GP2 - tech problems during races

Dear All, Has anyone worked out yet, at what point does the randomiser which decides whether your car is going to break down during a race actually do its randomising? What I mean is, I have noticed that if I qualify for a non-championship race, and then save the game with my car sitting on the grid, if I start the race, and my engine blows mid-way through, when I re-start, it does exactly the same thing. I also saved a race part-way through and got a puncture two laps later. When I reloaded the game, exactly the same thing happened. All this would seem to indicate that whatever decides that you're going to have technical problems has already made its decision by the time you're on the grid. It also seems to decide both the fault and the lap by this point. What I would like to know is, if I save a game *after* I have qualified but *before* I enter the "race" section, has the "random decision" been made by that point? The reason I ask is not to cheat, but with the original f1gp I had high-qualified races saved after qualifying so that I could go into 100% races, still allowing me to keep the normal "quick race" length at something sensible like 10%. If anyone has sussed this out (or if anyone even cares...!) I'd love to hear your thoughts. Best wishes, Gareth Marlow

On Fri, 30 Aug 1996 12:29:50 +0100, Gareth Marlow Hi Gareth, From my own empirical evidence, I suspect that it makes the decision when you finish the pre-race warn-up. Cheers, Richard

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>Dear All, >Has anyone worked out yet, at what point does the randomiser which >decides whether your car is going to break down during a race actually >do its randomising? What I mean is, I have noticed that if I qualify for >a non-championship race, and then save the game with my car sitting on >the grid, if I start the race, and my engine blows mid-way through, when >I re-start, it does exactly the same thing. I also saved a race part-way >through and got a puncture two laps later. When I reloaded the game, >exactly the same thing happened.

It would be interesting to know if this still happened if you changed your driving style. Such as short-shifting. Also, what team are you driving for. I think there is still a debate about the quality of the PLAYERs car. I am not convinced that the PLAYER car will always have the WILLIAMS attributes, even if you select Bennaton.

>>Dear All, >>Has anyone worked out yet, at what point does the randomiser which >>decides whether your car is going to break down during a race actually >>do its randomising? I save non championship races for exactly the same reason. I save them at the begginning if the pre race warm up so that I can fine tune the race set-up if I want, and all the races are different. So it appears that the decisions are made on the start grid, or at least during the previous menu Regards David