Thread:RickGT/@comment-35537717-20180509184247

Hi mate,

Just curious about your edit to the VW Polo 1.4 16V page - I don't want to step on any toes or get into an edit war so I wanted to check your reason for removing the section about the Polo as an opponent.

You mentioned that the car is not 'present in the global references list' - what do you mean by that? There are two Polo opponents in the global opponent list in the gtmode_race.dat files (IDs 287 and 298), tuned to fit in with the 150 PS / 200 PS opponents in the Global Compact Car series and mixed in among the opponents that actually are still used. These opponents were never removed, they were just no longer referenced in the opponent pool for each of the three races.

As for the Event Generator point, each car has a set of flags in the .carinfo files that list which regions it's blocked in, so that it is never selected as an AI car. This is used for the Opel / Vauxhall switch, Esso / Exxon switch and so on, as well as to block any deleted or incomplete cars from the Event Generator. The Polo is unique among the deleted cars in that it is not blocked at all, all of the flags are left as zero.

Happy to leave these points out though if they're not noteworthy, I just thought it was worth mentioning that it was implemented as an opponent before being removed, and that unlike any other hidden car an oversight makes it possible for it to turn up in fully randomised events without cheating. 