Talk:Lamborghini Egoista/@comment-207.112.56.240-20160103230845

I won the egoista... Here's my story:

I'm a "pretty good" racer... No global champion, for sure. I wrote off the huracan contest very early, but I saw right away this R&D challenge was far more accessible. I knew I could play pretty much every 3 hours for the duration and made sure I got out of the gates early wherever possible: I was ready to go with lab004 when it opened up and raced especially hard at the start of that. I cruised through it all fairly smoothly.

By the penultimate (second-to-last) 'ultimate AI' I'd dropped just 80 tokens to keep checks a couple times. But I couldn't get fully PRO'd as I didn't have the cards for it - I used nitro starter and tuning but still couldn't beat that AI at all - mostly because it's a new track (and traffic) for me. So after 9 attempts I quit and auto-tested for 2k.

I then used nitro starters often, and started paying to keep checks as the challenges got too hard to win. I paid: - 105 to auto-test 62 (for two measly checks!!) - 210 tokens to save checks & auto-finish test 63 - 296 tokens to keep checks and buy a set of keys for test 64 - 2,500 tokens to auto-test the final AI, test 65.

All-in I think I dropped 5,396 tokens (5,191 properly accounted), maybe 20 nitro starters and 5 tuning boosters, and untold credits for the upgrades, of course. I ended up fully maxed but only pro'd to 5/3/5/3 - I just couldn't get the V10 engine cards I needed.

Some notes: - I think this contest was fair - only just fair. It's achievable without paying through the nose, but at pretty exorbitant effort. If this had been just marginally harder I'd be pretty pissed. - I simply couldn't win the last two races without paying tokens-for-checks. If I focused on winning, I'd have no time at all to go after checks or knockdown. If I fell behind at all I'd lose the race: the car was 44 ponts below the recommended rank! So here's what to do: go after checks and pay to keep 'em all. Maybe not too sportsman-like, but nor is racing at a 44-point disadvantage. I actually turned around one time to go back for a few checks on the track - I finished the race 2 seconds before disqualification. For the knockdown requirements I hounded the last few racers over and over - parking at the side of the road in wait. This part of R&D wasn't super-fun, but if it earned me 11 checks in one race with 40 tokens, I was happy.

I'm curious now about the final price of the egoista... Is it 13,500? (Most of the above table looks wrong!)

Happy 2016! - SquiggyMoe