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A few people pm'd me and asked about these reports.
I don't want to interfere to the actual long AC Mods thread unless I release something. If you want something, need something, let me know in pm. Always happy to share everything with fellow vintage F1/AC fans.
I figured you'd be interested to see how my vintage seasons are going. I play one race every day (when I have the opportunity, mostly 2-3 races a week). I have a HUGE passion for the F1 between 1982-1994'ish, lots of knowledge of the era and I've done almost all seasons. Of course I haven't done the cars or tracks, just modifications and season files to them to achieve the most realistic results. Many people love the graphics, I love the genuine-like results and I try to adjust everything to achieve that.
Now I have the 1988 season going. Modified SD cars quite heavily. Races are 20-30 laps with mandatory forced pitstops (like all my seasons). This has been achieved through adjusting the car fuel consumption and capacity. I have also modified the cars' tyres so that they become competitive.
I'm always playing full seasons. All qualifyings, all races. I only restart the race if I crash in the first corner. After the first corner if I crash or ruin my race, so be it. I always play the races til' the end, even if I'm 10th.
And whenever I notice something is off, I always try adjust the settings to achieve the most realistic results. As you know this season (just like the 1989 season) was fully dominated by Prost and Senna. Prost actually outscored Senna both seasons but back in those days only the 11 best races counted. Senna was the fastest but as usual the Professor was the smartest.
I play with Prost against Senna (at ai level 100). Initially I had the best drivers' aggression much higher but realized soon that with SD cars that creates a lot of problems (mainly crashes) and downgraded it. Now the season has been good alhough on the street circuits Monaco and Detroit there are some traffic issues because some cars stay crawling on the track after they hit the barrier or crash. Well I guess that creates some unpredicability as well LOL. This kind of stuff don't happen with ASR and RSS cars and admittedly they're better done. ACFL 1994 cars are pretty good too, so are the VRC 2007 cars. I don't like VRC 1988 that much (way too oversteery) and that's why I chose modified SD.
If you want to try yourself, all dl links for tracks and season are always in the season video description.
Well anyway I'll start with Paul Ricard race report. I just picked this up because it was an incredible race. I was comfortably leading the race until lap 10 (about) but then I braked too late in the first corner and Senna took the lead and kept it til' the end. Senna hit a pitting backmarker in lap 10 and I got the lead temporarily. Berger was doing great but apparently crashed at some point and retired. I try to set it as one mistake costs you the win. Sometimes the ai gives you some handicap as Senna can pit two times per race (for no apparent reason). I haven't figured out how I could prevent that. But it doesn't happen that often as I've set the cars' fuel levels accordingly.
Berger is at ai level 96. This was a horrible season for Williams so Mansell isn't a title contender (ai level 95). Nakajima (ai level 89) outqualifying teammate Piquet (ai level 94) was a fluke. Those happen sometimes.
With longer races you'll have to deal with the backmarkers. At the end of the race you'll see the laptimes going down because of the traffic.
PAUL RICARD 1988 (SD CARS, 25 laps, mandatory pitstops) Player: Prost / McLaren
Qualifying results, pole position Ayrton Senna (AI 100)
Race results, winner Ayrton Senna (AI 100)
Senna (AI 100) lap times
Prost (player) lap times
Positions through the race
Standings after 7/16 races.
Next race is Silverstone (RAIN just like in the real 1988 season).
I don't want to interfere to the actual long AC Mods thread unless I release something. If you want something, need something, let me know in pm. Always happy to share everything with fellow vintage F1/AC fans.
I figured you'd be interested to see how my vintage seasons are going. I play one race every day (when I have the opportunity, mostly 2-3 races a week). I have a HUGE passion for the F1 between 1982-1994'ish, lots of knowledge of the era and I've done almost all seasons. Of course I haven't done the cars or tracks, just modifications and season files to them to achieve the most realistic results. Many people love the graphics, I love the genuine-like results and I try to adjust everything to achieve that.
Now I have the 1988 season going. Modified SD cars quite heavily. Races are 20-30 laps with mandatory forced pitstops (like all my seasons). This has been achieved through adjusting the car fuel consumption and capacity. I have also modified the cars' tyres so that they become competitive.
I'm always playing full seasons. All qualifyings, all races. I only restart the race if I crash in the first corner. After the first corner if I crash or ruin my race, so be it. I always play the races til' the end, even if I'm 10th.
And whenever I notice something is off, I always try adjust the settings to achieve the most realistic results. As you know this season (just like the 1989 season) was fully dominated by Prost and Senna. Prost actually outscored Senna both seasons but back in those days only the 11 best races counted. Senna was the fastest but as usual the Professor was the smartest.
I play with Prost against Senna (at ai level 100). Initially I had the best drivers' aggression much higher but realized soon that with SD cars that creates a lot of problems (mainly crashes) and downgraded it. Now the season has been good alhough on the street circuits Monaco and Detroit there are some traffic issues because some cars stay crawling on the track after they hit the barrier or crash. Well I guess that creates some unpredicability as well LOL. This kind of stuff don't happen with ASR and RSS cars and admittedly they're better done. ACFL 1994 cars are pretty good too, so are the VRC 2007 cars. I don't like VRC 1988 that much (way too oversteery) and that's why I chose modified SD.
If you want to try yourself, all dl links for tracks and season are always in the season video description.
Well anyway I'll start with Paul Ricard race report. I just picked this up because it was an incredible race. I was comfortably leading the race until lap 10 (about) but then I braked too late in the first corner and Senna took the lead and kept it til' the end. Senna hit a pitting backmarker in lap 10 and I got the lead temporarily. Berger was doing great but apparently crashed at some point and retired. I try to set it as one mistake costs you the win. Sometimes the ai gives you some handicap as Senna can pit two times per race (for no apparent reason). I haven't figured out how I could prevent that. But it doesn't happen that often as I've set the cars' fuel levels accordingly.
Berger is at ai level 96. This was a horrible season for Williams so Mansell isn't a title contender (ai level 95). Nakajima (ai level 89) outqualifying teammate Piquet (ai level 94) was a fluke. Those happen sometimes.
With longer races you'll have to deal with the backmarkers. At the end of the race you'll see the laptimes going down because of the traffic.
PAUL RICARD 1988 (SD CARS, 25 laps, mandatory pitstops) Player: Prost / McLaren
Qualifying results, pole position Ayrton Senna (AI 100)
Race results, winner Ayrton Senna (AI 100)
Senna (AI 100) lap times
Prost (player) lap times
Positions through the race
Standings after 7/16 races.
Next race is Silverstone (RAIN just like in the real 1988 season).
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