FG: Nascar VII - The Race Thread

[Spaced Cowboy]

A at the front adds speed to that turn.
A at the back adds speed for the next turn.
Same with B
The hardest thing to get is that L and R not only turn you by 45 degrees, but move you one space in that direction as well.

The doubles AA BB RR LL RRLL are one wild card, but Jonny is allowing 2 so you can have RRR. RL combos are called manuvering and RRLL only count as one WC, RRRLLL is two.

Lastly, the R and Ls don't have to be back to back but just somewhere in your turn to be considered a WC.

[Kassiopeia]

So how many L's and R's am I allowed to have in one turn without expending WCs? One each, or just one L or R?

And Movement (M) is the only thing that speed affects?

[Sparrowhawk]

You can have one each of L and R without using a wildcard. (and obviously is you only use either L or R you will not use a wild card).

Movement is the only thing that speed affects, but as Spaced refered to above, L and R also move you 1 space, so speed affect them as well.

/me hopes he is making sense

[Jonny]

Welcome Kassi! Check your PMs... hopefully I've cleared up some things for you in there.

[Kassiopeia]

Oooh, so say with speed 4, you can do only e.g. LMRM? It's starting to come together now

[Jonny]

Correct, and that would cost no wildcards.

[Jonny]

Only need orders from Rah now...

[rah]

Sorry, A(m9)

[Jonny]

Turn 8: More sand than the Sahara...

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Car Number
 
Player Name
 
Speed
 
Wild cards
 
Direction
 
Orders


 
1
 
rah
 
8
 
3
 
E
 
A(m9)


 
2
 
Spaced Cowboy
 
8
 
4
 
E
 
A(5M)RLM


 
3
 
Sparrowhawk
 
4
 
4
 
E
 
A(M5)LR


 
4
 
Gamecube64
 
5
 
6
 
E
 
A(M5)


 
5
 
Ljube-ljcvetko
 
8
 
4
 
E
 
AML(6M)


 
6
 
Kassiopeia
 
5
 
6
 
E
 
AR(7M)

No wrecks, but lots of sand: Rah hits 1 more sandbag, and Kassiopeia and Sparrowhawk hit 3 sandbags each. Rah maintains his huge lead heading into the second split, while his opposition is slowed by sand. Sparrowhawk and Kassi are right together near the front of the sandbag alley. Ljube and Spaced are close together a little further back, and Gamecube is bringing up the rear.

Now accepting orders for Turn 9.

[Kassiopeia]

Does an "o" mean that there was a sand trap there but is no longer (so there's nothing there to slow you down)? Or does it just give helpful hints to the comelatelys who can then take avantage of mine and Sparrowhawk's pathfinding?

Also, are the sand bags hidden there completely at random? (I suppose that's why they're "traps")

[Gamecube64]

Sent.

[Spaced Cowboy]

Sent, and yes if we run into the sandbags it will slow us down, they are random, so this tends to slow down the leaders.

[Kassiopeia]

Sent.

[Sparrowhawk]

Sent, as soon as I can get this sand out of my eyes

Guess Rah doesn't need to worry about the race being fixed with only him hitting sandbags

/me

[rah]

I wasn't worried about it being fixed as much as the pattern being so obvioius after the first is through that the rest would have to error to hit anything.