Seeing how races offer an extra mechanic to the game in terms of speed (draft boosting) I was thinking that maybe adding a single race category for the ILs would be a good idea, I just haven't fully figured out the rules for this, and since we have more mods now I guess this would be open for discussion.
I'd say that you can basically use whatever you have unlocked at the end of career for ILs. I don't have a whole lot of knowledge of the technical workings of this game when it comes to speedrunning, so this might be something to discuss with @itsDare.
We have the IL's for each race listed already, and you can submit a time for them whenever you want. I'm a bit confused by the "Single Race" category, though. What would that do in contrast to what we already have here? My apologies, just need a bit of clarification.
Well the way I set the ILs was for time trials, which is a fancy way of saying single race with no AI oponents and no abilities (Zone, Roar, Agro).
The reason why I bring this up is because there HAS been an IL submission a long time ago that I had to reject because it was with oponents, which didn't reflect the ruling I had setup for time trials, which is the following: "You can use any vehicle, special abilities (Zone, Agro, Roar) are not allowed, customized cars are allowed. Circuit races have to be 1 lap long because the game doesn't show the lap time after each lap. No AI opponents allowed. 'No traffic' recommended but not required"
All of those conditions can be setup in the arcade menu.
So my idea basically was
Time Trial: Set a race in arcade mode with no AI and don't use abilities Single Race: AI and abilities would be allowed as they add mechanics that affect the race. (Drafting boost and abilities).
So yeah, that's my reasoning.
I see...
I personally don't see a problem with it, except as of right now, this isn't a very popular speedrun. I still say add it for now, and let's see how things go in the future.
Now my next question is: are we counting in-game times for IL's, or real times? I think because it's just one race we're talking about, in-game times should suffice, but that can be up for discussion too.
Yes, for IL runs IGT is good, and for circuits in particular, I think the best course of action is to only allow single lap runs, because this game has an annoying tendency of not showing lap times unless it's that autocross gamemode specifically, normally for circuits in racing games boards tend to go off of best lap times, but since this game doesn't display lap times then setting it up for a single lap runs would be our best bet.
Ok, category added, feel free to check the rules and let me know if something could be changed.
