Talk:Veyron Community Challenge/@comment-33275462-20171019011220

After reading some of the comments suspecting monkey business on the laps per hour, I have to say that I'm not convinced that's the case. And believe you me, there isn't much love lost between me and them.

For me, driving the Bugatti is a welcome change to farming LeMans. The rewards aren't the only thing that drive me to participate. I see this as a nice opportunity to learn more in-depth the little secrets of another car, which is very, very different to my Nismo.

After completing the LTS I did some runs on the 18.2 10-lapper cup, but then I switched to 20.2 Endurance. When I started playing 20.2, I did six laps most of the time, and if I was lucky I could make 7 laps. Now I complete 8 laps on every run (unserviced, of course), and I consider not reaching lap 9 a failure. This is much more satisfying to me than running LeMans, plus I get to quit whenever I want, while if I start LeMans I have to drive for half an hour on a track that bores me to death.

So, some calculations. I add 8 laps to my total every 5'30", which is almost 11 runs per hour. This adds upwards of 80 laps to my total every hour, and I perversely enjoy watching the meter climb. Plus, it doesn't hurn my fame: Every run is about 4100 fame, so it's a total of 7+ gold per hour. I know it isn't anywhere near LeMans, but it's not THAT bad.

I think there must be a lot of players who, having completed the LTS, have started trying to get to their 450 laps, and this alone may justify the constant increase of laps per hour we see. Add to this the weirdos who enjoy running with the Bugatti for peanuts (I can't be the only one), plus the autopilot trick, it doesn't sound so fishy as to suspect the monkeys monkeying around with the laps.

Now, regarding the autopilot trick, do we need to state the obvious? There are ways to send touch events to your device (and to the game), and I'm sure it's extremely easy for anyone to program just three DOWN_AND_UP key events every 7 minutes. 300+ laps while you sleep ain't bad.