multiply the fuel consumption rate

hi was wanting to make ai pit during a race (single player)
i seen somebody say you can multiply the fuel consumption rate i cant see how to do that
can anybody help
thanks

 

Iirc you can change the fuel consumption rate in the same place where you choose track condition, time of the day, race laps etc.

I've been using Content Manager so long that I can't exactly what is where in the official launcher.

 

In the race setup options, before the game starts to load the track and session.

 

so can u change it too x2 x3 etc ?

 

Yes. Up to 5x.

 

nope cant find it theres only fuel consumption off on and slipstream effect but no fuel consumption multiplier
im i missing something
thanks

 

I think you are right it's only on and off in the UI but you can go into your documents folder/assetto corsa/assists.ini and change FUEL_RATE=1 manually to what you want

 

can this be adjusted on the ai as well? sorry for questions
thanks

 

That value applies to all cars but I'm not sure if the AI is going to be smart about it and know when to pit. I don't know how they evaluate their own fuel consumption. Test at your own risk type of stuff!

 

I do that in ini file all the time.I put it on Fuel rate:2.And in races with 8 laps AI pits in the end of lap 5.Its great fun but sometimes they dont pit if track is short and car use small amount of fuel so I put 10 laps with those...

 

First I set FUEL_RATE to 4. I was driving 10 laps on Imola with the McLaren MP4-12C GT3 and a full tank with 4 times fuel consumption rate would have lasted 8.6 rounds so I and everybody had to pit. Results were mixed because some cars seemed to pit a lot more often. When I finished first and the race came to an end, some cars finished the 10 laps but ca half of them only completed 5 or 6 laps. My opponents were a mix of GT3 cars.

Then I tested what djtopa said. Fuel x2 and 10 laps with the same group of cars. Everybody pitstopped once. The ai pitted on lap 6,7or8 or maybe it was 5,6 and 7. It definitely was on 3 consecutive laps that I saw cars in the pitlane and not every lap like the race I had done before with the 4x fuel consumption. At the end screen I could see that evrey car finished all ten laps.

It was a way better experience and I think I will try this some more. For shorter races this is definitely a nice workaround.

 

thanks everybody for the info maybe the people involved in the game will introduce pitstops for the ai.
thanks for all the info

 

Altering those values is currently the only way to go but it's a bit of a kludge. Until they integrate proper pitstops for AI (i.e. the ability to force pitstops in the race settings or the ability to set AI fuel levels without cheating the consumption rates) one thing you can do is race the Alfa Romeo 4C; I discovered yesterday that it holds so little fuel that even a 20-lap race requires a pitstop!

 

I tried on my own and it didn't change anything. My fuel rate remains intact, i.e. at X0