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I have been playing around a bit with the driver ratings and car HP in F1GP, using the windows editor. I have been  
trying to make the drivers as fast as possible, in order for me to have some competition, while still keeping  
things realistic. The best way to speed them up, I found, was to increase the AI car grip. However, this seemed to  
randomize the drivers a lot, and really close things up. At one track, the Forti outqualified Coulthard , and  
generally the whole field is covered by 1.5 seconds!

I have two drivers, for example Schumacher and Herbert, who both have the same car. In order for the game to be  
realistic, I have given Schumacher ratings (qual and race) of 1 and Herbert 11. If I set AI grip to 3, then the  
results seem to favour Herbert! Does anyone have any way of making the cars really competitive, keeping a  
realistic sort of performance spread? In the end I turned the HP's right up, so that I am driving a 650hp car,  
with the Williams being a 730hp car. I STILL win, though only on the twisty circuits. I am MILES behind at the  
power circuits.

What I really want, is to have the same performance as the AI cars with less grip, AND a realistic spread of  
competition, so that I can say that Schumacher will always be 30 seconds ahead of Herbert.

Any comments?

Daniel
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What you need to do is set Herbert to something like 26 or 30.  That
doesn't mean he will run 26th, but that he will be that much slower than
Schu.

What I do is to give Herbert a rating of 20 or 30 in qual/race, and give
Schumacher 1. Then Herbert is still fast, but not a front-runner any more.
The rating is somewhat arbitrary, but a significant difference of numbers
will result in a small difference of performance differentiation. The hp
rating is the major determining factor, however, you cannot change the
hp setting among the same team, that's bad. (Are you listening, Microprose?)
We have too many teams with one good and one not-so-good drivers, e.g.
Senna/Andretti in 93 McLaren, Schumacher/whoever in Bennetton, Prost/early
Hill in 93 Williams etc.

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