Something I've been thinking about over the last couple days and I'm wondering if there is a way to implement this in game. If I'm creating a carset for a single race - i.e. the 1997 Suzuka expo race - I know the qualifying and finishing order of all of the drivers present. Is the ratings system for the game precise enough to allow me to set it in a way that would, for all intents, force the AI to qualify and finish drivers in the real orders if left entirely to their own devices?
I played around with a scale of 100 points that decreased by 3 each position. Marking them so that the top QUALIFIER had their qualifying rating setting at 100/100, the second place qualifier had their rating set to 97/97 and so on down all 30 competitors. Then did the same thing with the finishing ratings so 1st = 100/100, 2nd = 97/97.... etc... So, taking Mike Skinner as an example. He finished 1st and started 4th therefore his two avg stats were entered in as 100/100 and 88/88. At least to my thinking - this should have guaranteed him to start and finish in that order. But after running a test race with just the AI - it didn't work out that way with regards to either. Geoff Bodine - set at avg finish 70/70 and avg start 82/82 - sat on the pole and won the race.
So, I'm guessing the avg start and finish rating doesn't weigh quite as heavily on the outcomes as I had thought - or at the very least the other driver ratings can override those 2 averages to a degree.
Thoughts? Am I asking too much of the ratings system?
I played around with a scale of 100 points that decreased by 3 each position. Marking them so that the top QUALIFIER had their qualifying rating setting at 100/100, the second place qualifier had their rating set to 97/97 and so on down all 30 competitors. Then did the same thing with the finishing ratings so 1st = 100/100, 2nd = 97/97.... etc... So, taking Mike Skinner as an example. He finished 1st and started 4th therefore his two avg stats were entered in as 100/100 and 88/88. At least to my thinking - this should have guaranteed him to start and finish in that order. But after running a test race with just the AI - it didn't work out that way with regards to either. Geoff Bodine - set at avg finish 70/70 and avg start 82/82 - sat on the pole and won the race.
So, I'm guessing the avg start and finish rating doesn't weigh quite as heavily on the outcomes as I had thought - or at the very least the other driver ratings can override those 2 averages to a degree.
Thoughts? Am I asking too much of the ratings system?