Mandatory pit stop happens on penultimate lap

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  1. keith windsor

    keith windsor Active Member AMS2 Club Member

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    Is there any indication of when this bug might be fixed?

    (Formula Classic Gen 3, custom championship, 50 lap distance but scaled to 50%, so it was 25 laps, and the pit window opened on lap 24).
     
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  2. kkdrummer

    kkdrummer Well-Known Member AMS2 Club Member

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    Indeed! This one has been going on for tooooo long.
     
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  3. Dylan Hale

    Dylan Hale Well-Known Member AMS2 Club Member

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    Just make the pit open window 5-10 laps in the middle of the race like TOCA race driver did. Problem solved
     
  4. CrimsonEminence

    CrimsonEminence Custom Title Staff Member AMS2 Club Member

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    Pit windows in AMS2 usually *are* in the middle of a race, this one seems to be connected to the 50% scaling more likely.
     
  5. Dylan Hale

    Dylan Hale Well-Known Member AMS2 Club Member

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    If so, then its broken. Because, I've never been told when the pit window is.
     
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    CrimsonEminence Custom Title Staff Member AMS2 Club Member

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    Yes it's clearly not working correctly if it triggers mandatories in the last lap.
     
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  7. racezilla

    racezilla Member AMS2 Club Member

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    I think there may be a plausible explanation to this. A last lap pit stop is usually not legal (think of the 1998 Silverstone F1 race), so necessarily the last possible lap must be the penultimate lap. The pit board comes up only when you have too little fuel, or when you risk a disqualification for not pitting (e.g. a penalty of sorts), in other words when you must pit. So it's more a case of the pit crew (or the game rather) telling you that you have to pit, rather than the mandatory pit being placed always at the penultimate lap.
    That said i think the game lacks a way to define the pit window. Please correct me if I am wrong as I have little experience with setting up lobbies (I only tried with the in-game lobby creation, not the server mode)
     

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