Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-75.78.103.8-20150723232033/@comment-26715739-20150930140532

Leckie337 wrote: Losing my x%+ fame bonus to the nascar naff token is mildly irritating. Primarily as i can't get past 49% on any of the 4 series without spending GC which won't happen. Not happy that slowing the bots doesn't seem to work NASCAR either. Bugger!

That's not what happened - nobody lost +fame% to NASCAR (other than in the general sense that the NASCAR update broke the +fame% mechanism).

Originally the NASCAR tokens replaced some R$ and some +R$% daily bonuses. Fame bonuses were left alone - NASCAR tokens did not replace fame bonus days - check out the screen grabs in the thread above.

But (at the same time), the first two days worth of +fame% bonuses were never actually applied (Day 3, Day 8).

This was agreed as a bug by FM who then replaced 3 of the remaining 7 +fame% bonuses with 2 lots of 5 gold and 1 lot of 10 gold.

The 4 remaining +fame% bonuses were replaced with a mix of R$ and +R$% (which is why we had back to back +200%R$ at the end of the month - assuming you didn't have NASCAR sponsorship slots available).

So instead of being able to earn in the vicinity of 44 gold extra gold for the 9 days of 10 lap Le Mans - we got 20 (should have been about 119 gold from 9 times round Le Mans instead of 75 - assuming you use agent for all races).

Re bots: not sure what's happening for you, but I've definitely seen bot slowing work with NASCAR. I brought down my opponents drag racing times so I could beat them with an unserviced car.

The different aspect is that NASCAR driver's names appear to be randomised in relation to driving skill - just because you're racing Galloway again doesn't mean that Galloway is equally as good this time around (unlike what happens when you race say SpeedyParkins or Sparx). So you can't just look at the name to see if the bots are getting slower anymore. Easiest way (as always) is to go to an event which publishes the "need to beat" in advance (endurance, hunter, autocross, speed snap, speed record).

Also - you should definitely be able to reach 50% (exactly) without spending any gold in the bonus series. In the career series (pre season cup or whatever it's called) it is gold positive (ie you get back more gold than you spend) - so not sure why you wouldn't do that.