Yes I have damage on. Turning damage off could be the solution. Hmm... however that is unrealistic but it might be beneficial for the overall experience. But I'm not sure if it's damage as even with damage on you can usually have good speed. It's just the steering that is broken. I go to pits then and repair my car. These ai cars simply stay there driving 20 km/h.
I never had that "teleporting" issue. I've heard about it but I don't even know what it is. I had all kinds of issues when I used ballast/restrictor or ANY kind of CM adjustments as a base for my championships. When I use zero CM settings and define everything (driver ai ratings) in the championship.champs files all my issues went away and I got much more accurate qualifying and race results. I don't know what it is but CM driver settings is not creating as accurate seasons for me.
Even though I say it myself, I have them adjusted pretty well. This was however a 10 lap races only season.
I don't know if anyone has ever attempted to do this kind of full analysis. I don't know if anyone is even interested but here's one anyway. Player: Ayrton Senna / McLaren AI driver skill level ratings: Mansell 99 Prost 99 (to compensate slow 91 Ferrari) Alesi 96 (to compensate slow 91...
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I play 20-30 lap races and all cars have to pit at least once. If there's no pitting it doesn't feel like real race to me. The only way to force the cars to pit is to reduce their fuel load. It's somewhat unrealistic as refueling was banned in some years but hey, beggars can't be choosers. I don't know why we don't have an option to
force ai cars to pit at least once, and also define the amount of pitstops per race. Stupid ai often goes to pit as soon as the gas alert turns to yellow (which often means there's still 3-4 laps fuel left) and occasionally they have 2 pitstops when only 1 would have given them much better end result.
I got this absolutely spot on in my 2005 and 2007 VRC seasons but have had issues in other years. The issues are occasional, however, and most of the time I got them pit only once. Personally I think that created another dimension of realism and some unpredictability. 20-30 lap races (15 on Hockenheim) are 30 minutes give or take... that's the perfect length for me. Plus 15 min qualifying.