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Post by XRF HammerPH on Aug 22, 2019 21:45:12 GMT
I'm happy to keep the mandatory pit stop in as I agree that it does add that strategic element to the races. I always assumed that pitstop meant you had to change/add something but from now on it's going to be a Lap 1 job if don't need to change stuff. It seems rather odd to have a pitstop and not do anything but go in the box then drive back out 0o Nope there was never a requirement to do anything unless you wanted to. You can pit any time but of course by pitting on lap 1 when you don't need to you likely force yourself into more stops than needed because most races most of us need to get some sort of repair later in the race.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2019 21:49:48 GMT
I always assumed that pitstop meant you had to change/add something but from now on it's going to be a Lap 1 job if don't need to change stuff. It seems rather odd to have a pitstop and not do anything but go in the box then drive back out 0o Nope there was never a requirement to do anything unless you wanted to. You can pit any time but of course by pitting on lap 1 when you don't need to you likely force yourself into more stops than needed because most races most of us need to get some sort of repair later in the race. It's not really a pitstop then more a drive through penalty tbh might have to go full schumacher and pit on the final lap then haha
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Aug 22, 2019 22:28:10 GMT
Nope there was never a requirement to do anything unless you wanted to. You can pit any time but of course by pitting on lap 1 when you don't need to you likely force yourself into more stops than needed because most races most of us need to get some sort of repair later in the race. It's not really a pitstop then more a drive through penalty tbh might have to go full schumacher and pit on the final lap then haha lol kind of yeah but in all honesty most races you'll find everyone has to make some kind of repair. Tyler and Greg did well at this one to not require that. I don't think i've had any race in this series where that's been the case, but there were several in the previous series.
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Aug 23, 2019 11:22:03 GMT
The result and updated table is now available for this race here:- consoleracing.boards.net/post/10997/threadIt is only provisional as I thin we need to have a consensus on whether we swap Boothy and Tyler following Tylers' assumption that he needed to pit again at the end. As per my post above my view is that the game was not incorrectly forcing him to take his mandatory pit stop which he had already taken but was actually simply doing as it always does when damage occurs and suggesting that he stop to repair it. Thoughts? I am going to run a little test later to see if there is any difference in the message that pops up when you are being requested to take a mandatory pit stop as opposed to a suggested pit stop.
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Aug 23, 2019 13:03:28 GMT
The result and updated table is now available for this race here:- consoleracing.boards.net/post/10997/threadIt is only provisional as I thin we need to have a consensus on whether we swap Boothy and Tyler following Tylers' assumption that he needed to pit again at the end. As per my post above my view is that the game was not incorrectly forcing him to take his mandatory pit stop which he had already taken but was actually simply doing as it always does when damage occurs and suggesting that he stop to repair it. Thoughts? I am going to run a little test later to see if there is any difference in the message that pops up when you are being requested to take a mandatory pit stop as opposed to a suggested pit stop. Sounds good to me!
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Post by niblips on Aug 23, 2019 13:05:03 GMT
Sounds like it was a "better safe than sorry" pit stop because of the message still be on the screen to correct the damage. If i were in that situation and thought i might get disqualified if i didn't stop i would have pitted as well. In that case the win would go to Boothy.
Also, I like the mandatory pit stop rule. It means if you don't have any incidents you can have a quick stop. But it also gives others a chance to catch you up if they have had some incidental damage they had to fix. If you wanna say we need to change tyres on the stop as well that's fine, it only adds a few seconds to the stop, but i think if you have no damage the quick pit stop with no changes to the car is a kind of reward.
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Aug 23, 2019 14:52:38 GMT
I'm going to mark it down that Matt won as that's what the majority of us seem to think
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Aug 26, 2019 9:19:22 GMT
I did the test regarding the mandatory pit stop as promised, setting up a 5 lap race at Brands Hatch. Part way around lap 4 the engineer warned me that I needed to stop at the end of the lap or I would be disqualified. At the same time the pit board popped up on the right of my screen telling me to pit but with 'MANDATORY STOP' showing at the bottom of the board. So this confirms what I suspected once Tyler said he had damage... His engineer was suggesting he pitted to repair the damage and the game was not telling him to pit for his mandatory stop.
As soon as I crossed the line to start the final lap without stopping I was immediately disqualified.
All makes sense now.
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Aug 26, 2019 22:34:55 GMT
I had already taken my Mandatory pitstop though, at the end of lap 23. I don't know why getting slight damage at Brands Hatch would cause another mandatory stop. Must just be a glitch thing there.
Maybe like I said my crew wanted Matt to win lol
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Aug 26, 2019 22:37:36 GMT
I had already taken my Mandatory pitstop though, at the end of lap 23. I don't know why getting slight damage at Brands Hatch would cause another mandatory stop. Must just be a glitch thing there. Maybe like I said my crew wanted Matt to win lol It wasn't mandatory though.. just suggesting that you take it to repair damage. If you had carried on you would have been fine.
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Aug 26, 2019 22:54:36 GMT
I had already taken my Mandatory pitstop though, at the end of lap 23. I don't know why getting slight damage at Brands Hatch would cause another mandatory stop. Must just be a glitch thing there. Maybe like I said my crew wanted Matt to win lol It wasn't mandatory though.. just suggesting that you take it to repair damage. If you had carried on you would have been fine. Ah, gotcha 👍
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