Talk:The Gauntlet (Season 4)/@comment-26942592-20160330080903

Update (and a few tips) from an iOS user.................

1) done with 16 upgrades, 8 runs (deliberately used more runs since there were many tickets to spare). furthest challenge reached 31. wasted a total of 14 hrs ;), over a span of 3 days.

2) hardest challenges were at Daytona, followed by Richmond. The rest (including Indy) seemed pretty easy/manageable with modest effort.

3) Boss 7 (Richmond 12-lapper) was an interesting one. Was too tough with 16 upgrades. So, just ran two laps backwards ramming into the leading bots. Started racing again and I was in the lead by 6th lap. By the end of 12th lap, I was ahead of the next bot (Jarvis) by about 5.2 km!! Waited for him to catch up and then won by ~50m margin.

Tips:

3) managed bots right from the first race, by blocking and pitting them as much as posible.

4) during most races, force-closed the app upon seeing the green baner ('Completed')... mostly to preserve car condition, and sometimes to avoid raising bot speeds (whenever I finished with higher margin, during speed snaps etc).

I lost valuable Fame points by doing this, especially in longer Boss races at Daytona/ Indy/ Richmond, but it was much better than waiting forever to get the cars serviced :).

5) used a large no. of ads to shorten wait times (approx. 43 ads in the last 48 hrs). if you are not getting enough ads, please follow the advice posted earlier on this page.

How I usually do it:

1. watch all the ads available to earn GCs.

2. when "Sorry, presently there are no offers......" message pops up, I force-close the app. Upon re-opening I usually get at least one more ad. I repeat this 'ad-view-->force-close' routine till the 'FREE' banner (top right, home screen) disappears. This usually yields up to 5-6 extra ads.

3. go to Settings-->Privacy-->Advertising-->Reset Advertising ID and reset the ad id [this is the path for iOS. Pl check previous posts for Android]. This resetting might get a few more ads... but my experience has been inconsistent on this.

Once GCs are earned...

I start using the 'Reduce wait time by 30%' option and follow the same process (as above) to maximize ad views. Doing this, I have earned 20 GCs and used about 24 ads to reduce wait times in the last 24 hrs (could have extracted more ads but I did not need to since I already won the car). Not sure if this might impact my adv view/ GC earnings in the next few days though ;).

Thanks everyone for the helpful advice, and good luck to those of us still racing to win it!