Talk:Time Shifted Multiplayer/@comment-144.24.20.233-20150625100349

I'm aware of 49 bots in the standard set. The fastest bot I'm aware of is "Rattlesnack", the slowest bot is "Moises Gabby".

For me, I'm geneally looking to get the bots down to a point where Existent is the fastest bot. When I'm at that point I usually feel fairly comfortable that it will relatively easy to win with any event (other than speed snap and some speed record) with an unserviced car (albeit usually with fully R$ upgrades).

For most of the events it is fairly clear how your result feeds into the TSM algorithm - but it's unclear to me if/how elimination feeds in (with a win). Does it look at distance covered? Size of lead? Anyone done any experiments with this? I'm reasonably sure it does something - ie you tend not to race the same bots again next time after a win, but does it improve incrementally (one bot better) or significantly?

I tend to try to block the bots so we cover less distance and then when down to 1 v1 block the last bot so the distance is minimal. It's also a good strategy to reduce the need to service, because you can completely lose your clean race bonus (from the other cars ramming to get past) and yet still pick up almost no "wear and tear".