Talk:Perseverance/@comment-26388545-20180523070427/@comment-28169398-20180525072749

I decided to go after 7.2 tonight under PR 70.3 instead of the listed 70.8.

I got close on almost every run. Between 0.06s and 0.6s away from hitting the average time (2:06 is the time to beat to get the 205 kph average). I went for about an hour, hour and a half...

Another 2 or three hours I would have known the track well enough to easily get a 2:05 and pass. But after having to take a few Ibuprofen because of the soreness in my hands and elbows, I added the Tires and Body upgrades, got to 72.0 and passed on the first run.

Challenging yourself is great, but you have to know when to draw the line. Not everyone has that level of self analysis and will blindly follow the advice of someone they agree with.

I wouldn't have as much of a problem if
 * 1) Video Makers upgraded so they could win without cuts or gimmicks. Run it like a racing game and not an arcade game. You guys are able to adjust when goals switch to no off-track. Most of the players that follow you can't flip that switch and up their performance. Even worse, they never practice the hardest parts of the race tracks because that is where the cuts are made. If ME7 can win 7.2 and 7.4 with 1131313, then that is great, because he can't run cuts in those events and it is a demonstration of skill that maybe a few percent of the people playing the game can do.
 * 2) It would make it easier if FM made it possible to turn off upgrades after they are purchased, to increase the challenge, but that isn't the way it works so if you upgrade for the hard events, it makes the easier events unchallenging.
 * 3) They made it very clear to those watching their runs that their results are not normal. They are not even one or two standard deviations beyond normal... these are the outliers that fall off the ends of the curves. Take a look at the comments on Rennsport Redefined. Someone asked how much people thought they would have to upgrade to complete the event and said that in the comments it said that it ranged from 50 - +500 in upgrades, and then said they were an average player. It shows that they have no realistic grasp on what the video makers are doing because the 50  in upgrades was from Chronic's run!

And there is no jealousy. I am as good as I am and ME7 and Chronic and others are as good as they are. The only issue is when FM develops to put obstacles in the way of the tails of the curve to get them to upgrade and that isn't on the players, it is on FM.