Racing too powerful? Join with more than 1 Team?

[Eric.B]

I enjoy beeing rewarded for racing yet it think in it's current state it's too powerful since you hardly need to do anything else once you've been able to set full funds to the racing series.

The major problem is the AI. I plan on addressing it for 1.20 (The build after the coming 1.19.3 stock changes build.)

The AI uses what is a "State Driven Agent" meaning that each task an AI does is a separate state. The AI has a state for designing vehicles and a state for starting race team. The only time the AI builds a vehicle/engine/etc is in that Design Vehicle State. In there, it focuses mainly on building the best car it can for consumers in a market.

See what where the problem is? A consumer car has to cut corners (even sports cars) to be viable in the consumer market, whereas a race car needs to focus purely on performance. Maxed out sliders, costs be damned.

So I believe I'll be adding a car designer to the Racing AI State. Hopefully this will not slow the game down too much. I will probably also be adding an New Game setting allowing you to adjust the number of racing series. Currently there are too many for my 8 year old CPUs, probably too many for most people as well.

I set full funds to racing in all available series in 1905 which is making me about 4-6 million $ profit per round in 1919.

Is this including the ones you have to submit vehicles to? It does sound a bit much, I'll probably need to nerf the winnings. (I think it increases slightly with each new team added.)

And: do you think it would be feasible to join racing series with more than one team (if you have more than one marques of course). Would take some money out of the company, creating more competition within the series.

More clutter... i got a run.

It has been suggested before, and it's on my "look at list." It might even be in a ticket. Anyway, If I ever do a 3rd major overhaul of the Racing systems/GUI it may work its way in. But at this stage, it's unlikely.