Timed Races rather than laps?

Im not sure if this has been discussed or is a possibility for the future. But could we have times races instead of laps. 10 laps at the ring over10 laps at brands can be vastly different in time length.

 

As far as I'm aware it's being worked on. I'm not sure how high it is on the priority list so when we'll actually see it implemented remains to be seen, but it is coming.

 

This has been brought up in one of Stefano's streams. I can't remember specifically what his answer was, but I think there was some discussion that it would cause further problems for the AI, as they have no memory of the tracks and therefore need an estimate for their fuel load before any given race, so timed races are a huge problem for them. I can't remebmer if Stefano leaned more towards a "yay" or a "nay" on that.

 

Are you sure? Iirc It's not been really announced... Stefano told that there might be problems for AI with fuel.

Edit: Ninja'd

 

I'm almost certain that Stefano mentioned in his streams it was being worked on, but there's always the chance I either heard wrong, remember something different or that it just gets cut because it does prove to be too difficult to implement (for now).

 

Out of curiosity, how do other sims get it to work? Some even have the option of time and laps together.

 

They're structured differently from the ground up. If there's a feature you want to include from the beginning, you can build you engine in a way that it includes this feature. If you need to implement a feature after the engine is "feature complete" (for lack of a better word) you need to make changes to accomodate for that feature, sometimes other features (in this case the AI, the routine for reading the last lap and race finish, etc)) need to be adapted as well. I'm sure it's possible in the current enigne, but time consuming and the question always is if the ends justify the means.

 

Why not just add to to MP... :/

 

Its actually sad, that we dont get lots of features in MP because AI dont work with those features. So many times Stefano in streams said "This features is ready but... AI dont work with it, its why I can add to the game" pfff

 

Thanks for the explanation.

 

Probably in some ways its good that its different to other sims. Looking at the AI as one example. Im a little tired of seeing the same old AI issues in race07 - gsce - ams - rf2. They get stuck in a draft and other issues which don't seem to be ever fixed form one title to the next, probably hitting the limitations of the engine. However with AC its nice to see a "different" AI, one that will slipstream you down a straight and pass, granted theres other issues with it but eh. Of course we may not get some things from other sims but I'm sure we get things that the Gmotor sims aren't able to do!


.Now someone will tell me AC is Gmotor lol

 

Works both ways that, I'd love to see rolling starts in SP but apparently it would be difficult to get it to work in MP. Swings and roundabouts, but both understandable.