Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-27109924-20161129030305/@comment-26388545-20170119164558

118.100.139.2 wrote: i try with the all assist off and sensitivity 10 but the result still dissappointing. maybe i not expert driver. hahaha. i should try with porshe or ferrari.. in audi i did good with 5 lap maintain 80 sec but after that is diffcult.

so i need to cut corner from start or after 5 laps. please help again

RandyMc wrote: Has anyone discovered a way to manipulate bots in the endurance races in a similar fashion as bot slowing in a cup race? By that, I mean a pretty much guaranteed payout worthy of hiring the agent. Or is it purely chance? I remember someone mentioning they used to wait X number of seconds before starting the P1-GTR Indy event, but I think that was before FM messed with it. Any chance someone has found another helpful trick?

I have one answer for both of your questions. I will answer the general first, then get into specifics. I will try to explain all my thinking in the specifics, so this will get long!

With the Audi and the 918, I suggest running hard and cutting right from the start. You need to be careful the first 3 laps, as some of the bots are very slow. Try to stay undamaged at least until you get past the difficult part. I don't recall exactly when that is, but around lap 15 to 20 the bot pattern normalizes. Meaning you will get X amount of cars every lap (I don't know exactly how many). Experienced drivers can run normal laps at first, and then start cutting later. HOWEVER, that ended my run early when running in the Audi & the 918 sometimes. If I went flat out from the start, I was fine every time.

There is a constant in every Endurance race. It has nothing to do with how far you have to go to get 1st place. I've ran my P1 GTR over 1100 times, so I am confident in this. You start with very easy bots and eventually get very hard bots. There are several levels of difficulty in-between of course, but it's always the same. You will get a certain amount of each bot every time before getting the next level of bots. Once you get to the hardest bots, the pattern will normalize. For the 1st 5 laps at Indy, I get the exact same pattern every single time. I encounter the same car, at the same spot on the track every time. After 5 laps it begins to randomize.

For some reason, how you run the first 5 or 10 laps effects the bot layout later. Example: Run time conscious at Indy in the P1 GTR and you will never get past 90 km (56 miles). What I mean by time conscious is, never passing when your clock is above 80 seconds. I could get 84km to 85km every time, but no further. The bots don't bunch up if you run that way. Run flat out from the start and by lap 7 you should be getting groups of bots. The danger is they crash, but you need that to keep going in that race. I again got 180km yesterday, it is very hard. All this assuming your P1 GTR is fully upgraded

So then, in the FXX K I can run my first laps fully on track and then make up the difference later. What I mean is, when my clock is getting in trouble (50 range for me), I can start running hard with cutting and get my clock over 90 quickly. I find that harder in the 918 and very hard in the Audi.

I had a strange anomaly my last race in the FXX K though. I kept running on track as much as possible, running time conscious. Then I started getting groups of 4 bots VERY close to each other. I have never seen that at the Porshce track. I would lag behind until my clock got to 50, then pass all 4 by cutting a corner. I would run the bus stop hard, but not cut either corner a lot of the time. I also had a car just APPEAR in front of me while in the middle of the bus stop. One other time a car appeared right after I crossed the start/finish line (weeks ago). The only difference I can think of is that I kept my car undamaged until about 100km. So I think it's the same phenomena that happens in the Indy race. You can get groups of bots.