Talk:Endurance Gauntlet/@comment-26223841-20150319201634

Either the Gauntlet has been badly coded or the game is randomly cheating. I got to day 5 after really enjoying the challenges then hit the drag race. Opponents were on average doing 11.00 seconds plus or minus about 0.2. As others reported, repeatedly trying meant the bots offline got slower and slower, got my first win and then had to do something else. When I came back, the bots were back to 11 seconds and despite repeated trying online and offline never shited from this. The game also seemed to be using a very very small group of bots and time shifted players. I did all the usual things to try and lower my standing and nothing worked. I tested the effect of spending 55 gold on upgrading and all it did was making the opponents faster - the time difference of about 0.5 second was the same. Needless to say I restored my save after this so as not to lose the gold. I could be charitable and assume this was poor coding. Or I could be uncharitable and assume that a random fraction of us are selected and forced to cough up gold to progress (45 GC to pass this level). I am not prepared to put up with either so will leave the Gauntlet - but a pity as I was looking forward to the next restricted fuel challenge. I won't be stopping playing yet as most of the game is still very enjoyable and a fair challenge. And to be fair I don't spend much on the game as not spending is one of the best challenges of the game. I would by the way be quite happy to pay for my enjoyment but the software has a game model that doesn't allow for this. I would be interested in how many other people hit this brick wall. Because if it is not lousy coding, I will be off next time it happens. As it was I spent well over an hour mindlessly running the race over and over again until I ran the service strip into the red. Never once did I get close to winning.