Talk:Balance of Power/@comment-28169398-20180225221953

One of the recurring themes of the SEs from the end of the year is that some of the fixed goals were sometimes easier with higher upgrades. So for example, below Recommended PR for the tier Zoé might be 1 or 2kph faster on a speed snap than when you were at recommended PR.

The knock on effect was that in order to beat the goal, you needed to go faster, finish in less time, etc, and that often affected bot slowing. This is all empirical based on observing ME7 and Speed Junkie's targets compared to my own. I would tend to be at PR for most stages and had easier targets than they did. ME7 was more effective at bot slowing than I was, so sometimes he'd have an easier go of it, but more often, with a few exceptions, my targets were lower.

All that said, one of the ideas being bounced around was to upgrade as much as you thought you would need for the entire event in the earliest stage so that targets were as low as they could be and bot slowing would be even more effective, as your wins would be less than the times, speeds if you had to win at a lower PR. It is kind of counterintuitive, because the more you upgrade early on, the slower you get to go.... Huh! Only in The Kingdom of The Firemonkeys....