Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-27109924-20161129030305/@comment-31409792-20170410184030

ME7 wrote: Nice charts Doc. I was reworking mine as well after some people commented. Perhaps we will get some overlap.

'''This starts to get murky, as you have to make more and more assumptions. To keep it simple I will go with the following;''' You will run the EK race twice in the same car. You hire the Mechanic and Agent for the 1st race and the Agent for the 2nd race. Since you need to hire the Agent for the FXX K, that one cancels out so 2 gold spent for LMP1. A value of 12,000 fame is then assigned to the 2 gold. Some go with 6000 fame = 1 gold. That isn't true in the early stage of the game but it looks pretty accurate for the later stages, so I used it. I added a 15 second loss to the Le Mans side for the time lost between races.

Other factors to consider ; •    To get the fastest LMP1 times you need a fully upgraded car. Most don't have one LMP1 fully upgraded let alone 2. Adjust your time accordingly and/or hire the Mechanic •    You lose time at the end and beginning of a race. If you hired the mechanic, you just press retry and only lose about 15 seconds. If you have another car to run you have to lose about 1 minute due to exiting the race, re-entering and choosing a new car.

So... the final column now shows how many minutes you have to run in the FXX K to match 2 Le Mans race. The 1st Le Mans race with the bonus fame from column 1 + the Agent, while the 2nd race features just the Agent.

Running 2 Le Mans races back to back in less than 26:39 would be very hard for most people. That would be 2 very clean races, no crashes. So that would mean you run Le Mans on 25% or less days.

HOWEVER...

I can run these times in my FXX K that got completely wrecked by lap 5 (worst case scenario)! I don't have to worry about nicking a lapped car once over the period of an hour at Le Mans. I can smash cars out of my way once in a while and still turn 540 fame/lap. Based on this, I will always run the FXX K unless I don't have an hour to spare. I think the critical metric to align our two approaches is the average lap time. What are you using for that? Your chart shows something important that I also found in mine, that no matter what the daily bonus is, the break even time is never less than ~45 minutes. Also, The break even point is much more dependent on the base fame/minute than it is on the daily fame bonus. That means that going from the 911 to the FXX K reduces the break even time MUCH faster than going from a 50% bonus to a 100% bonus.