Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-26388545-20180814201941

I noticed my distance traveled the other day hit 390,000 km (242,335 miles). "Big deal" I thought. Then I thought about the 3 1/2 years that I've played this game and wondered what my distance per day is...

305 km per day ?!?!

That can't be right... can it? The math is; 390,000 / (365 x 3.5) = 305.28

I started going though races in my head;
 * I drove thousands of km at Indy Speedway in the P1 GTR, no cutting
 * I have no idea how many Le Mans 10 lap races I did but there is a bit of cutting. I used to do 2 10's a day. On double fame weekends I would do 9 a day.
 * I drove tens of thousands of laps at Porsche Short with a lot of cutting. So maybe there's something to that.

Does "distance traveled" count only on-track driving like endurance races or does it count circuit length??

TESTING TIME!

For the tests I drove my McLaren MP4-X for exactly 1 lap around Porsche Short. That means stopping EXACTLY where I started. The track distance is 2.03 km. "Distance Traveled" does not show the 2nd decimal place, but I am fairly sure it still counts.


 * TEST 1 - Off-track as much as possible taking the OUTER most path for 1 lap. Endurance race traveled was 0.19 km. "Distance Traveled" increased by 2.1 km
 * TEST 2 - Off-track as much as possible taking the INNER most path for 1 lap. Endurance race traveled was 0.38 km. "Distance Traveled" increased by 1.9 km
 * TEST 3 - All on track for 1 lap. Endurance race traveled was 2.03 km. "Distance Traveled" increased by 2.0 km
 * TEST 4 - All on track for 1 lap, taking the widest line. Endurance race traveled was 2.03 km. "Distance Traveled" increased by 2.0 km
 * TEST 5 - 1 lap with the standard 2 off-track cuts and a straighter line through the "bus stop". Endurance race traveled was 1.83 km. "Distance Traveled" increased by 2.0 km

Conclusions :
 * A little inconsistent, but on average the "Distance Traveled" goes up by 2 km per lap no matter how I drive. It may actually go up by 2.03, but it just doesn't show it.
 * The actual distance driven between test 1 and 2 would have been much more than just 0.2 km. I drove FAR outside for test 1 and right on the inside walls for test 2. I'm chalking it up to a short term rounding error in the game.
 * Interesting that taking the longer line while on track (test 4) doesn't increase distance by even 0.01 km.
 * My distance traveled goes up an extra 0.2 km per lap for every lap I drive at Porsche Short. Doesn't sound like much, but after 10,000 laps that's another 2.000 km for my "Distance Traveled".

I still don't see how I drove that far per day though. Maybe the old Panorama glitch is part of it. There was a time where the game added 1 lap to every race you did there. I ran a 1 man solo team event there. In just 20 seconds (Elimination) it counted a whole lap PLUS the front straight I ran. Then there's every other race I ran there during the glitch. That's all I can figure...  Can you add anymore??



How far does the game say you drove??

To find out, just check this pic. First you click on the bottom left circled area, then on the top right circled triangle until it says "DISTANCE TRAVELED"

NOTE: Time played is of little help since every second you spend with the app open counts. So all the hours spent on vinyl designs, team chat and just looking around count. I used to leave the game open all night when I was low on gold to get more "Spend Time" achievement gold! 