New game idea... Warning, involves numbers.

I've had a potential idea for a game based around designing your own track. The idea would be that people submit track idea's (or just me if people can't be bothered) and we have a virtual race on them. We could have say a 10 race season and I could run one race as a demonstrator.

I have quickly created a track at my adopted home, "The Liverpool GP" which is a anticlockwise 8km circuit.

The idea of the game involves people setting up the car for a race based on information I supply. Things to be setup include downforce, tyres, suspension etc. You could select a level from 1-5 for all parts (with the scale meaning things that I'll specify) and the closer you are to the ideal setup the faster you will go. Tyres will be the standard tyres with only life and speed as variables.

Overtaking will be based on a overly simple version where I would say the track is medium and that would mean you'd need to be 0.4s a lap quicker to overtake.

I can create a program that will be able to work with a certain amount of variables and its basically using how a track looks and the blurb to decide how to set up your car.

Eg
FW: 3 (1 low 5 high)
RW: 4
Gear: 2 (1 accel 5 top speed)
Sus: 4 (1 soft 5 hard)
Tyres: soft (choice of all tyres with only rough guides of how long each will last)

Ideal:
FW: 4 (0.2s/lap lost)
RW: 4 (optimal)
Gear: 3 (0.2s/lap lost)
Sus: 2 (0.5s/lap lost)
Tyres: (life: 22 laps, 0.3s/lap slower than ES's)

Any thoughts?

 

SOunds good!

 

If it runs I'll be joining, I like me some number crunching.

 

Seconded to both Paco and Fred. I'd be in

 

I'd be in. Numbers excite me.

 

I'm in. I may be a back marker though. (i see some things are stolen from gpro )

 

Do I need an account on that g-map pedometer thing to be able to link tracks here?

 

Don't think so, you press save or something and It gives a link.

 

Ah ok, got it now

I always thought a track around the Sydney Harbour/Circular Quay/Opera House area would be really cool so here's what I've got: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6066505

It's a clockwise 4.7km street circuit. Noteworthy corners - Fast right-hander Turn One, The Istanbul-T8 style section towards the end, and the final chicane onto the straight (Wall Of Champions-ish).

 

This sounds suspiciously like GPRO...

 

Nope.......

 

It's nothing like GPRO, obviously

It's more like this:

[video=youtube;AIxz6BDmTNU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIxz6BDmTNU[/video]