, but that it should be at least possible during 1 race. I think that is also realistic in regard to how much rain could change a real F1 race. But in order to do that the rain in/decrease has to be a lot faster than 0,4mm in 58 laps.

Edit: Saw it drying up now. It is apparently faster than the water increase from rain. Water increase should be at least that speed, too. 

To be completely honest I didn't think there was much wrong with the original drying/water levels of races...Now it's a similar issue to soft domination...in regards we know that the track is very unlikely to dry during the race so another thing that has made it less entertaining...Unfortunately 

Can anyone explain what the advanced settings need to be put as for cars to start on wets in 3.5mm of water while still raining which is correct, yet some cars have pitted after lap one to re-fit wet tyres having already started on full wet tyres???

EDIT: it rained all race and never stopped or moved from 3.5mm of water on track

Set the depth in advanced strategy to 5mm.

Stint 1 in main strategy select wets. Advanced strategy: If it's raining and the water reaches 5mm use full wet tyres. And just in case it stops raining during qualifying: If it stops raining for 50 laps use intermediate wet tyres.

This will stop the cars pitting after 1 lap and re-fitting wet tyres and will put you on inters if it stops raining during qualifying.

You have to attend and monitor conditions throughout the race and for each pit stop you will need to manually select the tyres you want for the next stint. Also, top tip... if you're relying on auto-pit (fuel) for the cars to enter pits, as soon as the "pit-in" light starts flashing go to your next stint tyre selection and check that the AI hasn't changed the tyre compound because it has a nasty habit of doing this and I believe this is one of the things that is causing so much frustration. If the AI has changed your tyres for the next stint, first cancel the pit stop, then re-select the tyres you want and finally re-enable the pit stop. 

I hope this helps, it works for me at the moment but I also think the devs are possibly tweaking things in the background so if it all goes horribly wrong for you don't shoot me LOL.

Thanks for the reply Kevin, luckily most of us were fine in the race. Just that i noticed some(not online) had pitted to re-fit wets after the first lap and wondered what would trigger that sequence of events. 

I tend to set my advanced settings as you have described anyway. 

This is still broken.  My guys pitted 3 laps in a row after it stopped raining.  Went inter, inter, soft.  Instructions set were: 3.0mm W and fit I after 2 laps when it stops raining.
https://igpmanager.com/app/d=result&id=20028886&tab=race
    

That's true, please make the rain faster and the races therefore more unpredictable.