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Weekly Race Challenge
Weekly Race Challenge
The weekly race challenge will be a spin off from the current CSR. Instead of racers running against each other directly, they will only compete against each other via time.
Each week there will be randomly selected race route, and each player will have a single attempt anytime in that seven day period to run that route. Race routes will be anything from CSRish(and reverse CSR) to full on Deneb style runs. Each week’s route has to be a different from the previous week’s.
When a racer takes the mission (from Odia K-12), their race will start when they leave the station. They will go through the full route and dock with Odia K-12 to finish. The current fastest racer’s (that week) time will also be echoed to the player privately. Similar to a ghost racer in racing sims.
At the end of the week, the top racers will get pay outs for being the fastest. Additionally, those top racers will get some sort of time handicap the next week. Racers who win with the handicaps will get additional rewards stacked on top. This means as the month goes on, the races becomes more challenging for the top racers and more rewarding.
At the end of the month, everyone is reset to zero. The racers with the lowest overall time for that month (all races combined. DNF’s/ not completing a weekly race will count as something like three times the slowest time that week) will get monthly top 3 rewards, including trophies.
Positives: Everyone has a chance to race at anytime that works for them.
Negatives: No real way for antagonists to make credits from the way I have this suggestion written. (reasons for this, is I don’t want people using alts to take the mission and killing that said alt for free credits).
The weekly race challenge will be a spin off from the current CSR. Instead of racers running against each other directly, they will only compete against each other via time.
Each week there will be randomly selected race route, and each player will have a single attempt anytime in that seven day period to run that route. Race routes will be anything from CSRish(and reverse CSR) to full on Deneb style runs. Each week’s route has to be a different from the previous week’s.
When a racer takes the mission (from Odia K-12), their race will start when they leave the station. They will go through the full route and dock with Odia K-12 to finish. The current fastest racer’s (that week) time will also be echoed to the player privately. Similar to a ghost racer in racing sims.
At the end of the week, the top racers will get pay outs for being the fastest. Additionally, those top racers will get some sort of time handicap the next week. Racers who win with the handicaps will get additional rewards stacked on top. This means as the month goes on, the races becomes more challenging for the top racers and more rewarding.
At the end of the month, everyone is reset to zero. The racers with the lowest overall time for that month (all races combined. DNF’s/ not completing a weekly race will count as something like three times the slowest time that week) will get monthly top 3 rewards, including trophies.
Positives: Everyone has a chance to race at anytime that works for them.
Negatives: No real way for antagonists to make credits from the way I have this suggestion written. (reasons for this, is I don’t want people using alts to take the mission and killing that said alt for free credits).
This is a good combination of the racing tubes (individualized/equalized competition for overall best times) and CSR (not as open to abuse, involving multiple systems). +1
Do you think it would be worthwhile to equalize everything (which dock you come out of, where the wormhole/jump spits you out)? I originally thought those shouldn't be random, but the reality is alts and groups of players will capitalize on this to a) optimize race times based on the constants, and b) camp some jump in points and murder players. I guess some element of randomness will always be present if we want to avoid abuse.
Do you think it would be worthwhile to equalize everything (which dock you come out of, where the wormhole/jump spits you out)? I originally thought those shouldn't be random, but the reality is alts and groups of players will capitalize on this to a) optimize race times based on the constants, and b) camp some jump in points and murder players. I guess some element of randomness will always be present if we want to avoid abuse.
Do you think it would be worthwhile to equalize everything (which dock you come out of, where the wormhole/jump spits you out)?
I don't know if that is even possible. Since the proposed race can be taken at any point in a given week, the racer can play with vectors test things out before making their official run.
I originally thought those shouldn't be random, but the reality is alts and groups of players will capitalize on this to
Since alts are built into VO play, they will always be a thing. Rewarding players who use the same character (for end of month/year times) is a way to incentivize using a single character. This doesn't mitigate everything (like a player using alts to fill out the leader board for ego reasons), but I think is good enough.
I don't know if that is even possible. Since the proposed race can be taken at any point in a given week, the racer can play with vectors test things out before making their official run.
I originally thought those shouldn't be random, but the reality is alts and groups of players will capitalize on this to
Since alts are built into VO play, they will always be a thing. Rewarding players who use the same character (for end of month/year times) is a way to incentivize using a single character. This doesn't mitigate everything (like a player using alts to fill out the leader board for ego reasons), but I think is good enough.