Talk:Motorfiesta 2/@comment-159.205.253.197-20180911150917

Just passed 9.2-9.5 in 2.5 hours, ca. 5h before deadline. To do this, I had to seriously rearrange my day, but I wasted too much time on the SE already to bail out now. To date, this has been the most frustrating SE I ever took part in, and I did complete Carbon Copy (with just 1 skip). My initial strat was to go to all 3's ASAP and just cruise through. I was able to pass most of stages 1-7 in one go (7.4 the only serious outlier), though almost always by small margins, which made me a bit apprehensive of what might come.

1) To give ppl a 3-lapper on a notoriously fast, windy circuit, with a tight time limit and skid/offtrack restrictions is harsh. It took me ages to make it in 3:57.0, and while I did eventually make it in 3:56.3 (foot off the gas at the end), I'm quite sure I forgot all about what allowed me to win it.

2) To follow 8.4 with 9.2, another tightly-timed, restricted race on another fast, but even more windy circuit, borders on silliness. I spent over 1.5h on this one event, and came close to quitting then and there.

3) To top it off, winning 9.3 is actually not at all about knowing the track, but only about knowing how to hit your opponents to push them away and lose as little momentum as possible. I won it because I landed a controlled blow on Zoe's rear (ahem) at the hairpin. (I'd prefer these things to be more consensual.)

4) To make matters even more annoying, 9.4 is another tightly restricted race that sets a pretty high goal for most drivers. It took me almost an hour, mostly because it's very hard to *not* skid *at all* when all you're trying to do is muster as much speed as possible for as long as possible.

I'm not saying SEs should be easy, but while the game is built to encourage both skilled and unskilled drivers, this SE was built to appeal to a fairly narrow cohort of drivers who are either highly skilled or very perceptive. I appreciate the learning potential of a challenging SE, but if the student is constantly frustrated, he will learn a lot less. For me, a good way to curb the frustration would be to extend the time limit for SEs, say, by a third. If I had the luxury of being able to return to 9.2 even just tomorrow, so only a day beyond the 9-day limit, I'd be a far happier player and person. Because this series is so unbalanced, the rigid goals clumped together, I can't really enjoy my victory, or the fact that I didn't skip a single race along the way.

Player lvl 127, 114/229 cars, WTTT D most of the time.