AGC38
Back to Reality
Plot
Introduction: A Shattered Timeline
In the near future, humanity’s reckless experimentation with time travel has fractured the timeline, creating anomalies across history. Civilizations have merged, catastrophic events are out of place, and eras overlap in chaotic ways. Dinosaurs roam industrial cities, futuristic drones hunt knights in medieval forests, and glaciers encroach upon bustling metropolises.
You, a skilled driver and resourceful survivor, have been chosen by a shadowy organization known as The Continuum Keepers to restore the timeline. Armed with the experimental Power Object—a device capable of leaping through time and drawing energy from historical checkpoints—you and your car are humanity’s last hope.
The Power Object and Time Travel Mechanics
- The Power Object: A glowing, enigmatic device integrated into or carried by your car. It activates time travel once it absorbs enough energy from specific checkpoints scattered throughout each time period.
- Checkpoints: Mystical or technological energy sources tied to historical or natural phenomena (e.g., the eruption of Vesuvius, a Viking raid, a futuristic antimatter reactor).
- Time Travel: Once fully charged, the Power Object launches you and your car into a random time period, with no guarantee of where—or when—you’ll land next.
Provisions and Habitability:
- You can pack two small suitcases, limiting your survival tools.
- Essentials include food, water, spare fuel, clothing for extreme climates, and repair kits for your car.
- Collect resources along the way—hunt in the Ice Age, barter with merchants in the Renaissance, or scavenge in the post-apocalyptic future.
Vehicle Design: - The car must be versatile enough to handle anything from dense jungles to barren wastelands.
- It can integrate the Power Object or carry it externally, but the object is delicate and must be protected at all costs.
In order to set the universe back into the correct timeline you’ve acquired a Power Object, This means jumping through time with the aid of this Power Object, however! The time period is random. You and your car should be able to survive whatever time period is thrown at you, whether it’s the Ice Age, Dinosaurs, or the Apocalyptic Future.
You can find it in the 3d section, it’s a vanilla primitive.
It must be painted in a steel material (you can make it darker etc) included somewhere on the car, it can be integrated but must be visible from the outside. The object can be any orientation, flat, sideways etc.
Protecting/securing/shielding/decorating of the object is allowed but it’s structure must be obvious/easily locatable.
It may not be placed in the cockpit/greenhouse area (where the driver is) as it is hazardous to humans at that range.
You must also include two of these fixtures, at this size. This will be your luggage/supplies
These fixtures must go inside the cockpit area and may not be placed on the seats. It can be any material, any orientation. You are free to decorate/secure etc. That is all for those ones. It may also go in the bed of a truck, providing the bed has a cover.
Model/Family Year
Unrestricted
Trim/Variant Year
2020, more clarification in the notes section
Wheelbase
2.6m - 4.3m
Cost
$75k AMU
Fuel Type
Ethanol E10 92RON
Techpool
Default +5 all round
Quality
Unrestricted
Interiors
Small interior required, Seats, steering wheel, floor at minimum.
Fake Diesels
If you make one it must use LPG and Redline at no more than 5000rpm.
Max hp must also be before redline
Electric and Hybrids
There is no way to judge this, there’s no way to replicate this, I won’t accept anything that claims it is and has some bizzare engine. Hybrid power is more understandable, so long as the total engine power matches what you say it has. eg 500hp V8, but in writing it’s 300hp v8 with 200hp electric power.
Do not make an engine with 500hp and claim it has an extra 200hp on top from electric power.
ATS
Allowed, any and all changes.
The challenge is on stable unless fixture bugs are fixed in the next patch
Rule Deliberation will be for 1 week+
if there are still questions/suggestions come the end, I will extend it.
[Monday 13th]
Challenge time will be 4 weeks from the end of rule deliberation.
open to suggestion
Naming format:
Model/Family: AGC38 YourName
Trim/Variant: Free
Offroad
The actual stat
Let’s say you’ll be making your own roads most of the time
Performance Offroad
I’ll keep it simple by saying it is what you think, I will update this later with a more clear statement on how I will judge it.
Reliability
The last thing you want is to be stranded in the wrong timeline.
Aesthetics and Attention to detail
Small details are my personal favourite, I’m aware I’m asking a fair amount from the average player when showing the inspirations I have below, but I’ll appreciate the effort put in regardless.
Utility
As far as I’m aware this stat and anything related to it is broken, however some amalgamation of footprint, env res, practicality and anything else I see fit is probably how I will judge this. Suggestions open.
Safety
Preferably make it out in one piece, rather than several.
Performance on road
A combination of the performance stats.
This is more about punchy power (0-60) to get out of dangerous situations. Top speed won’t matter too much here, I don’t want 200mph semi trucks.
Cost
It’s a game, so who cares? The player of course, if this was about choosing a starter vehicle would you choose a cheaper one to upgrade later or blow all the budget on a top of the line vehicle?
Fuel Economy
The Power Object does double as a fuel source, however drawing too much power from this does mean it’ll take longer to charge up to jump timelines.
Realism
Now, the challenge isn’t exactly realistic but if I catch you building a military spec lorry out of carbon fibre you will be binned. If you have a supercar I expect supercar performance, say V8s-V16s (in line with what class of car this is) not a wimpy turbo I4, unless you have an extreme amount of lore to justify it I’ll probably still frown at it.
SVC
Similar to above, keep it reasonable. There won’t be huge penalties for having extreme service costs.
Comfort
Building offroad type vehicles often doesn’t lead to great comfort due to other priorities being greater, however it’s still a need.
Notes
4 wheels good, more is cooler. Lots of the inspirations have more than 4 wheels, I will implement a bonus of sorts for the more wheels you include. Not saying you should make a Tatra special 16x16 but you’d certainly get credit.
Now, rule discussion is open and probably will be for a while because I have no idea how I’m going to judge this “fairly” across a small supercars and big fuck off military truck. My guess is that a performance vs utility thing would come into it somewhere, but I’m probably going to need the CSV exporter to get a whole bunch of the F9 Lua menu hidden stat pieces that I want, I’ve had a look and there’s a few to do with offroad and base handling that I’d quite like to help judge things. Pain.
I’m more inclined to cut the small cars out, and just leave it to proper pickups and trucks but we’ll see. So, bumping min wheelbase to 3m. Really throwing a idea out there and seeing if it can be refined enough to be a good challenge.
I also have the V16 dlc so if any of the military trucks happen to have one, I guess go for it?
What am I actually building?
Challenge is set in “current year”, to clarify the timeline you are trying to get back to, is this one. Not any fantasy realm stuff, that said the year is slightly ahead, let’s say 2030+ not that it matters since you could have any car, a classic off-road truck, a new one, whatever. I don’t want things to be completely cyberpunk like. Camera windscreens aren’t a production thing yet (although close)
These ones are builds that I’ve seen previously on the forums and discord that impressed me and fit the theme.
Automation Inspirations
S-Cops Comet-bar Riftvhaun from TMCC3 (I had to scroll discord to find this)
Ugimara’s DSTs - M-ET1
Ugimara’s Drach - LMMUV “Fortalice”
NamedByAFish Phalanx Trucks (exclude the trailer)
Blokko’s BKO Armored Personnel Carrier
Moose Productions.inc Terror-Bird 5500
My own Zephorus Stelvio Dakar edition
Original Zephorus Stelvio Dakar
If you have no idea where to start and want something a little “different”, I have some ideas for you. Any family from these bodies.
This challenge will be “similar” to TMCC3: [TV & Movie Car Challenge (Round 3): Futuristic Offroaders [Submissions Closed]]
First AGC:
[The Automation Gamer Challenge [NEW THREAD]]
Previous AGC:
[AGC37 - WR Spirit [COMPLETE]]#