Guide

Advanced Strategy in a nutshell

https://igpmanager.com/app/d=result&id=50777157&tab=race

Please check race of drivers Russel, Giovinazzi, Sainz  and Grasso.

How to do you think they have strategy and advanced strategy?

Race started with 3.1 and reached 3.3mm. At laps 21 rains stopped.
Water level reached 0mm at lap 41.

The best solution was of my driver Byron, but as you can understand, I took a big risk! However what do you think  i put advances strategy?

Ummm, I don't if it is meant to work but, I have tried it out numerous times now. Long story short, I have been able to toggle the "Default Push Level" without enabling the "Advanced Options". 

My questions are; 

1. Is it a bug or is it as intended? (I personally find it helpful, just in case I miss race start, to have the drivers set to low push since its easier to heat up tyres instead of cooling them)


2. Does having a low Push level affect your qualifying pace?

@frank Thomas

No:
russel and Giovinazzi had basic strategy on dry tyre, w over 3mm and I after 1 or 0 

However the disaster is for drivers that had basic strategy only on I and only on W like Sainz and Grasso. However in others situations, it happened that with their strategy , after reaching 0mm , drivers used twice tyre chose in advanced 2...

This part must be improved!

Congratulations! You are right for strategy and for advanced 1, but you are wrong with advanced 2 : I put I after 0laps! But it doesn’t work because I have already I! I was trying this!

It could be a lot more easier if the game let us choose the ideal range for inter tyres (i.e. 0.7 to 2.5) and the threshold where your driver must change tyres (i.e. 0.4).

So if it starts raining you will continue on your strategy while the rain is below 1.1 (0.7+0.4), if the rain is 1.1 the car stop immediately regardless of your strategy BUT if the rain is below 1.1 then your car follows the strategy and during pit stop if the rain is 0.8 you will have inter tyres.

The same should apply to the inter/wet threshold.

This would make the advanced strategy easier and without unexpected behaviours.


Only 3 values: Inter threshold, Wet threshold, Risk threshold

This was really helpful thanks 

Offline race in Turkey happening now.  

Wet 1.9mm at start of race.  Set strategy for Inters and Wets above 3.0mm, but I haven’t pitted.  

A lot of managers also have this strategy and half pitted immediately when it got over 3.0mm the rest didn’t and didn’t change to wets until next pit stop.  Any ideas why?

The algorythm looks bugged and many players are not happy about how it works. I wrote my suggestion few posts above. The game should trigger a check each time the rain level changes. I think that now you have to be lucky that the game checks your cars when it's raining.

Discussing this with other experienced volunteers it seems that if you're already on Inters and set the AS to switch to Full Wets  the car won't pit for the wets until the next scheduled stop after the prescribed water depth is reached.

In your race today the water depth hit 3.0mm on lap 19. Cars that were on Inters with AS set for Full Wets at 3.0mm had wet tyres fitted at their next scheduled pit stop after this threshold was reached. For teams that were on a two stop strategy this occurred on laps 19, 20 and 21 but for you on three stop strategy it wasn't until lap 30.

Yeah this was a real pain ? and surely must be a bug otherwise it makes AS a bit pointless

Actually it makes sense because if the cars pit as soon as the threshold is reached you will almost inevitably need to make an extra unplanned pit stop later in the race.

3.0 to 3.2 mm water depth is the crossover point between Inters and Wets. The water depth hit 3.0 mm on lap 19 but you remained on Inters until your next scheduled stop on lap 30 when the water level was only a little over 3.2mm. This probably cost you no more than half a second a lap, which over 11 laps is approx. 6 seconds.

If your cars had pitted on Lap 19 you would have been forced into making an extra pit stop, the time lost in Turkey is about 19 seconds.

So the way the AS worked gained you about 13 seconds.

https://igpmanager.com/app/d=result&id=52796007&tab=race

Strategy on I.
Advanced 1 : w over 3mm
Advanced 2: I after 0 laps.

Race start with 3.6mm and rains stopped during lap 34.

It works but...what a risk!?

I know. But I think that it is something to improve. If rain stopped during qualify, advanced 2 should work, but it doesn’t. 

https://igpmanager.com/app/d=result&id=54186263&tab=race

Now we have another crazy race... 
Rains was 3.2mm but it  stopped before qualify.
It arrivet at 0mm at lap 12 -13 
Rains begins at laps 62

My driver Peterson used "hidden option". It works..but it was a disaster because rains arrived few minutes later...

I TYRE were vey fast for all the race that Peterson (with a lot of fuel) was first for a lot of time.

Please check drivers Bangarang and  Bannock: 
They have advanced  2 in this way: S after 4 and S after 3 laps.
They changed tyres according to advanced 2 but next stints was on I.... so advanced 2 work for them.

Check now Peterson , clyde and Hunt
Peterson had advanced 2 : S after 20 laps. It doens't work (in the last stint he made 2 pit stop because hidden option was active (his strategy was I  I I I S )
Clyde had advanced 2: S after 14 lasp. It doesn't work.
Hunt had advanced 2: S after 10 laps. It doesn work.

What happened????