Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-2A02:810D:4740:B140:9DA4:8607:126A:DA72-20180530111511/@comment-35745775-20180601131329

Well being as the game actually continuosly ranks us all against its databank of bots, this would seem to be as legitimate as place to start as any!

Whilst I understand all of the drawbacks, provisos and pitfalls of such a method, as pointed out in the contributions above, I and others above have also pointed out some of the drawbacks of the WTTT method.

No ranking method will ever be perfect to describe the ability of a player, but considering differing aspects (e.g. TT laboratory environment vs. race environment) would seem to me to be helpful, and help others to give more targeted advice and tips - after all, that is what the Forum is all about, isn‘t it?

So for those who are still interested, here are my results so far: - Method, 1st rule: Only use Exclusive Series. Thanks to those contributors who pointed out the advantages to this. - Method, 2nd rule: Always use last cup race. - Method, 3rd rule: Drive this race and only this race many times in a row (10 at least I would say), trying your best to achieve the best lap times and overall time, with no intended cheating (e.g. intentional shortcuts, intentional crashes to push openents off-track etc.) but some contact allowed to defend line and occasional honest mistakes. - Method, rule 4: Do your very best to stay „on track“ at all times.

Rule 4 is clearly tricky, but I think most of us have a pretty good idea as to what counts as „off track“, especially those who have been playing a while.

Based on the above method, here are my results so far; 1) BMW M3 GTS @ Porsche Test Track (ES, Tier 16.1): I have ran this many times over 2 days. My best lap times are just under 1:25 on a good race. Best overall finishing time was 5:52.xxx and typically I finish under 5:55, always first.

Result: This has led to RattleSnack being the top off-line bot, and I can‘t seem to push it any higher. In fact whereas initially the bots regularly got better from race to race, they have now started to pendelum, depending on how good my last race was. Occasionally I get Darknezz as the top off-line in the line up. So those are bots 3 and 4.

2) Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 @ Daytona Int. Speedway (ES, Tier 16.3): Again I have ran this many times over the last 2 days with the same philosophy. Best overall finishing time was 07:30.xxx, typically I finish under 07:40, traffic is more of a problem on this one, I always finish first.

Result: This has led to RattleSnack being the top off-line bot and it is now penduling between RattleSnack and Darknezz, though I‘m seeing Darknezz more often as the top off-line bot than RattleSnack. So those are bots 3 and 4 again.

Two different cars, two different tracks, and a very similar result. That‘s a pretty good correlation!

I was initially expecting to eventually get impossible bots, but that seems to not be the case, in fact I am still hoping to eventually see auralpod, but so far not, only on-line bots which are a bit faster than the top off-line one (I guess this is the game fine tuning the bot line up).

I will also eventually try the same method with my other two ES cars (Nissan Skyline, Audi R8 LMS).

As a general observation I usually have all the bots behind me before the end of lap 1. So for the above two races this results in a mix of roughly 20-25% traffic conditions and 75-80% conditions very similar to WTTT (i.e. flying start, no other cars).

AH

It would be interesting if anyone else also cares to try the same method!