Automobilista 2 May 2024 Development Update - The Road to V1.6 Pt1

And already posted

 

Crypto transactions built-in the game confirmed

0.000001BTC per track cut etc...

 

I saw this about an hour ago, dm'd renato and got the guys @ traxion to let reiza know so it hopefully should get picked up soon.

Stands to reason, but I'll say it anyway...

DON'T CLICK ANY LINKS TILL YOU HEAR DIFFERENT!

 

Wait... do I get paid if the AI cuts the track?

 

Yeah you most likely have a typo somewhere. Mod cars work just fine with custom AI files. No need to edit rcf or anything. There’s a tool on race department that makes edit custom AI files a lot easier.

 

Looks like they fixed it

 

I've been playing around with custom AI files a lot, but I've never actually used that tool before. Maybe it's time to give it a try. I tweaked that one file (like I've done before) to put the mod cars into the same group by changing 'Group A mod' to just 'Group A'. Works fine. I had ALL cars and drivers defined in a custom AI file before, as well. But I've never tried to limit the entries in the custom AI file to just the number of cars I wanna race against and have the game pick those exact ones instead of random ones as suggested. That sounds like an easy solution I'd like to investigate a little more.

 

Yep, they're back

 

In fact part 2 contains part 3 to 10, that's the reason why it takes some times to cook...

 

If the hackers had just written "pay here to access update 1.6 part 2" they'd have been raking it in! Fools.

 

They probably had no idea there is literally an army of people pressing f5 on this profile

 

Late June... I think its about time something happens here

 

You can’t rush greatness

 

Hey, just in case anyone's curious about how I sorted this out:

I figured out you can actually limit the number of liveries/cars available in the sim, but it only works for mods. Here's the deal: in the {car_name}.rcf files, there's this XML node that looks like:

<INPUT NAME="LIVERY" OPTIONS="6" />
I knocked that number down to "2", then deleted everything but the first two entries from <NAMES INPUT ="LIVERY"> and all the matching <CONDITION LIVERY="XY"> bits. BAM! Only two cars show up in the sim now.

I love using Group A as my go-to example. I've got all 10 BMWs, all 12 Mercedes, threw in 4 Audis (Röhrl only raced a few times to mess with opponents and help Biela snag the championship), and two Omegas. I copied the drivers from the mod AI file to the regular one, and made two new entries for Strycek and Reuter (Opel Omega). Job done!

 

Don't think anybody wants anything rushed, but when people are told "A few days" for the dev update and three weeks pass, people are going to be antsy.

 

They should just remember that we’re talking about Renato. Expect deadlines to be missed since things can come up. Anyone who expects them to do something according to a public Renato deadline should think and then not get angry since you shouldn’t expect them to arrive at that time

 

Who wants to speculate on timing for the next update? It's a fun Friday hobby!

There is a thing called the Poisson process in statistics that has the "memorylessness" property - conditioning on how long you've waited since the last event does not affect the timing until the next event. How Poisson do we think it is for the Dev update? Is it more likely on a Friday because it's Friday and we have a weekend? Place your bets! (I hope it is today I want to look at pictures of Oreca 07 LMP2 Cars)

 

I'd say beginning of August for the dev update, late September/mid October for the update itself

 

I hope it won't be so late...