Talk:The Gauntlet (Season 10)/@comment-28622501-20161211131931

Post Gauntlet: As I got the car for free and I didn't have to finish this one, I had time to make a few investigations on bot slowing at the Gauntlet. That's where I started: I was stuck at Boss challenge 30 with R$ upgrades and had a cloud save of challenge 29. So I could start from here, doing series of fresh attemts with variations of bot slowing. Eventually I ran up to Boss 2.

That's what I found: 1. Lose a challenge with high margin, paying and redoing it: Bots don't get any slower after several repeats. 2. Redoing a challenge after cloud restore: no effect after several repeats. 3. Restart a new attempt (challenge 1) directly or first lose with high margin: no significant difference. 4. Winning with high or low margin: very strong effect. In hunters I could even see some difference at margins below 5m! 5. Blocking: very surprisingly, blocking didn't yield any additional effect on winning with low margin! 6. Interaction of Boss and Non-Boss races: Definietly yes. Both ways. Speeding in Boss challenges speeds up Non-Boss challenges and vice versa. Summary: always win with VERY low margin. All other bot slowing techniques are of no or very little use in Gauntlets. (my disclaimer on the last).