Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-28401107-20190117111544/@comment-28169398-20190121033959

DrestinBlack wrote: Amrosa wrote: MoisesGabby wrote: Who needs monsters when we've got fishmang and pungent sauce And you are not wrong. We all know that there is room for significant improvement to AI quality and competitiveness, balancing of difficulty levels in events, and OMP matchmaking.

There could also be a lot of refinement to track limits and an understanding of where penalties are necessary and where they are ridiculous. Take the run off at the left hand side of turn 1 at RBR this week. If you go over the line there the car slows considerably and this will ruin your lap as there is no place you are going to make up the loss of speed on that long straight. A 4-second penalty on top of that is absurd when you are losing .5s or more from the bad line and you are hunting for a few hundredths. If the things you mentioned here were genuinely addressed openly and actually given consideration for change/repair then you have my kudos. I will be stunned and surprised if the penalties are lifted in any useful way, they seem as permanent as the idea of ghosting the cars and eliminating the multiple races/tiers. I wish you great success with these meetings, thank you for your participation on our behalf. The issue always comes back to resource allocation.

Do you assign engineering time to refining existing content or do you have them focus on new content and only assign them to the old content if there is a killer issue?

My personal opinion is to only have penalties at the obvious places... The Bus Stop cut at Spa, straightlining the start of Le Mans at the Ford Chicane... Most other off tracks lose the racer time anyway. But there are others that argue for a more punitive enforcement of limits. So that leaves two different regimens, adopt one and the other camp hollers.

Defining the limits as any off track and penalty as uniform around the track is easier to implement, and satisfies the strict limits camp. But as someone astutely pointed out when Mildvex Hamilton's Pole setting lap at COTA, "you have to add 4 seconds to his time as he was clearly off track through the Esses."