Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-26388545-20171108164018/@comment-32545704-20171109134828

Anti bot slowing experiment continues...

Still blasting through these stages as fast as possible, and only applying upgrades when needed. One exception was 3.3, had to get in front of Michael on "lap 0" and hold him up for a few seconds to stop him building up too big a lead. Even though he was quite easy to catch, Norm was so useless that Michael would get too far ahead if I stayed behind on lap 1.

Arrived at 4.1 with 0101010 PR 53.3, target was 6.6 miles (10.6km)

Cloud saved then upgraded to 1111111 PR 56.0, target dropped to 6.5 miles

Upgraded to 3333333 PR 65.4, target dropped to 6.1 miles

Cloud restored and finished 4.1 with 0101010 PR 53.3, target back to 6.6 miles, I won with 10.5 miles. I'll find out later what effect that has on 4.4 target.

Upgrading definitely reduces the targets, and there is some degree of bot management possible, but the range of targets does not seem to be that big. I still suspect it will not matter in the end when the really hard fixed goal stages arrive.