Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-26388545-20190131135015/@comment-31600610-20190905140250

There's a video on YouTube that shows the MP4-X running LeMans perpetual. That video alone is what convinced me to try it. About a year ago or so, when I decided to give the game another shot, I had asked what races paid the best. Someone sent me here with a link to the "Most Profitable" wiki. That was when I saw the MP4-X and even if I couldn't make any money with it, I wanted it. So, I made it my mission to open "Cutting Edge", bought the car and raced that car more than other in-game. (At least that's what it says in my user info in-game)

So, no, this isn't anything special I have done. Many people run that race perpetual. I began to practice at the LeMans 6 lapper in cutting edge, and although it makes less money and takes more time to run than that other high paying one (Ferrari F40) I ewill take the MP4-X over that blasted Ferrari any day, simply because it's faster and much more fun.

I will make a video, I'll try to do that today, but will tell you now, I am not adept at making fancy-shmancy videos. I used some free recorder to make the anime vinyl video that I linked to over in the vinyls challenge. I should probably get ahold of a good video editor and start tinkering.

To clarifiy, when I attempt perpetual, anywhere that I struggle (due to lack of practice) to make sharp turns, etc, is where the assists help. On the straights, I have run flat-out with all assists off. I have only noticed a difference of about 2 MPH, so I imagine one could eventually achieve perpetual with minimal assists. I've tried it, and always seem to bugger out in a turn as the traction begins to degrade. (Either that, or I just become complacent.)

For farming now, I think I mentioned, I just run that car unserviced, go as far as I can (usually just shy of 3 laps,( on occasion I can make it to 3) and then just retry. Over and over. Ultimately, it still works out the same, the exception being 30 seconds from finish to restart, and less gold spent on either servicing or hiring the mechanic ahead of time. (I haven't checked this, but it seems as if the "clean race" total is higher? Cheaper to run unserviced, maybe? Dunno, someone will figure it out...... (On an aside, I believe that with fame agent, it takes about 5 or 6 completions of two laps or more to level up. I just went to 133 last night.)

In the meantime, you can watch this video, posted by ME7 on YouTube. I use the exact same method of corner cutting. Unlike him, I have not yet succeeded in doing so with all assists off for the duration of playing. I have to pause, change settings, cut corner, pause, resume settings, resume play. It's more aggravating than it's worth, really. BUT, that car is insane, and when I first drove it, I had to run it with TC on SA/BA high. Now I can run that track flawlessly with TC on, SA/BA low. I've been practicing with SA/BA off, but I'm still not quite there yet. To achieve the perpetual, I had to cheat (oh dear lord, there's that word, hope I don't get banned) a little bit, with the pausing and all...

Here's the video that got me inspired: