BATracer Rally uses HTML5, for this reason it is essential you use the latest version of your browser.
Chrome
Excellent support, this is our recommended browser. Ensure latest version installed.
Internet Explorer
Good support, this is our recommended browser. Ensure latest version installed, we do not support anything under version 11, sorry.
Firefox
Good support but render performance is currently slower than other browsers though we hope to improve this. Ensure latest version is installed.
Safari
This is a webkit-based browser like Chrome so support should be good, however we have not performed full testing.
Opera
We admire the Opera project but due to time/budget restrictions we have not been able to fully test under this browser. Ensure latest version is installed.
Mobile Browsers
Any webkit-based browser ought to allow you to play the game but currently we are optimised for desktop and tablets. We hope to improve things for small-screen mobiles users as demand dictates.
If you have unlocked custom livery uploading you may find the following templates useful. Select a template which is roughly appropriate to your car design based on your chosen body kit.
Stage Editor Help
BATracer Rally includes a Stage Editor, so that you may make your own rally stages/maps. These are then included in the map pool, and picked at random when new games are created.
Getting Inspiration
Before you make it is best to have an idea of what you would like to create. One idea is to use roads or trails from your local area. This will ensure a realistic feel to the stage, if the map is based on a real area.
Also consider using Google Earth as reference material. This is especially useful to try and recreate the natural placement of fields, hedges, trees and so on consistent with a real-world place than something made up entirely in your mind. You can of course, take cues from many real world places and combine them into your rally stage... use your imagination!
Curves
The vast majority of a map is made up of curves. These primarily mark out the roads, but can also be used for fields, hedges, walls or other decorations.
Curve Creation and Basic Editing
Create curves via Create New. Click 3 points on the main map area and your first curve will be created, additional points are then added with Add. The Move, Insert and Delete controls are self-explanatory. You always need a minimum of 3 points to create a curve. Curves can be placed in front or behind one another with the Bring to Front and Send to Back controls.
A quick note about the curve mathematics: They work best with fairly equally spaced out points. If you have two points very close to one another, followed by the next point being proportionally very far away, the curve may not appear as you expect. The solution is to increase/decrease the gap between each successive point gradually. Badly out of shape curves can be fixed by inserting additional points.
Roads
Curves don't do much on their own, but each curve can be turned into a different object. The most important of these are roads. Create a road using the Road CENTRED (single/double) controls. A double road is essentially wide enough for two cars, a single (which most of the rally stages are) is for just 1 car. With your road created, select the surface type from the drop down (include water for rivers). You can still edit the points after a road is created.
Fields
Fields make up the bulk of background scenery in the game, acting as a base upon which other objects or shapes are laid down. Fields is a catch-all object and can also include large tarmac or gravel areas as well as water (lakes). If you're planting large forests, it's also recommended to create a dark coloured field, or use the "foliage" field type as a background.
Fields tend to have harsh or abrupt edges, so best practice is to soften the edges with other objects such as hedges, trees, other field types or a few special tricks with the Drawing object type (see below).
Hedge/Wall/Lines
Another catch-all group, can be used to quickly create hedges, walls, white painted lines (for additional road markings), bunting flags, bales, crash barriers, and so on. Make good use of these, as all these small details really lift an otherwise bland stage and add to the realism.
Drawing
This allows your curves to actually be used as a traditional drawing application, with lines and in-fill shading. The actual value/use of this seems limited initially, but it really comes into it's own for advanced tricks. For example, creating some polygon shapes and using alpha-blending skills, you could add subtle shadows or highlights to terrain and create the simulation of hills, valleys or other undulations. Likewise, you could use alpha-blended colours such as green or yellow at the edges of fields to make them look more realistic, or paint subtle wet or dark areas to represent boggy ground. All of these tricks are used in the Castle 1/2 demo map which the game was initially launched with.
For help on how to implement these, create a Curve then convert it to a Drawing in the editor. Below the drawing options there is a button named "Show/Hide Colour Help" which will explain how to get the best out of fill and line codes. As an example, to create a hill shadow on the terrain you can build up some several polygons filled with "rgba(0,0,0,0.1)". This is the colour black, but only 10% opacity (Castle 1/2 maps actually used only 5% opacity and 3-4 drawing objects on top of one another). Be sure to set the line colour field to empty, and the curve type to "Looped".
For the truly dedicated artist, you could even add in shadows for trees and buildings, but this would be quite painstaking work and push the file limits, so would be a challenge in efficiency!
Route Curve
This is the final curve type and is used for crafting the exact route and line which the rally cars will take. This is a complex process so at present it is recommended you simply mark the route you wish the cars to take by using a "Drawing" object set to a suitably bright colour, and with a width of about 5 pixels. If your rally stage will support different routes (other than running the same route in reverse), then mark the other routes in different colours. The final route curve will then be generated by admin when your map is being reviewed.
Trees
Trees can dominate many rally stages, or be barely present at all.
Placing Trees
Trees can be placed from a random pool by simply clicking Add and clicking on the map. If you only want trees of a certain size (e.g. large trees are best picked for filling large forest areas), then increase the Min Size slider. Likewise, if you want only small trees for hedgerow additions, ornamental gardens or orchards reduce the Max Size slider. If you get no trees at all, check these sliders are not overlapped!
Placing Lots of Trees
The editor includes two sliders to allow you to paint trees more rapidly, both by adjusting the number of trees and also the spread in which they are scattered. Again, make use of the Min Size and Max Size sliders to get the most out of this.
The ability to paint lots of trees at once is useful, but for very large forests you need to take a different approach because you want to maximise the coverage of individual trees and stay within the max tree limit of 6000. With some experimentation it has been found the best way to achieve this is by placing individual large trees, typically on a field background of "foliage" (or sometimes "brown" or other types). This is because the random scatter often leads to lots of inefficient overlap.
Realistic Forests
In the real world, most forests different from one spot to another - rather than look all the same. With the default settings, even with random tree picking the forests will look very similar because they have the same makeup of species. Thus, make use of the Species Selector to enable/disable different species which are painted. For example, removing all the red trees from the Species Selector quickly changes the appearance of a wooded area.
Spectators
Spectators are planted much like trees...
The difference is that each spectator object you create can be used to represent several spectators - use the Size slider to determine this.
Typically with crowds at sporting events, you have a lot of people at the front of barrier, and less at the back. Thus, to build up realistic crowds it can be handy to create several spectator objects of a large size, then add several more at the edge slightly smaller, and again until you have the realistic behaviour drawn.
One word of caution for spectator placement - they appear in a slightly different place each time the map is loaded (more so the spectators with a large spread size selected). For this reason, do not make your spectator placement too critical (except for the lowest spectator spread size selected, which should appear in the same place each time).
Buildings
Buildings are also placed like trees, but include a rotation slider to allow you to place them at your chosen orientation. There are three colour schemes for buildings, and numerous house designs, though the graphical representation is simplistic.
You can get realistic houses or out buildings by simply adding objects around them, lawns, paths, trees in gardens, flower beds, vegetable patches or a paddock area for horses.
You can also combine buildings on top of one another to create large halls or narrow streets in towns. Both techniques are present in the Castle 1/2 map.
Finishing Touches
Once you are happy with the appearance of your map, go over the route. Think about how a real rally would be setup, where spectators would be and crash barriers, or coloured spectator tapes or flags. Most of the back sections of remote stages may not have any spectators at all, but there still needs to be marshalls. Busier sections may have crowds, but often these crowds would need services such as a burger bar or toilets (constructed with outbuildings). These little touches can prevent your map from seeming bland. Most people won't see more than a few yards away from the rally stage, so for this reason you should concentrate most of your detail close to the track.
The road surface itself is also important... consider what happens when a surface changes from one type to another (e.g. on gravel changing to dirt, typically some of the gravel is carried by passing traffic into the dirt, and vice versa - rarely a sudden change). At junctions, roads often blend rather than being at right angles. In open fields, vehicle ruts are not always singular, sometimes (particulary at river crossings) there might be several diverging paths, some fading. Road or trail withs are not always the same width, sometimes widening or narrowing according to the terrain. Main roads often have lay-bys for drivers to take a rest, and single track roads usually have passing places. Again, this attention to detail can make your stage more pleasing to play - but also the surface changes have a result on gameplay too.
And to repeat earlier tips, make full use of the Drawing object to add shading/highlight relief to the terrain, dark and wet patches of different colour, subtle field edge blending, road markings, and many other tricks.
Final Submission
Before submitting your work mark on the stage the route which competitors will take. Use the "Drawing" object type, setting a pixel width of about 5 and use a bright colour. If your map supports several routes, draw it in a different colour.
Do not use the Route Curve function, as this is a complex setup procedure currently performed by admin only.
Finally, from the file menu (with the map saved - which you should do often!), click the Request Review function. It cannot be promised that your map will be used, for example the quality and attention to detail must be at a bare minimum on the same level as those already included in the game. But we hope to approve all maps that achieve this standard so that others may enjoy your work, and the BATracer Rally map pool will grow so each championship features new challenges.
Getting Started
Everybody account comes with one free car and a pre-created driver. You can add more cars by using XP (gained by competing in events) or with purchasable in-game currency. Drivers are free.
Join a new game via the Cars page. Games currently consist of a sequence of rally stages. XP is awarded for fastest times, but the biggest prize is for being the overall winner after all stages are completed.
Order of Play
The game does not officially start until sign-up is complete when a certain number of players has entered the rally. Thereafter, the game advances at the rate of one rally stage every 24 hours. If you have not completed the stage by that point, you will be removed from the game.
Inbetween stages you can also work on your car in "Service". There are four types of service:
Unlimited. You can perform any work on your car with no time cost. This is possible when you are not entered into a rally, just before the start, and once completed.
Overnight. This is the largest time period during an actual rally event, occuring at the end of a rally "day". In the game, a rally day takes place over several stages, and thus several days in real terms.
Noon Service. This is a shorter service period.
On Your Own. Not an actual service, but drivers are able to work on their car away from their garages themselves, using whatever tools, equipment and skills they have. Often this is limited to makeshift repairs and inspections.
New equipment or alternative parts can be purchased for XP or coins. We have tried to balance the game so that these parts don't give you a significant advantage as we do not wish to encourage "Pay To Win". So, higher performance parts tend to come with a greater amount of problems.
Furthermore, repairs, replacement parts and new tyres that you have already purchased are FREE as we did not want players to be paying an ongoing cost, or using up their XP just to maintain a workable car.
Driving "Ahead"
It's possible to drive several stages at once and not wait for 24 hours to elapse. This is useful if you will be away for the weekend, or if you enjoy playing the game in larger chunks. Eventually, you will not be able to drive any further ahead and will have to wait 24 hours for the others to catch up. XP is only awarded at this point. It is also possible to finish the rally a few days ahead of everybody else, but you will have an agonising wait to see if you have been beaten.
The table on the Results page shows the current rally progress and your own. The most competitive players may prefer to wait to see how their competitors perform rather than driving ahead. Consider if your main rival crashes out, you can then back off, save the car and gain success easily without taking risks.
Driving The Rally
BATracer Rally is played corner-by-corner. You decide how you will tackle each part of the stage, pushing hard where you feel you can make gains and backing off to avoid danger or preserve the car. You have 24hrs to complete a stage and don't have to do it all at once, when you return to the website your car will be suspended in time, waiting for your next move.
Status
You can always work out how far along you are on a rally stage by checking the status/progress top panel. It's prudent to be aware that some stages are longer than others, not just in terms of distance, but also in terms of complexity. A short stage may be very narrow, winding and twisting and ask a lot of the driver.
The status bar also shows how wet/dry the stage surface is. Unlike circuit racing on a hard asphalt surface, in rallying the weather can play an even greater role depending on surface. Hard pack dirt may behave very similarly to asphalt in the dry, but turn into a muddy gloopy mess in the wet. Be sure to click the FORECAST button to plan ahead and allow for weather changes, but remember that forecasts can change.
Pace Slider and Risk Graph
This is easily the most important part of the game that decides winners and losers - a single simple slider that controls your speed. Hitting GO! will take your input and then drive a little further along the stage until the next decision point. Players of BATracer Classic will immediately recognise that at the most basic level, sliding the bar to the right makes you faster, and to the left slower. In Rally, we go much further and there are many points of consideration:
1. The decision point type
The decision point may control acceleration, handling, braking, cutting of corners and even the handbrake. This is important because if you have a particular strength or weakness you can exploit or manage it here. For example, if you are suffering a braking problem you may wish to brake earlier. But if you have the ideal tyres and suspension setting for the surface you can really lean on them. The various types of decision point are:
Acceleration - testing traction and power.
Lift-Off - testing the cars stability.
Balance - testing outright grip.
Braking - testing stopping power.
Corner clipping - a test of driver accuracy, luck and balls!
Handbrake - a test of low-speed driver accuracy.
Other - occasionally you may see other bespoke tests.
2. Performance Dial
The coloured round dial is not so much a speedo or RPM gauge, but a visual indicator of how much influence the driver can have over the cars speed at this particular decision point. Some corners may have such a low bearing on success some players may decide they're simply not worth the risk. Others may be dangerous corners but have such tempting performance to unlock that an aggressive approach could be justified.
3. The Map
Take a good look at the actual rally stage, shape of the corner. BATracer Rally uses basic physics principles to propel the cars around the track, so as with any motorsport a corner leading onto a long straight is of some significance. Likewise braking late at the end of a long straight at high speed can leverage a faster time (at the expense of corner exit), but isn't for the faint hearted.
Of no less significance is the distance to the next decision point, because your pace slider will influence the car over that period. The distance to the next devision point is now displayed beside the performance dial in metres.
4. Speed Line
This is the bright green line on the graph, and corresponds with your pace slider position. The higher the speed line, the greater the performance. Thus, you can take an informed decision about how hard to push. Often, the Speed Line may remain flat in which case there is little logic in moving the pace slider higher as it will not leverage greater speed (but usually greater risk). Conversely, the Speed Line may also rocket up at such a rate that just a small increase in pace slider will have a significant impact on performance.
5. Risk Line - The Chance of a Mistake
As a counter to the Speed Line, players must always weight it against the Risk Line, represented by the yellow/red area on the graph. Higher risk is represented by a higher point on the chart, and as before this can change very quickly with just a slight increase in pace, or not at all. The higher the risk, the higher the chance you will make a mistake.
6. Danger Colour - The Consequences of a Mistake
The actual colour of the Risk Line is very significant. Some corners may carry a high chance of making a mistake, but have only minor consequences if you do so. Others may be easy to drive but result in a very severe crash. This is represented by the colour of the risk line, with white/yellow indicating low danger, and orange/red very high danger. You will see that the colour deepens further to the right of the chart (higher pace slider), so it's entirely possible to have no higher risk (a flat line), but much more danger.
If you're confused, just remember The Danger Colour is only of any relevance after you make a mistake.
7. The Surface
The surface is always visible in the map, and the key point here is tyre selection. Even "safe" surfaces such as tarmac can become hazardous with the wrong tyre. Each car is fitted by default with the best "all round" tyre. As you gain XP you can obtain different tyre compounds (or acquire them via coins). Just remember that there nobody is rarely on the "right" tyre for a stage, because drivers must select a tyre that is optimum for all the stages between services. Whilst a tyre may look ideal on paper, wear rate may force fitting of something else (see also the Tyre Wear slider).
Aside from this, an unsuitable tyre may be quite dangerous to drive and force lower pace settings.
8. Your Surroundings
If the rally stage is surrounded by trees the danger of a mistake is probably quite high. This is usually reflected in the graph.
9. Your equipment
The state of your equipment may force you to reduce your pace, if it is damaged. Likewise, unsuitable suspension or jammed settings may also have an influence. Just remember that rallying is essentially an endurance event, and others will be struggling. A slower pace may cost you time, but a mistake will cost you the rally.
Example 1
This is a braking decision point. The Risk is low even at higher Pace settings, although the Danger is quite high. This is a shame because the Speed Line only rewards at the higher settings. Ultimately the Performance Dial shows there is little to be gained at a high setting (you should check the stage map to be sure), and a low Pace setting would be recommended.
Example 2
This is a "lift off" decision point and this time the Performance Dial shows moderate gains are possible. There is a high Risk at higher settings, but low/moderate Danger throughout. The Speed Line climbs greatly from about 50% pace onwards and soon after the Risk starts to climb greatly too. A medium/high Pace setting would be recommended but it would be wise to avoid going too far into the high risk area, although the sharp increase in the Speed Line may be tempting for some.
As with all decisions, take a good look at the map to see if a more aggressive setting can be justified or not.
Driver Reports
After a while periodically you may start to see driver reports. Often the first warning of any problem is when the driver feels or hears something unusual, or the car generally isn't behaving as normally. The more significant the problem the greater the driver will be aware of it.
Some problems will be present for several stages before they worsen and become noticable by the driver. Make use of any spare time you have by performing component inspections during service time.
Tyre Wear Slider
Players from BATracer Classic will be familiar with this slider. In Rally it behaves somewhat differently but the principle is the same, you can get greater pace with a higher tyre wear slider, but eventually they will wear sooner and then cost you time.
In Rally, the most significant difference is that your tyres will not hurt your pace until they are quite badly worn. Therefore a basic rule of thumb is that if you get to service just as your tyres are worn out then you have got the maximum out of the tyres.
Of course it is never quite that simple, as the tyre wear slider is applied on a per-corner basis, influencing the physics model for the maximum corner speed. Highly competitive players may therefore find that some corners are worth spending their tyres on more than others. Here looking at the rally stage map rather than the pace slider graph is recommended. However, the tyre wear slider is not as significant as the pace slider, so such micro-management of the tyre slider is not a strict preequiste for success, just have fun! And if you're close to service and have lots of tyre life left, crank it up.
One last mention of course is the surface type and weather conditions, all of which have a bearing on tyre life. Don't be surprised if on some unsuitable surfaces you have to protect your tyres by reducing your tyre wear slider. One of the quickest ways to ruin offroad tyres is to drive them on hot, dry asphalt!
Systems
Some of your car components - especially the upgradeable ones - can have switchable settings. This is an ongoing development at present and we hope to add to it. Some settings can be changed as you drive whilst others only when your car is stopped. Sometimes the more complex systems can be problematic and unreliable, even changing modes on their own! This can be fixed at service time, the electronics usually requiring a simple firmware upgrade or "reflashing of the ROM".
When Things Go Wrong: Mistakes
Sooner or later, you will make a mistake. At this point you are now locked into mistake mode. The pace slider will disappear and will now become irrelevant - with the exception that the position of the pace slider decided the amount of "Danger" you will now be faced with during the mistake. You may recognise the yellow/red colours carried across from the risk/danger graph, which is why you should always consider the danger colours not just the risk line. The reason the Danger colours are significant is because they represent the chance of you being able to rescue the situation. On corners with very low danger you may even be able to go faster!
The image above shows an example of a mistake. You are faced with five options. Each option has a chance of success expressed as a percentage, where 100% and above means you will definitely achieve that goal. Note that the percentages are only displayed if your driver has the "Sixth Sense" characteristic, otherwise you only have a rough estimation of success based on the colour. The options to the left are safer but often mean you will be slower, the options to the right are more risky but can turn your mistakes into legendary examples of driving excellence.
1. Maximum Preservation
This is the safest option, but also carries with it the greatest time penalty. This is akin to losing the back end on a corner, or running wide - all of which cost you time. But at least you havn't crashed!
2. Minimise Lost Time
You don't lose as much time as with Maximum Preservation.
3. Let Fate Decide
This is the completely neutral choice, no time lost but obviously with greater risk than the previous choices.
4. Press On
For the braver driver, you can actually GAIN time, if you are willing to take that risk. Note that some corners have so little danger than the most competitive players may try and intentionally trigger a mistake to get the chance of this performance boost.
5. Be a Hero
As you have probably guessed, this offers huge gains but also the greatest risk.
In the examples presented here, it's clear that Maximum Preservation will allow you to avoid an accident of any type as the chance of success is a whopping 110%. Lucky drivers may wish to chance Be a Hero, but over the course of a rally a 50% chance of having a crash is to most people considered suicide.
One last consideration of the performance benefits or penalties of mistakes is that the actual corner will have an impact on the magnitude of the effect, since everything is passed to the physics calculations. So for example, a mistake on a slow corner with a short gap to the next decision point won't hurt you much. Likewise, you wouldn't want to try and Be a Hero on such a corner because there is little to be gained. The opposite is true on a long fast sweeping bend... especially if you went into it with a high pace setting which will compound the benefit!
When Things Go Wrong: Crashing
If you "saved" your mistake from becoming worse you will drive on to the next decision point without any further action required, otherwise your mistake will turn into the final phase of mishap - crashing.
As before, you are faced with a series of options, the chance of succesful conclusion is based as before on the Danger value from your pace slider setting. The pros/cons of each option are explained to the left, with "Accept Fate" being safest (but typically resulting in a spin and bump into the scenery), and "Damage Limitation" being a little more risky but without damage. Fail at either and both result in a proper "crash", more lost time and damage. "Attempt Epic Save" actually allows you to avoid a spin altogether, though obviously has the lowest chance of success - get it wrong and the damage is severe.
In gameplay terms we intend to reduce the effect of car damage: nobody likes driving around in an uncompetitive car, and most will find the spin is enough lost time already. The worst damaged cars may mean a player can no longer challenge for the rally win, but certainly after repairs they could try for outright stage wins, which become easier if other competitors drop out.
How to Avoid Mistakes And Crashing
Mistakes are part and parcel of competitive driving, it's crashing you should be more concerned about. Beware of very high Danger levels, even if the Risk is relatively low - you may get yourself into a situation where you have nowhere to escape, even if you use Maximum Preservation. Those trying for the outright rally win will be counting on other "faster" drivers sooner or later making a mistake, where "Maximum Preservation" and other penalties represent the best way to stay in a rally near the front. If you select a very high Pace slider where high Danger is present, you may find "Maximum Preservation" in itself carries enough risk to put you out of the rally.
If you do progress to a mistake you need to avoid a crash at all costs - here the Sixth Sense driver characteristic is very useful.
How to Win
Rallying is an endurance game, and it is inevitable that many new players will be making mistakes and crashing quite often. A rally is so long and with so many decision points across a stage that crashing isn't really an option. However, if faced with a lot of new rookie players you may find that even a spin or crash still leaves you in a position to challenge for the outright win!
But ultimately, there really is no reason for a driver to lose control at all with experience. Once you have mastered the ability of keeping the car pointing in the right direction success now comes to exploiting each individual decision point for it's maximum. Here is where the vast majority of the speed lies, and one simple piece of advice is to take your time, there is so much to consider with each application of the pace slider that if you complete a rally stage in a few moments you have probably missed some time somewhere. Sadly with rallying, you don't get a chance to go back and drive another lap!
Upgraded car components can help but they also bring with them increased problems. Be sure you have a good team of mechanics to be able to resolve any issues during your limited service periods. If you have parts fitted to your car that have selectable modes, don't neglect them and be ready to change the settings as circumstances dictate.
Tyres are to many "half the car", and if you are fortunate enough to have access to tyres other than the "All Round" compound, be sure to study the surface types and service times during the course of the event. There are a large number of compounds and tread patterns available and you need to consider not just the surface you are driving on but tyre durability. Last of all, always, always, ALWAYS check and replace your tyres during noon and night services - new sets of the same compound don't cost anything and you'll kick yourself the moment you realise you just started a sequence of stages on tyres which are already worn!
FAQ
I keep crashing damn it! (Answer pending)
How do I change my tyres? They are nearly worn out! Tyres can only be changed at a service, or when your car is not competing in a rally. The service schedule is displayed on the results page. To change tyres, goto the Service tab and find your tyres in the Fitted section, then click replace. This only costs time, never XP or Coins. Be sure this is one of the first things you do at each service (rather than say, inspections) or you will find your mechanics do not have enough time to replace the tyres!
I can't drive the whole rally, it says I have to wait? You have to wait 24 hours between driving each stage, to give all players time to complete it. This is similar to BATracer Classic's order-of-play. In Rally, you can "drive-ahead" several stages, but eventually you will reach a point where you need to wait 24 hours. The ability to drive-ahead is useful to avoid having to employ an "account sitter" as was often the case with BATracer Classic.
Do I have to buy new tyres which become worn with XP or coins? No! All parts can be replaced and/or repaired for free, the only cost is time. XP and coins can be spent on car part upgrades.
Multiple Accounts
Well, the main rule is pretty simple - no multiple accounts! You will simply be banned.
If you want more of BATracer Rally, you can add more cars to your account for a small fee. If you like the game, please consider contributing to it's upkeep. If you cannot spare the small change, you can still acquire most things by paying with "XP", achieved by success or through publicity in the rallies. You can also get Coins by referring other players to the game using our referral scheme, or by making rally stages in the editor.
Exploits
Making use of an exploit is an account-locking offence. If you discover an exploit you MUST report it immediately. An exploit is a bug which gives an unfair advantage or allows certain elements of the gameplay to be bypassed.
XP is awarded for success on individual rally stages, your overall rally finishing position and any other notable performances where you earn Publicity.
Most items can be purchased with both XP and credits with the exception of driver characteristics which come only with experience.
Get More Coins
Coins can be acquired at the following rate:
1000 Coins - $20
A purchase of coins is broadly equivalent to a purchase of KT in BATracer Classic, enough to outfit most players with all they need to enjoy the game further, but not essential.
Add New Vehicles
Single Car
Cost: 350
Cost: 300
4 Car Pack
Cost: 1000
Cost: 850
Additional cars can team-up in the same rally or allow you to enter several different rallies at once.
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Stage Complete!
Pace (Drive Slower)
(Drive Faster) Pace
Maximum Preservation
Minimise Lost Time
Let Fate Decide
Press On
Be a Hero
"On the edge of adhesion you teeter between the abyss of disaster and the triumph of genius."
"Time has brought disaster before you, but he is patient."
Accept Fate
Damage Limitation
Attempt Epic Save
OPTIONS
+ safest option - lose lots of time - light damage risk
+ underway sooner + no damage if successfull - more risky
+ no time lost - dangerous!
BUT IF YOU GET IT WRONG...
lose even more time
worse than had you accepted your fate
heavy damage likely
Tyre Wear
Tyre Condition
Suspension
Mode Select:
Anti-Roll Bar
Setting:
Forced Induction
Boost Setting:
ECU
Config:
Opponent Visualisation
Display
Keyboard Shortcuts for keyboard shortcuts to work the map area must have keyboard focus (achieved by clicking within it)
View
c
Toggle control curve visibility
b
Toggle bounding box visibility
-
Zoom out
=
Zoom in
z
Reset zoom
Curve
p
Switch between parent/child curve
Route
s
Toggle shade mode
Buildings
Remove Buildings
Counter
Recommended Limit=Unknown
Trees
Placement
Species to Create
Remove Trees
Tree Counter
Recommended Limit=6000
Spectators
Placement
Tip:
For performance reasons use spectators sparingly.
Remove Trees
Spectator Counter
Recommended Limit=800
Curve
Route Options
PIP Options
Line Colour Palette
Tips
Leave line colour blank to draw a shape without a line.
Leave fill colour blank to draw a shape without a fill.
As with other curves, toggle "Looped" to close a curve.
You can write basic colour names to set a colour, or use the palette selector.
You can also write HTML hex colour, e.g. #FF0000 is red, #FFFF00 is yellow, etc. Values are hex so range from 00 to FF.
Or you can write colours as RGB values, e.g. rgb(255,0,0) is red, rgb(255,255,0) is yellow, etc. Values range from 0 to 255.
You can also make a fill or line transparent which uses a slightly different version of rgb(). Use rgba(255,0,0,0.5) for 50% transparent red. The fourth value controls transparency and ranges from 0 (invisible) to 1 (fully opaque).