new starter tips

[Freesoul]

I never heard aboud the game until 2 weeks ago.
now I bought the game and tried a few time a career, but I'ts so hard to win races even with a topteam.

can somebody give me some tips to win races develop the car faster etc ???

[noxmortem]

1. Manual training. You should easily reach 95%+ configurations in most cases, especially with a good team.
2. Race tactical. Look when the AI changes tyres and not when your drivers ask for a tyre change. Pit stop when there is a safety car.
3. Develop better parts and improve reliability. When your parts break you can't win.
4. Yellow setting is the way to go most of the time, red settings are good when you have several cars in front of you and really want to get ahead. Don't use red settings when you are going to pit stop soon anyway.
5. Qualifying is a bit tricky. Reduce speed before the driver breaks and try to increase it is as much on long straights. Some people said its easier to keep it low and only increase it in the second half of the turn.

[Darling]

Freesoul

Look under the guide section, Top right tab bar.

[Guerrilla_Gorilla]

Originally posted by noxmortem:

Don't use red settings when you are going to pit stop soon anyway.

Don't "Hammertime"?

[noxmortem]

You can, but you need to be aware of two things: Higher motor settings increases part wear. You do not care for higher tyre wear when you are going to change them in the pit BUT you don't want to get red tyre wear just to "wear them off". Once the tyre wear quality drops to red it affects performance a lot more. If you can wear your tyres down AND JUST stay green until the pit stop thats great. It's somehow a point of view. For me this would be a "no pitstop" turn but the turn after that one will likely need one, but I could see others seeing it as the "I wear the tyres down and do a pit stop then"-turn.

However: Usually you are going to plan to do a pit stop when tyre wear is going to get red. So there is some sort of balance.

The perfect pit stop would be one where you would drop to red tyre wear AND need to change tyres to intermediate/weat AND need a refuel AND a safety car is out :)

[infinity]

My tips:

Race
- When fueling your car mid race, you'll fill to something like 7.45 laps of fuel, you'll get 8 laps of fuel.
- I usually fuel to one lap more than my planned stint, so that I can run on higher engine settings as I get mugged without it. It seems to be faster than fueling to your stint and leaving it on medium. Medium is around 1 laps of fuel per lap. Higher seems to be around 1.1 laps of fuel per lap. Overtake is something like 1.3 - be careful with this
- The best way to make a strategy is try to find some clear air. Traffic & getting stuck behind other cars will destroy your race. Try to run longer stints if tyre wear isn't going to be an issue so you have free track. Running 2 laps longer in the opening stint, lets you run 4 laps longer in the second stint. I often make up places by running longer and setting my tyre wear and engine modes higher when I'm coming up to box. Running an alternate strategy really pays off.
- Always pit under safety car, even if it means stopping an extra time or stacking your cars (unless you pitted 1-2 laps before it came out) - change your strategy to match the new race which has been reset by the safety car. There might be a better strategy.
- Watch your drivers tyre wear constantly. Your drivers will sometimes lock up, ruining their tyres and forcing you to adapt strategy. One of my drivers was so bad I had to account for it in his strategy by running more conservative stints. As the track rubbers up your drivers will be more reliable with tyres.
- Tyre wear seems to get worse after 50% wear.
- Try to keep your tyres in the gray area in the temperature setting. This will give you best pace vs wear. If you're not looking to extend the life of the tyre, go into red temperature, but be careful not to kill your tyres off when you still need them.

Management
- Develop new parts all the time - you'll eventually get ahead. Go in to debt if you have to, unless you're about to be fired.
- When developing - focus on performance, not Max or Reliability - performance carries over to the next season. Max and reliability do not.
- At the start of the season, spend all your mechanic time on improving reliability - get all the components up to 70-80% and you should be fine in a race. The first race is always a bit touch and go.
- Check the upcoming track for the critical components - consider the reliability of these components.
- You'll hit a point where your facilities are inhibiting your forward progress. Improve them (at great expense).

[noxmortem]

Another tip: Do not underestimate strategic driving. I just finished a race with a bad driver and got him from 20 > 10 by simply driving almost the whole race on blue settings and I had +1 turn of fuel left so I even played it bad and could have switched earlier to red engine settings. I required only a single tyre change and had therefore one pit stop less than everyone else. This was worth a lot of places.

Also do not underestimate how good blue settings are once you are in position 1. Same race my other driver started with red settings from pos 2 and won the race driving almost all of it on blue settings. However, compared to your low position strategic driver you need to be VERY careful and change a lot back to higher settings when an immediate danger comes visible, otherwise you will loose position 1 and can not drive that slowly anymore.

One addition to ziros developement tips: Only do this once you reach 50-60% reliablity. Parts breaking down during the race will cost you more than any performance you could get out of them. Repairing parts mid race is super costly and I only do it if it feels absolutely necessary.

[Freesoul]

The biggest problem is the setup of the cars
I don't understand it completly

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what is wrong with tis because the driver is not 100% happy

[Badger]

How do you guys get to 90%+ configuration during practice? I'm not a car junkie, so maybe I'm not setting the car up before practice correctly. However, the short practice length means I'm only bringing in the drivers once (maybe twice if I'm lucky), so I feel like I never have the time needed to get all the information out of my drivers. Rarely have I gotten over 75-80%.

[-TwistedPretzel-]

The practice sessions are further burdened by a bug making some of the feedback reversed. Anytime a driver says we have too much angle that means you actually need to add more angle. It is frustrating because you lose total trust in the feedback system as a whole, it is very detrimental to the game mechanic of practice sessions.

[Akeuila]

In ERS at least the practice time is intentionally short to shake up the field more. Rule changes can change the allotted of time of course. In any case I treat it like a real practice session. Do an "installation lap." Send them out after setting the initial setup and call them right back in. Make any adjustments needed then let them run a stint. When they come in, make your last set of changes and send them back out. I've easily gotten at least 92% for both drivers every race and Level 2 knowledge across all of ERS season 1.

Pretzel: I don't listen to the driver comments. I just use the driver happiness rating and the recommendation bar and figure it out. Pretty simple and highly effective. It's very similar to the rule of 8 system of setup adjustments.

[Ghostpro71]

Reliability > Performance every day and any day of the week. Always.

The worst thing you can do is have to repair a part while you're in a pit. Reliability is the best thing you can do to a part.

[noxmortem]

@Captain Kibbles: I have absolutely no idea of cars. However, I can tell you how to pretty easily get 95%+ setups: The better the drivers feedback value and the better the technicians is the easier it is to get.

You don't need drivers feedback at all, it's completly unecessary.

0. Before the first stint set your config (the 3 yellow indicators - it does not matter at all what the settings of the 6 sliders is - all you care are the 3 yellow indicators!) to the center of the green bars your technicians tell you. The green bar tells you: Somewhere here is the perfect setting (it can be at the very edge of it!)
1. Immediatly abort the first stint, you want the first feedback as quickly as possible and do not want to waste turns. Abort all stints where a driver tells you something is "horrible" and let them drive and get knowledge when they tell you it's working out. Also use short stints (or abort longer ones if not possible otherwise) to get feedback until your drivers are at least happy. With a perfect setup you can just "let them drive" for training knowledge
2. Use binary search for each of the 3 indicators when they are yellow or worse. This means: Move the yellow indicator to the center of the region left or right of it where you expect the perfect value to be. When you get a green drivers feedback be aware that you need less slider movement as you got closer to the perfect value. If you moved by 1/2 of the region, now only move by 1/4. If you moved by 1/4 now move by 1/8 if you moved by 1/8 change it only by 1/16,
3. Every dark green or perfect indicator makes everything easier for you. Once you got it, you do not want to move away from that anymore (if it is dark green make a very slight move in the direction you expect the perfect value to be).

TL;DR: The 6 settings are unimportant. Only look for the drivers feedback and the green bar. Switch between the best stint and the last stint to see if you need to move the yellow indicator to the RIGHT or to the LEFT to improve your setting. First move it to the center of that remaining green bar, than move it to the center of the next region where it has became better.

[ZappaDanMan]

Originally posted by noxmortem:

@Captain Kibbles: I have absolutely no idea of cars. However, I can tell you how to pretty easily get 95%+ setups: The better the drivers feedback value and the better the technicians is the easier it is to get.

You don't need drivers feedback at all, it's completly unecessary.

0. Before the first stint set your config (the 3 yellow indicators - it does not matter at all what the settings of the 6 sliders is - all you care are the 3 yellow indicators!) to the center of the green bars your technicians tell you. The green bar tells you: Somewhere here is the perfect setting (it can be at the very edge of it!)
1. Immediatly abort the first stint, you want the first feedback as quickly as possible and do not want to waste turns. Abort all stints where a driver tells you something is "horrible" and let them drive and get knowledge when they tell you it's working out. Also use short stints (or abort longer ones if not possible otherwise) to get feedback until your drivers are at least happy. With a perfect setup you can just "let them drive" for training knowledge
2. Use binary search for each of the 3 indicators when they are yellow or worse. This means: Move the yellow indicator to the center of the region left or right of it where you expect the perfect value to be. When you get a green drivers feedback be aware that you need less slider movement as you got closer to the perfect value. If you moved by 1/2 of the region, now only move by 1/4. If you moved by 1/4 now move by 1/8 if you moved by 1/8 change it only by 1/16,
3. Every dark green or perfect indicator makes everything easier for you. Once you got it, you do not want to move away from that anymore (if it is dark green make a very slight move in the direction you expect the perfect value to be).

TL;DR: The 6 settings are unimportant. Only look for the drivers feedback and the green bar. Switch between the best stint and the last stint to see if you need to move the yellow indicator to the RIGHT or to the LEFT to improve your setting. First move it to the center of that remaining green bar, than move it to the center of the next region where it has became better.

Genius tips 😀 thanks

[Ghostpro71]

Originally posted by Stance:

Originally posted by joejccva71:

Reliability > Performance every day and any day of the week. Always.

The worst thing you can do is have to repair a part while you're in a pit. Reliability is the best thing you can do to a part.

Tier 3 started with octane and won it , its all about reliability like he said u dont wanna waste time in pit fixing part , try to have your parts above 70% then upgrade or design cheap parts depending on your budget

Exactly. :)

[colindegreat]

Originally posted by ZiRo:

My tips:

Race
- When fueling your car mid race, you'll fill to something like 7.45 laps of fuel, you'll get 8 laps of fuel.
- I usually fuel to one lap more than my planned stint, so that I can run on higher engine settings as I get mugged without it. It seems to be faster than fueling to your stint and leaving it on medium. Medium is around 1 laps of fuel per lap. Higher seems to be around 1.1 laps of fuel per lap. Overtake is something like 1.3 - be careful with this
- The best way to make a strategy is try to find some clear air. Traffic & getting stuck behind other cars will destroy your race. Try to run longer stints if tyre wear isn't going to be an issue so you have free track. Running 2 laps longer in the opening stint, lets you run 4 laps longer in the second stint. I often make up places by running longer and setting my tyre wear and engine modes higher when I'm coming up to box. Running an alternate strategy really pays off.
- Always pit under safety car, even if it means stopping an extra time or stacking your cars (unless you pitted 1-2 laps before it came out) - change your strategy to match the new race which has been reset by the safety car. There might be a better strategy.
- Watch your drivers tyre wear constantly. Your drivers will sometimes lock up, ruining their tyres and forcing you to adapt strategy. One of my drivers was so bad I had to account for it in his strategy by running more conservative stints. As the track rubbers up your drivers will be more reliable with tyres.
- Tyre wear seems to get worse after 50% wear.
- Try to keep your tyres in the gray area in the temperature setting. This will give you best pace vs wear. If you're not looking to extend the life of the tyre, go into red temperature, but be careful not to kill your tyres off when you still need them.

Management
- Develop new parts all the time - you'll eventually get ahead. Go in to debt if you have to, unless you're about to be fired.
- When developing - focus on performance, not Max or Reliability - performance carries over to the next season. Max and reliability do not.
- At the start of the season, spend all your mechanic time on improving reliability - get all the components up to 70-80% and you should be fine in a race. The first race is always a bit touch and go.
- Check the upcoming track for the critical components - consider the reliability of these components.
- You'll hit a point where your facilities are inhibiting your forward progress. Improve them (at great expense).

How are you fuelling the car

Race
- When fueling your car mid race, you'll fill to something like 7.45 laps of fuel, you'll get 8 laps of fuel.