Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-33870577-20190308175231/@comment-28169398-20190310031549

As it was explained to me, the reason that they will not bring in the concept of bot difficulty is that they actually simulate every single event in the game with each update to make sure that nothing is broken with the update. They would need to simulate everything with each difficulty setting if they were to institute variable difficulty.

As for starting position, races are "optimized" for players starting in last place. Changing starting position would require different optimization for every race, which in turn would need to be simulated.... Though the NSA has decommissioned one of their domestic eavesdropping programs, so may they could lend FM time on their supercomputers to run the simulations.