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• What's the deal with the mod's engine noise feature?

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Vehicle Components

• What's the deal with the mod's engine noise feature?
  • The mod has the ability to slightly alter the performance characteristics of each engine, deviating from the engine's original design specification.  It can't be described as just raising or lowering a simple power number.  What we actually do is take a random number and use it as the seed to a random number generator.  We then modulate every sample in the engine's recipe curves using that random number generator, slightly lowering or raising the sample value.  The overall effect is that the original engine curve is perturbed slightly at each point.  This perturbation can result in an advantage for the engine, under all of the other circumstances involved at the time the engine is used (track, weather, etc..), or can result in a disadvantage.   This is all relative to the engine's normal 'pristine' design specification.
    
    The point of this noise process is to emulate the non-homogenous manufacturing and environmental effects that produce engine behavior that is never exactly equal to the engine's paper spec.