How many slots online?

Bram Hengeveld · Feb 17, 2013

This one is for the Kunos team. As we are preparing our GT league already behind the scenes it would be good to have some more information on the multiplayer side of AC.

For example how many cars/slots are available during an online race?

Any info much appreciated.

Fred Joseph · Feb 17, 2013

Number of pits is the limit (I guess

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Bram Hengeveld · Feb 17, 2013

Well as its 2013 there must be ways to by pass that. Team mates don't pit at the same time in real life either so share those pit slots

Andrew Ford · Feb 17, 2013

I heard (confirmed by Kunos) that the first version will have no pit stops...so there may be no pit slots to begin with?

Kevin Leu · Feb 17, 2013

There is no hardcoded limit for cars online, depends soley on which amount your server can handle. At least that was mentioned by kunos somewhere.

Ralf Ääro · Feb 17, 2013

Kevin Leu said:
There is no hardcoded limit for cars online, depends soley on which amount your server can handle. At least that was mentioned by kunos somewhere.

Yes, they told me that also at gamescom.

Diogo Ramalho · Feb 17, 2013

I think it's limited by the number of "grid slots" available on the specific track... Might be wrong but I think I've read it somewere....

Edit: See this post of Si3v

(...)
There's no grid limit. Track maker decides how many grid slots.
(...)

Hampus Andersson · Feb 17, 2013

Andrew Ford said:
I heard (confirmed by Kunos) that the first version will have no pit stops...so there may be no pit slots to begin with?

Well i hope we start in the pits

William Levesque · Feb 17, 2013

But then it's the limit of garage spots, not pit spots

Fred Joseph · Feb 17, 2013

yeah but as Bram said, there might be two cars in each garage.

Anyway, I think I heard the limit would be the server, not AC.

Bram Hengeveld · Feb 17, 2013

Well I don't worry about the server

All good then... full house, thanks

William Levesque · Feb 17, 2013

Fred Joseph said:
yeah but as Bram said, there might be two cars in each garage.

Anyway, I think I heard the limit would be the server, not AC.

When I say garage spots, it is, like in rFactor for example, not a garage per say but a single "parking spot". Two cars in a garage would mean two garage spots, 5 would mean 5, etc...

Xosé Estrada · Feb 20, 2013

William Levesque said:
When I say garage spots, it is, like in rFactor for example, not a garage per say but a single "parking spot". Two cars in a garage would mean two garage spots, 5 would mean 5, etc...

Bit usually cars can't collide while in pits (this would be another interesting question when the moment comes) so why not having 3 cars in the same parking slot, this happened sometimes in Race 07 and was not bad.

William Levesque · Feb 20, 2013

Xosé Estrada said:
Bit usually cars can't collide while in pits (this would be another interesting question when the moment comes) so why not having 3 cars in the same parking slot, this happened sometimes in Race 07 and was not bad.

Which is crap to be honest.

rFactor has collision in the pits, as it should have.

Hampus Andersson · Feb 20, 2013

Needs some smart code to separate the cars if you are not maxing out the pitlane.
Imagine pitting with an F1 car and another guy pits 1m ahead of you.
not that great.

I´m all for collisions in pitlane but not fond of putting in reverse just to get out of my pit box.

William Levesque · Feb 21, 2013

Hampus Andersson said:
Needs some smart code to separate the cars if you are not maxing out the pitlane.
Imagine pitting with an F1 car and another guy pits 1m ahead of you.
not that great.

I´m all for collisions in pitlane but not fond of putting in reverse just to get out of my pit box.

Yeah, that is something modders adjust when they create their tracks, some just don't bother and you have silly pitbox placement