Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-25956839-20150603081720/@comment-46.7.164.106-20150616202929

RR3 Michael P wrote:

46.7.164.106 wrote: 23hrs left for me now and 9.6 is absolutely killing me. I havent had to pay for any skips but I may have to on this one. ( currently have 196 gold). Tried tilt a, b etc. Tried 3 GC u/gs - no better. The bots are way too fast cant get higher than 11th place, ok maybe 8th at best,  and tires worn after lap 1 - if they go to 30% they are useless anyway - I end up off track and down to 0%. This is just IMPOSSIBLE (and I only took about 4 hours to do the "dont look at my porche or you'll scratch it" stage 9.5 . What to do now ? - jfd The key is to lower the AI before you reach 10.6, see tips for Stage 10, as you can see from the pic, I managed to overtake John for 1st on the first lap. It's well worth spending 30 mins in 10.3 deliberately loosing and holding up the bots in 10.4. Remember the target is to win the 950 car.

Ok - restored the car back to 1 GC up 92.9 (10 of 24). Skipped 9.6. Did 9.7, 10.1, Skipped 10.2, Did 10.3, 10.4, sleep, did 10.5, Skipped 10.6 after 2 failed attempts (only getting to 9th place) as I had only 1 hour left. Figuring out how to do doughnuts took another 15 minutes. Took the car home with 40 minutes left. Overall main costs were: skip 9.5 = 35 skip 10.2 = 40 skip 10.6 = 40 1 x service = 10 lost 3 gc on 10.6 I was roughly 200 GC at stage 9, Finished up with 103 GC and Nissan LMP. (one leveling up +22 so real cost was about 128 GC for the car and any other early stage GC was used pretty much to pay Auto Engineer upkeep throughout)

I would say that its difficult to change from the "No I wont spend a single GC" miser mindset to the "lets go shopping at the mall as these GCs are burning a hole in my pocket" mindset. But as you say, Michael, its a 950GC car and thats nearly a 90% saving.

Currently Im Level 93 - near end of Elite. Started Nov 2014. Android Medion Lifetab. Keep up the good work with this forum. Its helpful especially when you feel you're not progressing. Oh and Stage 3.1 was almost impossible too but I got there after 20 or 30 attempts - all to save 10GC on a skip. - jfd