Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-26388545-20171108164018/@comment-84.24.8.99-20171113180649

Sabian2008 wrote: There exists a lot of hard data about special events, so I'll set up some rules in order to prevent lots of repetitive posts stating the same things over and over.

iOS vs Android:

It is true that around Winter 2016, bot slowing stopped working under some circunstances (see next point) in special events for iOS users while it kept working for Android. Since April 2016, that is no longer the case. I think it was the Daytona update (or the Venom one) where things got leveled. Bot slowing works now equally in both platforms.

The current state of bot slowing in SE:

For the last year and a half, bot slowing had the same macroscopic behavior in all OSes and versions. If you are in the red zone (and usually orange too) of the PR recommendation, bot slowing won't work. So people posting I'm FU and bot slowing works as always, please, just stop. Adding evidence about old facts won't help in delucidating the big question of the topic, about targets varying for people with the exact same car.

Bot managing while running minimal upgrades:

In my experience, bot management is useless if you are in the red zone. I have tried both with straight racing and with extreme bot management (win by very small margins and slowing bots down a lot) without results. In Danica Patrick's event I followed the bot managing guide to the extreme, and got a super high target for the speed record (day 5 IIRC). On the other hand, I've been doing straight forward racing in the current Track to Tarmac event and got a 240+ km/h target for the speed snap. It is not related to the moment in which you apply the upgrades neither; I've tried different combinations over the last 18 months and haven't spotted a pattern (I bought all 1s in the first hours of the event for Track to Tarmac, as has done ME7, who got 237km/h as target).

I'm usually a minimal upgrades guy, generally matching SpeedJunkie (Jan) upgrade path in all the events. It's the only way the game is fun for me.

I run in Android (same as ME7).

EDIT: After re-reading I think a central point of my experience was not clear. Every time I've run a special event I've tried winning by small margins. What I mean about Danica Patrick's event (for example) is that I would slow bots down in the corners so as to finish a 1' race in 3' or factors like that. Those tactics were proved to be useless. I can confirm this.

I don't do any bot slowing anymore and always upgrade only at the point where it becomes necessary.

My goals in recent special events were sometimes harder (when underupgraded), but in the last stages (upgraded minimally but sufficiently to finish the event) it didn't make any difference at all, unless more gold upgrades were applied by others.

So yeah, I think it's just a matter of how much gold upgrades you slap on the car.