Thread:QuickNick/@comment-26829117-20170414231731/@comment-30967537-20170519222653

I tried 3 times to reply on the Strategy page but it kept refusing the post and popping up a banner with "There seems to be a problem with your login session; this action has been canceled as a precaution against session hijacking. Go back to the previous page, reload that page and then try again.". Very odd.

--- Hi Dave.

Sorry, I never got a message telling me that you'd responded ... twice!

No, I'm not offering (or even attempting) to take over the maintenance of this page, just trying to help out.

1. I haven't checked my results against the strategy. I did check a few against the game and the Wiki and they looked correct. But there are so many permutations that (unless we have the precise PR value for each upgrade) it would be impossible. I've based all of my calculations on the data extracted from the Wiki for the Cars, the Series (from each Series' Events table to get the PR) and using the Classic Upgrades pagees (to get the upgrade costs and PR values). If those are wrong, then my page will also be wrong! There seem to be discrepancies between this page and the Series pages. For example ...

Amateur Series
 * Pure Stock Challenge. Your table has a PR of 20 but the Series page shows 22.
 * Road Car International. I'm showing a cheaper upgrade set for the BMW Z4 but the same for the Nissan 350.
 * Steeet Spec Skirmish. Ok.
 * 6 Cyl Annihilation Series. Ok.
 * Global Pursuit Production. Ok

Legend Series
 * Supercar Elites. Agera, I have a cheaper R$ upgrade set. I agree on the other cars.
 * Speed Demons. Ok.
 * Clash of the Classics. Lamborghini Countach, I have a lesser upgrade-set but it costs more R$! Lamborghini Miura, I have the same upgrade-set but it costs more R$. The same goes for the Shelby!

Given that there were these glaring errors I spent a couple hours checking stuff. I re-worked my Wiki-based RR3 spreadsheet so that (in addition to calculating the cost of upgrades to be done) it also calculates the cost of upgrades already done. My figures were correct every time. Which could mean that the data (being retrieved from the Wiki) is wrong OR that both of my spreadsheets (which get to the same results but in very different ways) are wrong SO I checked the Cars' Upgrades tables on the Wiki. It looks like my figures are correct. Sorry.

I haven't checked all the series.

2. I don't fully understand what you mean by intermediate or duplicate or complementary aspects of the strategy. All I've done for each car-series combination is to get the series PR, the car PR and apply all possible upgrade permutations until the series PR is reached/exceeded and then returned the cheapest (Gold-R$) upgrade-set. I've just re-read the page notes and I still don't (fully) understand what you mean!

3. PR calculation discrepancies. I assume you're referring to the PR-per-upgrade values being precise to more than one decimal place? Nothing! As per the disclaimer on my page, I've used the information which is available. I think that is better than nothing at all.

Given that the page is available here I welcome people to test it and let me know if they find problems. If it's a mistake in my code then I'll fix it. If it's a mistake with the Classic Upgrades data, then that can be fixed.

Nick

PS. On posting I lost this post, I'm glad I copied it first!

PPS. The Totals table has an expression error.