How do you race a full weekend in AC?

Giovaneveterano · Dec 9, 2017

I'm into AC since 2014 and the race weekend experience has never been so good (mostly because the improved AI).
I'd like to play reasonably long weekends with full practice (90min), full qualifying (60min) and endurance race (1h~3h), but of course I can't play them from start to end in just one evening (too much hours playing!!).
FP and qualifying make the AI way more competitive in terms of car setup and fuel/tyre management during the race than just drop them on the grid with 0 practice before..

It would be way better to somehow "save" the weekend between sessions so I can continue from there another day.
How do you guys manage a full weekend?
Thanks you all in advance.

Dimis · Dec 9, 2017

Hi,There are those days when i feel the need for an endurance race to but i also haven't found a way to save the progress between "sessions" either.
So I'm playing a little with it to keep myself Immersed.

After setting up the "race weekend" or "championship" i run the practice session when i want. after this i quit the game.
The next day i start again and AC throws me back into the practice session.
I let the ai complete 1 or 2 laps and skip the session.

Here is where the "bending" starts. If i have the time i do qualy and race from here.
If not i qualy for only 30 minutes and quit the game (This is for immersion only cause none of this progress will be carried over to the next session).

On "race-day" i repeat the practice thingie and skip to qualy.
Now in qualify i still have these 30 minutes left, since the ai is also numb at this point, i use this to give myself and the ai time to get some lap/times in.
After 30 minutes and completed lap, i let the ai run and grab a coffee. or skip the session and start the race.

It's not perfect and maybe a bit "out there" but for me it gets the job done.

Peter Hooper · Dec 10, 2017

It's always the problem for me too. So few games allow saving between sessions so it's almost impossible to get the full race experience. I'm loathe to just leave it paused between sessions as it may be that I have to complete the race over a couple of days. Don't really know why its such an issue to allow saving and it always falls on deaf ears whenever I bring it up.

Hal Burns · Dec 11, 2017

That's a really good thing about the F1 201X series, you can save anytime. Have to go to make dinner? Save on the back straight and continue later. In Raceroom you can only save in a Championship at the end of a session, but thats OK. Finish Qualy, run race later. You can't do that in a single race though.....In AC, it would be a very good feature, especially with the endurance cars.

Haiden773 · Dec 16, 2017

It's been a while since I setup a Championship, but I thought they saved progress between P/Q/R. So if you set it up a single race Championship, wouldn't that allow you to take breaks in between parts?

Or maybe I'm confusing AC's Championships with another sim.

Gevatter · Dec 16, 2017

Haiden773 said:
It's been a while since I setup a Championship, but I thought they saved progress between P/Q/R. So if you set it up a single race Championship, wouldn't that allow you to take breaks in between parts?

Or maybe I'm confusing AC's Championships with another sim.

If it worked that way that would be a usable workaround. Can anybody confirm?

Giovaneveterano · Dec 16, 2017

Yeah, it could be right. I can't test it right now unfortunately

Dimis · Dec 17, 2017

well i'm afraid it doesn't work this way. the championships are only being saved at the start of a round in that championship. it's a sort of a fail save for not ruining your championship when "real live" things happen and you have to abort. so you could always start that round again. not sure why the dev team has chosen this method though. i'd rather see that choice of saving in the hands of the player. if something happens i can abort with or without a save.

Haiden773 · Dec 17, 2017

Oh, I thought that's we're talking about--being able to complete a practice session, stop and quit the sim, and then come back later or the next day to continue the race weekend with Qualification, and so on, until the weekend is complete.

If we're talking about saving mid-session from pit lane, then that's a bit more complicated.

Haiden773 · Dec 17, 2017

Gevatter said:
If it worked that way that would be a usable workaround. Can anybody confirm?

I'll be playing later today. I can test it out.

Haiden773 · Dec 18, 2017

If you create a single race Championship, it does save the progress between P/Q/R sessions. Whether you finish the session or end it early, you need to click "Continue" for it to save the progress. Otherwise, you'll have to repeat that session. Also, if you don't at complete the first session and click "Continue", the Championship will not be saved, and you'll have to start again.

Giovaneveterano · Dec 18, 2017

Awesome! I think it's a good workaround

ltcars · Dec 18, 2017

If you want to do just a race weekend you can load it first into qualifying, set the time to I think 90 minutes is the max, let every ai car drive at minimum 2 laps so they have a flying lap, with could already count as a qualifying lap and then skip the session to the race. The ai will now have done more than just their 2 laps, but have done a complete qualifying

Marg · Sep 14, 2019

I am resurrecting this thread. I do not see any word "Continue"... sessions are not saved. It is a must have feature, because if qualifying goes 20-20 mins, I do not want to race immediately after...