Weight stripping (not that one)

[J.Random]

This one:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1387262736
What does it do(uble), exactly? o_O

[Ohayoghurt]

It doubles the performance points you gain when using weight stripping (that one). So instead of 5/10/15 points per 5%, you get 10/20/30 on that specific part respectively.

[J.Random]

Ah, something completely useless in ERS. OK, thanks.

[Kirkus Octavius]

Originally posted by J.Random:

Ah, something completely useless in ERS. OK, thanks.

Completely useless? How do you figure that? Sacrifice 5 percentage points of reliability, get 30 extra points of performance. Sacrifice 10, get 60. If you're a tail marker, it can make you competitive. If you're a front runner it can put you so far ahead that the other teams may as well not turn up. It's more useful in the ERS than in either of the other series given that ERS cars have a lower points base to begin with, so an increase of 30 can make a very large difference indeed.

[J.Random]

Originally posted by Kirkus Octavius:

Originally posted by J.Random:

Ah, something completely useless in ERS. OK, thanks.

Completely useless? How do you figure that? Sacrifice 5 percentage points of reliability, get 30 extra points of performance. Sacrifice 10, get 60. If you're a tail marker, it can make you competitive. If you're a front runner it can put you so far ahead that the other teams may as well not turn up. It's more useful in the ERS than in either of the other series given that ERS cars have a lower points base to begin with, so an increase of 30 can make a very large difference indeed.

It's not allowed in ERS (unless you vote it in on purpose, I guess).

[Kirkus Octavius]

Originally posted by J.Random:

It's not allowed in ERS (unless you vote it in on purpose, I guess).

I'd expect it to be the other way around. By default weight sacrificing IS available in ERS; I've never played an ERS season without it since it was introduced to the game. But you could vote to DISALLOW it, I expect, although that vote has never come up for me.

[Tig_green]

Originally posted by Kirkus Octavius:

Originally posted by J.Random:

It's not allowed in ERS (unless you vote it in on purpose, I guess).

I'd expect it to be the other way around. By default weight sacrificing IS available in ERS; I've never played an ERS season without it since it was introduced to the game. But you could vote to DISALLOW it, I expect, although that vote has never come up for me.

Updates after its release made disabled by default to most of the series, I believe including ERS, so it depends on wether you play an old save or post updates save.

[Kirkus Octavius]

Originally posted by Tig_green:

Originally posted by Kirkus Octavius:

I'd expect it to be the other way around. By default weight sacrificing IS available in ERS; I've never played an ERS season without it since it was introduced to the game. But you could vote to DISALLOW it, I expect, although that vote has never come up for me.

Updates after its release made disabled by default to most of the series, I believe including ERS, so it depends on wether you play an old save or post updates save.

Huh. You do appear to be correct. I just launched a new career in ERS and sure enough there was no weight sacrifice option and nothing about it in the rules. It's in the rules of the APS, though. That's bizarre... the only reason I can think of for them dumping that in ERS is that they thought it may have been confusing for new racers.

I quite enjoy the strategic aspect of weight sacrificing and find it immensely entertaining. Certainly it's a lot more fun than setup which, to be brutally honest, I find to be an exercise in tedium. I can do it well enough if I put my mind to it but I never really enjoy it., probably because it's so relatively random. If I had to pick one aspect of the game to lose it would probably be that one, not weight sacrifice.

[Herrun]

I am playing a new one 3rd season in ERS and i do have the options for after i used alot of vote to make sure it get on for next season.

So you are able to get in but was not me was the ai that put up the vote, don't know if you are unable to as a human as the ai beat me to it :)