You have 2 weeks to build your car or truck following the specified rules. Once the time is up, submit your .car file to the Discord server. From there, we’ll put your vehicle through its paces to see how long it can survive the abuse. The car that lasts the longest wins! Remember, it’s all for fun, so enjoy the process.
Hard Rules
Car Model/Family: Must be from 2010 or older. The engine family and variant don’t have to match the car.
Body Type: The vehicle must resemble a normal car or truck. No absurd or outlandish designs.
Materials: No carbon fiber panels or chassis. Fiberglass comes with a slight crash penalty.
Engine: No magnesium or billet blocks, billet cranks, or titanium rods.
Parts Restrictions: No race intakes or headers. You can only have one front and one rear aero fixture (must be visibly attached). No positive downforce. Cooling is capped at 50.
Brakes: No carbon-ceramic discs. Sportiness brake fade is limited to 5%.
Interior: Basic-spec is fine, with only the driver’s seat required. Standard AM/FM represents communication equipment. A roll cage is recommended, but not required.
Safety: Must have some form of advanced safety system (age doesn’t matter).
Suspension: Spring rates should be at least 1.2 Hz, and damping rates at least 0.25.
Toe Angle: Limit of +/- 0.3 on each angle to ensure better drivability (especially for rear-engine, rear-wheel-drive cars).
TP and Quality: Max total TP cost is $25M for the car and $10M for the engine. No negative tech pool. Quality sliders don’t have strict limits, but going too high might hurt reliability and could result in disqualification.
Soft Rules
Unrealistic engineering will lead to condition penalties. If you submit a 1970s car with a V8 and active suspension, expect consequences. Tire sizes should also be realistic for the vehicle’s type and age. Anything too far off from real-world specs may result in higher risks of breakdowns or penalties.
Pricing & Condition of Your Car
Make sure your car’s price and appearance are close to real-world. If your car looks unrealistic or is priced wildly out of line, it will be removed from the challenge. Keep it grounded.
“It’s Unfair!”
Relax, I’ll do my best to be as fair as possible. This challenge isn’t just about maxing out stats or price limits—it’s about creative builds and strategy.
Deadlines
Submissions Open: Friday, October 11th, 1 PM CST.
Submissions Close: Friday, October 25th, 1 PM CST.
Naming Conventions:
Car model/trim: UEC - yourname / Car name
Engine family/variant: UEC - yourname / Engine name
First we will look if car/truck follows the guildlines, (you’ll get points) then we will test your vehicle though challenges and you’ll get scored based on if you pass the level or not if you pass all will try as most abuse to it and time it and that’ll calculate into the final score.
Are there price limits? None would allow some serious nonsense. That and we have no inspirations to work off of.
On the scoring, “challenges” doesnt really say much, actually saying what they are would be very useful, because driving laps around le mans endlessly is very different than doing so in the dakar rally for example.
TBH this feels a lot like if you’re trying to rip off the 24h challenge, while that one is still running nonetheless. If you want to do it, it’s nothing I can stop you from I guess, but having a little more imagination would probably be appreciated by most people here. Me included, NGL…
I think they’re drumming up a driven until destruction style event in beam using Automation cars more than intruding on the other challenges.
Like less of a 12/24hr event and more of an iron truck event is what I think is the goal.
I just find it slightly questionable how incredibly similar the post is to the 24hr post, as @Chaedder mentioned in the Automation Discord
Of course it could just be a coincidence but still.
The “it’s unfair” section is in both post, with the “soft rules” section as well and the “TL:DR focus on:” section.
The wording is incredibly similar, especially in the “soft rules” section as in both posts it says “unrealistic engineering will lead to condition penalties” essentially. Not that much of a problem but im confused as to how that would even work in beam, since you cant just lower a reliability number or increase breakdowns.
That and the questionable marketing of the challenge, as this person is the co-host (which was mentioned in your discord)
Just a tip, dont advertise like this. It’s not a good idea.
I dont have too much of a problem with any of this, but a deeper explanation into how cars will actually be tested would still be nice, because running cars like driven till destruction is very difficult, if not impossible to get similar results with automation cars. If you need any help i am willing to help, but i feel using beamng for something like this isnt too great of an idea.
That and no price limit meaning such a thing as realism rules sort of fall apart in my opinion, as i can make a military vehicle with no rules attached and say “its a government project with no limitations built to be as durable as possible”.
Anyway, in short, i think things could be handled differently. Forcing people to submit through discord isnt a good idea, btw.
I took part in a challenge years ago where submissions were imported into beam by the host and then driven around a rather off-roady track (more like post-apocalyptic) to see which would last the longest. But none of us built purpose-built off-roaders as the prompt was for '60’s family commuters. It made for an interesting challenge, but again, the rules were far from open-ended.
I like seeing others drive my cars on stream, but I see too many cheese holes in the current rules here.
