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Wow, this is all developing fast.

I'll be back to try and have a detailed opinion about the different variants, I just wanted to express my support for the general concept. I feel like if more people have a realistic chance to fight for what is now LTB it will do its job of motivating people to race all around the month better. And the stepped implementation, where a higher position is better, means that it should still motivate the top drivers as well.

Wow, very interesting data. Not all of these results immediately make sense in my head, but the methodology seems very thorough. And it's kind of poetic that the "basically developed to be my ideal car" BMW ends up so close to my favorite original car in the Jaguar. I might go and suggest an NTT race between the two.

In which case the alumni icon should of course be Otto 

True, Otto is kind of the club boater of the Stunts world. Or at least a veteran.

Done.

I believe there was some sort of a compression issue with the Lada dashboard, there's too much metadata attached to one of the images so it loads slowly.

It will get fixed eventually, but that might be what you experienced.

I haven't tested any of them yet, but I'll drive my father's red Land Rover.

...Assuming there is a red one.

Nice. This might be the best use of a Stunts track as data storage since ZCT256! What's more, this one is actually recognizable as such!

You could just use the current season scoreboard instead of the Folyami rankings. Or even easier, just leave it up to internal team politics. The only questios then are if you are allowed to swap during the season and if swaps are retroactive (drivers brings all the results they already scored over to the new team) or just for the months starting after the swap was made.

Duplode:

1 1:07.65
2 2:09.35 1:01.70
3 3:10.45 1:01.10
4 4:12.10 1:01.65
5 5:12.95 1:00.85
6 6:14.00 1:01.05
7 7:15.05 1:01.05
8 minutes: half a second short of the bottom of the "hands on your hips" hill.

(Finish line: last frame inside tunnel)

dsf

Wow, that interface is very innovative. That's going to take me a little time to fully get used to. I love the trick with the rpm'eter the most. It's so simple. But the gearbox is a close second.

If there's more than six drivers and we need to repeat I'll also have green. Otherwise I'll just take whatever's left, blue maybe. I'm not used to competition for the bright green one, but glad to see more people with great taste in pixelated car colors.

I'm away this weekend. No racing for me unfortunately.

Serious Sam

Wait, you changed the font for the digital speedometer? That's a thing you can do?

[Melange]

Guys, the Top speed of Melange is 219 mph (I thought it was 218 mph)  . Only 3 pipsqueaks reached it in this race and it was in the same place, a jump from the broken bridge to the hill road.

• 4th lap: dreadnaut
• 7th lap: Alan Rotoi
• 9th lap: Cas

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I've seen this effect before. What I suspect happens is this: when the car is at say 79*128 rpm it does it does its little calculation, figures the car should be two steps faster faster on the next frame and goes to 81*128 rpm. Here it does another calculation and figures it should not increase the speed to the next frame, so the car stops accelerating and maxes out at whatever speed 81*128*gear ratio gives it. But if you end up in a situation where you happen to land on 80*128 rpm instead of 79 the torque curve and air drag happen to be such that the calculation also comes out to "2 steps faster", bringing it up to 82*128 rpm and a higher speed, at which point the car will stop accelerating.

This is a thing that can happen both at flat track top speed and real top speed, but it's probably more likely to happen with real top speed, as speedups and such give big acceleration, making the car skip rpm levels and sometimes land higher than other times.

It gets a bit more messy when powergear is involved. The turbo Siluro sometimes says it did 245 mph on the evaluation screen, even though what really happened was the meter going up and back down really shortly without it visually looking like the car really got a burst of speed, so it probably just thinks it is in powergear for one frame or so?