The President's New Wheels
Welcome to the the place for live multiplayer racing in BeamNG! This will be a competition to determine the best combination of car and driver.
To play, you will need BeamNG, The BeamMP Multiplayer Mod as well as Automation. Details on how to install mods, and links to our discord and dropbox, are in the ORIGINAL POST.
EVENT RULES
Theme
It is 1995, and with the fall of the iron curtain a few years before, goods are pouring into the former communist states from all over the world. The new, almost democratically elected president of Kolechia has decided to use the country’s newfound wealth and free trade to choose a new foreign vehicle as his presidential transport, replacing his 600CC ZAZ-1600 which was famously slow, unsafe, and uncomfortable. The country’s budget only allows an ordinary luxury vehicle, but he wants to choose the absolute best one, so he’s having some potential candidates put through a series of trials.
The Challenges
THERE WILL BE THREE CHALLENGES, Top Gear style, and you’ll be ranked on each. However, you don’t get to know exactly what the details are until race day, so you only get a short time to practice and can’t tune your car to one exact situation.
THE TEST OF COMFORT will involve driving smoothly over uneven terrain.
THE TEST OF EVASION will involve driving from one place to another while the other players try to ram you.
THE RACE will be a conventional race, on a relatively high-speed course. The usual rules apply:
Contact: No deliberately pitting, brake checking, or ramming drivers off the road.
Heats: Maximum 8 cars per heat. Number of heats depends on number of participants. I’m somewhat hoping to get the race done in one heat, but we may need a qualifying and final heat.
Appearance Poll: Qualifying will be based on appearance poll! Top qualifiers will place into new heats first- EG the 2nd best voted car will be 1st on the grid in Heat 2, then 3rd would be either 1st in Heat 3 or 2nd in Heat 1 depending on the number of heats.
Schedule: Challenge is tentatively scheduled for 2:00PM US-CST on Friday, November 12th. Cars must be submitted by noon the prior Wednesday!
Pre-Qualifier: To prevent issues with users connecting on race day, EVERYONE MUST CONNECT TO THE SERVER BEFOREHAND. The server will be up after cars are submitted. Just join any time and say hello if I’m in Discord, or take a screenshot showing you’ve connected successfully. Most race days we spend 80% of the time dealing with getting people into the server so this should save a lot of time.
Submissions
Teams: One driver per team, drivers may not double-book teams. NEW: A car may be used by multiple teams, or a designer may submit multiple cars. When submitting your car, include your Driver’s name and control type (EG Steering Wheel, Gamepad, Keyboard).
Naming: Name your Model and Engine Family “ALR12-Username” and submit the .car file to me on the forums (not discord).
Picture: (NEW) Post a picture of your car in the thread when submitting. I will use your picture (or first picture if there are multiple) for the poll!
Schedule: To be included in the poll, and to give time for pre-downloads, cars must be submitted by 12:00 Noon US-CST on Wednesday, November 10th. The race will be in the afternoon the following Friday!
Pre-Download: When the poll goes up, all the car files will be in the dropbox, linked in the OP. It is strongly recommended that you download them ahead of time instead of when trying to join the server. See the OP link for mod installation instructions in order to make them work with BeamMP or KissMP. Remember to download this and PRE QUALIFY BEFORE THE RACE by connecting to the server!
CAR RULES
Car Requirements
Year: Trim year 1995
Total Estimated Cost: $45,000 or Less (The President’s dreams are far larger than his budget…)
Maximum Engineering Time: 120
Seats: Minimum 4 full seats
Doors: Minimum 4 doors
Minimum Quality: -4 on any part
Minimum Safety: 50
Minimum Comfort: 60
Minimum Market Score: 120 in Luxury
Tires: No Semi-Slick, +0 Quality
Tire Width: Max Width: 205mm, plus 5 mm for every 100KG above 1200KG, EG 1800KG = Max 235mm Tire Width. Absolute Max of 255mm. Staggered tires may average the max width.
NO: Wing Fixtures, 4x4, Manual Locker, Auto Locker
Minimum Fuel Economy: 20MPG, minus 1mpg for every 100kg above 1200kg. Absolute minimum 10MPG.
Engine Requirements
Year: Variant year 1995
Maximum Engineering Time: 120
Max Displacement: 2.5cc/kg
NO Turbo
NO Race Parts
NO DAOHC
Fuel: Premium Unleaded
Minimum Quality: -4 on any part
Maximum Loudness: 30
Maximum Stress: 0% in any category. (That means NO STRESS)
Tips
-Expected performance: About 0.90-0.99 cornering G, 200-350hp
-There’s no track to practice, but learn your braking distance
-DO NOT FORGET TO PRE-QUALIFY!!! I will bring the server up all day thursday!
-Do not forget to post a picture of your car. You can post multiple if you want.
-We will be using BeamMP. You may need to set your user folder for BeamMP manually with the option in the launcher.
-Go to the original post and click the Discord link if you need help!
-Ping @Sensei#7825 on discord!
COUNTDOWN TO SUBMISSION DEADLINE: DON’T BE LATE
Schedule US-CST Time:
Submit cars: WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 10th, 12:00
Race: FRIDAY NOVEMBER 12th, 14:00