Talk:Research & Development/Apollo Intensa Emozione/@comment-35102879-20180516215848

Still can't believe it, my 1st car won from R&D, after nearly a year of playing. Intensa Emozione indeed! :)

I won it on Android tuned at 5505 5053, .099 before the AI, on the 7th try or so, practically 2 or 3 hours before the R&D end; saved just enough resources before the start; spent around 2000 tokens for the tests; as usual, paying for keeping all QCs from the gate drifting challenges; cursing the authors of tests 49 and 50 (had to use some auto-pass) and then cruising pretty quickly to the final race, firstly had to play at work as well.

While being just 3505 5053, I lost by 0.500 and felt like failing the final AI very closely again, like when fighting for the ARSE. So I went crazy, used one saved S-upgrade and used my last 950k credits to buy SSC Tuatura and complete the Extra Horses collection - another S-upgrade for the tokens-only acceleration upgrade. At least MC 10 gives us back 400 tokens :)

So yes, I think I'm among the (majority of?) players who consider the minimum tuning of 3505 5050 only just for really top (alien?) racers (me having difficulties to get into top 1000 in TLEs) and one needs to do a perfect race - no mistake, really no mistake allowed, tapping triple-nitro wherever possible, using drift-punching at some longer turns...

Overall, preparation, time and much luck needed for this R&D (or enough tokens to auto-pass the hardest tests).

End of report ;)