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DrestinBlack wrote: Me7 - thank you for all your videos, mad appreciation for the effort. I caught a comment you made so I'll ask what I wasn't going to ask. You said you've literally run 10s of thousands of laps at Porsche short.

How do you keep from just going nuts from boredom? I find myself crashing because I get straight bored to tears. I have quit from daily play to once or twice a week, just killing my GC bank not because of being upset over cheating or economy but because I couldn't handle the mindless laps -- and I'm not even talking about farming! I pull into first in every race (except Endurance, obviously) usually by the second turn, never beyond the first lap. After that I'm just driving a car on, basically, an empty track. No competition, nothing but endless repetitious laps.

how do you keep it interesting? Hello Drestin. Sorry I didn’t reply earlier, for some reason this didn’t show up in the notification area.

I earned tons of fame and piles of gold running Porsche short track, but I’ve really burned out on that one. I’m not exaggerating when I say that I’ve run tens of thousands of laps. One race alone I did 600 alone. But it’s pretty hard for me to do it now. I guess I kind of overdid it!

Before that I used to run 10 laps Le Mans minimum once a day, every day. When double fame weekends used to happen I would run it 9 to 10 hours a day! I would actually close my eyes for 3 to 4 seconds on the long straights to rest, LOL. I completely burned out on that race as well. However I now run that more often than I do Porsche short track.

The MP4-X at Le Mans is so hard for me. It’s interesting but frustrating. I haven’t mastered it yet. I don’t do it on bonus fame days because an hour can go by and I’m still restoring from the cloud to try to get a decent run. It ends up being so incredibly frustrating.

How do I keep it interesting? Finding new endless endurance races for one. I also got a lot better at OMP racing and that’s kind of enjoyable. I changed my focus 18 to 24 months ago with my YouTube channel. That change of focus helped. I would’ve quit if not for that. I started making videos to try to help people and that’s been pretty interesting. I talk to people all over the world at different points. For instance, I was just answering questions from a Russian fellow who only spoke Russian. Google translate has come a long ways!

Then I found sort of an artistic outlet with editing tools for YouTube videos and that added another level to this game. The whole EA game changers program was a surprise and that’s added interest as well. Even making my racing Facebook profile public and getting hundreds of people to race against adds something. Kind of like when I used to be on race teams, but way more people.

At some point in my future I will not be involved in this game, that’s just a reality. Either EA I will move on or I will move on. For now it’s interesting enough & enjoyable enough that I’m still around. However other people have moved on, there’s nothing wrong with that.