Pause in hotstints shouldn't be blocked?

Hotstint (especially long one) is mostly about endurance and keeping focus for long time. Shouldn't be then possibility to use pause limited? Maybe some penalty for using pause or same system like in multiplayer that we have to stop to use pause? What do you think? In my opinion it's less realistic and fair for all user when we can cheat with pausing game for example after every 10 min.

 

Pause +1sec

 

I see what you mean but what is the advantage of pausing every 10 minutes if someone was to do so? For me I would rather just keep going and maintain the rhythm. Even with my DD wheel, hydraulic load cell brake up to 200kg force I don't need a break (but get a decent workout) and wouldn't see any advantage in stopping unless maybe I needed to answer a call or something. That's not really an advantage other then I could take the call and continue where I was rather then start all over again or need to ignore everything else to do the hot stint.

I highly doubt anyone gets any advantage by stopping and doubt even more anyone would bother to stop every 10 minutes and take hours to do a 1 hour run.

 

In my view simply dont use it if you dont want to, especially if you're offline-ing.

In RL (as in gamers like us), we have kids, wifes, chores, phone ringing etc to attend to and won't be able to commit a full three or six hours to just sit in front of a computer... At least I think a lot of us dont have that luxury

 

It could be a marketing opportunity for Kunos, force a time penalty for stops and sell kunos branded Pee Valves or adult nappies for the dedicated sim racers, that want to do hot stints but not spoil their race seats.

 

Sure, just wanted to talk about it I understand real-life argument (i'm also nowadays really rarely having 60min fully free time for playing :/ ) and it's good point. On the other hand it's just one of many race mode so we don't have to play it at all and we can leave it for people who like (and are able to play) this one.

But where i see here advantage? At least for me it looks like after 20min my lap times are worse and worse, i know it have nothing to endurance while driving real race car but still it's hard to keep focus for this time without training. So what can i do in that case? Pausing game after 20min for short time like 1 min, drink a bit of coffee and walk around table It's enough to see improvement in performance and not that much to lose rhythm. And here i see some not really fair point to people who trained to keep them focused and concentrated for this 60min of driving

EDIT: Maybe good compromise will be not to punish pause but to reward not-pausing Not sure what could be that at this stage of game but probably in future you will have more opportunities for that. Maybe something connected with driver rating, like using 'focus time' to calculate CN?

 

I do see your point but also what Minolin said, if someone finds they need to stop and take a break they are less likely to be competitive as those at the top of charts can do these stints with no issues. As you get better you will also likely be more consistent and faster over the stint distance.

Its not like people are able rewind after a pause to fix errors which would surely go against the hot stint idea, its still a continuous run and having a pause IMHO would be more likely to create an error due to loss of rhythm then gain over the lack of physical or mental endurance. It would likely be a complete waste of time to code but if the coders ever run out of work (highly unlikely ) they could possibly add code to show number of pauses in a hot stint. I would like to see more info for others times in the leaderboard, such as time penalties/off-tracks, full lap times etc and adding pauses to this would at least show if someone was kind of taking the piss literally and stopping multiple times in a hot stint. But maybe they could just have a very weak bladder and need the Kunos merch I mentioned above.

 

I made a joke in my first post but here is coment from a guy who did full 2x 3hrs endurances races

First time i paused couple of times during it and like mentioned in above posts it took me couple of laps to get back in grove...and i noticed in timeline that i had way more invalid laps after coming from break.

While 2nd time i did race no pause and i was doing pretty good. For entire race.

And yea after all it is offline... and no real advantage is gained...except people who pause driving even longer then they should be

 

Pause only in pits

 

D.Jankovic That make sense. I feel almost convinced