What is the secret formula for calculating PP?

[RedRockRacer]

I know this has been bugging a lot of people. Especially tuners. Is there an actual formula, or just made up numbers?

 

[gitslautriv]

I can't entirely answer the question, but it seems to incorporate power, weight, weight bias, drive type (FF, FR, etc) and downforce (front & rear). It seems to ignore acceleration (gear ratios and parts), tyres, suspension settings and aerodynamic drag (ie prototypes and racecars massively out perform streetcars of the same pp).

In GT5, I noticed my cars often increased its pp after races, despite not upgrading or tweeking anything and losing bhp through the wear of oil - this may have been fixed in GT6 so please don't jump on this.

 

[Madertus]

In GT5, I noticed my cars often increased its pp after races, despite not upgrading or tweeking anything and losing bhp through the wear of oil - this may have been fixed in GT6 so please don't jump on this.

It was called "breaking in". If I recall correctly, at about 300km mark cars would reach their top stock PP.

 

[Lewis_Hamilton_]

In GT5, I noticed my cars often increased its pp after races, despite not upgrading or tweeking anything and losing bhp through the wear of oil - this may have been fixed in GT6 so please don't jump on this.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

In GT5, zero mileage cars would have their engines break in, therefore increasing performance from 0 to 300 miles. Break in would stop at 300 miles and the engine would be at peak performance up to 5000 miles. After this 'milestone', the engine would then suffer from wear and decease in performance (I think it took up to 20,000 miles before this bottomed out to the cars lowest possible performance, and would decrease no further).

In GT6, only the engine becoming worn and used seems to be accounted for, at the same 5000 mile mark.

As for the tread topic, it would be nice to have some adjustments so that vehicles that are under 800kg would not be punished by the PP system so much; same goes for cars with peaky, narrow power bands.

 

[gitslautriv]

It was called "breaking in". If I recall correctly, at about 300km mark cars would reach their top stock PP.

Engine performance becoming more consistent - makes sense. Thank you for that.

 

[TurismoBad]

I am reviewing the questions and there is a lot of really good ones like this one that have 5-10 likes. Some truly interesting stuff. I hope that, despite few likes we'll get some answers to these.

 

[TRLWNC7396]

This would be a wonderful insight into PD's/Kaz's workings.

 

[stuff1138]

I am reviewing the questions and there is a lot of really good ones like this one that have 5-10 likes. Some truly interesting stuff. I hope that, despite few likes we'll get some answers to these.

I've noticed that too. It seems to me that the influx of questions at the beginning of this message board probably pushed the ones that weren't getting much attention to the bottom and therefore they got overlooked.

 

[TRLWNC7396]

I'm hoping sincerely that Kaz & Jordan look at ALL of the questions before beginning to answer...

 

[GBO Possum]

Fascinating question.

I'm sure Microsoft's Turn 10 Studios would like to see this one answered!