Board Thread:Challenge Threads/@comment-27048832-20161215111631/@comment-31433854-20170309163959

SM Racer wrote: I'd like to participate. My only allergy is events that force you to "cheat" in order to be competitive, meaning shortcuts, crashing/pitting bots, running into or riding around walls, etc. It's part of the game and some people really like those techniques, but personally I don't enjoy going there. It's what has kept me away from the Endurance Leaderboards. I find this statement interesting. I fully agree with you, and generally stay away from the cups for the same reason. I'll drive TT lines, but I do wish those were a bit more realisitic. Anyway, it is precisely because of that that I started doing the endurance boards. I don't overly like the endurance events in games, but for this it really levels the playing field. Here is my thinking;

1) Everyone gets the same bots.  Sure, the goals for trophies are different, but the actual cars on the track are the same for everyone.

2) You can go off track, but you (and everyone else) are penalized for it.  Occasionally there are places where it can still be advantageous, unfortunately, but considerably less than in cups and certainly not on every track.  And with the clock ceiling, it is generally only a useful trick at the end of the run, further limiting how much there is to gain.

3) You can run any car.  As opposed to cup events where you already have limited choice and there is generally an obvious top dog, endurance events modify themselves based on the cars involved.  Maybe I'm still smarting from having my Zonda R dethroned by a Megane, but a 'lesser' car can still be competitive, especially when it is considerably faster than the other cars in the series.  It is true that faster cars still have an advantage, but it is not as extreme as a TT, for instance.

4) As an extenstion of (3) above, there is some creativity in trying to think through or test which car(s) and events provide an advantage.

5) while it is annoying that you can't go flat out from the beginning, at least you can pretend you're just conserving tires ;)