Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-36058154-20181204145934/@comment-35745775-20181205221726

MackKnife wrote: Mugwumps wrote:

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. And I already hoped there's a way to go maximum vitesse without being offered faster bots in the next race :'(

What I sometimes do with multilap races is to bot slow at the beginning and end, then put in some some fast laps with flying starts (like WTTT laps) in the middle to practise. If you have a target total elapsed time which you stick to, the fast laps in the middle won’t affect the bots in the next race.