BRC 1966 - Gentleman Brobots Club [RACE 6 P&Q]

[squidhead]

Just came online. Watching, but the sounds are really cool, the transmission whine is a nice touch.

[Der Bayer]

Watching the pre-season test 2 now. BTW, Der Bayer, not sure if its your encoding or video capture, but the bitrate seems extremely low, the video is insanely blurry and hard to read.

Wait for YouTube to process the higher resolutions

[squidhead]

Also clarification - sector time in green means improvement over the best personal time in that sector?

[DeusExMackia]

Mmmm mmm! 2:31 in qualifying!


Gonna need a wee bit of tuning there...

[RoyalStig]

Amazed I did so well considering my amount of pit stops and my abismal practice/qualifying times. Actually managed to finish in the top 35.

[Riso]

Bloody hell, first my best time is 0.5s off in training from what I see in the game and then the car engine breaks.

[Baxeg]

Watching the pre-season test 2 now. BTW, Der Bayer, not sure if its your encoding or video capture, but the bitrate seems extremely low, the video is insanely blurry and hard to read.

it takes time for youtube to process the video to get better quality

[TheBobWiley]

Watching the pre-season test 2 now. BTW, Der Bayer, not sure if its your encoding or video capture, but the bitrate seems extremely low, the video is insanely blurry and hard to read.

Wait for YouTube to process the higher resolutions

O, ok. Damn, my 40% switch over to wets killed me in the qualifying... DAMN YOU 38% DRIZZLE!

Hmm.... car needs more umph, back to the drawing board.

ANNNDDD engine failure..... 35.6 reliability let me down

[Packbat]

...well, that was unexpected on several dimensions, especially for Packbat Auto Works. For the record, my blown engine had 28.4 reliability.

Time to make some careful, cautious revisions....

[Leonardo9613]

Just noticed that cars that didn't meet the threshold of damage never got fixed. I don't want my car running with 55 damage the whole race, I only made sure an extra pit stop wasn't going to be needed. Like in f1 when there is minimal front wing damage, the car isn't pitted immediately, but they still get it changed on the next stop. Is there a way to amend this?

Also, great result for a high tyre consuming car, that started from 26th and ran with serious damage during the whole race.

[mer_at]

There are many questions for me now.
Biggest WTF is:
my car used 41,8kg of fuel in total in the race. I've setup a pitstop strategy of 1 Stop at 50%. Yet it starts with fuc***** 40kg of fuel??????

So i basically drove around with 20kg weight penalty half the race .......

[TheBobWiley]

There are many questions for me now.
Biggest WTF is:
my car used 41,8kg of fuel in total in the race. I've setup a pitstop strategy of 1 Stop at 50%. Yet it starts with fuc***** 40kg of fuel??????

So i basically drove around with 20kg weight penalty half the race .......

Yeah, that is how its supposed to work, you start with a full tank and plan pit stops when you think you will be low on fuel / need new tires / advantageous time to pit.

[squidhead]

Ok, so from glorious #45 on the starting grid to top 10 and my engine asploded. Engine reliability is 45, so there's that guys. Also I see i can do with less pitstops and it seems more reliability. God damn you Communitasia engine blocks

Edit : I got no clue how you guys are running such great lap times

[Packbat]

I think fuel consumption in the rain might be bugged - according to my calculations based on the test practice session, my car should have expended ~26.6 kg of fuel in half an hour, not 21.2 kg.

@TheBobWiley: That's how I would have run my race strategy, but that's not how Der Bayer's code is working at the moment - lots of cars are starting with partial tanks.

Edit: ...hmm. If a 45 reliability isn't enough to avoid disaster, maybe I'll just roll with the engine as is.

[mer_at]

Yeah, that is how its supposed to work, you start with a full tank and plan pit stops when you think you will be low on fuel / need new tires / advantageous time to pit.

Well that is complete bullshit then!