Im running less than a full field of AI cars, and they are all going almost as fast as Clark. Whats going on here?
The slower AI cars are quite responsive to the Global Hype system, and will go much more slowly than Clark and Gurney when you are starting out. However, the fastest AI drivers always drive nearly as fast as the real drivers, no matter what your database shows for your best lap times. In their infiinite wisdom, Papyrus designed the AI system so that, if you race with less than a full field of AI cars, the slowest AI drivers are dropped first. This means that if you race with, say, 5 to 8 AI cars, you’ll be getting AI drivers who scorch around the track at nearly the lap record. This can be frustrating! However, it’s easily remedied. The values that control the order in which AI cars are dropped are contained in an editable initialization file. You can download an initialization file I’ve modified to give the field of AI cars a wider spread, if you are running fewer than 19 AI cars. I’ve fixed this file so that even if you choose a field of only five AI cars, you’ll get some AI drivers
