Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-25956839-20150702172855/@comment-144.24.20.233-20150703083946

■How did the challenge go for you? Won all three cars - only R$. Started on the first day but managed to miss the angst with 10.1 not working.

■What did you think?

Fine - decent challenge. I liked that they brought the older cars back in  - make us feel like they still have some use.

■Did you enjoy it?

First time yes. Second time yes. Third time was just grinding.

Third time also had the issue with the off-line loss of progress bug (which I'm assuming stems from their "fix" from the gold farming bug).

FTR I think the issue appears when you are not able to log in when you start your session. I now always make sure I have a record of where I got up to last time I cloud saved.

■How did you find doing the same event three times?

Other than above it was okay - at least a variation on a theme of the churn from doing EK 10 lap.

■How did you find the tips and advice?

The main bit that I find really useful is knowing what the events actually are so you can plan accordingly. The "chat" is useful though to understand how people are going and to alert you to things you can see, but might not have really noticed (eg switch to the Bentley so make sure you service the LMP1 car).

■Was anything missing?

Bearing in mind that I didn't actually provide most of this info (although some of my tips did get incorporated in) - but in the future this sort of stuff would be good for people to think about/provide info on...

Sections on explaining the game mechanics for the different types of "failure" and likely impact on performance (and whether anyone had been able to win with an unserviced car):

fuel - seems to me it's often impossible to win fuel events without a serviced car - I think I've done it once or twice, but not often.

brake failure - two points -(1)  "mechanical braking" (I think this is what I saw it called) meant you didn't even need to use the brakes; (2) it regenerated (I'm not sure how people ever managed to reach 0% on this but judging by comments, some did). I think I was able to win these ones with an unserviced car

tyre failure - again seems to be one that needs a serviced car.

average kmh/mph  - two points here:

1) it appears that the value is always the mph value and that this can vary from the kph value shown - would be worth calling this out (although I race in mph so it was not a problem for me, it seemed to be a problem for a few others)

2) a big reminder that this forces a finishing time - so you should be thinking about resetting the bots straight away after this event (for 10.2 to 10.3 this was really obvious because I had Rattlesnack - so I immediately thought "right have to downgrade the bots").

info on car degradation - if people can remember how many bars an event cost that would be good info to provide - obviously some people will drive cleaner than others, but still... Also useful to know which events you can win without a serviced car (this was especially useful info for running it in 3 days).

bots: good to know which events use the standard bots; which use special bots and which will bring in "other players" as bots (ie better to stay offline). Events like this tend to be over too quickly for us to try to complete a full picture of the bot behaviour. It seemed to me that for the F1 and this challenge they have an additional set of bot names - but that they don't change through them as

This was happening but it would be good to continue:

If people are posting times it would be good if they can remember to post their PR (or that they have R$ only upgardes, or none or whatever), and service condition - and also which bot won/was 2nd (and in which car if there are multiple cars in the race).

/Sean