Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-26388545-20190227011802/@comment-26388545-20190304172123

This event is over, but I found this math I worked out still on my laptop! Rather than pressing delete, I decided I would post it here for reference. Who knows, maybe they will give this to us again in the future??

The question that we often mull over is whether to run many 10 lap Le Mans races or 1 looong Porsche Short track race. I made this chart to illustrate the benefits of doing 1 looong race. It may be a bit convoluted, so I'll explain what I did.

The first chart is based on earning 535 fame per lap. That's driving a bit sloppy. The Porsche race pays 600 fame per lap when you stay on the track the entire time and finish in 1st place. You don't earn anything while off track, so fame per lap drops. You CAN skip some cuts to earn more fame per lap, but then your fame per minute goes down. In the end I find that it works out to be about the same.

There are collums for both 8x and 6x. This is important because the gold you get is based on the 8x figure. The fame you get to keep is based on the 6x number. The difference between these 2 figures is 642,000 fame!!

The 2nd chart shows the 10 lap Le Mans figures for both the 2014 and 2015 LMP1 races. The first section shows you the amount of fame and totals it. Since you can't keep the 8x figure, I put it over in a separate box. The difference between the 6x and 8x figure is much less then at Porsche Short! Best case scenario it's 57,600 which is over 11x less than 642,000!!


 * I show 12 races as that is how many you would have to run to much the time frame of 600 laps that I ran.


 * Keep in mind that you either have to hire the Manager all the time, watch 6 adds to service the car every time or use a hybrud strategy of using several cars. At some point you have to use many a 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc., time


 * I assumed that you use a free Manager for the firat race in both charts


 * Because you HAVE to run 11 more races, you need to hire the Agent 11 more times. The other option is that you would run 22 more races rather than just 11. That adds a LOT more time and makes the one long race even more beneficial!

FINALLY:

You risk losing a LOT of time when running one looong race! If the game crashes, your done. If you simply leave the game for a few seconds, it MIGHT crash. I only have one device, so I needed to time this where I shouldn't have had any incoming calls or important texts. Running on a separate device is much prefered. Having an app that will keep your screen on the entire time is very good for when you take breaks or sleep. I used an app like that and left the game for 6 hours while I slept without issue.