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@MisterWeary : I like your spreadsheet/table; it's very cool. 👍 It also looks like a lot of work. So how exactly does it work? Do you have to enter all the values yourself or is there way to have a public editable version in the vein of GoogleDocs? I've used these types of things before where everyone enters their own entries which prevents all the work from having to be done by a single person and it can be done continuously. I'm also not sure how you are displaying the image of it: it sounds like the image is linked to an image on your website and the one on your website changes based on your most up-to-date entries, so that there is only one current dynamic image? Would this mean I would simply have to put a link to the image on the first post of a thread and the current table would be visible?
The only thing I would add is possibly how far behind the Rabbit was or better yet its total time, because it is kind of important to know if a race was very close or your car was dominating. Also if you use the Rabbit's total time you will be able to see patterns in the times to beat due to the averages of the total Rabbit times and we can see which are the slowest of the Rabbits when trying to get the right opponent line-up (though we will never know if they drove off into the dirt or spun out).
I agree with driving clean. 👍 I only post times when I can manage a clean one and almost always restart when I've made a bad hit on the AI cars: if I continue it is only to get an estimate on whether a car is capable of winning, and then I repeat the race if it is. I've always considered it us testing the limits of the cars, rather than explicitly competing with one another. Using AI as breaking points or cutting corners of the track is not really informative about a car's capabilities and would rarely be useful info for most people...I hope.
The only thing I would add is possibly how far behind the Rabbit was or better yet its total time, because it is kind of important to know if a race was very close or your car was dominating. Also if you use the Rabbit's total time you will be able to see patterns in the times to beat due to the averages of the total Rabbit times and we can see which are the slowest of the Rabbits when trying to get the right opponent line-up (though we will never know if they drove off into the dirt or spun out).
Personally I wouldn't post a win unless it was clean, i.e. no intentional off-track to gain an advantage. I even try to race fairly with AI although it can be frustrating when they don't reciprocate. But it's impossible to police unless we start demanding video evidence, and we don't want to go there, do we? And where do you draw the line, accidentally putting three wheels off track, unsporting blocking? It's just for fun anyway so I think we just have to say anything goes and let people choose how they want to play it. Ultimately it's up to @Hastatus if he wants to add more rules.
I agree with driving clean. 👍 I only post times when I can manage a clean one and almost always restart when I've made a bad hit on the AI cars: if I continue it is only to get an estimate on whether a car is capable of winning, and then I repeat the race if it is. I've always considered it us testing the limits of the cars, rather than explicitly competing with one another. Using AI as breaking points or cutting corners of the track is not really informative about a car's capabilities and would rarely be useful info for most people...I hope.