Race Specific Setups

I see most of the videos are a year old or so, is this Steelcast27 still going ? Could really do with some v1.6 setups.

 

look at his avatar
he is staff member now.
orks for Reiza on the default setups

 

Can someone tell me the logic behind the setup loading? I load LMDh on RA and have interlagos setup loaded? Are setups track specific or generic builds?

 

AFAIK, (and I could be totally wrong), from my experience at least, it loads the most recently used setup. So if you were most recently racing at, say, Long Beach, and then went to another track, either in the same lobby or a completely different one on a different occasion even, the setup automatically loaded would be the Long Beach one.

That's been my experience anyway.

 

yes, and do you see any logic behind that?

 

Yes. Last used setup is the one that gets loaded.

Given, it's not perhaps as logical as loading a setup which relates to the track you're currently at, but in those situations where you don't have a setup for that car/track combo, it does make sense to load whatever the last used setup was, instead of loading the default one.

Perhaps, code wise, it's not something which is an easy fix in the Madness engine, or it could just be (and it almost certainly is the case) that the dev team have bigger fish to fry, so to speak.

 

How do you manage your setups, guys? What names do you give them, and what text do you put in the descriptions? Coming from AC, I often find myself in a situation where the game says that this name is already in use (I used to give some short names like 'q', 'r', '1', '2'), and the description contains some irrelevant track name due to this 'loading a previously used setup' feature.

 

Trackname (or a variant of it) followed by either R, Q or TT, and then a number to designate the version. Have started using a small 't' to designate that it's a Test setup too (usually to just experiement with what might be quite a large setup change) and a small 'w' for Wet setup variations.

For example: 'Kansai Qt' or 'SilvGP R2w' or 'Monza91 TTt2'.

As an additional note, I make sure to have unique track identifiers as well. SilvGP for all of the Silverstone tracks would not work either. I use the years of the tracks, such as '01', '88' or '91' after the track name to achieve this.

Anyway - yes, you'll have to give the setups unique names in order to be able to save several setups per car. R or Q just won't be enough uniquely identifiable information, which I noticed early on hence the new format which includes the track name as well.

 

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