The BRC is dead... [NEW CHALLENGE DISCUSSION]

[Der Bayer]

The version I have from you does it in the game in 2:21.47. In the race the fastest flying lap was 2:11.43, so what's the problem?

[Dragawn]

Holy frick, I crashed not just into one car, but two in less than 10 laps Bayer, could you check if that's what made me lose to Strop? Or how much slower did the car become?

[Der Bayer]

Your car was ~10% slower than normally in the end. But I already changed the damage progression. Small damages have a smaller effect now and the progression is quadratic.

Crashing means small contacts, too. The numbers in the race log show how intense the crash was. Everything below 1 is a minor contact, above 2 a decent crash. Values can go up to ~ 5, everything else is totally rare (normally distributed random numbers, standard deviation 1).

[strop]

My suspicion was that without the crashes I would have come third or fourth. If I had started further up the grid, however, it may be different again, but ulukay and martin both had possibly faster cars.

[Der Bayer]

I will implement training and qualifying sessions soon, there you will be able to see the somewhat true speed.

[Reaper392]

Now that I've finally worked out and fixed what was wrong with all my previous cars my test car should be with you Der bayer.

[RaduST]

I will implement training and qualifying sessions soon, there you will be able to see the somewhat true speed.

The idea of a training session is very interesting. How will it affect the qualifying and the race results?

[Der Bayer]

The training will only to be there to get an estimate of the performance and to calculate how much fuel the car needs for qualifying and race (-> more weight for less economical cars).

[Der Bayer]

Preview of the new single lap qualifying mode. With driver errors (currently not yet influenced by car tameness/sportiness) and deactivated AI (no holding up):

YouTube Video

[Reaper392]

Considering how severe that error was, I'm quite happy with that time

[07CobaltGirl]

I want to play too. I wanna watch my number 60 come in dead last and survive at least one severe wreck. Hey, if you're gonna be a disgraceful entry, be a good at it!

[Absurdist]

You're not a fan of Grand Prix Manager 2 by any chance are you?

[Absurdist]

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I'm not very good using paint. However, look at how awesome my car is!

(Let me enjoy it in the moments before it gets thrashed by strop)

[Der Bayer]

Here is the test race using the qualifying results from the previous video:

YouTube Video

[NormanVauxhall]

After a great start my driver made a streak of errors costing him positions... 5th. Not bad at the end.