Depressed Bob's (arrows)

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I had two depressed Bobs. Let them run a P Cup races in Ferraris, which they easily won. Now they are much better and happy.:):)
 
snowylilmonster
I had the same issue the past few days with my one main bob. All my other bobs were either green (sideways) or blue (upwards). Just my best driver was orange (down). I put him is second favorite car and sent him driving around a few tracks that he liked to drive on. That seemed to help cause his lap-times didn't drop as much. So I coached him a bit and that helped more but he was still down. So I tried many different cars and races; when I put him in a '66 Cobra 427 he changed from orange to green in one race. So i ran him again in a different race with the same car while coaching when he needed it. He went from green to blue after that race. He must prefer older FR cars.
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What kind of bob was he? A hot head or cool head?
 
I think its just random, I guess, supposedly something from outside the racing world is affecting him, the sorts of things a race director can not have any effect on.
 
This thread is making me mad about my mindless slaves having feelings, so heres a question I'd like answered. How do I make my slave drivers infinitely loyal?
 
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This thread is making me mad about my mindless slaves having feelings, so heres a question I'd like answered. How do I make my slave drivers infinitely loyal?
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You can't just like any AI program thats coded to act as self aware. They do as they please at some point as the Bob AI has been programmed to specificity to Show you the finger :eek: when his arrow is down and drive crap Aka Paul tracey style :lol:
 
After extensive teasting at the turn of the year while doing the SLS Challenge, we found that the arrows had no effect on bob's performance. It's almost as if PD didn't implement whatever effect they initially wanted it to have.

This was tested by Marxgorm amongst others (he won the scandinavian zone).

We found that depressed bobs raced as fast or even faster than happy bobs, however, when in critical moments, I personally felt a happy bob was surer of himself. Even so, it was a very marginal effect and not worth taking into account. (A depressed level 35 will still race better than a happy 34 etc).

This might change through updates but I certainly haven't noticed anything yet.
 
I wonder how to get my best driver out of the deep funk after winning the FGT series (which I finally tackled) but he went from super excited to drive to barely able to pass people without wiping out. :grumpy:
 
I've been analyzing this since I first started....and I'm pretty sure it's totally random. Nothing you do will affect his arrows. Some people will disagree with me on that citing endurance races. But I've tested him in almost 20 endurance races now...and while it's true often if he is sad, after an endurance race he is happy again, I've also seen him remain sad, go medium as well....there is no consistency.

Actually, to be factually correct about the above, the only thing you can do to affect his arrows is put him online and while he is online his arrows will remain what they were when you uploaded him, and they won't change until you take him offline. Other than that, I'm satisfied that I've exhausted every possibility (I'm a little ocd) for finding a cause and effect and it's totally random imo.
 
Erm..what is the problem? Sometimes you are "Up" for it, sometimes you are in a "Semi" state, and sometimes you are "Down" however exciting the opposition may be.

So let Bob go through the phases, he will soon be pointing upwards :-)
 
I found a good run with a 2004 Z06 in the American Championship worked quite well on his mood.. the vettes right rear quarter panel was totally trashed (the pass on the viper was far from the cleanest ive seen..) but the guy had fun
 
My Bob will never be happy. I read online to let him rest so I made 2 new drivers and they raced 3 series each and he was still emo. Then I let my original Bob race a random race with my GTR which he doesn't drive alot and he won and he's still emo. Then I let him race in the Gran Turismo All Stars with my RM ZR1 and he loses his cool and starts throttling around corners hard and eventually ended up in 8th place. I'm willing to spend all my GT cash on a therapist to make him happy again.
 
Since finishing all of the enduros I only use my BOB's in races where giant-killer cars can enter. It then doesn't matter whether they're sulking or not, they still win. So, in a nutshell, I don't give a continental about their moods. The little cyber-****s must just get on with it! :sly:
 
Actually, there is a pattern.
I did 2 races with a green Bob. The arrow turned blue. I did 2 more races and it turned orange. So the pattern is; green-blue-orange-green-blue-orange and vice versa.
 
I've had a bob in a 4 months "down" state. No matter what he does it doesn't move. He is my second bob I created an is "hot".

Retirement?
 
Usually what I do is I keep them offline and don't use them fir a period of time, maybe use another, then they're fine after a little bit of rest
 
claythrow
So in searching this it seems to be a mystery, has anyone figured out how to change his arrows? All my bobs are down, it's affecting their driving and I can't seem to do anything to get him happy again. Resting doesn't help, winning doesn't seem to help, driving him in his personality range doesn't seem to help....if they stay down for much longer they are going to commmit suicide.
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:idea:He must win a challenging race.
UPDATE:My 5 Bobs are online and their arrows are::blue-green-blue-blue-blue.
UPDATE 2: I got my Bobs' money and found out that my Class 20 Bob won a remote race while I wasn't there!!! AWESOME!👍👍👍👍👍👍
 
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my guy usually goes blue when i coach him, so that his in game mood, is close to his personality. maybe he just wants to know that i care, and i'm not in the other room making a sandwich. idk though, i only have the one racer so far.
 
I can really see any difference with bob in conjunction with what his arrows are doing, he couldnt drive a nail into a slab of butter.
 
I think it's random. I've got Bob's that haven't raced at all for days, and their arrows still fluctuate.

I think it does have an effect on their performance though. I find that if Bob is "up for it" he responds to my commands more quickly, and maintains that instruction for longer, compared to a Bob who is "down" or "indifferent".
 
Switch the orange and blue. then you get "correct" results. I haven't completely thought through the arrows yet.
 
but i do find an "easier" way to get orange arrows is when you let a lvl 0 bob do a full length race which drains his stamina out after 3 laps but he has to drive 30
 
I realize this a month-old thread, but I KNOW if I made a new one about this someone would complain or re-direct me here. Anyway, I had a bob with a depressed (orange) arrow. I had let him auto-pilot for several races and he soon became depressed. Next several races I entered him in, I decided to coach him to the point where his mood bar in-race remained in the blue. When he came up to competing cars, he would become frustrated. After he managed to pass, I would pace him to improve his mood into the blue portion again. Within 2-3 races his arrow changed from orange to green to blue. Tested it on my other 5 drivers and their arrows shot up to blue as well following the same strategy.

EDIT: Seems if you continually keep them calm during races, they tend to stay in higher spirits than if the race pissed.
 

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