Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-28401107-20170327144046/@comment-29898480-20170328153457

Mugwumps wrote: RR3G&#039;hamO. wrote: Kinda shows which is easier to do well at doesn't it :) I don't think one is easier than the other from a driving perspective but for endurance it is a more level playing field and is open to a wider vareity of cars.  The problem with the cups are 1) total time is going to be influenced by bot speed, which can vary to extreme degrees, 2) corner cutting has no penalty in cups; in endurance it is advantageous in some places but less so than cups, 3) cups tend to have a clear top dog so if you don't have that car and have it well upgraded, there isn't much point. For the Cup leaderboards I've participated in, there's either been a gentlemen's agreement not to cut (or at least note it if you do) or they were run on tracks where cutting is either not possible (HK), generally not advantageous (Dubai GP), or hard to pull off effectively and better not to try (Mt Panorama). I had thought that for some of the Endurance races that cutting is integral to strategy, such as Porsche Test-Track and Le Mans.

Regarding bots, if you're repetitively running the Cup for lowest time then you're going to have really good bots, and at least for me it boils down to running it online (which minimizes backmarkers you have to lap) or running if offline (faster to clear the field at the beginning). This may be different for folks with teammates, which I don't have, except my daughter but she's not even close to being a factor.

You definitely need the right car, either FU'd or nearly so.

I've been pondering getting involved in an Endurance leaderboard, to try something different and see what it's like. I haven't selected a track/car combo to work on yet. I really only have the bandwidth to work on one event at a time.