[quote=“EnDSchultz, post:2, topic:13228”]My experience is that better tires have a substantial effect on offroad speed. A set of six big 35’’ armored wheels off an APC increased my offroad efficiency up to 97% - basically allowing me to travel as fast offroad as on.
I would also like to know more about how fuel efficiency is handled, and if there’s a simple and dirty .json edit us muggles can do to cut down vehicle fuel burn until some proper balancing is done.[/quote]
There is as a matter of fact: \data\json\items\vehicle\engine.json should contain the fuel efficiency, rpm ranges, and gear ratios of liquid fueled engines.
Since engines of a certain type are set on a baseline editing that baseline should affect all engines based upon in. For example the 4 cylinder engine sets the baseline for the 6, 8, and 12 cylinder. Gearing is based on engine I believe, but I’m about two weeks behind on latest experimental so it might have changed.
Remember, increasing peak rpm will increase overall speed, adding additional gear ranges will allow for better power bands, and changing optimal rpm will allow for better efficiency at higher speeds. And of course modding the base efficiency will improve fuel consumption.
Of course you could always find the electric motors and tweak them for great justice (hilarity) while regular engines get fixed, since they have no rpm band. Fun fact, setting epower to a positive number will make an electric motor that actually charges the batteries as it runs. Note: doing so completely breaks intended vehicle balance.
