Hello everybody,
slipstream will still be a recent topic in the next few days. Nevertheless, in the meantime I made some further tests about desc45= "Temperature (degree C) - top speed only affected, minimal effect in corners / acceleration? (17 - 31)".
The question was, whether a hotter air would also influence things like tyre degredation, water temperature, etc. as one would expect in real life. Here are the results:
- Obviously the air temperature is not at all affecting the water temperature at all. Even unrealistic high values don't seem to impress the cooling water, neither it's standard temperature, nor it's rate of change.
- Also, the tyre wear is not influenced by the air temperature. So, there is no need to change soft or hard tyres appropriate to the air temperature.
- As written in the descition text by TomMK, the top speed is quite highly influenced. Just to get a feeling for it, I had the following top speeds at these air temperatures (°C):
0°: 327 km/h
35°: 341 km/h
80°: 355 km/h
- A side effect of the air temperature is that it also affects the grip level. It's maybe a bit crazy, but the hotter the air is, the less grip you have. At "normal" values you will probably just feel a very slightly difference, but at a temperature of 1,000°C your car will swim all across the track. Beside that, it's really no problem for the car to drive at a temperature, that probably no motor would survive
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Further findings (not really related to magic data) about water temperature:
- It's not affecting the water temperature, if a car is driving in an other car's slipstream or not. In real life, it would have a high impact on the water temperature, when a car is driving closely behind another car. But in GP4, the temperature (sadly) is unaffected.
- Next question was, whether a high water temperature would affect the engine power in any way. That would be very realistic, as we know that a high temperature is decreasing the engine power clearly. But here - sadly once again - there is no influence on the top speed, as well.
- In my opinion, the two findings before really raise the question:
Why the hell did Geoff Crammond implement the water temperature at all? Obviously there is no function of it, except it will give you an engine failure after making a few donuts.