Stock car setting races discouraged in nearly all events - :(

I find this to be one of the most frustrating aspects of the career progression design in the game (...otherwise it's great :) ):

In nearly all the races for B level cars and upwards, you are are always recommended to tune your cars to a non-stock setting so to be "competitive" against the AI if your car falls anywhere less than 70's in each performance class class . For example, an A-class Audi S5 (509) can be chosen to automatically be tuned to 598 points for a race through engine enhancements, weight reductions, etc. I can understand that this would be useful for beginner and intermediate players racing against the likes of a F430 or the Bentley Continental SS ... but it boggles the mind that T10 would, for various events, tune all the AI cars to the upward 90's range even through the car I entered is entered stock. I'd race with my untuned Audi S5, only to find tuned AI S5s with 598 PPs.. and they would completely obliterate me in the straights.

One of the reasons I enjoy collecting these virtual cars is to be able to experience their drive in its stock settings .. but when they are all tuned to roughly the same numbers for every race, the cars no longer feel the way they were meant to be from the manufacturers.

Is there a way to get around this in the game? Or is this just something everyone's cool with? :indiff:
 
Is there a way to get around this in the game? Or is this just something everyone's cool with? :indiff:

There is an option in the difficulty menu to have the AI cars either run stock PI or be at the max for that class.

This option isn't available in world tour though.
 
So, this basically means, I can give all of the AI opponents an advantage of roughly 80 to 90 PI? Nice!

Anyways, if you want to have the cars available as stock, just save the tune and upgrades when they're stock. You can do whatever you want with upgrades, load the stock tune up and have them in showroom condition again - worked well in FM3, at the very least.
 
There is an option in the difficulty menu to have the AI cars either run stock PI or be at the max for that class.

This option isn't available in world tour though.

Much thanks for this .. I didn't even know that the settings were different in events vs the world tour. :)
 
I usually just choose 'don't upgrade and race anyway' or whatever it is. Nine times out of ten its easy to win (i only have ABS on, and all other assists off).
 
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