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[rip|buzinator]

Wow, I now have to suspect it's because I got a warning for cutting the track on Lap1, Turn 1 ... I mounted the kerbing and took out a bollard (it's pretty clear in the replay).

The graph seems screwed up in SLS too, it shows me as leading a couple laps, which NEVER happened. And of course the finishing places are a bit off.

[rip|ChITty]

cheaters never prosper!

I think we should turn off flags.

We seem to be having a lot of issues with them.  I'd hate to have a 40 min race ruined for one of us by a nitpicky flag.  One blatant example happened to Kal as he was flagged for cutting while spinning out across a corner.  Obviously the game can't tell the difference, but given he had already lost positions it completely ruined our run on the nurburgring.

Plus it's not like anyone is going to get away with anything since I'm going to be combing over the footage for the videos.  That is... except for me MUHAHAHAHAHAHA.  All we would have to do is come up with some sort of penalty to apply if something is noticed in the video, perhaps 1 point per incident or something?

[rip|buzinator]

Well, we will all have access to replays, so let's see how much you get away with shall we?

I forget what flag options there are in total, but yeah, we should definitely reduce the severity of them.

[rip|ChITty]

Want to remember to test:

Ballast - Effect on lap times @ Indy Oval, slows us down to AI speeds? Outstanding

I propose that Ballast adjustments are used for every race based on race results.

[rip|buzinator]

I think that's reasonable...will incorporate that angle to the ballast testing.

[rip|buzinator]

This is from the Race07 Manual ... what do you think?

[rip|ChITty]

So, by default, the car has 20 kilos by default or do we have to set the default? 

I'm a little confused about the last part.  So say I'm carrying 40 kilos, and I finish 4th, I lose weight?  How much weight do I lose?

I think that'll work nicely.  I have a question about Indy (and pueblo?) though.  I think that for Indy, the accumulated weights are removed and we just use a standard ballast for us to even out the field against the AI, since that track is so top speed dependent.

[rip|buzinator]

I should have mentioned, this manual excerpt is in reference to a single-player WTCC season...

If you're carrying 40KG and finish 4th, next race you will carry 50KG.

And so it goes until you either start finishing 9th or worse and weight is removed 5KG at a time ... or if you keep doing well, you will eventually hit the limit (250KG i think).

I agree about Indy, all bets are off, we should put on our best setups and see how much weight we need to equalize with the AI.

We'll have to see about Puebla, since that's a stock track, the AI might actually be good to go on that one.

[rip|buzinator]

Just tested on dedicated server ... maximum additional weight is 150KG.