Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-40193863-20190718123247/@comment-31600610-20190725062210

After checking the links and quickly scouring the text, I see that there's a lot of confusing and sometimes conflicting information. Let's make this more user friendly:

In a nutshell, yes, playing offline will help quite a bit.

You can learn more about TSM opponents here: Time Shifted Multiplayer

Rohsenberg's link to "How to slow bots down?" covers a vast amount of information that may be irrelevant to your question, so I've copied and pasted the basics for you:

"The methods seem to change from event to event, others are fixed goals, so bot management doesn't work, in them. Start with the best method, watch the bot times are reducing, if retry stops slowing / lowering the bots try continue and re-enter, go down the list and try each one in turn.
 * 1) As soon as the red light turns green, pause, quit and retry. (nil car damage)
 * 2) As soon as the red light turns green, pause, quit, continue and re-enter (nil car damage)
 * 3) As soon as the race starts cross the start line, wait for the timer (in Endurance and Elimination events or come 4th in Drag Race) to run out. (low car damage)
 * 4) As soon as the race starts pass the last place car / position (in Endurance and Elimination events) then stop and wait for the timer to run out. (low car damage)
 * 5) Finish the event in a very slow time / distance / speed. (medium/high car damage)"

Powerup777 (A moderator here, and a heck of a guy) wrote this:

"Here's the current (8-15-2017) way to quickly purge TSM bots for those harder than heck races- no quitting your fav team or anything: This method has worked for many people. I think there are award issues with running not logged into social stuff, but who cares- you're advancing now with only built-in bots! Happy racing. Leave a message on my wall if it doesn't work. We'll see what we can do to help."
 * While connected to the internet (WIFI, Cellular, etc.), start Any event. As the race starts, but can be before the starting lights countdown, push pause.
 * Go to settings (the gear icon), an log out of all social logins.
 * Put your device in Airplane mode.
 * FC (Force Close) your game.
 * While still in airplane mode, launch RR3 again and start any race. Now the TSM bots are gone.
 * At any time, you can take your gadget out of airplane mode and re-login to your social network to restore your team membership. Until then, you will win the races as anonymous, but the results will still count when you log back in.

This should make it easier for you to follow. I myself was a little surprised at how much info there is to sift through. Hope this helps, and good luck 789samgreen!