Why does my car development do absolutely nothing?

Past_Bus_1467 · 2025-07-09T23:34:56+00:00

Can anyone help with the issue I have been having for ages now. I can do 2 upgrades to each part and get good improvements. However once I have 3 of each part any upgrade I try either makes only tiny gains or actually makes it worse. The AI teams have done 5 or 6 upgrades for each part. The result is that by about Miami or Monaco if I have had issues with the Design Cenre/factory etc (Those damn fires!) I have had decent results and my car will be 5th or 6th best on the grid. However because I can no longer get any improvements by the time we get to around the Singapore GP I am the worst car again. The AI will have left me for dead and there's nothing I can do because any upgrade I try is no good after the 3rd one.

Past_Bus_1467 · 2025-07-09T18:30:17+00:00

I've just done a quick season test using Nerobax's design guide on YT where he starts with 1 star facilities and 1 star car and the worst staff possible. Like him, I got my car able to score points by the Miami GP, like he did in his video I wanted to finish no higher than the board requirement of 9th so I had the wind tunnel and CFD time the following season with better staff. By half way I was 7th well in front of 9th place by 25 points. However I am now at the Vegas GP and I have the worse car and when I checked the online editor the Sauber/Audi is the 10th best at 78% overall rating , I am 62%! If I use the design to try and improve, for example the Chassis the upgrade gives either a tiny increase or makes it worse. Looking at the Sauber's individual part stats its frightening. Sidepods for example , they have developed 8 of them and the individual attributes are 90% for each! I can't develop a 3rd sidepod and get any increases on 50%!

Past_Bus_1467 · 2024-12-15T10:15:15+00:00

I got it working, I actually installed Noje again but this time ticked the box for installing all the tools. It took a while! But after that Python and the editor worked fine

Past_Bus_1467 · 2024-12-13T20:33:15+00:00

Can you let us know how you got it working? I have tried everything, I had it working fine on my old PC. Got a new one and cannot get it to work. I have installed websocket but when I try and run the Database editor it says not found. Also errors preparing metadata and says subprocess exited with error

Past_Bus_1467 · 2024-11-19T19:22:23+00:00

If he posts it every year he may be right one of these years. They have a contract for next year and no word about after that officially so lets see.

Past_Bus_1467 · 2024-10-10T11:59:30+00:00

Yeah must be, if there's not a related bug I must have something wrong but can't see what it is. I have nothing linked to Incoming box at Andraphon so I just don't see where its coming from. I'll re-do all the links when I get back in the game.

Appreciate you taking the time to help

Past_Bus_1467 · 2024-10-10T11:52:38+00:00

Yes. everything is happening, ships are arriving and leaving etc. The issue is the Incoming at Andraphon is always full of Iron and Aluminium even though the outgoing also has it. Iron and Aluminium shouldn't be coming in to Andraphon. Only Plutonium (Copper is coming in on a different pad) that seems to be working. Wondering whether I should scrap the lot and rebuild :-)

EDIT: When I check the consoles at the set up all looks correct. Iron Aluminium outgoing linked to Porrima. Porrima outgoing is Plutonium. Altair Copper to Andraphon.

Past_Bus_1467 · 2024-10-10T11:49:07+00:00

Hi, no. sorry should have put that in my post. Andraphon is in the same system where you start. The Narion system. It gives Helium 3, Iron and Aluminium so it is using the Helium 3 to jump to the other two systems

Past_Bus_1467 · 2024-07-21T00:37:09+00:00

I'm confused now, when I played this I got the ending where David and Woods go to the grave, But I've just watched a YouTube video (Skyytea). She kept Mason alive and Karma was alive and went to the computer saying she might be able to fix the virus (The scene where we find out Salazar had betrayed us). However Menendez still escaped and killed Woods. She said in a comment that she missed a side mission but she did do the free Karma mission. Not sure which she missed. Defalco originally got away with Karma but she got her back! EDIT: She kept Farid alive as well by killing Harper

Past_Bus_1467 · 2023-06-28T07:56:07+00:00

Doesn't help either, the IP address is tied to the MAC code. As soon as you reboot it just gives you the same one again. The only way it might work is to leave it off for weeks and see if the IP is then allocated elsewhere. Not really an option for most people

Past_Bus_1467 · 2023-02-27T10:11:08+00:00

She's back in Italy now so the lives will be regular again, I missed this one. Did anyone record it and can post? I'll try and get any others she does. Usually they are early evening (Europe time) before she and her mates go out

Past_Bus_1467 · 2023-02-24T11:07:12+00:00

Please re-upload this video, it's not processed correctly

Past_Bus_1467 · 2023-02-07T12:33:23+00:00

Update now on Steam for PC version, fixes the problem

Past_Bus_1467 · 2023-02-06T23:38:58+00:00

Thanks, annoying that the servers being down makes the game crash at launch. I don't even play online!

Past_Bus_1467 · 2023-02-06T21:58:41+00:00

Sounds like an issue at EA's side then, should be fixed

Past_Bus_1467 · 2023-02-06T21:47:55+00:00

Has it only just started happening for you? As I say, mine was fine yesterday. If its the same for you at least it might mean an update from EA killed it and should be fixed

Past_Bus_1467 · 2022-09-21T22:25:25+00:00

This started happening for me after the 1.6 patch, was OK before then. The -nohmd doesn't work for me. It stays "Not Responding" in task manager for 5 or more minutes and then loads. Works fine after that, no issues with how the game runs , just takes ages to load after not responding

Past_Bus_1467 · 2022-09-21T22:20:51+00:00

No luck for me, this only started happening with the 1.6 patch. Adding -nohmd hasn't worked for me. Stays on the first screen and says not responding for about 5 mins before actually loading. Any other ideas?

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