There are many reasons to own a car. It may be a requirement of a job. It may be a requirement to get to one’s job. It may be a mark of status.
But for some, the value of the car is a bit more … visceral.
A hoon is, in a word, obnoxious. They do burnouts on public roads. They race on public roads. Their cars are loud, brash, and - for the hoons, at least - ridiculously good fun.
For this competition, we are drifting back in time to Peak Hoon - the mid-1990s - and offering a simple goal: make the ‘best’ hoontastic production car ever. Your budget is meagre, and - being an auto manufacturer - you have to maintain at least the appearance of legality … but let’s see what you can do.
(Thanks to Shaded009 in the Out of Africa competition for inspiration, Leonardo9613 and NexxusDrako for early feedback on the challenge design in the IRC channel, and Lordred for beta-reading the final draft ruleset. Errors that remain are my own.)
[size=125]Rules:[/size]
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]Base game + Pyrlix’s “High Quality Essentials” Steam Workshop collection only/:m]
]1994 (or earlier) on all tabs/:m]
]Must use unleaded fuel/:m]
]No Race Intakes/:m]
]No Race Tubular headers/:m]
]Must have a catalytic converter/:m]
]Must have at least one muffler/:m]
]Engine reliability > 0/:m]
]Vehicle reliability > 0/:m]
]Safety at least 33/:m]
]$12 000 or less target price (visible in the Market tab)/:m]
]Vehicle must be saleable (Competitiveness > 0 in at least one market segment) in Fruinia in 1994/:m][/ul]
(I believe Competitiveness > 0 in Fruinia will be satisfied if all other criteria are satisfied.)
If an entry is ineligible for any reason, I will post to that effect in the thread. Corrections I can do trivially on my end (e.g. “redline should be 7700 RPM”, “sorry, please use the v2 trim in the .zip file as my entry”) are free; otherwise, I allow up to two revisions of any nature for any reason prior to the deadline. (If you send me an ineligible revision to an eligible entry, I will keep the eligible entry, but it will still count toward the revision limit.)
[size=125]Scoring:[/size]
In each scored criterion, a car’s value will be equal to:
this - worst
-------------- * (criterion value)
best - worst
So, for example, if the best Utility of the field were 50, the worst 10, and Utility were valued at $4000, then a car with a Utility of 34 would have a value of $2400 for that criterion.
(Edit: Utility is not valued at $4000. Utility is valued at $0. Do not optimize for Utility.)
The final score of a given car is equal to the sum of the values for each criterion minus the running costs in Fruinia and 15% of the target price.* In other words, the net value of the car over and above the cost of ownership.
[size=85]* 15% here represents an annualized version of the purchase price, assuming the car is owned for five years and then resold.[/size]
The scored criteria are:
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]15% of Total Cost (flat deduction, as above)/:m]
]Running Costs in Fruinia (flat deduction, as above)/:m]
]Wheelspin (higher = better)/:m]
]Limited-Slip Differential (Open & Manual Locker = 0, Automatic Locker = 0.75, Viscous LSD & Geared LSD = 1)/:m]
]Rear-Wheel Drive (AWD = 0.5, FWD = 0, 4x4 scored as if 2WD option were selected)/:m]
]Quarter Mile Speed (not time)/:m]
]Prestige/:m]
]Sportiness/:m]
]Drivability/:m]
]Number of Seats (max 6 scored)/:m]
]Cargo Volume/:m]
]Comfort/:m][/ul]
For this competition, each of these criteria is worth $1000 except LSD, which is worth $500. Values for criteria will be read from the .lua files for added precision.
Final scores and parenthetical comments will be given for all cars; the top three will be compared in review format.
[size=125]Entry Format:[/size]
Please name your vehicle in Automation as follows:
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]Model name: Hoon-[username]-[anything]/:m]
]Trim name: [anything]/:m]
]Family name: Hoon-[username]-[anything]/:m]
]Variant name: [anything]/:m][/ul]
(You may abbreviate or misspell your username so long as you are unambiguous.)
Entries should be submitted in folderized .zip files, as can be generated by the Export function of the game. Include in the PM with your entry:
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]The name of your car company, with favored abbreviation if desired (e.g. “Packbat Auto Works (PAW)”)/:m]
]The name of the vehicle submitted for review (e.g. “Pteropus GT”)/:m]
]Any other information about your entry you think I should know (e.g. “GT stands for ‘Goodbye, Tyres’”)/:m][/ul]
The deadline is 11:59:59 p.m. EST on Wednesday, November 18th.
[size=125]Accepted Entries[/size]
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]Packbat - PAW Pteropus GT (reference only)/:m]
]thecarlover - Solo Loon XS/:m]
]TheTom - AMW Rooster/:m]
]Leonardo9613 - Baltazar Quark 1.6 EX/:m]
]Riso - 1993 Riso Motors SHX/:m]
]strop - MM Excelsior Rosso Corsa/:m]
]Sebesseg - Heisler Kardhal Sargossa 323 T/S/:m]
]Madrias - Storm Automotive Savage TT/:m]
]nialloftara - Centauri Commune Neutrino FX/:m]
]oppositelock - GSI Dingo/:m]
]koolkei - Komodo Motors Cavaro Fox/:m]
]Lordred - LHE Astonish X4PE-Lite/:m][/ul]
[size=125]Results[/size]
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]Rankings, 11-4, plus misc. trivia./:m]
]Top Three Reviews/:m]
]Scoring Spreadsheet/:m][/ul]
