Vanilla Balance Mod Beta - Testers Wanted

TheFlamingRed · Nov 28, 2016

http://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/motorsport-manager-balance-mod-part-1.12965/

Click to expand...

Make sure you down load all the parts!

This mod has now been released. All the changes are listed in the above link. If a Forum Admin is reading this, if you could remove the "Testers Wanted" and change it to "Development Discussion" thread, it would be appreciated.

UPDATED TO WORK WITH 1.3

Note: In attempts to fix the interviews and dilemmas, I have temporarily removed all non English languages from those two files. I hope to reinsert them into a later version (but when I do, they'll still be the vanilla text as I am unable to translate in any other language).

Beynasuh · Feb 15, 2017

Basically you will release .txt files and not the assembly or resource files?
And we will use the 1.23 version of the game.

TheFlamingRed · Feb 15, 2017

Beynasuh said:
Basically you will release .txt files and not the assembly or resource files?
And we will use the 1.23 version of the game.

Yeah, I could have done this ages ago (releasing the resource.asset part of the mod) - they're mostly unchanged. Those the only major change in any of these is the 'race session' difficulty in single seater.txt

It's the changes in the assembly file which have to be adjusted each and every little update they have. They're the most time consuming part of the mod now, as reflexi editing is a time consuming pain - but they're also the most important in giving the AI help and the player disadvantages and thus, increasing the difficulty outside the race.

Beynasuh · Feb 15, 2017

Okey than I will wait for your experimental releases to test them.

TheFlamingRed · Feb 15, 2017

Oh, just checked their twitter and they have an announcement on "Thursday"... so... maybe we won't see much experimenting right now after all

Beynasuh · Feb 15, 2017

Thursday ha, we will see. By the way what timezone are they on when they say Thursday. And if you don't mind I been curios for a time what is your timezone? (I am on UTC +3)

BrianUK · Feb 15, 2017

As far as I know, PlaySport are UK based, which makes them GMT.

@Beynasuh : I have just added my SingleSeaterDesignData to the Dropbox folder I linked you to the other day, so you can grab that from there now. I'm going to make my own thread this evening with the in depth changes.

Beynasuh · Feb 15, 2017

That's good to hear. So I don't have to wait too much for what it is they want to share at Thursday.

@BrianUK - Thanks I will get that file. And what did you change in the SingleSeaterDesignData file?

BrianUK · Feb 15, 2017

Beynasuh said:
That's good to hear. So I don't have to wait too much for what it is they want to share at Thursday.

@BrianUK - Thanks I will get that file. And what did you change in the SingleSeaterDesignData file?

Tyre band changes, race length increases for now, I'll post the full changelog once I get home from work.

Dusty Monk · Feb 15, 2017

TheFlamingRed said:
I for one was talking with Brian yesterday about the fact we've never seen a fully wet race - and as such maybe we can change how the climate and the weather curbs work to add some interest to the weather system.

I've only played 2.2 seasons and I have seen a fully a wet race (iirc it was at the Black Sea circuit). Started on inters and had to come in for wets and the tracked remained soaked for most of the race. The rain stopped but the track was still damp/wet at the end.

TheFlamingRed · Feb 15, 2017

Dusty Monk said:
I've only played 2.2 seasons and I have seen a fully a wet race (iirc it was at the Black Sea circuit). Started on inters and had to come in for wets and the tracked remained soaked for most of the race. The rain stopped but the track was still damp/wet at the end.

Its good to know its a possibility - I'll have a look at black see and see if i can see why it happened there but doesn't seem to happen elsewhere very much at all...

I still don't believe I've ever seen it in some... 10 seasons or so.

Dusty Monk · Feb 15, 2017

I think it was the final race in ERS. So it would've been late in the year.

Coops · Feb 16, 2017

I've had a full wet pactice/quali a few time and full wet race twice in 50+ seasons. was in Australia and Arden, not sure if the curve selection ties to climate, but it probably should. If you can find the curves and increase the variety, that would be awesome as they are very repetitive and really doesn't offer much opportunity to make some risky calls. I've only seen 1 curve that was steep enough to go slick-wet. Having a few that hover around the 50%-70% wet mark would make it interesting too, instead of all of them being slick-inters-wet-inters-slick. I'm trying to change the tyre data to provide a bit more variety that way, but haven't found a good balance yet.

TheFlamingRed · Feb 16, 2017

Okay... so we have a new game coming Wednesday

with DLC and a Design your own team feature. Safe to say I expect most people will want to build their own team (and as much as I love the idea of being fired or signing with new teams, I too am happy to get Flaming Red Racing going again (which is what I made in the mobile game). So I assume a lot of people will be abandoning current saves anyway and opting for that.

I obviously won't update the mod until that patch hits - and has a couple of days to see if anything is too broken. I still may poke out a couple of little 'test this change' file but I currently really recommend that you go to Brian's thread and check out his changes - which if are great will likely find their way into this mod.

No idea how much work the new patch and DLC will create for me - as it is suspected that there's new rules, new traits, and some new mechanics which may change the section of this mod (for example, if you create a team, are you the chairman? Is money handled differenlty if you don't get chairman payments for a team which you own? Do you create your team at the start of the game or can you create one mod save? Will I have to balance the GT series separately to the Open Wheel series, or is it basically a model swap?)

There's too many variables, so I don't want to speculate when the next version of the mod Will be ready to come out. I am hoping once it's out (and maybe hotfixed anything) we'll be stable for a few weeks - until they prepare their next big surprise (or move onto the next game - which I assume such a decision will be based off of sales of the DLC).

Beynasuh · Feb 16, 2017

As far as I understand it looks like you also become the chairman. Look up at the link for more info.

New DLC's & 1.3 Patch

TheFlamingRed · Feb 16, 2017

Beynasuh said:
As far as I understand it looks like you also become the chairman. Look up at the link for more info.

New DLC's & 1.3 Patch

Indeed

so if you're the chairman, do you just give yourself 2M a race? Or is there something interesting going on there.

maybe you get nothing al all, as you're now running the team it's harder financially

I always did wonder how the chairman got all his money

Beynasuh · Feb 16, 2017

Money laundry, drug trafficing, extortion you name it

Sudey · Feb 18, 2017

I would sprosit- whether your mod updated after the next patch 22 February or March? Your best fashion. The game is very easy and I after 5 seasons was not fun to play, when I became the champion. And with the aid of your mod I did not become a champion, even after more than 12 seasons.

TheFlamingRed · Feb 22, 2017

another couple of days wait... I am working all Friday and Saturday

so be sure to reply back and let me know of your experiences, and any mod conflicts you may expect (I.e., no longer needing my interview fix, money has been rebalanced so I shouldn't increase developcosts so much, etc etc). When I come look at it proper on Sunday night, it'll give me a few areas to concentration on.