[Event is Finished] The Automation Endurance Challenge

[strop]

Which means we probably have until early next week or so, ooh err :s !

[Hallowenman]

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The Automation Endurance Challenge - Entry
Name of your team: SMC Unlimited
Name of team members: SummonerJedi
Class(es): GT1

[Killrob]

Plans for the update: Friday starts the open beta, will probably run for ~4-7 days before release.

[Hallowenman]

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The Automation Endurance Challenge - Entry
Name of your team: Solstice Performance
Name of team members: Microwave
Class(es): GT1

[Hallowenman]

That last entry was sent in before the deadline if anyone had plans on complaining about that. Just going trough all the files and the last entries now.

[Hallowenman]

In the main post with the event info, I wrote this:

Naming your engine: You'll have to send in your engine, platform and the model (platform with right setup and correct engine) when you're done. To make it easy for me to find out what engine belongs
to what team, here is a naming system just to make it easy:
(Name of your team) (engine name, optional) (class)
My engine is for example called: Traxx Racing TxR V8fp 4.5-350 GT2
That is my GT2 engine, for my team called Traxx Racing
Model/platform naming: (Team name) (platform/model name) (class) just like the engine naming system

Interesting to check how many of you who actually read through this... and did it. Just some extra details for those of you who can't remember reading this on the main post: I added it a week after I released the post (about 1 week after) and I am pretty sure I told you guys once to read through the event details with the updates. It's not a big problem if you didn't follow this naming system though, but it just makes it easier for me

[Microwave]

Sooo... How's this gonna work then?

[Hallowenman]

Sooo... How's this gonna work then?

What do you mean? How I find the winner, or...?

[Hallowenman]

I am now doing the hard work to find out which place the different cars finished in (in their own class, not total). I am currently working on the GT2 class. It takes a bit of time to go through all the cars and engines, but I am slowly getting there. But I have noticed one thing. I have checked the cars and engines from 4 different teams so far in the GT2 class, and only one had selected ''Advanced'' for safety. There was no restrictions for safety so it is fine, and I understand why most of you selected none at safety, because it affects weight. Before I started checking the cars I was thinking about giving a penalty for low safety, but I have figured out that I will only do it if more than 50 % have chosen basic or higher safety. It makes sense to have some safety. Crashing at high speed can be fatal, and these days safety is important in most racing events.

[strop]

I did think about the safety, and in the end, prisoner's dilemma won.

Given that this is a competitive challenge, I could safely bet that the majority of people would want to maximise their competitive edge by saving on weight where it was not specified necessary. Safety, while in a real world setting is important, was not specified as a factor in this simulated world, therefore I could also bet that most other people would also think the same way and ultimately choose not to add any safety measures. From that point of view I'm surprised that anybody selected it at all.

Also it would have been rather unfair not to specify something and then include it as a factor in the game mechanic. It creates a lot of drama precisely because this is a competitive event! (You should have seen what happened in the first major tournament, when the host belatedly learnt about how the aero fixtures worked and had to change the rules 2 days before deadline...)

[Hallowenman]

I did think about the safety, and in the end, prisoner's dilemma won.

Given that this is a competitive challenge, I could safely bet that the majority of people would want to maximise their competitive edge by saving on weight where it was not specified necessary. Safety, while in a real world setting is important, was not specified as a factor in this simulated world, therefore I could also bet that most other people would also think the same way and ultimately choose not to add any safety measures. From that point of view I'm surprised that anybody selected it at all.

Also it would have been rather unfair not to specify something and then include it as a factor in the game mechanic. It creates a lot of drama precisely because this is a competitive event! (You should have seen what happened in the first major tournament, when the host belatedly learnt about how the aero fixtures worked and had to change the rules 2 days before deadline...)

Basically, I won't give out any penalties for low safety if the majority selected ''None'' Safety. And by the looks of it, the majority have chosen no safety. So don't worry about penalties.

[Microwave]

What do you mean? How I find the winner, or...?

Yeah, I'm not exactly sure what the challenge is based on... I kinda just read through the inital post and signed up as there was next to no time left.
Are you basing it on lap times?

[Hallowenman]

What do you mean? How I find the winner, or...?

Yeah, I'm not exactly sure what the challenge is based on... I kinda just read through the inital post and signed up as there was next to no time left.
Are you basing it on lap times?

It is based on many factors, for example: Weight of the car, top speed, economy, MTBF, and some other factors.

[Hallowenman]

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The Automation Endurance Challenge - Entry
Name of your team: infiniti racing
Name of team members: harizvet1
Class(es): GT2

Just put the files into the game, and the game won't start. Removed the files, the game starts. So the files for Infiniti Racing doesn't work. Anyone experienced this before?

[nialloftara]

I vote we change the title to Automation Death Race as my company and maybe others chose to offer the driver's position to death row inmates to save on the weight of any safety features what-so-ever, and the cost of hiring an actual race driver.