MAPA challenge
AI-friendly replica airplane challenge in @MAPA 's style
Let's make a simple AI-friendly replica airplane challenge in @MAPA 's style. For the last few months, I have been inspired by the simple and consistent work done by @MAPA. His collection of simple AI-Friendly built replicas looks like an Aviation Museum to me - So to honor his work, I call this challenge "MAPA Challenge."
According to @MAPA, "Hi! I make custom aircraft for artificial intelligence [AI], they are super simple aircraft with the ability to land and take off with extreme precision in the main airports of SimplePlanes. In order for these planes made for [AI] to spawn automatically, they cannot have more than 6 wings and 96 parts on Android."
Rules:
1) PARTS: Maximum 96 parts
2) WINGS: limited to a maximum 6 wings (Please use the original wings only)
3) It must be a replica of a civilian or unarmed military plane (chaff/countermeasures are okay to add)
4) NO: No cockpit instruments are needed / no extra points for that.
5) No cartoon/german/egg planes, please
6) Up to 3 entries per person; the best one will be chosen for the award
7) Must be a successor of this post
8) Deadline: February 28th, 2023
HELICOPTERS, GLIDERS, AutoGYRO, and any VTOLs are also welcome. Love to see those rare and historic ones.
(first two rules are to be an AI-Friendly aircraft)
Judging:
- Proportionate 1-10 pt
- Paint, Livery, and color choice 1-10
- Flight handling 1-10
- Landing 1-10
- Interesting way of building/creativity/XML 1-10
- Historical facts about your plane 1-10
- Popular Upvote (One upvote will get 1 point) - I respect all other players' opinions, so I decided to give 1 point for every one upvote you get until 3 days after the deadline.
Awards
- 1st - 12 upvotes (+ Spot Light, Link to your work)
- 2nd - 10 upvotes (+ Spot Light, Link to your work)
- 3rd - 7 upvotes? (+ Spot Light, Link to your work)
- Every notable build may get an upvote once you upload and a Spot Light (if possible). I may follow you depending on your collection.
Inspiring beautiful builds by @MAPA
Please visit this link to see @MAPA's work for inspiration: https://www.simpleplanes.com/u/MAPA/Posts
Deadline: February 28th, 2023
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Last month's MAPA challenge was incredible challenge. I was trying to decide the best plane because all are so confusingly good. So I list them on a spreadsheet and note them while testing them individually. I noticed some planes are so good, but they were under-voted or underestimated by the players. Please visit the main page LINK>>> https://www.simpleplanes.com/Airplanes/Successors/sy00Dd to see all the planes in one place and test them. Thank you to all participants for your excellent work.
Congratulations to the winners!
1st Place
pancelvonat for Martin PBM-3R Mariner
2nd Place
Wibbley for Horton Ho-229
3rd Place
Mastereldo for Boeing V22
Honorable mentions:
- Hascup for Kawashini Type97 flying boat (very nice to fly and excellent build, but this was so undervoted)
- SimplyWorking BAe Hawk
- OPaiTaOn F5
- HalfaBlock Mirage F1 (very nice to fly and excellent build, but this was so undervoted)
- winterro Mil-Mi 12
- QuesoAirlines K8 Trainer (a beautiful trainer, nice build)
- ForwardUntoDawn PolikarpovI-16
I tried my best to award you all. If you feel a mistake, please forgive me - after all, this is just for fun, so I hope everyone will enjoy it. I will revisit your profiles in the future.
Thanks to my inspiring friend @MAPA for allowing me to run this challenge under his name.
(I will post the prizes tomorrow since it is 1am in NY and I am going to bed now)
Specifications
General Characteristics
- Successors 51 airplane(s) +6003 bonus
- Created On iOS
- Wingspan 39.1ft (11.9m)
- Length 42.9ft (13.1m)
- Height 8.1ft (2.5m)
- Empty Weight 2,429lbs (1,101kg)
- Loaded Weight 2,429lbs (1,101kg)
Performance
- Wing Loading 12.0lbs/ft2 (58.4kg/m2)
- Wing Area 203.2ft2 (18.9m2)
- Drag Points 574
Parts
- Number of Parts 10
- Control Surfaces 5
- Performance Cost 65
Thank you all for joining this great challenge, and also thanks to @MAPA for inspiring builds. Please give me a few days (maybe a week) to evaluate all 50 entries. I will post the prizes, upvotes once I have announced the winners.
2/28/2023 New York, NY
No drama please. if you want to join the challenge, be a successor. How can I award someone out of the competition? Do you think other players will agree with it?
@WinsWings Very Good!, a challenge to encourage the community to explore the potential of [AI] in SimplePlanes, I look forward to seeing the amazing efforts and works of the participants.
I wish you all good luck in your builds! :D
@Kassap thanks. Will do more
looking forward for new cool challenge :)
@DarDragon my pleasure. I am glad that everyone or most of you are happy
@WinsWings Thank youuuu! Awesome challenge! Might make more AI planes from now on because of it
@DarDragon sorry about that I mixed up with other KC135 and left you behind. Look-9, build (XML or creativity, build quality) 10, handling- 6, livery/decoration 8, history 4, 10% of total upvotes -1.9, total 38.9. It is a great build and great XML editing. Kind of realistic but way too hard to handle. Great job after all.
@WinsWings Ello, ummm I'd like to know the score I got?
Dear All, My apologies for the delay to declare the winners and posting the prizes. I was sick for a few days and was not active. But now, I am start looking at. 3/7/2023
@IDNSatyaSlebew I am from New York, which is GMT-7. Still 28th February
Its been 1 march
@WinsWings
I'm sorry, but I posted the original aircraft to enter the challenge.
Ar.234
@LH2038 it is better if spawn automatically, but not necessarily.
German means made in Germany- NOT "German Corsair’ type of build.
oh，thats good for my bad computer：）
Ask 2 questions.
1:Should the aircraft be able to spawn automatically?
2:Is German meaning German Corsair type aircraft?
@Red920 yes
is wingflex on AI is ok?
@winterro I prefer based on real aircraft. This is because this challenge is all about replica build in a simple way as @MAPA did. Please visit his page for inspiration.
@WinsWings Soo fictional aircraft too?
@WinsWings thanks
@TTadeas download this plane, open in your game and start building it. Then post it that will become successor
Can you please tell me how to make my plane a successor? I haven't been posting my things until recently so I'm not familiar with that
@WinsWings ok apesar de mim não ter chances de ganhar o desafio foi bom participar
@Gabriel747 closing date is 27th. Then I will look into the planes and do the judging