GGs wrote:
GS63 wrote:
Upping the number of meetings and races per day would of course further increase the problem of horses running too frequently though? I think keeping it at 8/3 is right - I'd even go as far as to prefer it to be 6/2 personally, that still leaves plenty of opportunities.
Apologies if this doesn't make sense kind of hard to explain what i'm getting at but...
What about having some sort of system in place per trainer? For example a % system, say a horse runs a race there is a behind the scenes calculator that calculates the chances the horse would run again in the next 2 weeks or set period going by the trainer. For example Aiden O'Brien down at 30% generally holds horses back/strategically targets races so doesn't run a horse say 2 weekends in a row. Whereas Mark Johnson who is known for running horses more often would be a much higher percentage at like 80%. I'm not sure if this would be possible to put in the game or if others think this is a good idea but just a suggestion perhaps a bit too complicated to get into the game took me long enough to write it to try make sense of what i was getting at lol Must be some sort of way of sorting this issue sensibly.
Id be happy if the AI trainers couldn't run a horse twice in a 1 or 2 week period however this may knock some trial/big races, off top of my head i think one of the last Derby trials at Lingfield is bang on 2 weeks from the actual Derby.
I followed what you were saying!
It's a good idea to apply a % to each trainer in terms of frequency of horses running, but I think you may be correct about how much more complexity this would add to the coding of the game.