Talk:Strategy/@comment-26488456-20150612020537/@comment-144.24.20.226-20150706100809

Okay - since starting to use my engineer again I've been paying closer attention.

It definitely seems that each crew member is on an independent timer. So there is absolutely no point in not using crew - it will not speed up getting other crew.

I've had a few races where I've used multiple crew members at the same time. They never come back together.

2 possibilities: a) natural limiter - can't get more than one crew member within x amount of time of each other, so they are given back depending on how long you'd held them before you used them. b) different timers (and I think this more likely) - my guess: agent = 40 hours, engineer = 44 hours, manager = 48 hours.

I definitely seem to get a new free crew member within a 50 hour period, agent seems to come up most quickly after using multiple, then engineer, then manager.

If you're only playing one race a day to farm then you'll only get 1 of each free crew member every 3 days.

If you're willing to play more often then you should be able to get and use an agent at least once every 2 days.

If you want to use the free manager the best you can sometimes combine it with the daily bonus within a 2 day span, but you have to stagger your start time for the day (which may be a problem since you sometimes seem to get more free ads earlier in the day - in the UK anyway)

/Sean.