Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-32545704-20170806214411

Started the Furai event late and am about to finish stage 3 with 1111101 upgrades. Interesting thing is, I am able to slow bots by losing repeatedly, wasn't expecting this would be possible. I've tried bot slowing on other recent special events and it didn't work. On stage 3 goal 4 head to head I've got Friedmann's time from 1.24.6 to 1.26.3 by losing about 10-15 times. Not a huge difference but hopefully it pays off later.

Must have been so much easier in the past, I finished the Asterion flashback with 0 upgrades and a lot of bot slowing, too much in the end it was overkill!

If bot slowing does work in the newer events, the increments by which the targets change are certainly a lot smaller. There are also a lot more goals in the newer events where you are racing against the clock or speedometer, so speed of bots becomes irrelevant. Another of FM's tricks to counter bot slowing. 