Adjusting AI difficulty after championship start

[Ryan Hieronymus]

Simple question: How do I change AI difficulty after a championship has started? Say I want to adjust difficulty between qualifying and the race, or between tracks. Thanks!

P.S. - Bonus question! How do I adjust session times, to make Practice and qualifying shorter? I'm fairly familiar with editing files, but it's been a long time, and I'm a little lost.

 

[morsify]

For overall AI difficulty after championship has started, go to the CCH file and look for the quick AI difficulty setting. There could be more than one season listed so carefully Scroll down the file till you see your championship.

You cannot leave the game to adjust difficulty between qualifying and race, as the game has a bug, it will not save your qualifying position if you leave the game after qualifying. If anyone knows a way round this it would be good to know.

BUT you can do your practice sessions, and then leave the game to edit difficulty.

To edit qualifying and race pace separately - for example, if you want qualifying to be more difficult than the race, go to the track aiw file. Look for the lines
WorstAdjust=(0.800)
MidAdjust=(1.000)
BestAdjust=(1.200)
Qualratio=(1.05)
Raceratio=(1.00)

You can edit the worst mid best figures, or just the qual and race ones.
In the above example, the cars should be quicker than usual in quaifying, but normal pace in the race.

You can adjust session times in the track gdb file.

Heres an example, you can add, edit or remove anyof these lines:

// SESSION TIMES AND DURATIONS
TestDayDay = Thursday
TestDayStart = 8:30
Practice1Day = Friday
Practice1Start = 11:00
Practice1Duration = 60
Practice2Day = Friday
Practice2Start = 13:00
Practice2Duration = 60
Practice3Day = Saturday
Practice3Start = 9:00
Practice3Duration = 60
Practice4Day = Saturday
Practice4Start = 10:15
Practice4Duration = 60
QualifyDay = Saturday
QualifyStart = 13:00
QualifyDuration = 30
QualifyLaps = 12
WarmupDay = Sunday
WarmupStart = 9:30
WarmupDuration = 60
RaceDay = Sunday
RaceStart = 14:00
RaceLaps = 50
RaceTime = 120

 

[morsify]

! Also Remember to back up files and be prepared to get kicked from online play if you edit these files. I use a separate install for my offline championship so I can edit files however I want, and go online with the clean install.

 

[Ryan Hieronymus]

Great, that answers my questions, thanks! One more though: How do I change whether or not a championship has a constructors championship or not? I have tweaked the F3 championship a bit, and would like to add a constructors championship, but I can't figure out how.

 

[morsify]

unfortunately I have never seen the ability to add a constructors championship. I don't think I ever saw it in rFactor either so it probably just isn't in the gmotor engine. The only way would be to keep a spread sheet I suppose.

 

[bitencourt]

For overall AI difficulty after championship has started, go to the CCH file and look for the quick AI difficulty setting. There could be more than one season listed so carefully Scroll down the file till you see your championship.

You cannot leave the game to adjust difficulty between qualifying and race, as the game has a bug, it will not save your qualifying position if you leave the game after qualifying. If anyone knows a way round this it would be good to know.

BUT you can do your practice sessions, and then leave the game to edit difficulty.

To edit qualifying and race pace separately - for example, if you want qualifying to be more difficult than the race, go to the track aiw file. Look for the lines
WorstAdjust=(0.800)
MidAdjust=(1.000)
BestAdjust=(1.200)
Qualratio=(1.05)
Raceratio=(1.00)

You can edit the worst mid best figures, or just the qual and race ones.
In the above example, the cars should be quicker than usual in quaifying, but normal pace in the race.

You can adjust session times in the track gdb file.

Heres an example, you can add, edit or remove anyof these lines:

// SESSION TIMES AND DURATIONS
TestDayDay = Thursday
TestDayStart = 8:30
Practice1Day = Friday
Practice1Start = 11:00
Practice1Duration = 60
Practice2Day = Friday
Practice2Start = 13:00
Practice2Duration = 60
Practice3Day = Saturday
Practice3Start = 9:00
Practice3Duration = 60
Practice4Day = Saturday
Practice4Start = 10:15
Practice4Duration = 60
QualifyDay = Saturday
QualifyStart = 13:00
QualifyDuration = 30
QualifyLaps = 12
WarmupDay = Sunday
WarmupStart = 9:30
WarmupDuration = 60
RaceDay = Sunday
RaceStart = 14:00
RaceLaps = 50
RaceTime = 120

Please, where do I find this file?

 

[alexSchmurtz]

Please, where do I find this file?

The .cch files are in your user data folder.
The .gbd files are in each track folder, under location (but as Keith mentioned, editing those files will give you mismatch online).
You can use Notepad to open them up.