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Posted: **Fri Dec 18, 2015 5:51 pm**

Depending on when the competition is, it seems to me that shorter deadlines for entry tend to be better so that it's not forgotten about. I mean in the sense of about 2 weeks compared to 1 month. Granted that around the holidays, people tend to be far busier, so longer deadlines make more sense now than in January.

Posted: **Sat Dec 19, 2015 12:21 am**

well the middle ground then?

around 3 weeks or between >14 days and <30 days

Posted: **Sat Dec 19, 2015 2:09 am**

Hmm - that's a good point. Two weeks seemed too short for the Hoon Competition, but a month does seem a lot longer. I'll give myself some more time to prepare while I think it over.

Posted: **Sat Dec 19, 2015 4:13 am**

Okay, at the moment I'm thinking that the info I'll give for each demographic in the image will be:

Weights for each of the 9 scored non-price criteria.
Mileage multipliers (higher for commuter cars, lower for sports cars).
Number of customers per car entered & (in parentheses) number of customers assuming 40 entries.
Sticker prices affordable to 95% and 25% of customers in demographic.

I figure the 95% number will let you know how cheap to make a cheap car, the 25% number will tell you when a car is pretty much too expensive to consider, and the width of the interval will give you an idea of how many customers you lose by bumping up the price. The spreadsheet has 95%, 75%, 50%, and 25%, but that seems like a lot of numbers to put on the chart.

Posted: **Tue Dec 29, 2015 4:33 am**

Okay, I think I'm ready to go live ... would anyone be willing to look over my draft ruleset to see if I missed anything? Reply here or PM, I'll send it to you.

Posted: **Tue Dec 29, 2015 1:05 pm**

Posting the competition thread shortly. Meanwhile, here's a table of all* the information on the nine market demographics in hand-formatted ASCII text:

* Not actually all.

Code:: Demographic | Commuter City Family Sport Luxury Offroad Utility Muscle/Super Track =============================================================================================================================== Customers/Entry | 84,000 48,000 16,000 14,000 12,000 10,000 8,000 6,000 2,000 (40 Entries) |(3,360,000) (1,920,000) (640,000) (560,000) (480,000) (400,000) (320,000) (240,000) (80,000) ----------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 95% Budget | $8,081.24 $6,419.15 $7,729.16 $11,373.38 $22,879.21 $8,081.24 $6,934.73 $11,366.06 $10,511.96 25% Budget |$22,292.21 $17,707.33 $25,025.79 $48,096.36 $102,060.37 $22,292.21 $20,178.92 $101,517.47 $35,903.16 ----------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Drivability | $4,200.00 $4,600.00 $4,300.00 $8,500.00 $8,000.00 $4,000.00 $4,000.00 $4,500.00 $3,800.00 Sportiness | $500.00 $500.00 $500.00 $10,000.00 $3,700.00 $250.00 $250.00 $7,900.00 $10,000.00 Comfort | $3,600.00 $1,700.00 $3,300.00 $5,000.00 $9,700.00 $3,200.00 $3,300.00 $3,200.00 $800.00 Prestige | $1,300.00 $1,000.00 $1,200.00 $3,600.00 $10,000.00 $2,800.00 $2,800.00 $9,500.00 $1,100.00 Safety | $3,700.00 $2,100.00 $3,800.00 $5,300.00 $7,000.00 $2,000.00 $2,700.00 $5,300.00 $900.00 Utility | $500.00 $500.00 $500.00 $250.00 $500.00 $1,500.00 $4,500.00 $250.00 $250.00 Practicality | $2,000.00 $3,200.00 $3,700.00 $350.00 $800.00 $1,300.00 $2,500.00 $2,000.00 $250.00 Offroad | $500.00 $500.00 $500.00 $250.00 $500.00 $5,500.00 $1,000.00 $500.00 $250.00 Reliability | $2,000.00 $900.00 $1,800.00 $250.00 $1,000.00 $3,700.00 $3,000.00 $500.00 $1,300.00 ----------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mileage | 150% 100% 100% 50% 100% 100% 100% 50% 25% Idiosyncrasy | $550.00 $450.00 $600.00 $1,000.00 $1,250.00 $750.00 $700.00 $1,000.00 $550.00 ===============================================================================================================================

Posted: **Tue Dec 29, 2015 7:46 pm**

what does mileage and idiosyncrasy means here?

nvm i just read your competition thread.

Posted: **Wed Dec 30, 2015 1:12 am**

No problem. (There's also a more technical explanation in the OP, if you love math.)

Posted: **Wed Dec 30, 2015 6:18 am**

which i dont. i tolerate them...

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