Formula 1 - Apolyton (aka Yet Another Forum Game)

[vovan]

Yeah, so am I. Now to get more people in here?

[rah]

Originally posted by vovan

I think, however, that allowing for different cars would help alleviate this problem. Indeed, suppose people compete on different vehicles: some of them can steer better, others - change speed, others still can go further on one tank of gas. Then, the driving style even will vary. People that can steer well will go faster through the corners, while those that do well in changing speed, will go faster on the straights.

You did read my earlier post.

[Frozzy]

Sounds great!

[alva]

I'll give it a wizzzz

[vovan]

Originally posted by rah
You did read my earlier post.

Yup. I was just thinking out loud in support of your idea of different car attributes.

[Skanky Burns]

Well, the player in the lead will only be able to see 12 spaces ahead of themselves, whereas the person behind will be able to see that many places + the distance between him and the leader. Therefore the person in front will be challenged to stay on the road and avoid going off the road. The person in 2nd place has a much better chance of using a more efficient path on the road.

If a is on the left of b, and a moves right while b moves left, do they have an accident?

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[rah]

Only if they end in the same space, if I read things right.

[Pave]

Sign me in. Idea sounds great, but isn´t that going to be quite slow?

[Jamski]

Not if only two race, and they are both on-line at the same time.

-Jam

[mrmitchell]

sign me up

[rah]

It sounds like we have enough to test the concept.

[Skanky Burns]

Oh, I'm in by the way. Just not up first.

[vovan]

Okay, so we got the following racers so far:

1. Jamski
2. rah
3. Frozzy
4. alva
5. Pave
6. mrmitchell
7. Skanky Burns
8. vovan

Eight people should be good for the initial test of concept. Okay, now, the final rules:

o The available orders are: speed - increase, decrease, unchanged; steering - left, right, straight. Choose one from speed and one from steering.
o Initial speed = 3.
o No obstacles
o Start straight - 5 lines
o Finish straight - 10 lines
o Total length of track: 50 lines
o Visibility: 12 lines ahead of the first racer till 4 lines behind the last racer, so if the distance is great, it is possible to have the full track visible
o Race length - 3 laps
o No obstacles

Now, we need to decide on the following rules:

1. Are orders public or private?
2. How should the starting positions be determined? (That is, if all six people race simultaneously. Alternatively, we could have three separate races going on at the same time of two people each.)

Starting track configuration:

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EDIT: Added Skanky. (And myself to have even number of racers.)

[Jamski]

Make it all public. Public is more interesting.

-Jam

[vovan]

That's what I thought, Jamski. I am not sure how knowing people's orders will affect others' decisions, but that might surely help people avoid collisions and thus slow themselves down.

Now, the starting grid would look like this:

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Or should if be like this?

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------------------..o.------------------ - Start/Finish line
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The other thing to determine now is: how do we decide the starting order? I imagine if we have some sort of qualification, the game would become even slower...