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It's not so unusual. Sid Meier has talked about a feature like this, and I think even Civilization (the first) had it.

• minikomi 10y ago
  Mario Kart certainly has a "the more you're losing, the faster you go" .. or at least the inverse implemented. Along with "the further behind you are, the more likely to get a blue shell".
  • vintermann 10y ago
    That's a catch-up mechanism, that's different than merely smoothing out outlier streaks. Though I think that the reason this feels necessary, isn't that people are irrational and believe in streaks - it's that they used a poor random model in the first place. Maybe a spearman should simply never beat a battleship.
• bluesign 10y ago
  also many racing games etc, have speed bonus if you are behind , ex: wipeout allows speed up, if you are tailing an opponent.
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