How to make AI more unreliable?

In F1 Seven mods, there are many retirements due to mechanical problems.

What I need to do to make the AI retire more times due to mechanical problems?

As always, I don't know how to explain it correctly.

But I think it's in the .RCD files in the Drivers folder.

//Driver Stats
StartStalls=0.0 //% of starts where driver stalled
Crash=0.1 //% of times driver crashed
Recovery=99.0 //% of times driver continued after a crash
CompletedLaps%=99

Another place would be .PLR file in the Save folder.

[ Mechanical Failures ]
CHAMP Failure Rate="1" // Mechanical failure rate (0-none, 1-normal, 2-timescaled, 3-season)

MFA wrote:As always, I don't know how to explain it correctly.

But I think it's in the .RCD files in the Drivers folder.

//Driver Stats
 StartStalls=0.0           //% of starts where driver stalled
 Crash=0.1               //% of times driver crashed
 Recovery=99.0             //% of times driver continued after a crash
 CompletedLaps%=99

Another place would be .PLR file in the Save folder.

[ Mechanical Failures ]
CHAMP Failure Rate="1" // Mechanical failure rate (0-none, 1-normal, 2-timescaled, 3-season)

In engine files, there is something related to reliability too.

But I have not an exact idea about how to cause common reliability issues.

Hi Cristian,

Can I ask why you want them retire more times? I can imagine the game will be realistic, however, races will be easier to complete. I usually run the game with mechanical issues OFF, allowing the game to be more fun!

united1987 wrote:Hi Cristian,

Can I ask why you want them retire more times? I can imagine the game will be realistic, however, races will be easier to complete. I usually run the game with mechanical issues OFF, allowing the game to be more fun!

Because most XX century races there were a lot of retirements.

Problem solved by KCarlosCampos! He will handle the rest.

Thanks for your comments

Cristian, or anyone else who might know...
Can it be done that AIs do the race without pitstops, the way they mostly did it in the early 80s?

I'd really like to achieve this goal, for the sake of realism, if it's possible.

Kaps wrote:Cristian, or anyone else who might know...
Can it be done that AIs do the race without pitstops, the way they mostly did it in the early 80s?

I'd really like to achieve this goal, for the sake of realism, if it's possible.

Sure. Set PitStopStrategy for all drivers to zero, and make tire physics in such a way that is not possible to wear the tires during the whole race. Also, make pit stop strategy impossible to set up in hdv files.

Wow, you're fast!

In hdv files, do you mean this:

FuelRange=(1.0, 1.0, 180)
FuelSetting=29
NumPitstopsRange=(0, 0, 0)
NumPitstopsSetting=0
Pitstop1Range=(0.0, 0.0, 0)
Pitstop1Setting=0
Pitstop2Range=(0.0, 0.0, 0)
Pitstop2Setting=0
Pitstop3Range=(0.0, 0.0, 0)
Pitstop3Setting=0

And in the PitStopStrategy in the track's gdb file I've got nothing, like this:

}
PitStopStrategies
{

Still, they go to pits...

Kaps wrote:Wow, you're fast!

In hdv files, do you mean this:

FuelRange=(1.0, 1.0, 180)
FuelSetting=29
NumPitstopsRange=(0, 0, 0)
NumPitstopsSetting=0
Pitstop1Range=(0.0, 0.0, 0)
Pitstop1Setting=0
Pitstop2Range=(0.0, 0.0, 0)
Pitstop2Setting=0
Pitstop3Range=(0.0, 0.0, 0)
Pitstop3Setting=0

And in the PitStopStrategy in the track's gdb file I've got nothing, like this:

}
 PitStopStrategies
 {

Still, they go to pits...

Example using CMT 2017:

PitStopStrategies
{
Lewis Hamilton = 0
Valtteri Bottas = 0
Sebastian Vettel = 0
Kimi Raikkonen = 0
Daniel Ricciardo = 0
Max Verstappen = 0
Sergio Perez = 0
Esteban Ocon = 0
Lance Stroll = 0
Felipe Massa = 0
Stoffel Vandoorne = 0
Fernando Alonso = 0
Daniil Kvyat = 0
Carlos Sainz = 0
Kevin Magnussen = 0
Romain Grosjean = 0
Nico Hulkengerg = 0
Jolyon Palmer = 0
Marcus Ericsson = 0
Pascal Wehrlein = 0
}

FuelRange=(1.0, 1.0, 105)
FuelSetting=100
NumPitstopsRange=(0, 0, 3)
NumPitstopsSetting=3
Pitstop1Range=(0.0, 0.0, 0)
Pitstop1Setting=0
Pitstop2Range=(0.0, 0.0, 0)
Pitstop2Setting=0
Pitstop3Range=(0.0, 0.0, 0)
Pitstop3Setting=0

If you are going to try again 1987, you should contact with DavidMarques to make the stuff together.