Trip saving for bicycles

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(2023-09-09 08:29)RevLeon Wrote:  

(2023-09-09 06:11)Chuck Wrote:  I'd really not like having two classes of vehicles, the one that may be saved and the others not. That creates unnecessary complexity and just another unfairness.

Imo, every car in a hopeless position deserves a rescue. At a certain price, ofc.
The current price is the 10% distance loss, and people who have experienced it will likely say: "it is indeed a price". Well, a 500€ fine would also be a certain price, but bearing in mind, the main goal is to rescue people who got innocently into this situation, e.g. crashed by someone else, the price is very unfair.

From a technical standpoint, I have multiple scenarios, of which not all can be detected by Insim.

1. Car flying OOB (and leaving the track) => easy to detect
2. Car flying OOB (and remain on ground, maybe flipped) => unable to detect
3. Car somewhere stuck elsewhere on track => unable to detect

I made a test for #2 if the Z value could be a help, but it's not possible

As you can see, other parts of the track are actually higher than this icy invisible ground.

I do have some other means available:
- Maybe a forced spec time?
- The rescue button does sound interesting. Maybe only a certain time after a heavy crash?
- The rescue button could start virtual "helicopter rescue" that takes a few minutes.
- Maybe a RES unit with a crane can rescue over great distances?
- Maybe multiple RES units work together?

I never liked the idea from the start, maybe because I don't drive bycicles or maybe because every time I lost my trip is wasn't really that big of a deal. Anyway the main reason I didn't like the idea is because it takes away from the MED/RES/TOW roles. If there would be a way to make medium distance rescues using a crane of some sort that would be the best option imo.

where crane?????????????????????????????????????


my idea would be to have an option to either be rescued from anywhere by tow/med/res or if you get wreaked under map or too far out for the tows to help you then perhaps there should be an option to pay to keep ur trip/bonus