Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-36058154-20181204145934/@comment-31433854-20181205151234

Tylerama wrote: Mugwumps wrote: Pidro2 wrote: This is a different world. Some do not employ bot management to slow them down. since a lot of the 'wisdom' on here said it had to do with margin of victory, which is wrong, as it turns out. So, what IS it due to or to do with ? I've spent many hours of my life, sitting 6 inches from the finish line as the 2nd place AI or person catches up to reduce the margin of victory. For cups, etc, it is based on where your total elapsed time (ET) falls in the distribution of all ETs. By sitting at the line, you are increasing your ET to match the top bots ET. This will help prevent the bots getting faster, but also won't slow them. If, instead of running the race and waiting at the end, you attack and block the top bots throughout the race, thereby increasing your ET to be substantially longer than what the top bots in the race should be running without interference, which will get you slower bots in the next race, regardless of the fact you won, or what your winning margin is.