Server's up. It's cold at Silverstone... 13/14 degrees.

Quote from: Wally on October 19, 2015, 10:28:55 PM

I'm going to disregard pit lane speed penalties as AC 1.3 broke apps' ability to tell when a car is in pit lane, until if and when we get an AC fix.

Does this mean last week's results will be adjusted?

Yeah, I should, for fairness.

I've also checked the ballast allocation and I hadn't used the adjust kg/sec after the stats from round 1, which reduced the ballast amount a little. The new ballast is:

 

Bacchulum	0
Bafs17	0
Chap111	0
christopheraser	0
EdWood	92
Freezer	0
G0RGAK	0
Grat	118
Grubbet	18
Guybrush Threepwood	130
Jeremy	174
Joe	28
Mael	0
Marty	100
Matthew111	124
Phil.8	75
Rolz	0
Schmittez	0
Simone	0
Skaife	119
StanDaam	16
Wally	21
Will	78

For the curious, the current ballast amount is 53 kg slows your lap time down by 1% (i.e. 1 second over a 1:40 lap). Measured and averaged over multiple racers, not guessed.

You can't judge the ballast after one race. It takes a few races to settle to an appropriate value. One thing I used to do in the past is ”damp” the initial ballast swings for the first few races to reduce these big initial swings, so you only got 70% of the calculated ballast change (as the netKar guys may remember). After a number of races, you then get 100% of the calculated ballast change. I'll have to check if that's working correctly in the AC version. I have a suspicion that's not working properly. If I can have a look in time tomorrow, I might reduce the ballast ”swing” by 70% (I think that was the factor I used).

It's not done by gut feel Marty. It's all calculated, based on times that people actually do, and how much ballast actually slows people down, all things that are measurable from the race results.

I noticed in the practice server that entering the server and simply accelerating out of the pit box can generate a speed limit violation, this makes no sense as the auto limiter is at 80 and I got a violation a couple times while doing this. Someone may be lucky enough to get a penalty twice in one stop if they speed in and then the app decides to give them another when exiting the pit box with an auto pit limiter while not speeding at all.

Yeah, I think I'll disregard pit lane speed penalties as the logic got broken by 1.3 changes that affect telling when you're in pits. It's been reported as a bug by various people. I might reinstate it once (and if) we get an AC fix.

The current method has been refined in practice over many years.

Simone, ate you scared of having more cars around you?

Not me... I didn't touch the practice server. Everyone has their set ballast.

I am getting a checksum error when trying to join the practice server...

Also, my throttle is in a bad way.  Took it apart and cleaned it but it's still no good   This is what it's doing from a telemetry perspective - you can see the gas graph second from the bottom where on the straights it should be one flat line but it's got all these blips in it:

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/575691590870924338/31D4D9595734BB2367D0EEB8C2218FB566A1613B/

I've tried looking in the Logitech profiler and in game but I can't seem to find a "deadzone" option.

Or as a desperate measure, you can really lower your max range of your throttle pedal in AC, below the dips in the throttle trace, so you still hit 100%, but you will lose some pedal sensitivity.

I haven't done any PRAC yet for this season, but it shouldn't be any different to finding a brake marker for a  corner should it?

That's right. You find a fence or something like that where the pit lane speed limit starts. Or you do a burnout like Bacchulum.