Handicap in multiplayer

[Njk]

Hello, I'm planning to create an online championship with some friends. The issue that I'm facing is that we are a bunch of guys with different skills so the races will be unbalanced. Is there any way to add handicap to a specific driver in order to make it slower and have a more well balanced racing experience?

Thanks and regards

[Mahjik]

Not directly, no.

[stondman18]

easy. just force the lobby to use default setup only. you can set it so other people wont have setup advantage.

[Njk]

Originally posted by stondman18:

easy. just force the lobby to use default setup only. you can set it so other people wont have setup advantage.

What do you mean? There is an option to prevent ONLY a subset of player to avoid use better setup?

Originally posted by Mahjik:

Not directly, no.

damn ok thanks mate

[Nikita]

Use the air restrictor in car setup, right under fuel load. It's a flexible setting for reducing the car's power that you can make the faster drivers use. Lower setting = less power.

[Mahjik]

Originally posted by Nikita:

Use the air restrictor in car setup, right under fuel load. It's a flexible setting for reducing the car's power that you can make the faster drivers use. Lower setting = less power.

They can't "force" that the driver actually uses the restrictor (or the value that is determined to be used). That's why I said "not directly".

[Nikita]

Originally posted by Mahjik:

They can't "force" that the driver actually uses the restrictor (or the value that is determined to be used). That's why I said "not directly".

I suppose you can't. It's kinda an honor system thing, but it is between friends and it should be pretty apparent if someone is cheating it.

[Njk]

Originally posted by Nikita:

Use the air restrictor in car setup, right under fuel load. It's a flexible setting for reducing the car's power that you can make the faster drivers use. Lower setting = less power.

I didn't know this one let me check. Thanks mate

[@Brembo_VR 🥇🏁🚾]

you can use 2 settings for the strongest, 1 use different types of fuel, rich or poor, or use different engine settings in the setup, lowering the power.

[cpcdem]

Yes, and especially with fuel you can actually check if people do use what was agreed on. (have one person monitoring the races and/or qualifying).

[Mahjik]

BTW, there are many ways in PC2 to handicap drivers if you can trust the drivers. It depends on the cars being used as most of them will have ways to limit/lower performance (whether engine mapping, tires, restrictor, etc).

Several WMD members during development, used to have races where they would target an average time for a track. Making up this time, but say the average time should be 1:30 for Track A. The drivers would find a car/setup combination that would run that time for an approximate optimal lap, then they would have races. It was pretty creative to see the car/setup combinations people were coming up with. You had street cars, race cars, classics and others all racing together which was pretty fun to see where each car "made their time" on the tracks relative to others.

[@Brembo_VR 🥇🏁🚾]

Anyway, for me is a stupid mode to play, if you are slow, is not my problem, learn to drive fast. sry, is my opinion.

[cpcdem]

Originally posted by BR@Brembo:

Anyway, for me is a stupid mode to play, if you are slow, is not my problem, learn to drive fast. :pcarsracer: sry, is my opinion.

And what if you are fast, 2 seconds faster than everyone else? It's no fun at all racing on your own the whole race, but if you get a handicap it becomes a challenge again, trying to still win despite it.

[Njk]

Originally posted by BR@Brembo:

Anyway, for me is a stupid mode to play, if you are slow, is not my problem, learn to drive fast. :pcarsracer: sry, is my opinion.

Well no one has time to train and increase their skill. We are all friends that are working, have childrens and not so much spare time, so it's not so simple as you said.

Originally posted by cpcdem:

Originally posted by BR@Brembo:

Anyway, for me is a stupid mode to play, if you are slow, is not my problem, learn to drive fast. :pcarsracer: sry, is my opinion.

And what if you are fast, 2 seconds faster than everyone else? It's no fun at all racing on your own the whole race, but if you get a handicap it becomes a challenge again, trying to still win despite it.

That's true as well!