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[Pete Gaimari]

Running the Papy tracks is ok for me with the 66 cars, so a 67 mod would probably be ok even with extra cars. The bottom line is I like the power of the 67 cars, and not fond of the low end blubber of the 66 cars. I had to slip the clutch to stay with the AI off slow turns, and that's not realistic.

[paul skingley]

Pete Gaimari, on Jul 27 2012 - 06:32 AM, said:

not fond of the low end blubber of the 66 cars. I had to slip the clutch to stay with the AI off slow turns, and that's not realistic.

That feature was added for realism

Any highly tuned 60's race engine never ran smooth and pulled through the whole rev range.
Valve operation and timing, carburation, and ignition were tuned to work best in the power band which would be in the higher sector of the rev range.
So without computerised engine maps and variable valve timing most of the engines would run a bit sick at very low revs.


paul

[Pete Gaimari]

I have no complaint about the uneven running on the 66 cars. The problem is it's not fair against the AI. They don't have it, and come off the turns faster than I can no matter what I do. It's a bit frustrating. For racing online it's a nice feature. I would have liked to see two versions for those who race just the AI.

I'm all for realism Paul, but not when i'm the only one on the track that has it. That's not very real.

[Rudy Dingemans]

Well, to be fair, the AI don't have uplift ('upforce'), overheating tyres, and wheelspin either....   They're just so simplified in GPL compared to yer own car - basically, they don't have any real physics - that it's barely even comparable.  

I get your drift though, so to speak. It seems unfair sometimes. While learning GPL I remember being pretty frustrated that the AI just about always gets perfect starts off the line, so I could never manage to slipstream and overtake before T1 at Monza...

Regards, Rudy
(GPLRank: -40)

Edited by Rudy Dingemans, Jul 31 2012 - 11:50 AM.

[Pete Gaimari]

Yeah, they have a big advantage over us Rudy. The good part is I can find a race 24/7.