Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-26388545-20150627162642/@comment-81.98.183.12-20150627221201

What I have seen:

1) Spawning of each crew member does not depend on the others. I held back from using the engineer for several weeks and have recently started using that crew member again - it has made no difference to the period of time it takes to respawn a free agent or manager. Moreover the respawn time for the agent and the engineer (who now seem to get used at the same time) is the same (ie they both seem to be available again at more or less the same time).

2) use of the manager is complicated by wanting to use it in conjunction with the daily bonus - I seem to be able to run the conjunction once every 3 days - the manager spawns more regularly than this - but after I've already run the daily race

It seems to me that you get each a new crew member roughly 48 hours after you've actually cashed it in - this means that if you run your daily race at the same time each day that you can only use the manager every 3 days. So I very often get the manager spawning *just after* I've run my daily race.

the "help" talks about crew wanting to help more if you win more - but I suspect that there is a ceiling on this that is very easy to hit. Also you definitely aren't required to win to get the crew - I've had crew appear after finishing dead last, and crew often appear overnight.

I think "wins" matters, but not really very much.

ie there are 2 variables:

1) variable 1 is "wins" - but this is a really low baseline, probably needing to have won xn (where x is the number of races you have to have won and n is the number of free crew members you've been given)

2) time since last crew member used. This is the main one, and if you have won plenty of races is essentially inelastic.

So the formula is probably:

time to next free crew member = minimum time * max(n/x, 1)

the below is all conjecture - I've no idea what the actual numbers are, I think the point is that it probably doesn't matter what the number are from a "race wins" perspective (so long as you have a lot)...

say you need to win 10 races to get a free crew member, and minimum wait time is 48 hours, and you've already had 50 free crew members.

If you've won 200 races then it's

time to next free crew member = 48 hours * max(50*10/200, 1), then your wait time would be 48*2.5 (there's probably a minimum too, but no idea what that is)

but the thing is by the time you start noticing the free crew you've probably won 1000 races so it ends up being more like

time to next free crew = 48 * max(500/1000, 1) - ie you're always waiting 48 hours.

so I don't think it is possible to speed up getting crew in any way, but you should try to use them as quickly as possible so you get new crew.

For the free manager - it may help to try to stagger your first race of the day (eg start at 10am on the first day you use the manager then start at 12noon 2 days later) - but I wouldn't go out of my way to make sure it happened.