Pitcrew

[alann2009]

Is there a (or can somebody make a mod that stops my pitcrew getting tired as its kinda annoying when you get good crew then after a year they no good.

[shortshifted78]

Are you comfortable editing a xxxDesignData file (where xxx stands for singleseater, GT, or endurance)? There is a section at the end of each race distance that deals with the pit crew; their costs, when they peak, and how much morale/stamina they lose per mistake and per race.
When originally implemented, the pit crew members didn't last a season and felt like a way to just burn through money. After the last patch it was a little more reasonable.

[alann2009]

Never done it and dunno how, easy?

[bchrac]

I use the automanage to ensure my pit crew members have their contracts renewed, if they are not burnt out. When new hires show up in the pit crew, I reject any I don't care for so they never get hired by the auto management. I do sometimes override deployment but only if my ranking seems low.

[bchrac]

pitcrews are such a miniscule part of the game hope you find a solution you can live with. peace out

[shortshifted78]

If you are using a mod, then it is as "simple" as going to the folder of the mod, opening the DesignData sub-folder and finding the xxxDesignData.xml file related to the series you want to look at. Open the .xml with notepad or preferably notepad++.
There will be 3 pitcrew sections, one for each race distance option. First thing you want to look for is

 <!-- Regen Rules -->
      <!-- How many months before the pit crew reaches peak age and retire -->
      <MinMonthsToPeakAge>30</MinMonthsToPeakAge>
      <MaxMonthsToPeakAge>120</MaxMonthsToPeakAge>

This deals with how long a crew member can last on a team, prior to version 1.51 (or around there) had something like 12 or 18 months for the maximum. meaning you couldn't keep a good find for more than 1 season. My mod for example uses the values above.

The other thing you want to look at is

<!-- Confidence Impacts, for decrease and increase rate at the end of every race -->
      <!-- Confidence is a stat from 0 to 1 -->
      <FrontJackConfidenceDecrease>0.03</FrontJackConfidenceDecrease>
      <RearJackConfidenceDecrease>0.03</RearJackConfidenceDecrease>
      <TyresConfidenceDecrease>0.04</TyresConfidenceDecrease>
      <FixingPartsConfidenceDecrease>0.03</FixingPartsConfidenceDecrease>
      <RefuellingConfidenceDecrease>0.04</RefuellingConfidenceDecrease>

      <!-- Additional confidence hit when making mistakes -->
      <FrontJackConfidenceDecreaseMistake>0.05</FrontJackConfidenceDecreaseMistake>
      <RearJackConfidenceDecreaseMistake>0.05</RearJackConfidenceDecreaseMistake>
      <TyresConfidenceDecreaseMistake>0.10</TyresConfidenceDecreaseMistake>
      <FixingPartsConfidenceDecreaseMistake>0.08</FixingPartsConfidenceDecreaseMistake>
      <RefuellingConfidenceDecreaseMistake>0.10</RefuellingConfidenceDecreaseMistake>

These numbers are much higher in vanilla leading to a lot of jockeying of pit crew members around or requiring to have a deep "bench" of reserve pitcrew members to swap around with.

Keep in mind there are 3 of these in each designdata and you will need to adjust each one.

Now, if you don't have a mod and are running vanilla, you need to download the unity asset bundle extractor (UABE), make a backup of resources.assets, use UABE to open resources.assets, find the text asset that has the right designdata name, hit the plug-in button to export to txt. Find the exported txt file and change txt to xml and open with notepad or notepad++ as noted above. HOWEVER, you then need to save the file and then use the UABE to then IMPORT the .xml back into the resources.assets file. You then need to start a new career to guarantee that the changes take effect

[alann2009]

Thankyou :)