Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-85.243.168.194-20160108005847/@comment-26715739-20160109074910

For the record (and just to close this out) - my "team" actually ended up in the top 2000, so I got a further R$1.25M.

I put a stopwatch on while I was specifically doing overtakes. The first run was approx. 550 overtakes in 51 minutes. The second run pushed me over the 1600 mark after 87 minutes (total 138 minutes - less than 2.5 hours). In between I was watching ads and slowing bots.

Because I am trying to keep my win stats relatively high I was slowing using a H2H as being easiest to control - which is why my total play time was nearer 3.5 hours.

I was finishing the 4 laps anywhere between about 2:48 and 3:02. Worst result from a single race was 31 cars lapped, best result 37. Modal was likely either 34 or 35. PR was 62.6 (had some surplus - ie above what's needed for 100%- during the event so put it into the car) - but given it was still possible to lap 31 cars in 3:00 I suspect it could have been done with R$ upgrades only in a comparable time.

My experience with Le Mans 10 lappers is that if you want to run it unserviced you're going to need allocate 35 minutes to be comfortable (keep the bots slow). Flat out you're looking at the underside of 30 minutes, but you'll need to have the car serviced. I've not done the investigations on what PR you need to keep under the 29 minute mark (so you're always ahead of the fastest bot - but given I've had complete nightmares where I was near 29 minutes in a 95.1 Porsche I'm wary of wasting the time and/or agent with something slower).

With agent you're getting 56.8/57.2K (EK/EC) less an approximate 6100 to account for using the agent - so I usually say 51K per race. Again using standard guess at fame/gold conversion of 6100 that's a bit over 8 gold per race (or approximately 17 per hour - with a serviced car). You're down to about 15/hour if you run unserviced with slow bots.

So for the event specific work I had a theoretical return of approx. 66 from 2.5 hours input time. Obviously I then had the extra time for slowing bots so it ended up more like 3.5 hours track time. The extra wins probably give me an extra 6100 fame, so say 67 from 3.5 hours. A return of 19.

I think it's always worth having a look at the team event bonuses to see if it is feasible and how it compares to running Le Mans. Here I believe it was a clear winner, but because of the "Le Mans burnout" factor if a team event is merely ballpark in terms of returns it could be worth doing.

From what I've seen on other challenges though I suspect that it is only ever going to be overtaking challenges where it is worth spending time running a solo team as the payout won't be good enough for other challenges.

We shall see what's possible with the next team challenge - something with unassisted laps. "Kingdom Cup" - anyone have any guesses on what that might involve? Which Kingdom? United Kingdom maybe? (laps around Brands Hatch and Silverstone?)