TCS & ASM

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A thought that I had that would be great to include but is probably not going to be in the game is to adjust the ASM and TCS while racing. It is quite annoing having to restart until you get the settings how you want. Many sporty road cars nowdays have the optoins to turn these aids on and off. And many race cars can adjust them from the steering wheel or dashboard mid-race.

What do you think?
 
:) I must admit I've never tried racing with them on, so it hasn't annoyed me in the past!!! But you're right about being able to adjust on the move, the number of things F1 drivers can change from the wheel is amazing.

Paul.

p.s Do you live anywhere near North Ealing tube station DQuaN??? I have a mate who lives down there...
 
Always have ACM set to 0 on all cars, might have a TCS setting of 1 or 2 with some of the more powerful cars.

I do however agree that being able to adjust some of the settings while in-car would be a big step forward. As has been pointed out a good number of race car have this ability (particularly rally cars) and a growing number of road cars.
 
Traction Control and Stability Management?!?!?!? What'r those for.......................oh, wait.... ROOKIES!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! learn to drive, noobs!

j/k :)

The concept is cool if needed...but considering the following, it would be a waste of time:

tcs and asm are godsends for piecers like any thoroughly crappy FR.
I've come to realize traction control makes any car a nag to drive,if set wrong,so i leave it off on 99.9% of all of my 78 cars(all MR and 4WD) :dopey:
 
I think that there should be lots of options when pitting. A menu could come up as soon as the car enters the AI controled portion of the pit lane asking you what maintenance you'd like done to the car, or changes. On the "race cars" you could even have adjustments made to handling like camber, toe, downforce ....

Should be possible with a little programing and testing effort.
 
Defininately. The pit should be full of settings options that can be tweaked.
 
I've never used ASM. However, because I still use the old dual shock control pad instead of a wheel and pedals TC is required. It's almost impossible to feed in, and hook up, 800+ BHP with the X button. Real time TCS adjustment would be great. If you were winning by a huge margin at the end of the race (which most of us probably are) you could turn the TCS off and just hang the back out for the fun of it.

It would also be good for warming up the rear tyres on a qualifying run on a track like R246. As the track has mainly fast corner the fronts come up to temperature faster, causing a handling inbalance. With the TCS off you could just light rears up (F1 warm up lap style) on your out lap and then turn the TCS to it's optimum postion for the hot lap.

Just a few thoughts. However, real time ASM / TCS adjustment probably won't happen.
 
Pharaoh
It would also be good for warming up the rear tyres on a qualifying run on a track like R246. As the track has mainly fast corner the fronts come up to temperature faster, causing a handling inbalance. With the TCS off you could just light rears up (F1 warm up lap style) on your out lap and then turn the TCS to it's optimum postion for the hot lap.
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I think there's no tyre temperature in GT physics model, so this point is useless. It would be nice, although...
 
It wouldn't hurt having these features, but I don't expect them ... I personally would be happy if we have ASM, TCS and ABS as separate aids that can all be switched off, and then have the cars own ASM, TCS, EDS or whatever features adjustable as the car would allow it in reality.
 
Koolad
I think there's no tyre temperature in GT physics model, so this point is useless. It would be nice, although...
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Well the "tire wear" in GT3 seemed to incorporate some elements of tire temperature also, since fresh blue (cold?) tires definitely did NOT have optimum grip. In reality, fresh tires at ideal operating temperature would have optimum grip (assuming we ignore factors such as tire graining).

I always found in GT3 that the tires performed at their best between green and orange.
 

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