Talk:The Daytona 500/@comment-26942592-20160227145120

Interesting update from an iOS user.......

Have been playing for the second car. As usual, I was struggling at 7.5 despite...

1) winning by very thin margins right from the start (and deliberately losing a lot of times), and

2) a fully R$ upgraded car (+36gc B2 upgrade + cash B3 upgrade)

Fastest bot at 7.5 was clocking 3:52 (shown 'before' start of race; actual finish was around 3:38).

After a lot of retries, I decided to go ahead with two gc upgrades (B2 and TW2, worth 70 gcs) and two subsequent R$ upgrades.

Now, here comes the interesting part....

Once the four upgrades were complete, the goal at 7.5 dropped to 4:12!! That's a straight -10% change in bot speeds. What's even more interesting - I was now allowed to lower the goal by doing pause-quit-retry!!! So much so that I brought it down to 5:20 by repeating quit-retry about 20 times. Needless to say, victory was a cakewalk then on (anybody could have won this goal with a non-upgraded, fully trashed car!). This continued to 7.6 and I completed it with very little effort.

Well done FM... that was so below the belt! You might as well have asked players (perhaps iOS users, in particular?) to surrender 100 gcs in return for each 'free' car :p). Would have at least spent this time enjoying some other races on RR3 (assuming I had nothing better to do!)

Just as an aside... the car was a pleasure to drive around the banked corners AFTER the brake and tyre/wheel upgrades. Overtaking bots became a breeze. :)