[SIDE QUEST] The Big Balls Run ('84 Edition) AUTOBEAM

2 questions:
is there an invite to the discord anywhere
and what is the hours category of the sb class

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Oh damn, sorry that i wasnt there. For the first question, yes. Look at the links at the bottom of the original post.
To the second question, i dont exactly know what you mean. There wasnt an exact amount that was expected.

Also, stream should start later today. MB day!

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We are live! Twitch MBā€™s To the win!

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And that was the MB round!



Congrats to Johann for winning this one!

BB next week, the big men are coming.

NOTE: Yes, i did use some better math for this one, so the times are a bit more accurate.
Full excel file in the discord (All links at the bottom of the post).

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Fifth place? Not bad for being a bit lacking in power like the Pfarrer HSV was. :slight_smile:

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To be fair, it didnā€™t surprise me. I look at the automation stats, and it was way too late to change. I know that you werenā€™t very happy about it, so i have to apologize.
I really wish i didnā€™t settle on automation stats or made proper rules for each class, but thatā€™s my own fault. I figured that out too late.

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Oooh 2nd place, not bad. Iā€™ll have to watch to see if Bradlee thought my offering was easy and fun to drive as I hoped. Thatā€™s more important to me.

Edit: Looks like he had a riot with it, Iā€™m happy.

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Damn, the GSF-X didnā€™t stand up to its name ā€˜ā€˜Goes Super Fast - XTREMEā€™ā€™ but still, was fun to watch everyoneā€™s cars just race about, hope to see how BB goes :eyes:

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Just thought about something. The BB cars may have a chance to beat the real cannonball run record of 27 hours and 35 mins if they perform well enough. That would be very cool.

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Iā€™ll gladly take 7th place in my angry shoebox-full-of-stuff-that-goes-boom.

Letā€™s face it, I would not want to be in that car. Just knowing youā€™ve got enough fuel and oxidizer onboard to vaporize yourself and everything around you if you crash would be a little unsettling. Even if you could kick the rocket engine over and go roaring down the interstates in the middle of the night.

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Big balls, the time has come. Should be later today, may not be there at the start. The cops have found my basement and i need to drive to get away (or otherwise known as me maybe getting distracted simracing). Keep an eye out there, and be careful with the cops!

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I hope Iā€™m not two hours too late to watch the BB cars. After all, I really want to see the reactions to the RoadBurners Sidekicker.

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And we are live! Twitch

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And those were the BB cars! Quite close this one, but Laci and me managed to win, GassTiresandOil got 2nd and Harmless got 3rd!


Iā€™m pretty sure the styling rule actually decided the winner this time.
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Thanks everyone for competing, we really appreciate it, and congrats to everyone who performed well in every class!

Now, i do have to talk about something a little more serious, and i need your help and/or opinion.
Since Bradā€™s last challenge will (most likely) be the next one, Iā€™d feel bad on sending him off on 2000s eco cars, so i think that that should be put on the side for now for when someone else (probably) takes over.
I really want to end off on something special, but Iā€™m not sure if it should be something like a Main Quest or Side Quest, but apparently a lot of people liked the CCC so i think something similar to do that would be very good to do.

Anyways, we need ideas for something focused around fun, and a good way to (mostly) send off Brad.
I will make a post in a while focused around what happens after Brad leaves, and Iā€™m planning some big things for the future.
Give us ideas if you can, and weā€™ll think about them.
Thanks everyone again, youā€™ve contributed a lot to the community so far, and even if everything stops after Brad, it will have still given me so much, and you all mean a lot to me.

Thanks, and this challenge was great! Whenever i have news, Iā€™ll try to update you all here. And of course, Iā€™ll be here to respond.

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Does Brad have a favorite type of car, or a specific preference? The most special sendoff might just be to let him pick the round.

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Im pretty sure he liked very similar cars to the CCC, he loves the Justy after all.
Iā€™ll think about just asking him for what he would like to see and just going with that. He came up with the CCC and the Chicken Tax Trucks after all, and partially this challenge too.

An oddball suggestion and maybe very unfitting, but my thoughts is, why not make the last challenge totally bonkers? I think that @Madrias and maybe someone more sent in some Hot Wheels-type designs, so why not go for such a design brief, make it totally nuts in a HW fantasy car kind of way. Would be hilarious to see a mix of totally flipped out cars racing each other and actually see what kind of fantasy beast that drives the best too.

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I was talking to Hyperboloid a while back and we were talking about a Mario Kart challenge or something close to that, so that might work. It would probably be very fun

Thereā€™s a BeamNG modder thatā€™s ported a variety of Mariokart tracks to Beam, is that what you were thinking of?

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Funnily enough i actually asked them for permission to make, use and test ai on them, so you would be exactly right!

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