Introducing AMS Career, a self-contained, web-based career tracker for AMS2.
Some may be familiar with my Excel-based tools for AMS2 and Project Cars 2, games with brilliant content that needed to be explored. PC2 had a career mode that did a pretty good job guiding you around the sim. But AMS2 lacks anything of the sort, and the content needs to be experienced.
Enter @abesto , who had the same ideals and goals, but has actual talent! He's turned the AMS 2 Career spreadsheet into a fully-fledged web app.
Starting out at the lowest rank in eight racing disciplines, you are presented with offers in each. Set up the single race in AMS2 and report your results in the app and you gain XP across the 8 disciplines. The goal is to the reach pinnacle of your favorite discipline, or maybe all disciplines!
1) The app works off of self reporting of your results. If you want to enter 1st place, every race, all the time - we can't stop you. But you're only cheating yourself...
2) Results matter, but not as much as you think. And as a sim racer you already know that a hard-fought 5th place is often better than a walk-away win. Don't be afraid to challenge yourself!!
3) To help tailor the experience to you, the app has a robust method to handicap the AI. If all cars seem too slow, you can enter a global modifier to increase the recommended AI. Or, maybe one car, or one class is out of balance with the AI level that seems to work everywhere else for you. You can modify just that car/class.
4) But you can't fool the program all the time. Wins are rewarded with an increase to your recommended AI level, while lacklustre results may see your AI level dialed back. The goal is a good race in great cars on great tracks.
There is a github devoted to the project, set up by abesto, with a wiki for additional help.
github.com
Some notes about how the app works:
a) it works on mobile as well as PCs (even MacIntosh computers!) so keep that phone/tablet/iMac by your sim rig
b) your career progress is specific to that browser on that device, so - for example - I wouldn't be able to carry over my career from my phone to my PC's Chrome browser. Plan ahead when starting a new career
We hope you enjoy and we hope it enables you to get more out of the sim. Credit goes to @abesto who had the talent and vision to turn a humble group of tables into something robust, expandable, and exciting.
Some may be familiar with my Excel-based tools for AMS2 and Project Cars 2, games with brilliant content that needed to be explored. PC2 had a career mode that did a pretty good job guiding you around the sim. But AMS2 lacks anything of the sort, and the content needs to be experienced.
Enter @abesto , who had the same ideals and goals, but has actual talent! He's turned the AMS 2 Career spreadsheet into a fully-fledged web app.
Starting out at the lowest rank in eight racing disciplines, you are presented with offers in each. Set up the single race in AMS2 and report your results in the app and you gain XP across the 8 disciplines. The goal is to the reach pinnacle of your favorite discipline, or maybe all disciplines!
1) The app works off of self reporting of your results. If you want to enter 1st place, every race, all the time - we can't stop you. But you're only cheating yourself...
2) Results matter, but not as much as you think. And as a sim racer you already know that a hard-fought 5th place is often better than a walk-away win. Don't be afraid to challenge yourself!!
3) To help tailor the experience to you, the app has a robust method to handicap the AI. If all cars seem too slow, you can enter a global modifier to increase the recommended AI. Or, maybe one car, or one class is out of balance with the AI level that seems to work everywhere else for you. You can modify just that car/class.
4) But you can't fool the program all the time. Wins are rewarded with an increase to your recommended AI level, while lacklustre results may see your AI level dialed back. The goal is a good race in great cars on great tracks.
There is a github devoted to the project, set up by abesto, with a wiki for additional help.
GitHub - abesto/ams2-career
Contribute to abesto/ams2-career development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
Some notes about how the app works:
a) it works on mobile as well as PCs (even MacIntosh computers!) so keep that phone/tablet/iMac by your sim rig
b) your career progress is specific to that browser on that device, so - for example - I wouldn't be able to carry over my career from my phone to my PC's Chrome browser. Plan ahead when starting a new career
We hope you enjoy and we hope it enables you to get more out of the sim. Credit goes to @abesto who had the talent and vision to turn a humble group of tables into something robust, expandable, and exciting.
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