Talk:King of the Ring/@comment-104.158.34.191-20181022061359/@comment-27123099-20181022151712

Count me amongst those stating that bot slowing is largely ineffective in recent SE's. Not that bot slowing doesn't work, but, as AnAvg mentioned, it's pointless when the reason the goal is difficult is due to a fixed time and/or speed requirement that cannot be changed with bot slowing.

That said, I still implement bot slowing techniques in every race, to the best of my abilities (while still meeting the stated goals). But, that's more of it just being so ingrained into my skillset that it's pretty much automatic at this point. After all, it works everywhere else except SE's still.

While I had always been able to win the SE cars 2-3 points below the recommended PR (once SE's first introduced them, until the last year or so), but now I've found that I struggle often to even win the cars at the recommended PR and occasionally have to add 1 more GC upgrade (and it's follow-up R$ upgrade.)  That's unfortunately usually a pretty sizable investment as well.

I don't see this SE changing the trajectory that the SE's have been going the past few years.