Player characters in open world games have a habit of ignoring the main quest to do random shit 
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And generally only go back to the quest line to open other areas/things to do more random shit! 
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no truer words have ever been saidā¦
any news for review progress?
Theyāre going ok, Iām just catching up with the mods, sorting through the workshop issues, but you should see the first reviews by the end of the week.
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yeah this challenge has gotten a bit out of hand recentlyā¦ it has become a bi-weekly challenge, not a weekly one. wonder when did it startā¦
When twenty plus ppl entered
Which is why I keep bringing up on occasion questions of how to get it back on track so itās more manageable. Thereās also the fact that the sophistication of the presentations are climbing each week.
If we were to decide (poll maybe) this is going too far (right now it actually looks like every round equals a standalone competition) I suggest going back to blurbs+pictures and maybe review for the winner. This should cut the results time by few daysā¦
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lol I canāt remembder how to make a poll on this forum 
Someone has to be the first to try to not surpass the previous roundmaster even though this is hard when the challenge has gained the notoriety and popularity it has. God speed to that poor fellow 
okay then. @kubboz give the next round back to me 
iāll promise to try to make it short. just like politicians, emphasis on PROMISE, and TRY
Iām not sure about the other roundmasters, but what I did in order to have the reviews ready fairly quickly was to start them before the end of the competition in the order that I received them. When the deadline was reached, most of the reviews were already finished and I had it all ready to go the next day. Of course my reviews werenāt extraordinarily long or anything, and there wasnāt any image editing involved.
i/we did just that. but still went a week over. so thatās 2 weekās worth of work. by 2 guys lel
time wise.
Iāve had a plan since about round 7 of this as to how Iād try to handle my reviews in the end, should I ever win one. At least in theory, Iād be able to provide decent-quality reviews and yet still make a reasonable deadline.
Part of that plan has involved seeing just how I can handle a car review (and it seems I can do alright with that, I suppose) and at the same time, playing the āwhereās that carā game in my rather crowded design inventory. I seemed to do fine without a deadline looming over my head for two āEverybody is a Reviewerā reviews, including one that involved some in-character, so Iām feeling okay on that front.
As for design plans, the hardest part for me will be to choose just one of the 12 different car-types I could want built out of my design-starter list, followed by forming the backstory around it.
But I anticipate Iāll be a long time waiting on getting to put any of those to use. I donāt win things.
I actually think we need to keep this as a high difficulty challenge and turn it into a monthly challenge. We have more challenges going ATM then you can poke a stick at. The DRC and HLC will always be 2 week turnarounds so that a set of results is posted each alternating week. The new ATC is a very fast paced once a week comp as well. We also have the Automation Aero challenge and the Dalnit-Bralka Rally going as well.
So my question is why would we dumb down this Challenge that has evolved to be this important to the community when there are other fast paced challenges that cater for fast turnarounds?
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I donāt think itās really been dumbed down. The 1-week deadline makes a focus on speed and precision necessary. If these took a month, thereād be a lot more min-maxing of car designs and a lot less chance for different winners. Not to rip on you at all, but the Drag Racing Challenge is an example of min-maxing. A lot of those who won DRC win again, and again, and again.
Meanwhile, in the CSR, we deal with a lot more varied challenges and varied winners. Thatās what makes the CSR good, the 1-week turnaround, where each challenge faced is completely different. When we can go from designing a daily-driver for the guy who really wants a supercar, to designing the ultimate cheap truck, to designing a high-profile luxury sports car in very little time, itās amazing.
If it took a month between challenges in the CSR, I think itād lose a lot of the charm it has. While the long delay between rounds is mostly down to reviews, thatās mainly because we all want to do the CSR justice. And itās popular. Weāre seeing 20+ entries in a challenge that was created to spur new life into the challenge forum because:
We had too many dead challenges, and too many challenges that run for a month or more.
Would the CSR be anywhere near as popular if it were only once a month? Probably, but at the same time, I think itād be even worse on time constraints for the guy running each individual round, it opens up too many chances for an open-beta drop or game update mid-round, and slowing down the hand-over rate means even less chances to win in a competition thatās gotten ultra-competitive.
I really donāt want CSR turning into a āIāve got a month to do this, letās min-max the carās stats to oblivion and back in order to get my 5th win in a row,ā shitfest of impossibility. Itās fun now because everyone has a chance, however slim, that weāll be doing something theyāre good at, and if theyāre not interested, wait a week or two and try the next round.
Ok I feel I should clarify. Keep the one week deadline for entry but give the host another 1-2weeks to do the reviews and possibly limit the amount of entries each round.
The main draw and catch with these challenges though is that there isnāt one. Imposing a cap would do a disservice to the CSR.
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