Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-151.229.232.249-20150925095917/@comment-26715739-20150928093200

Over 200 laps for me - 10 times Saturday, 10 times Sunday. Just happened to coincide with the other half having to work both Saturday and Sunday - and rugby in the background, so not a total write-off.

Draining.

And not really all that rewarding. By my reckoning about 350 gold (once you take away the gold spent on the agent).

I ended up with more gold (by well over double) on that  one weekend the ads never stopped than I did with this. And that required a lot less attention.

One thing I did notice though was that the agents became available again at a faster than normal rate. I started the weekend with a free engineer and free manager, having used a free agent the day before. Over the course of the weekend I got another new free engineer and another new manager, plus 2 free agents.

I've definitely never seen a Manager appear within less than 48 hours before. Engineer, about 30, and Agent about 36 are the best I'd seen before.

This weekend I got a free Engineer in about 30 hours, manager in about 36 hours, and the agent was about every 24 hours at a guess.

I did also have to finish my last NASCAR and then clear the sponsors (on principle) on Saturday so that would have boosted my win tally a little as well.

So there's a couple more data points for crew. At a guess it suggests that there's a standard minimum for getting them, my experience suggests that you can expect a new crew at around:

Engineer: 30 hours

Agent:  40 hours

Manager: 50 hours

My guess as to what my getting them more regularly over the weekend means:

Can get a free engineer more regularly by running more races

Can get a free agent more regularly by winning more fame

Can get a free manager more regularly by winning more R$

Of course my gut feel is that the amount you need to race in order to really speed things up is way beyond this actually being helpful (and you're probably having to pay for agents along the way). ie You can't game the system (in any meaningful way) to get more free crew - but if you are playing a lot then you'll get a very marginal bonus of more free crew.