Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-26388545-20180706150024/@comment-34314527-20180707223417

Amrosa wrote: Biscuits N&#039; Pulp wrote: I'm now hating that this was my favourite car as a kid. If it wasn't for that I wouldn't have gone for it. I got the car with 1333333 with skipping 6.4. No way I could do it without going for hours and hours. Zoe does a 3:54 when I quit right away, yet when I do a 3:36 she does a 3:32. Eventually (Years from now maybe) I will upgrade the GT1 and I doubt 2 more engine upgrades closes the 4 seconds I needed. I mention that on the Event page. The time that you see with the immediate quit is a baseline, but running the full race is always faster.

What you need to do is look at the Delta between quits to see if she, and the rest of the bots, is getting slower.

There is probably some formula that is used to calculate bot race time that has a variable that is over-represented when the DNF is at the beginning of the race that causes a slower posted time with a DNF than with a complete race. The DNF time for Zoé before I ran the full race was ~4:12. For the race she had a 3:47, but that was more than slow enough for me to catch her, as my fast laps were in the > 1:10 range. Since I was well under PR she wasn't budging under 3:52 range. Another example where upgrading to recommended PR is a huge, huge help. I would have finished 10 seconds in front if she did a time like that. I'm not one to try 'borrowing' an upgrade in case it doesn't work. I just took my pill and paid 60 GC for the skip instead of trying the 44 to get 2 Engine upgrades in case she didn't slow down any because there's no way those upgrades would get me 4 seconds faster.