Okay, I searched beforehand and found nothing on this. Also, move if I posted this in the wrong place.
I think the AI is being improved in the next patch and I, just want to know, what do think will be improved in them (if you actually care).
Will they overtake eachother?
Will they try and avoid crashing?
And will they learn how to use the pits?

My guess is that they'll be able to pit, be a bit more cleverer (so they don't get stuck in crashes, or drive better) and hopefully become a bit faster.

But what we end up with is something only Scawen will be able to tell you (dunno what he has exactly in his mind, but it will be a big improvement for sure ).

And hopefully they won't go crazy in the BF1 at 180mph.

lol yeh, i really do wish they were a bit faster

it would be good if they learnt from the user so that each users ai would be eunique to that user. then you could have ai races that wouldn't be too easy and would be too hard.

If they stop driving as if they were alone , crashing into your car and stop turning mad with the fastest car after few laps i ll be very happy with the result

Oh, and it would be great if they didn't have an almighty crash every race at turn one. No, wait, that's what we do...

Rakhsh

I think first and foremost they will start to be aware of tyre temperature, wear and dirtiness, which should include improvements to their "pathfinding" so that they avoid going off the track more actively. Second they'll very likely learn to pit, and third I hope the learning algorithm will be improved to actually check if the newly and theoretically faster calculated path is actually faster in execution.

Nice to have would definitely be more human behaviour/errors of not driving as "perfect" as now, as well as a substantial speed increase of the Pro AI. Also the awareness of fellow human drivers should be increased; while they do avoid obstacles, it only really works on the large scale for static objects. Fast and agile targets are still too much for them to handle and they will spin you out merciless. I guess they're good for simulating a BTCC season, though

Must say that I could not care less about the AI. Many probably disagress with me. There should be a lot more important stuff than AI on the to do list. Too bad it doesn't seem like that

Yes, there is always "much more important" stuff than what is currently being worked on. But like for patch X, these little things also have to be done sometime. Scawen has already announced that he *will* work on physics (whatever that may include) for patch Y, so cut him some slack.

It would be nice if you could teach the AI's to 'talk', so after 300 conversations or thereabouts, they'd become reasonably articulate and chatty. Of course, new AI's should naturally drive very badly and make strange unintelligible sounds, like this... (see pic).

AIgotchi?

What will the AI become? Biggie clones.

Oh shut up you! You'll see when I get in the top 10 of the MHR rank by just letting the AI hotlap for me

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Must say that I could not care less about the AI.

I used to feel like that until I noticed that everybody online was racing the same two combos every night. Now I would really appreciate some decent AI to replace all the robotic and unimaginative humans.

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I used to feel like that until I noticed that everybody online was racing the same two combos every night. Now I would really appreciate some decent AI to replace all the robotic and unimaginative humans.

I feel the same!

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I used to feel like that until I noticed that everybody online was racing the same two combos every night. Now I would really appreciate some decent AI to replace all the robotic and unimaginative humans.

QFT

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I used to feel like that until I noticed that everybody online was racing the same two combos every night. Now I would really appreciate some decent AI to replace all the robotic and unimaginative humans.

Sad but kinda true. Especially now that CTRA is offline this becomes even more painfully evident. Seems like without a system forcing change, people will always do the same thing over and over.

The a.i. will become more intelligent and more competitive.
More intelligent means pitstops, tyre wear, (pacing yourself), greater awareness of the other cars around.
More competitive means you'll find it a lot harder to whoop their asses.

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Sad but kinda true. Especially now that CTRA is offline this becomes even more painfully evident. Seems like without a system forcing change, people will always do the same thing over and over.

Global combo balancing system

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Must say that I could not care less about the AI. Many probably disagress with me. There should be a lot more important stuff than AI on the to do list. Too bad it doesn't seem like that

Well I disagree with you. I don't enjoy having a computer game sitting on my PC that I can't use. I get pretty bored with just hot lapping so to me the AI IS the most important thing to me. I don't have time to race online in leagues in every sim so good solid working AI is important to me. Until then, LFS just collects dust.

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Well I disagree with you. I don't enjoy having a computer game sitting on my PC that I can't use. I get pretty bored with just hot lapping so to me the AI IS the most important thing to me. I don't have time to race online in leagues in every sim so good solid working AI is important to me. Until then, LFS just collects dust.

Ever clicked the "multiplayer" button in the LFS main menu? You don't need leagues to play online...

I had 10 minutes to spare...

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Ever clicked the "multiplayer" button in the LFS main menu? You don't need leagues to play online...

Yeah I stopped that pretty soon as it was worse than GPL Monza Turn 1. Plus, nobody really run LX4/LX6 races so I need working AI to get any play out of LFS.

Idealy, it should catter for everyone, great AI for offline, great online for casual pick up races and leagues.

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(see pic).

Norns?