RV Car Database

[Skarma]

Click here to view the database. Last Update: 17/07/2020 - 22:55 UTC - Recent changes: Added new recent times, added new custom cars, updated IO section, added a new section for IO Bonus pack.
The RV Car Database aims to keep an accurate track record of cars' statistics & lap times, the ultimate goal being to properly define the boundaries of each class and establish an (arbitrary) tier list. It is also to be a quick reference and (hopefully) eliminate hearsay about certain cars.

If you spot anything incorrect, missing or if there's anything you'd like to see added, please let me know. Comments and suggestions are also considered and appreciated.

Remember that this is heavily a work in progress, there's still a lot to do and things to work on so please bare with me whilst I continue to iron these things out, I really just wanted to finally get this public. Thanks.

What is this?

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The database factors in:

- Car statistical data (top speed, acceleration, weight)
- Verified lap times for all stock tracks (Rooftops included)

Factors outside the database which are also of relevance include:

- Arbitrary descriptions of car handling, as this isn't something that can be conclusively shown with statistics alone
- Overall car performance in online races, both with pickups enabled and disabled, session parser results also considered
- Cars which are built to specific specification (Clockworks only with other clockworks, etc...)
- Simulation, Arcade and Console modes (Arcade is the main focus for most types of racing, with Simulation and Console considered for situational purposes)
- Purely focusing on RVGL, for the sake of not becoming too complex. RVGL on Android is also included.

Factors which are NOT included:

- Old/obsolete/unsupported RV versions (DEV build, Xbox source, Demos, 1.0, 0916, 1207, Phoenix R3, Wolf R4, 1.2, 100+ cars builds, Weapon mod build, etc...)
- Console versions (PS1, N64, Dreamcast, unreleased GBC port)
- Mobile versions (Re-Volt 2: Multiplayer, etc...)
- Junior RC (This mode is redundant in the modern era of RV)
- Stunt Arena
- Battle Tag
- Last Man Standing
- Drifting
- Any other type of specialised events that don't involve circuit or point to point racing (Voltball, etc...)
- Events that have cars purpose built only for those events (Alls Fair, etc...)
- AI performance (This can not be used in any way to substantiate any claims against what a player can actually do with a certain car VS how the AI performs, Pest Control is a perfect example of this)

More will be added to these sections if I think of them.

How can you contribute to this?

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For the time being, all data is kept, entered and manually updated periodically by myself. I try to add new custom cars as they are released/updated.
Any and all times can be beaten and submitted by anyone, anywhere and at any time. For any car that is NOT a stock or DC car, you MUST use the current version of it on Re-Volt Zone or where avaliable unless otherwise stated.

The database will use the same format as the Time Trial section for every car. Simply submit a screenshot that clearly shows the time and car used in one of the following formats:





If your time seems suspicious or questionable, you will be asked to send your times and laplocal files for further verification. If your submission doesn't adhere to the above examples or can't be verified, it will NOT be added.

The times sections are hidden for all custom cars for now, due to the need to finish filling in the DC times page. Once this is done and I start doing times for custom cars, I will also eventually start hosting sessions similar to IO in which certain customs will be used to ascertain where they stand in their respective class. These will continue until I feel I have enough analytical data on them and will move on to other cars over time.

The "Limbo" section is for cars that are universally banned from conventional racing, older versions of cars that have been made obsolete by a drastic update yet still hold merit of some kind or cars that are just too specialised to have any competitive merit for their class.

Future plans/todo list

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- Add who set each time.
- Add images of each record.
- Credits to those who have contributed times so far.
- A macro/script that changes the colour of the time based on how it compares to the stock times, if such a thing is possible.
- Come up with a better solution to display raw data in a more user-friendly way.
- Convert the whole database into a web format for the above purpose.
- Find somewhere to properly host the data.

Will think of more in future.

[kiwi]

Ahhhh finally. I waited pretty long for getting this public. Maybe some people can remember, I did something similar some years ago, to get some sort of car ranking or car ratings. It's good to see a much more complete approach is out now.

I for sure will contribute quite a lot on this in the next time, and share my times. For the first for the DC cars, as explained.

[ZipperZbieracz]

Nice to see that.

[kiwi]

Here are my SNW35 times: https://imgur.com/a/rAKeQ0t
Muse2 and Garden are not included, cause I was not able to beat the currently best times.

Maybe some of the other times in the list (from other cars) can be used, I didn't checked.

I will continue with Groovster.

[Skarma]

Thanks for the times, Kiwi. I managed to improve on a lot of them myself, I've now added these times to the database.

I'm going to use the original post future for posting changes and dates for latest updates.

[pintassilgo]

Nice. For overall comparison between cars, I think that percentage relative to the best time is better than simply adding up all the times, to avoid longer tracks having more weight.

But the difference is almost insignificant, the only change with current data would be Rotor better than RC San. Current data shows Rotor = 548.496 seconds and RC San = 548.171. But Rotor has average of 118.5% relative to the best time on each track, against RC San's 119.0% .

[kiwi]

For my old car database, I also had implemented a weight system, to get a final ranking for each car. For example, top speed had a defined weight, acceleration had a weight, best time trials had a weight, the mass of the car had a weight, and so on. In the end I calculated all this and ranked the cars and put them in classes. If only the time trial times will be considered, the Pros and Cons of a car in races against other players would not have an effect on the end ranking.

I don't know your exact plans on this Skarma, do you already have ideas for how you will do this?