Hello everyone, i have an idea for a challenge and would like to know if any of you would be interested in competing in it, just to see if its actually viable. I have been working on an “ai” for beamng (which is quite simple but it does work), and would like to actually put it to use. My idea is a challenge that goes (half) normally with the usual things you would expect in a challenge, (styling, points, times) but have the driving of a person be less important and have a mostly just for fun and basically half rng challenge. Here is what the format would be like ignoring when styling points would happen:
First there is a qualifying which is basically the same as a normal challenge, but after 2 failed attempts it is counted as a DNF, and all the DNF’ed people will be randomly put in the rear of the grid. The rest of the people who have qualified will be put in order of their fastest times like normal. Half the points (from points system which i would have to figure out) will be granted from qualifying positions.
Then, in the order of fastest to slowest the cars will be placed on the grid.
Here the fun stuff starts, an ai race will happen. Half points will be given to all the cars who finish from first to last. If a car finished very close to the finish and can be proved that it was not super far behind it will also be given points. So, the points from the race + qualifying = total points. Most likely there would be around 3 races in total so do this process 3 times.
The thing is, the ai is not super smart so to overtake they usually push each other out of the way or overtake, overtake eachother if another car understeers or just decide to all crash, which is not super unlikely and the race will be reset if all cars have reset.
Proper overtakes do actually happen from time to time, dont worry. The racing can actually be great, testing as been done. Sometimes heroics can in fact happen. Once a car did a quarter of a lap on 2 wheels and actually finished. If stuff like that happens a free point might just be given out.
Of course, all of this might just be a bad idea but if anyone, ANYONE is interested i’ll look into it. The rules would need a lot of thought to be fun and fair, and drivable by the ai. I feel like the entrants should be very involved with the challenge and the challenge needs to be very fun.
If we wanted to go to the extreme there could be a team system where you can either create 2 cars yourself or get in a team with someone else, and the team with the most points wins the challenge.
Obviously this would need more planning and i know what i would have to do, but any ideas are obviously appreciated. Tell me if you want this challenge, because i really do want to do this at some point. Not even sure if this is where i should post this but i think i can do it here.