Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-27109924-20151105090922/@comment-27109924-20151114044312

Taised wrote: LussoBerlinetta wrote: Not true. Don't discourage a potential rank A racer! (:

@Taised Have you turned all assists off? Things like this steal over a second on a track like Richmond or Indy.

Thanks, i'm not discouraged. I forgot to turn off traction control indeed.... but with TC off is even harder: the car slide a lot, i'm not used to.

I've not enough gold to instant upgrade the car for Indy, so i'll stay with my B and 1.3 sec away.

I can work on 24h, but it's a long race and it's easy to make an error. I'm at +11 sec and i know i can do better... but it's hard to make a perfect run. I think once you turn all assists off, then improvements will come fast.

If you use cloud save before you start your sessions, and then restore once you finish, you can fully upgrade or even buy the car the top 10 leaders are using in the WTT that week.

You must have a generous gold holding, from my brief experience, you need about 2,400g to buy + fully upgrade a car you might not have, then spend gold on fast repairs and the numerous attempts. So that is a crucial point. (And to have the cars available for purchase by opening the required series.. Someone on level 50 will not be able to compete each week)

Anyways, once the assists are off and the car is fully upgraded, you have the same car as the top 100 ranks in the World. Then it's just a matter of hours learning brake points, and trying to match leaders ghosts (by racing their ghost, the orange button near their name, in the leaders table)

I am almost always behind the ghost, so I glance at my trailing time before a corner, and then again after, to gauge what improvement I need. If it was + 0.40 and jumps to + 0.65, I know I need to adjust my braking point, or acceleration point if time is still rising to say +0.80 etc, or both.. Then memorise the braking points, I normally use the signs along the track or shadows on the road as my trigger brake points..

Ultimatelly for me its all then a question of math as well as entertainment and achievement. Do I race 4x for 30 mins at LeMans to level up for a 35g, and repeat 3x to get 105g, total of 6 hours invested, or spend hours getting into team A, by studying and trying to replicate the leaders ghost, for 100g (possibly 200g if you have 2 devices it seems!!?) Not to mention the monotony of the 6 hour farming as compared to the satisfing glow of making the team A achievement:)

But for many people the required time to invest will make it impossible to make the team A I think.

This week was a tough week for me due to personal issues, so I had no time or mood to learn LeMans in the 2009 Porshe.. But I did in the end spend about 3 to 4 hours in total, till on one lap I didn't slip off towards the end.. I drove the last sections as if delivering eggs, so left lot of time to improve, but in the hours spent i learned to keep up to the leaders ghost to within 0.50 to 1 secs for about 2+mins of the initial race..

Plus LeMans time will be the key track for the next 4 weeks, as its the longest and over 3 mins. No point trying to shave 0.1 secs at Richmond when you can carve a full second off in LeMans.. Personally i will try to set a better time here, and then hopefully next 3 weeks that will assure me a good chance at team A. So the investment here in countlessly trying in the 2009 Porshe is definitely worth while imo.