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Brian's GT Endurance & Endurance+ [Deprecated - See Rebirth: Redux]

This mod is never being updated ever again, I have been working on a new project for the past 3 years which can be found here - Rebirth: Redux[www.nexusmods.com].

Simple mod that increases GT race distances to be more like that seen in endurance racing. Tyre life, ERS systems, critical part deltas, performance deltas have been adjusted to create a closer field.

Endurance replaces Medium preferences, with medium race length rules being 265 miles, and short/long removing and adding 135 miles respectively.

Endurance+ replaces Long preferences, with medium race length rules being 400 miles, and short/long removing and adding 200 miles respectively.

Will work seamlessly with TheFlamingRed's Balance mod once he updates for the current version of the game.

This time, the figures I have put in are speculative figures as 1.5 totally changed everything and made all my spreadsheets meaningless. I have used what I learned for the Single Seater Rebalance here, so the figures should be roughly correct. However it takes hours and hours to fully test everything, and I don't have hours and hours.

Summary of changes:

- Reduced the maximum top speeds of cars to more realistic levels (280mph down to 230mph)
- GTC is now 7s slower than IGTC
- Vastly increased the time cost per single point of performance, then rebalanced using the scalars to make suspension and rear wings important
- Increased the size of the crossover points for dry to inter and inter to wet
- All but removed the wear penalty if an incorrect tyre is fitted to the car
- Increased time cost for losing a wheel
- Increased the maximum time for a wheel to come loose
- Increased amount of wet weather compounds available
- Reduced tyre cliff time penalty across all compounds
- Reduced the wrong weather penalty on all dry weather tyres ((mainly to assist the AI) from 20s to 15s)
- Slightly increased the wrong weather penalty on inters
- Increased the amount of weather bars
- Hugely increased the charge time of ERS
- Decreased discharge rate of Push 2 Pass
- Reduced power of Push 2 Pass
- Decreased hybrid mode's fuel saving
- Decreased hybrid mode's discharge rate
- Increased part failure time costs
- Increased critical part time cost per part - maximum of 2.69s penalty if you have the 24th best part
- Reduced the time cost related to driver form (0.0 form was a 1s penalty, now 0.5s)
- Reduced volatility of form changes during the race
- Driver time costs slightly increased, both with or without driver aids
- Reduced time cost between running on Attack and Back Up tyre modes
- Reduced Attack and Push tyre wear rates
- Increased Conserve and Back Up wear rates
- Reduced time cost between running on Super Overtake and Low engine modes
- Increased time cost for running out of fuel
- Reduced time cost per lap of fuel
- Reduced Overtake fuel burn rate
- Increased Medium and Low fuel burn rates
- Reduced the car setup time cost
- Rebalanced the pit time cost saving for balanced and safe stops
- Slightly increased time cost per lap of fuel put into the car at pit stops
- Increased tyre change times
- Increased setup adjustments time costs
- Reduced trim change time costs
- Increased time cost of a track with no rubber put down
- Increased life of all tyre compounds
- Adjusted tyre band time costs
- Increased pit crew minimum and maximum time to peak age
- Increased stamina loss per race for pit crew
- Reduced new pit crew cost (from £200,000 down to £35,000)

NOTE: Do not use Short preferences with this mod, you'll see no difference from vanilla as it is currently the vanilla values.

KNOWN ISSUES:
Sometimes other series will show the increased laps, this is an unavoidable issue where the race distance is picked up when a race occurs in the calendar, even when you aren't in it.

I have had to use a dummy Media.txt to upload this because PlaySport goofed, so if you have a mod that uses this txt, you may have conflicts. It'll be this way until the error is fixed.

The AI go a little crazy with their pit strategies on the Phoenix Oval with Endurance+

I also have a SingleSeater Rebalance mod!

This should also work with FIRE by Chris & Falko as I also tested this - however if you do use the two together and you have issues, then you cannot file bug reports to myself, or to Chris. I don't play FIRE, so beyond checking basic compatibility, I will be doing no further work on this.

NOTE: If you wish to use this and my SingleSeater Rebalance mod together, then you will need the MERGED VERSION.