The Highway Patrol Challenge [Reviews]

[Tycondero]

Here are some of the average stats for the cars in the game.



These might be useful to estimate how well (or poor) you have done in this challenge. Being above them (especially in the categories that matter) will score you big points. Don't forget durability in this challenge is as simple as reliability + environmental resistance.

[vmo]

I'm waiting the results!

[reeve509]

well at least im above average in the stats that dont matter lol

[Dgafak87]

This says I have a fighting chance, but some of the values don't make sense to me so I'm also waiting for results

[strop]

Good enough, my car performs decently in the higher weighted stats. I wondered if going monocoque instead of ladder would hurt my utility score too much (it does), but that's offset by the advantages in just about every other area. Or is it?

[Tycondero]

Here are the results for positions 20-4. With KrispyDoughnut having the best entry from the USA with the "Simon Buster 442". That leaves the following participants to be get reviewed and to fight over who will get the HPC contract.

Top 3 in alphabetical order:
- Der Bayer: BAM G3800 PRC, Germany
- earincon198: Ignis Stella Contender, Colombia
- Leo9613: Baltazar Basil Magnum Interceptor, Brazil

So will the HPC be won by (south) American companies or a German one? For sure with will not be a US one.

[Kampfzerstorer]

Ermm... I think it might be just my side, but I can't see the results from the 180 x 100 image. All my browsers, Opera, Chrome, Firefox and IE can't enlarge the image.

EDIT: Did everything I can on my side to get it working, even my cellphone's chrome can't get it to work. Guess I'll be in the dark.

Just what place am I?

[Leonardo9613]

What??? My goodness, I didn't expect that at all. That's great news!

One thing though, the inclusion of the benchmark car on the scoring. Is that really fair? It seemed inadequate for me to put my car together with the rest of them. Maybe it's just me.

[strop]

Hah, told you so Leo

Slowly edging my way up the ladder with successive challenges! Not quite there yet, but actually learning how to make more rounded, purpose-built cars. As fanciful as it seems, this is actually teaching me a bit about the workings of real life market considerations.

[Tycondero]

Just what place am I?

You're 17th.

One thing though, the inclusion of the benchmark car on the scoring. Is that really fair? It seemed inadequate for me to put my car together with the rest of them. Maybe it's just me.

The benchmark car is not included in the calculation of the stats (so not in the average for each parameter). Do not see why showing it wouldn't be fair, as long as it does not really participate.

[Kampfzerstorer]

Erika:



Kampf: Erika, stop it. Tyco already told us us that we place 17th this challenge. Not too bad for our first entry to our first challenge here. I expected something to be down rock bottom.


Erika: Kampf, didn't you know this challenge was placed in 1978? We didn't even exist, us and the company.


Kampf: Shit, I'm fading!

[Leonardo9613]

I don't know. Maybe it's because we shape the weights according to our beliefs as to what makes a car good, and of course we will build cars following the same principles. So they would seem to be very good. I remember actively making my ATCC cars slower, because I knew what I could get from the test track and it wouldn't be nice having my car in the podium. The same could be said of my recent challenge, where the benchmark car would do very well. Not a win, but still very well.

[Dgafak87]

Meh, not bad for me considering this was my first challenge, I think what could of helped me is if i had the ability to use an SFI system and more time to tweak the car a bit........ shit i probable could of de-tuned a mopar 440 to regulations honestly. Ah but anyways keep an eye on my thread cause I will be putting this car in the lineup. Thanks for allowing me to participate Tycondero

[strop]

I don't know. Maybe it's because we shape the weights according to our beliefs as to what makes a car good, and of course we will build cars following the same principles. So they would seem to be very good. I remember actively making my ATCC cars slower, because I knew what I could get from the test track and it wouldn't be nice having my car in the podium. The same could be said of my recent challenge, where the benchmark car would do very well. Not a win, but still very well.

This really depends on how much people want to read into it. If people already know the caveats of a benchmark having been made prior to the challenge, it's common sense that their placing is little more than a curiosity as to how others as a whole interpreted the challenge compared to how the OP envisaged it (and how good the OP is at creating a car that biases to their own weights). I've seen benchmark results across all these challenges vary wildly. To me, what the results here show is that a lot of people went for a mega dragster ramrod and paid for it in the rankings

You'd only have to nerf your benchmark car if you wanted to be competitive, like, say, Der Bayer putting 100kg ballast in his cars in the original BRC.

[JasonPoland]

Ermm... I think it might be just my side, but I can't see the results from the 180 x 100 image. All my browsers, Opera, Chrome, Firefox and IE can't enlarge the image.

Super Nerd Jason's helps in 5 easy steps:

Step 1] Open the results in a new tab.
Step 2] Go to this tab
Step 3] Press right Control button an "+" button (both normal and numpad should work)
Step 4] ...
Step 5] Profit!!!

You're welcome