Thoughts re: finish line behavior

[JoeInMN]

A few thoughts about what happens at the end of a race...

It's not really clear what the finishing times mean, or how they are calculated, for the karts that finish behind you. When I cross the finish line, the AI's behind me all get times listed, even though none of them have crossed the finish line yet, and have pretty much stopped trying at that point.

Could the little mini track map continue to display after the end of the race, so we can still have a visual of where everybody ended up in relation to each other?

Could the AI's be allowed to continue racing each other after the human player finishes, and get their times as they cross the finish line? (I haven't worked out where I'd want the camera to go, though.) The current behavior could be activated with a "quick finish" button on the Game Over screen, or set as the default in the configuration, for when you don't want to wait.

Thanks for this great game.

[Auria]

Hi,

indeed we had some discussion about it... we eventually decided that it was boring to make humans wait for AIs to finish. So the numbers assigned are gross approximations, but that doesn't matter since those karts lost already right?
So I'm not sure about keeping the minimap displayed, for the very reason that the exact times, once reached, may not be that of our approximations - and also simply because we don't have free screen space to display the minimap in many cases

Are there other opinions from other people about this?

[hiker]

So the numbers assigned are gross approximations, but that doesn't matter since those karts lost already right?

To be more precise: the time is based on the current average speed of the AI karts that have not finished (which incidentally means that the karts will keep the ranks they had when the last player kart finishes). Obviously that's not accurate, and will never be. But I agree with auria that it is just boring to wait for AIs to finish. Esp. with more experienced players AI can be far behind (think of a lap behind from what I have heard ).

Cheers,
Joerg

[JoeInMN]

Makes sense. Thanks!