Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-33870577-20190308175231/@comment-28169398-20190310063617

Cwilhite wrote: Isn’t the TSM in effect “bot difficulty”? If I want more of a challenge I run each event hard and try to win the early events as much as possible to get more challenging bots? They simulate based on a 100% difficulty bot (think auralpod, but maybe a little more difficult). Then what they do is they will validate the TSM times to the simulated time, and there is a certain percentage that they will allow for "more difficult" TSM bots (because there should be some humans that put up better results than the 100% bot).

This is to help prevent "impossible" targets generated by cuts, running backwards, perpetual endurances etc.

There are situations where the simulation was missed and there is no data. This happened in one of the Speed Records in the Testarossa ES. The target speed could only be achieved by reversing from the start because there was no sim data to validate that this was an invalid target.

Another place where this breaks down a bit is when you have friends. You can get friends targets that well exceed the simulated times... Want to pull your hair out, friend Speed Junkie, then try and get Speed Record on an event he used for a Team Challenge.... It should limit this to events where you already achieved the gold cup, but it doesn't always work.

You are correct, each series is evaluating your driver rating and presenting you with bots accordingly. If you ramp up the bots early on you will get to a point where you are racing against the most difficult bots.