Inters vs Slicks

[Blackfyre]

A small vent at the game..... bear with me here.

So whats the deal with slicks and intermediate tyres? I went into pit with 15-20% blue showing on the "water on track" display. Everyone else stayed out on slicks..and their lap times were still faster.
This was not a drying track, it had just started to rain.

Normally you would be nursing any car around the track in the wet if you are using slicks.

Not very realistic.

1 more thing... Is there a mod that increases the amount of crashes, mechanical fails, collisions, running wide or other generally normal things that happen in motorracing.

Btw..loving the game otherwise.

[MrPalo75]

On some tracks, the ones who have slow water drainage (Rio f.e.) and where the weather slowly does turn to heavy rain, you may not need to pass to intermediate.

When the track is moist, goes to half wet ( like 20% height of the weather bars) then again to moist, you can risk slick tyres.

When the track is soaked, you'll need full wet blu tyres.

When the situation is in the middle of these, intermediate

Otherwise Sidney: heavy rain but a fast to dry track, so slick and then wet

[Blackfyre]

So..if the track temperature is hot or warm is has less effect?
I guess that makes some sense.

Abrasive surfaces would also make a difference I guess, ...still quite new to the game so I'm still learning the subtle differences.
I guess I'll watch the lap times more closley, instead of listening to my wingeing drivers.

[Ohayoghurt]

The surface water must've been teetering on the edge of the crossover point where both tyres were okay (7-15% assuming average adaptability scores for the grid) without getting just that little bit wetter and tipping in favour of the inters. Unfortunate scenario.

[VNDKSHN]

But to the original point, it's still broken. You can be on slicks and be faster than a car on inters IF there is a dry line and you stay on it. But one step off that line and you are gone. BTDT. The fact that the track is beyond "damp" and cars with slicks are just as fast as cars with inters... somebody messed up.

[jdonovan74]

Oh my. I have over 1,200 hours and you just named my only two gripes. The crossover period between inters and drys are about the same of wet and inters, which is just insane. Think about real life: 2014 Australian GP the pole position and 2nd place was about 2 tenths on two different tire types! Lewis was up on wets while the home town boy was on inters!

For some reason here the cross over period from inters to dry was about the same as the real life period there! It just needs some SLIGHT tweaks with it. It's tons better than when the game first started, though.


I asked around so much; while there is a mod that increases those things, it increases those things BY A LOT! I still have a pirated version of this game on my PC from back when it first came out and the number of collisions and everything was MUCH higher. I asked around and can't seem to get many people that agree with me. For some reason the amount of people that remember that there used to be more driver mistakes is low. I tinkered with making a mod myself to try to mimick the OG game but it's proving difficult.

[VNDKSHN]

It's completely understandable to have a crossover period where the track is getting wet or drying and have the scenario where the difference it tire types is minimal. But once the track around 15% wet (per the vague indication), there is NO way the slick tire is going to stay competitive.

Along those lines, it seems like average lap times (during the race) are the same on full wets on a wet track (or danged close to the same times) as the same track on slicks and a dry track. Meaning no laptime penality for water. Doesn't seem to be the case in quali, there is definitely a time penality, but having just done a race where have the race was full dry on slicks and half full wet on wets, the laps times are nearly identical.