I didn't find this in the improvements suggestion log post and nothing came up when i searched so....appologies if I missed.


Something that has been bugging me for a while now is the need to keep changing the amount of fuel in the car at race start when I change between servers (particularly in CTRA) because the cars have different fuel consumption.

Given that most of the races are of the same lengths so therefore the amount of fuel you need in a car stays pretty much fixed I think it would be an improvement if when you chose a car the amount of fuel you last used in it remained the same.

Eg Drive the XFG in CTRA Race 1 and you'll probably have a fuel setting of around 8%, when you swap to say the FOX in CTRA SS 2 you will need to change the fuel setting of the car as well as changing car and choosing a set. If you're in a push to get in to a race before it starts you are very likely to not have time/forget to change the fuel setting and run out mid race.

So I would like to suggest that the fuel setting is related to the car rather than a global setting at a minimum. Ideally it would be IN the set config itself so that just choosing a set will set the amount of fuel to start a race with.

The pit options such as tyre wear/replacement and refuelling setting would probably be better off either as car specific settings or in the actual set for each car/track also.


Thoughts??

I disagree. It would only be a very minor "improvement" if you only drive certain cars on certain servers. If you race the same cars on different servers, you'd still have to check the fuel.

Quote from gezmoor :

Thoughts??

Yeah, I never put less than 20% in the tank, which covers me for just about any public server. My driving isn't good or consistent enough to worry about shaving off a couple of hundredths a lap from eeking out that last percent.

Quote from Bob Smith :

Yeah, I never put less than 20% in the tank, which covers me for just about any public server. My driving isn't good or consistent enough to worry about shaving off a couple of hundredths a lap from eeking out that last percent.

Quote from J@tko :

I guess this is why they set the fuel amount in percent % instead of liters/gallons, so that the consumption will be somewhat similar. I bet the UF1 uses less than 1/10 of what the BF1 uses on one lap at BL GP measured in liters/gallons, but in % you wouldn't have to change the setting too much. Bad example maybe, but I think it makes sense.

One given car uses 0,8% of a 40 litre tank on one lap, and another given car uses 1,1% of a 100 litre tank. Set it to 20% like Bob does and you won't have to change a thing when you switch cars.

Quote from zeugnimod :

LOL.

Uhm, well I'm a loser so I tend to run at 2% over the bare minimum for that given combo, in all cars apart from XFG on CTRA 1, where 9% is the minimum I can get away with for ALL combos. Some can get away with 8% but I'll only forget to change it come the track change.