Talk:Porsche 918 Spyder with Weissach Package/@comment-31554783-20170721152918

Got it yesterday after about 5 1/2 hours of racing. I paid through the nose for this damn car. Spent over 6,000 tokens and close to $2MM in credits. Ugh. What a high priced novelty car this is going to be.

Here's what I did.

1. I started race #1 by maxing top speed and using my 4 orange Porsche engines to pro tires to level 3. I own all EDD cars and have some MaxPro, but all Maxed. I juiced up the pro levels on my Viper and used my remaining purple Porsche engines on the Boxster.

2. I quickly got to 5K points. Super easy AI. I spent tokens to bank the 5K and double-down. What a fuck up. The AI instantly got very tough. By the 3rd boss race, my 0500 3000 918 was getting smoked. I had to start using tokens to get past the boss races.

3. Now, I was in a Catch-22 situation. If I tried to keep doubling, I would never earn the points to get the boxes with more purple engines. So I maxed Nitro and fully depleted my $2MM credit account. Fuckin-A.

4. My 918 was just not fast enough to beat the bosses. They just flew ahead of me and never looked back, no matter how clean I ran the boss race. So I saved 31K in points and restarted back to event #1. Since I got over 30K quickly, I figured I could do it again.

5. Next session, I was triple boosted in every race. Holy fuck the AI got hard. I was sweating evey race like it was multiplayer against tough competition. Took every ounce of my driving skill. I had to pay tokens to get past some races. The knockdowns were especially tough. I avoided drift events like the plague.

6. I also found it irritating to go through EDD with the 918 elite limitation. 4 races required a 3 hour recharge. Fuck that. I paid tokens to skip recharge time.

7. I blew though all my tokens and paid $50 to get 6,500 more tokens. I was now 1505 and 5030 ranked 1672 and simply couldn't handle the boss races. They were just too fast.

8. I was also making the mistake where I read that you should do drift races early when the AI was easier and "get them out of the way" so your race rolls were less likely to give you a drift race when AI was tough. That was not the case. I also had to re-roll several times because the choice was a 918 race (didn't want to deplete the energy of my elite tune) or a drift race. I was always looking for a 911 GT3, Cayman or Boxster race. Viper races gave me trouble.

9. It was fun driving my trusty, crusty Survolt again. Nice to see the old girl. She served me well. I won every race. The Viper - ugh. That thing sucks. The Audi was a cute little box to drive. Haven't driven that in ages. Ditto for the Scion. I think that was my 2nd car. Cute little thing.

10. Anyway, it is taking over 15 hours to assemble the 918. I haven't driven it for real. Hoping to use it in multiplayer given my tune. Not very hopeful. It's too slow for its rank. I'll probably end up trying to Max pro it and have the same fucking situation as I have with the MP4-31... a car ready to pro, but never any orange engine cards! Stuck on 10/7/10/8 with my MP4-31 after all these months.