Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-28169398-20180524195008/@comment-28169398-20180527161900

Mugwumps wrote: Amrosa wrote: Clsj35 wrote: Better BOTs in the career would be great. It's incredibly dull after working hard to win a car at PR70 and then doing 3/4 of a series with no competition. If a player enters a PR65 race with a PR70 car, we should get something close to PR 70 competition.

But BOTs should also be smarter. They shouldn't take you out if you happen to be in their line. They shouldn't take each other out and create caos in the first lap. They should race like a real professional racer racer would. No argument about the bots, however, what I would say is that running hard from Tier 1 Race 1 can bring out better bots and TSM times earlier in a series... Don't slow down, don't stop at the line, Don't hold up at the bots, and try not to lose. Doing this does bring out faster bots, but they are still in slower cars. I’ll get the same bots in the 2-lapped f40 showcase and the 4-lapped at the end of the series, but the cars in the showcase are considerable slower. Same thing running through these new series where I start out at +10 pr. I just rocket past the field before t1. Super lame. That’s one of the things that makes ES’s worthwhile. I don't always know if the Offline bots are running the FU cars in ES... TSMs should be, but you can catch and pull away from lower tier bots on the straights. But it is hard to say because what you do in the corners has a lot to do with what happens on the straights

With drag races, bots usually always trigger at green. The way that the game actually alters the times is the efficiency of their gear changes. Don't start a heat and listen to upper tier bots vs. lower tier ones. The upper tier bots shifting is crisper. Lower tier bots you will hear hit the rev limiter. The time at which they stay at the rev limiter is longer the lower level the bot gets.

What a bot like Victoria suggests is that FM may have worked out a way to make bots competitive, which I would welcome.

As for them being in slower cars... that kind of shoots the hypotheses that Hulks mods changes the performance of the cars for the bots right out of the water....