07-15-2018, 11:12 PM
The rules for detecting collisions and faults are fairly simple, problem is to get accurate data from the game and make the app.
Desired speed for a corner is known, going off track is known, if someone hit with their front to someone else's rear well who's at fault... often the one with front contact being behind unless the car in front has recently braked at a no brake zone or is doing other shenanigans such as weaving left and right or going too slow while being in race line. All the cases can be captured in software but most of the automated systems do not do this and apply more general blanket rules that often suck and penalize both drivers or even do not penalize the offender but penalize the victim such as can be the case with SRS :/ For example someone bombs into T1 and bumps your front with their rear, SRS will penalize the victim as far as I've seen because there is no speed check nor line check.
Leagues usually don't bother automating this as they used to have several spectators watching the field and specific corners to issue live penalties DT, SG, BF as needed live while the race is going. Of course in AC there being no spectating, no driver swapping and as a result almost no leagues beside amateur open to general public which are often no better than racing on a public server.
It can be made, the rules are clear and implementable in software to be automatically enforced.
SRS already has some implemented but with issues and doesn't truly penalize offenders, it doesn't give DT, SG or BF live in the race, neither does it give time penalties to results only point reductions which work in similar way but these penalties are irrelevant for most of the wreckers, they need DTs, SGs and BFs to feel the pain.
Desired speed for a corner is known, going off track is known, if someone hit with their front to someone else's rear well who's at fault... often the one with front contact being behind unless the car in front has recently braked at a no brake zone or is doing other shenanigans such as weaving left and right or going too slow while being in race line. All the cases can be captured in software but most of the automated systems do not do this and apply more general blanket rules that often suck and penalize both drivers or even do not penalize the offender but penalize the victim such as can be the case with SRS :/ For example someone bombs into T1 and bumps your front with their rear, SRS will penalize the victim as far as I've seen because there is no speed check nor line check.
Leagues usually don't bother automating this as they used to have several spectators watching the field and specific corners to issue live penalties DT, SG, BF as needed live while the race is going. Of course in AC there being no spectating, no driver swapping and as a result almost no leagues beside amateur open to general public which are often no better than racing on a public server.
It can be made, the rules are clear and implementable in software to be automatically enforced.
SRS already has some implemented but with issues and doesn't truly penalize offenders, it doesn't give DT, SG or BF live in the race, neither does it give time penalties to results only point reductions which work in similar way but these penalties are irrelevant for most of the wreckers, they need DTs, SGs and BFs to feel the pain.