Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-35777416-20180604025218/@comment-26388545-20180604193831

Mugwumps wrote: Prange?? wrote: Mugwumps wrote: It is a perpetual race, though not popular because you crash the game if you pass too many bots at once. Perhaps it's FM's way of keeping the fame numbers down.

FM wouldn't want people expending their own time and effort for a reward,right? I don't think FM ever intended for this to happen and the code can't handle replacing 5 cars at once. That's my guess, anyway. My theory in that case is that your car becomes one of the disappearing or cars.

If you watch your distance marker when taking the big Silverstone cuts, it's goes a little goofy. There's point that it has a shift. If you watch the timer, it will always crash at 85 seconds. That's the exact point that passed cars completely disappear. The game can't track you once you completely disappear, so it's game over... literally!

Rabbit trail...

I think this is akin to the measurement problem in quantum mechanics. "popping the quiff" if you will. The game is trying to measure you in a particular place, but you are seemingly in 2 places at once (distance marker). This, coupled with the game resources being strained with multiple disappearing bots and a timer filling up to maximum levels multiple times is all too much.

"...an atom is spread out all over the place until a conscious observer decides to look at it. So the act of measurement or observation creates the entire universe." -Jim Al-Khalili, Nuclear Physicist

...end of rabbit trail