Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-28169398-20180524195008/@comment-30447859-20180526051146

Mugwumps wrote: the main driver of bot difficulty isn't your margin of victory, it is your total time and where it falls in the distribution of all recorded total times. EK 10-lappers are a good place to observe this. You can destroy the field (lapping most/all) without cutting, and you will never draw the top bots. You need to cut heavily to bring them out even though they are incrementally faster than the bots you're already lapping. However, there are so many fast times set with cutting for that race on FM's servers, it shifts the time distribution. i used to be very happy to do a ~30 min race on a Le Mans 10-lapper years back. now i do a sub 27 min race while sometimes beating RattleSnack by 10km, but this isn't even enough for Auralpod to come out. Has anybody seen this Perriwinkle in a Le mans 10-lapper?