Competitive AI

[Mike Bruce Smith]

In most races only one or two AI cars are competitive up front. Is there a way of increasing the number of cars racing up front?

 

[Scarystuff]

Set AI skill to 100% and agression to 100%. If that is not enough, maybe you need a better AI line on that track. Some of them are not very good. Either search for AI line here on RD or make your own AI lines.

 

[Michael Hornbuckle]

Aggression set to 100% will generally make them a bit slower since they are constantly trying to pass each other.

 

[Tibor Solyom]

In most races only one or two AI cars are competitive up front. Is there a way of increasing the number of cars racing up front?

Unfortunately this is an issue since version 1.11 or 1.12, I reported it, but no fixed yet.

 

[Kristian Maynes]

Try weekend race with quali. You can filter slow ai and place them at the back of the grid.

 

[Costas.H]

My opinion is that Kunos must improve Ai. After a lot of single races against Ai at Nordschleife Nurburgring i noticed sometimes Ai is braking unnecessarily especially at Pflanzgarten 2 even at skills and aggression to 100%.

 

[Scarystuff]

My opinion is that Kunos must improve Ai. After a lot of single races against Ai at Nordschleife Nurburgring i noticed sometimes Ai is braking unnecessarily especially at Pflanzgarten 2 even at skills and aggression to 100%.

That is easy to fix with a new AI line. In fact it has been fixed several times already, so search for new AI lines for that track.

 

[Hor-hay]

wouldn't setting variation to 0 make all Ai equal?

 

[Stereo]

wouldn't setting variation to 0 make all Ai equal?

Pretty much, yeah.

 

[Tibor Solyom]

wouldn't setting variation to 0 make all Ai equal?

Yes, but the leader is usually much faster then the others. Same car, 0 variation and still it is.
Other thing is their pace is not so predictable like before. Sometimes 1-2 sec difference per lap with the same parameters.
This all happened in 1.11 or 1.12 I don't remember exactly, but much earlier then the (otherwise very good) AI tweak.

 

[motzman]

Recently was making adjustment to the AI level bring them down to my lap times. When starting at the back with 99% AI and variation set to maximum I had AI cars clipping my rear quarters and spinning me off the track. Dropped the AI down to around 80% to bring the AI lap times closer to what I was running and I ended up with an AI car running away with a 26 second lead over 2nd place.