CSR 163 - Spontaneous Tomfoolery, Begin! [FINALS RELEASED]

Extended Explanations, Clarification and Transparency

RIGHT!

I’ve been asked many questions for the sake of clarification over the last day or so. As your host, and as the host of a very outlandish round in a long time, I have my responsibilities to make this experience as smooth as possible. This section is dedicated to clearing up some extra questions people had, things that I couldn’t clarify myself due to time crunch or simply because the main thread was becoming too convoluted or complex.

Posting discord screenshots because I’m lazy as fuck!!

Unconventional Wheel Configurations


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Which means, I’m allowing anything like these:

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Advanced Trim Settings limitations


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In other words, I do not care if you use ATS to the moon. If this is what you need for your intended build, that’s fine. Yes CSR realism, but this is also a very open round. I understand having to open up ATS limitations for this one.


Scale of Quirks and Features and Checklist Prioritization


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In other words, it was a nearly impossible task to implement an objective quirks scale in this round while following the CSR formula even loosely, so instead it’s a benchmark. Once you pass a certain threshold of quirky, you’re in and from then on, you’re judged against cars of similar types and/or similar niche.

Also definitely do not try to clear multiple niche all at once and failing at all of them badly, covering one single point in the checklist very well will give you a much better subjective score from me.

Reliability, Env. Res, and HOW they are perceived at the time of submission

This is important


Reliability and Env. Resistance are scored linearly in this round.

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I won’t reveal the exact breakpoints you can just peek at the spreadsheet formula
but basically you can follow this:

Reliability

  • 100-91: Mechanically pristine condition.
  • 90-81: Very minor mechanical wear.
  • 80-71: Minor mechanical issues, generally reliable.
  • 70-61: Noticeable wear on mechanical parts, requires frequent maintenance.
  • 60-51: Moderate mechanical issues, parts may need repair or replacement.
  • 50-41: Significant mechanical wear, requires quite a bit of maintenance and repairs.
  • 40-31: Major mechanical issues, multiple components need attention.
  • 30-21: Severe mechanical problems, requires extensive repairs.
  • 20-11: Very unreliable, frequent breakdowns, major components failing.
  • 10-5: Non-functional, FUCKED if you will.

Env. Res.

  • 100-91: Zero body damage or rust
  • 90-75: Very minor wear.
  • 74-65: Minor cosmetic issues, small rust spots or light body damage.
  • 64-48: Somewhat rusty or minor body damage, some cosmetic repairs needed.
  • 47-40: Moderate-ish rust and body damage, requires some bodywork.
  • 39-35: Significant rust and body damage, needs extensive body repairs.
  • 35-25: Major rust issues, large areas of body damage.
  • 24-16: Severe rust and body damage, structural integrity may be compromised.
  • 15-11: Very poor condition, extensive rust and damage, needs major restoration.
  • 10-5: Complete rust out, body is beyond repair. Or FUCKED.

Other points, and more SUV/Utility inspirations

This section might be edited in the future to accommodate more questions


Alright so…

Damn before I could finish writing…


I could’ve added offroad and utility as two more weighted scoring units in the spreadsheet. But what that did was fuck over any other types of cars in their pricing. And selectively determining whether a car is offroad/utility focused or not be it from my own assumption or the creator’s input doesn’t really leave a lot of room for fairness in some regards.

This is where I have chosen to have some opaque, subjective judging, like a traditional CSR round.

Because what I have found from my own testing is, if you’re building utility/offroad focus vehicles, you’re making sacrifices in many other places that does increase your costs unless you’re going cheap as shit

And let’s be honest, time and time again CSR has proven stats don’t mean everything

You can have the highest performing car in a round in terms of numbers, but if it reeks of cheese you WILL get dinged. So in the end, it really does just come to subjective preferences. So I would recommend not worrying too much about raw stats that are not being weighted. This round is more about how you execute your visuals, and in extension, execute your design to support the wacky engineering.

I do hope I’m getting the message across.

Utility Inspirations

Cock and Ball Torture

Gemballs

Coggiola T Rex

Jeep Treo (wack)

Bertone Freeclimber

Honda Crossing a Road

Saleen Shenanigans

Sex with a person in a RAV4/Sportage Convertible

Freelancer SE3


I hope this answers everyone’s questions???

Ah one more thing, the calculator is still being tested, in beta phase if you will. So if anyone feels it’s borky, has issues, isn’t being fair, the linear scores are nonsensical, then let me know.

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