Enhanced funrace engine in [BETA]-stage.

[Schizm]

We are currently working on a enhanced version of the funrace engine. The purpose is to make choosing tactics less predictable. Wednesday October 17 a first public Under 21 funrace was created for further testing. On Wednesday it was simulated with the old engine, on Thursday afternoon it will be resimulated with the (beta version of the) new engine.
A big thank you to those who joined, I hope everyone will enjoy the changes.

WHAT IS NEW ?
I think Sironi was on a early attack tactic ? One of the more important changes in the engine involves "empty tank", every km in attack is counted (partially when in a group of attackers) at a certain point the cyclist will reach his limit and go in survivor mode ("save fitness"). Ofcourse this means he will go much slower then cyclists who stay at the peloton where the km's are divided by much more people.

Important changes in the new engine :
- Changed some factors deciding the peloton speed, fixed some things like when more helpers had a negative effect on the peloton speed !
- introduced "Empty Tank", every km in attack is counted (partially when in a group of attackers) at a certain point the cyclist can reach his limit and go in survivor mode ("save fitness"). Ofcourse this means he will go much slower then cyclists who stay at the peloton where the km's are divided by (much) more people.
- Fatigue already existed but the difference between attackers and helpers (and also the rest peloton) is now much bigger
- Changed the grouping (less strict immediately behind the peloton, and on downhill)
- Peloton gains more speed at the end of a race
- less influence from mood, more from form (which is calculated differntly, I hope to have the new formvalues on the cyclist selection page asap, I already tried to but failed )
...



STATUS :
Oct 16 (evening) - 17 (morning) :
Split the R&D 4 U21 race into two, because 20 participants was reached, I put teams from division 4 and 5 in the R&D 4b funrace. Also made it possible to enter the TEST races while subscribed for another funrace at the same date (for Non Premium members, Premium members already could enter up to 5 races).

Oct 17, 19:00 CET : Races simulated with the old engine : copy of the results can be downloaded :

R&D 3 (Double attack test) -> www.peloton-game.com/funrace_results/1598-1.xml
R&D 4 (U21 Test ) -> www.peloton-game.com/funrace_results/1599-1.xml
R&D 4b (U21 Test ) -> www.peloton-game.com/funrace_results/1600-1.xml

Oct 18, 10:00 CET : Races (re)simulated with the old engine, but without the double attack of Kasseienstoempers : copy of the results can be downloaded :

R&D 3 (Double attack test) -> www.peloton-game.com/funrace_results/1598-2.xml

Oct 18, 14:00 CET : Races (re)simulated with the new engine (original tactics) : copy of the results can be downloaded :

R&D 3 (Double attack test) -> www.peloton-game.com/funrace_results/1598-3.xml
R&D 4 (U21 Test ) -> www.peloton-game.com/funrace_results/1599-3.xml
R&D 4b (U21 Test ) -> www.peloton-game.com/funrace_results/1600-3.xml

Oct 24, 19:00 - 19:15 CET : Race (re)simulated with the new engine and then the old engine : copy of the results can be downloaded :

R&D 5 (Milan - San Remo - old engine ) -> www.peloton-game.com/funrace_results/1601a.xml
R&D 5b (Milan - San Remo - new engine ) -> www.peloton-game.com/funrace_results/1601b.xml

Oct 25, 0:40 CET : resimulation with some small engine changes : copy of the results can be downloaded :
R&D 5c (Milan - San Remo - new engine ) -> www.peloton-game.com/funrace_results/1601c.xml

[eboese]

So basically there was no impact on Timm's results, right? Or am I not reading the files right?

[Schizm]

Oct 18, 2018 14:01:48 GMT 1 eboese said:

So basically there was no impact on Timm's results, right? Or am I not reading the files right?

Yes, I think what Bosko said about it being asprint part (in the real race) is what made Timm drop, but we can't test that in funraces. It still might be a combination of the two (but one where the double attack on its own does not have enough impact for Timm to loose contact with the first group)

[Schizm]

Created a new funrace R&D 5 :
www.peloton-game.com/funracedetails.aspx?id=1601

Terrain : Milan - San Remo
Date : October 24 (old engine) and October 25 (resimulation with new engine)

For this one I need 3 sorts of tactics : early attackers (first attack in the 4 first attackpoints), late attackers (first attack in the last 5 attackpoints, 3-4 helpers) and Sprinters (Final Sprinter + 4 helpers). All helpers on 85% (if flat skill 7+, if below put them on 100%), potential stage winners at 100%.

Let me know which tactic you want to try and I give you the password,if all spots are occupied (for a certain tactic) I will create a second (or third...) copy of the funrace and try to divide the teams according to their peloton ranking.

[tossboom]

I'm in. I'll do early attack.

[Slayer772004]

I can join the race ?
Any tactic is ok for me.

[Schizm]

Oct 19, 2018 10:23:30 GMT 1 Slayer772004 said:

I can join the race ?
Any tactic is ok for me.

I need to know which tactic, at the moment everything is available but you can choose to wait and see which one remains open at the end (in that case I will PM you the password and the tactic when I can fill in all teams).
If you change your mind and choose yourself just PM me the tactic.

[pollyjean]

Early attack for me

[eboese]

I can help out with Sprinters

[ElGringo]

I will go for late attack.

[punkska]

I'll join - also happy with any tactic but if you want me to pick I'll go late attack.

[Schizm]

Still three spots available for the R&D 5 race. One of each tactic (sprint, early- or late attack).

[Stinus1986]

I can do early attack.

[Schizm]

Thank you. Only one spot left, who want to test the Sprint tactic ? (when there are no more volunteers [edit : before 15:00 CET ], I will add a Phantom team, after all it is almost Halloween )

[Schizm]

All spots are taken now, I checked the tactics and everybody followed their role perfect, the effort % where off for some though so I changed those when necesseary (this was also because I forgot to give instructions for those on the default -blank - tactic : at 85%).