Hello, my AMS2 league is trying to set up a season of fixed setup races. Running into a problem trying to implement this. In the image below, you can see that next to fixed setups it says fuel amount, tyre compounds, etc should still be editable even with fixed setups. Even though it says we can alter the amount of fuel used even with fixed setups, you can see that in the image below that everything is grayed except the FFB level, leaving us stuck with 19L of fuel, which is only 5 laps in this particular Watkins Glen race. A 45min race will end up with around 5 pit stops. We have a Nords race too, 1 whole lap. The car is capable of holding 75L of fuel. This seems to make the whole "force default setups" setting useless. Am I missing something in the setup to unlock the ability to fill the car?
Hello, Good question! I believe this is a leftover from one of the earlier patches, when the intention was to re-introduce the fixed setups as they existed years ago; allowing users to tune a few basics. However, this was later changed to truly fixed setups as it was discovered it conflicted with saved setups, etc. While the text is currently misleading, there’s hope this feature will make a comeback in the future. As for the other issue, that could be a bug. I’m testing it now, but I’m unsure which livery you’ve selected. The only Whelen 31 livery I found is for the Cadillac V-Series. It might be a bug tied to your specific livery or perhaps the custom image you’re using, especially since car images have been pointing to 5 o’clock since a few patches ago. Hope this answers some of your questions. Please leave a reply if you have more questions or additional information that could help! Marius
Thanks for the reply. It was really only the one question about being able to change fuel level while using the locked default/fixed setup setting. We can adjust to all the other things being locked down, but having the fuel locked means an unnatural number of pitstops. Hopefully that does get some attention in the future. I wasn't asking about the livery thing at all. I had left a livery mod on there. It's using Id #54 which now that I turn off the mod is displayed correctly. Didn't mean for you to look into that at all, sorry for the confusion. Here's that livery with the mod off. Again, thanks for checking into this.
Hi, Thanks for your reply. Oh, there was only one question. I was trying to test fixed setups in MP on my own, but it won’t let me because I need another person to trigger the countdown. For now, I believe it’s a bug with the DPi, as other cars’ fuel seems to work when fixed setups are selected. At least when I play and join open lobbies. I will try to take a look and see if I can reproduce your issue. Meanwhile, if you have the time, please fill in a bug report: Bug Reports - Automobilista 2 (Read the Opening Post) Use the proper format and include the pictures you’ve uploaded in this topic. This way, a dev will see your report much easier and quicker, as they scan it regularly. Marius
Again, thanks for looking into this. I wonder why you can't start a MP lobby on your own? I get the "vote to start" every time I create an online lobby with just me in there. Anyway, I just tested with other cars and tracks, same thing, no editing the fuel amount. I've included two shots for reference below. I'll do what you suggest and fill out a bug report. Thanks for the assistance.
The help text has slipped out into the wild even thought the changes to the feature are not ready yet. The current state in release is the system working as intended and as it has always been, it's the text that is wrong. We will be replacing the current option with one that does open up those limited changes which will be coming at the latest in the 1.7 release later in the year but may make it before then if we make a minor release ion the meantime
