Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-25956839-20150603081720/@comment-144.24.20.233-20150618105534

I think he's saying he retired and then he took the "times" shown after retirement as "gospel" for what the target time would end up being.

Which obviously they (the times shown on retirement) aren't (accurate that is) (as has been discussed many times before on these forums) - because RR3 has some very weird algorithm for determining how the bots race after you retire - it seems to extrapolate based on current race pace (which is bad if they're on a corner).

It has some very weird ways of doing things anyway - I've seen properly completed 2 lap races with bots that the results say have done things like fastest lap 3 minutes, total time 5 minutes (so 2 minutes isn't faster than 3 minutes now?).

In 10.6 because they're using the LM drivers names rather than the bots we know, you can't as easily see the "slow down" happening (as you can with, for example 10.3, because you get both the change in bot names and the target distance provided up front).

If he's racing "flat out" in the races he finishes then he's probably not seeing that much of a slow down either because RR3 will see it as a "competitive" time and rank him highly (especially if he's online) - and therefore not slow down as much.

Retirement in an event usually only drops the bots 1 skill level. Posting an actual time uses the normal TSM alogorithms. So if you post an actual time to slow it - lose big! (as explained in the TSM article)