Talk:Research & Development/BMW 3.0 CSL Hommage/@comment-34600274-20180206043435/@comment-34600274-20180207013025

@Fkw123: Thanks! (I think! ROFL)

@Geceo: You're welcome! It really did feel like a very long journey despite it being for only 14-days. Test 1 seems like a lifetime ago!

@Cpasdebol: I know exactly how you feel! Looking back at this R&D the first 49 tests were really just a puzzle that needed solving based on each driver's individual tuning and comfort level. Now that I look back at the very last test, I feel as though it were as much a race against oneself as it was against the AI. I remember another person mentioning how the Hommage was extremely stable in the Iceland Reverse Flawless Test #48 -- and I absolutely agree with that sentiment. On the Azure Coast track, however, the Hommage felt shaky and there were many, many times that my car would suddenly spinout and wreck in the alleyway at the start of the race. I also had numerous occasions where the car would jump-up and slowly float into the air in that very same alleyway, costing me precious time. It was very disheartening to wait for keys only to be out of the race within seconds of starting it.

I think this R&D is whatever each player makes of it. While the R&D does allow people to earn the car at a cheaper price than buying it outright (during limited-time sales), it unfortunately encourages upgrading that pushes it further away from competitive Multiplayer tunings. The 2016 Camaro SS is a far better machine to use for that purpose than a Hommage R&D car, and probably a better use of tokens. I think it's good that you budgeted out what you were willing to spend in terms of tokens and ultimately decided whether it was worth it or not to auto-pass. I actually did budget out 2350 tokens for the last race because I've never made it very far in other R&Ds and expected this one to be "impossible" for me to pass. However, accidentally spending 1700 tokens on handling upgrades put me on the fence with auto-passing. Had I not beaten the AI in Test 50 before the close of the R&D, then I was going to flip a coin with the auto-pass.

On the bright-side, you have a car that's already capable of beating the AI when you revisit the R&D. And you already figured-out that you'll get additional Class-A upgrades when you do that -- which is actually a really good strategy that I hadn't considered before! As I understand, once you have this car in the garage you're unable to participate in this R&D event again, unfortunately. (I guess it has to do with the car being non-blueprint.)

@Nfsw: Sorry to hear about the personal emergency with your relative. I hope things are better on that front. That's real life. And that's what's really important. This game is. . . well. . . just a game. Though I know at times it can feel like much more than that because of how much attention and effort we invest in it.

I think the main problem with practicing with a different car is that you don't learn the "feel" of the Hommage. It's just a different car on the Test 50 Azure Track than anything else I had available to me. I actually ran the Hommage on the same Azure Coast track after I got it in the garage and was surprised at how oddly drivable it was at top speed. So I'm not sure if Gameloft made the car excessively twitchy for Test 50 or if my perception of the car during the R&D was purely a psychological response to some unnecessary, self-imposed pressures. I'm not really sure. Had I not made those accidental token upgrades at the start of the R&D, then I probably would've quickly auto-passed Test 50 in order to avoid all the anguish I was feeling at the time. I think it'd be worth at least 2350 tokens to avoid all that (well. . . at least for me it would've been). There are pros and cons to every decision, and I think the best decision for any particular player is always going to be one that uniquely suits his/her situation best. In the end it should always be the decision that makes you the most happy (or at the very least, less sad.)