Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26249703-20160611113445/@comment-28169398-20171105153025

JPHARP030456 wrote:

Amrosa wrote:

JPHARP030456 wrote: Driving skill poll.

This isn't true. Any time you start a race and don't finish it counts towards your others total. So any time you quit beause you forgot to select a crew member, sneeze and want to restart, run a time trial, all of it.

Just to clarify : if you foce close a race, it doesn't count in the totals race count and does not use any maintenance bars. If you quit a race, it doesn't count in the totals race count but uses maintenance bars. Please correct me if I am wrong. Hmmm... It counts towards Car usage (I know this because I have the Ford Focus and Audi R8 LMS ultra at very close to the same amount of total races, and if I start a race that I do not finish, it will switch which one I have listed as favorite car, and add races to its total), but it no longer counts towards Other, though I thought I was seeing this in the past... FM did make changes to these stats in recent releases. And if that is the case now, and someone is that stats oriented, if they see that they are going to lose or finish off of the podium, they can quit or force close and it not be reflected in their totals.

I also do not think Bot Management or slowing is any indication of lack of skill. It is simply a function of deficiencies in the game, such as always starting last on the grid, no matter what, not having bots that match the recommended PR for tiers or event goals, etc, or not providing a difficulty setting for players to play against. Also you can do significant Bot Management and bring down levels in a series without losing. My Le Mans farming race is at the 36:00 in length average because I almost always slow my bots during the race so that I will never run into a situation where I will lose the race when I have first race of day and agent fame bonuses, be it getting pitted by bots or accumulating damage, or even running unserviced.

I still do not trust the stats though. I have 3 different numbers for Gold Trophies. The Leaderboard has a different number from Total Trophies, has different number from Total Races. And even when I had all Gold Trophies in all series races run, it was still showing silvers and bronzes in Total Trophies.