Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27048832-20180207113250/@comment-25956839-20180305222223

To give some idea on how long it takes to create the upgrade trees for cars I updated the RR3 Wiki:Upgrade Strategy FormulaE yesterday, starting with the APT car testing five upgrade trees to find the cheapest one.

Then upgrading the other two which ended up being identical upgrade trees but they still needed to be verified

This still took many hours to do, looking at the version history upgrade sheets:

These cars have exiting upgrade costs and descriptions, saving time, only the tree was confirmed, along with Base, upgrade with R$ and fully upgraded stats.
 * ABT: 17:51 to 20:00 hours ABT Google Sheet
 * NEXTEV 20:03 to 20:35 NEXTEV Google Sheet
 * Renault 20:46 to 21:02 Renault G Sheet

I'm happy to help out when I have time. The main problem is the strategy pages need to be created as soon as the new release and this is the busiest time for admins to create pages. The more eyes looking at the strategy the more accurate it will be, but it is also important not to duplicate effort.

If MoisesGabby (or anyone else with an interest) want to look at the RR3 Wiki:Upgrade Strategy Nascar, the 2016 cars need to be confirmed. They should be the same as the Ford Fusion. Clone the Ford Fusion (Team Penske - 2016) G Sheet and try one of the other 2016 cars.

The method to check the cheapest strategy starts with a car at base upgrades. Tip:It is normally easier to takes several passes to collect the costs and descriptions in the first pass then the strategy in the subsequent passes: It is very time-consuming!
 * 1) Cloud save
 * 2) Capture and complete one upgrade at a time, from base, from the cheapest R$ to the most expensive (sort on R$)
 * 3) Pay gold to complete any R$ purchases
 * 4) Check and confirm the PR data, before the next upgrade, one at a time. Tip: Although the PR upgrade can be entered, instead use a calculation e.g. =55-54.5, instead of 0.5, sometimes the required PR can be spotted in the upgrade and as it is from cheapest to most expensive this is a result!
 * 5) Capture & complete all R$ upgrades before starting  upgrades
 * 6) Double check the data captured actually equals the R$ upgrade data (Base PR + R$ upgrade data = Max PR w/ R$)
 * 7) Capture the car data for PR Max cash, (PR, Top Speed, Acc., Braking, Cornering, Cost, Parts) - change the device's settings between imperial and metric (Settings > Display > Display Speed: MPH | KPH) for top speed MPH/KPH and braking ft/m, do not use a calculation.
 * 8) Continue to capture the remaining data, as before, one at a time, (sort on Gold cost), any Cold upgrades that are followed by R$ upgrades should be confirmed before the next cheapest Gold upgrade, pay gold to complete R$ upgrade.
 * 9) Once all data has been captured double check the data captured actually equals the fully upgraded car data (Base PR + upgrade data = PR Fully upgraded)
 * 10) Once the car is fully upgraded, capture the car data for Max PR w/, (PR, Top Speed, Acc., Braking, Cornering, Cost, Parts) - change the device's settings between imperial and metric (Settings > Display > Display Speed: MPH | KPH) for top speed MPH/KPH and braking ft/m, do not use a calculation.
 * 11) Cloud restore (to get all the gold back)
 * 12) Now all the data has been captured once/twice, the strategies can begin:
 * 13) work out the cheapest upgrades to reach the required PR, using calculated values. (normally test calculations required PR -0.1 to 0.1+). Tip: Check the upgrades, sometimes the required PR can be spotted in the calculation.
 * 14) Then test from the cheapest upgrade strategy, until the cheapest is actually confirmed.
 * 15) Re-capture the upgrade tree in the order of the cheapest upgrade strategy.
 * 16) Cloud restore (to get all the gold back)

See the ABT Google Sheet for different strategies tested: 3355055, 6333055, 6353035, 6353053 & 6335053

Hopefully, my explanation hasn't put people off wanting to help.

Please ask if you have any questions.