Talk:Championship/Kawasaki Ninja H2R/@comment-34782043-20180525155011

Well, I officially went "on tilt" playing the last two locations. Iceland 3 and SDH 5 were just killing me. I went triple boosted, still nothing. It was impossible for me to finish without wrecking unless I drove so slowly I ran out of out time. Sometimes I wrecked in the first 3 seconds of the race, requiring a restart. Sometimes the wrecks were my fault, but mostly they I was wrecking from slight brushes against cave walls, unable to steer onto a ramp, or sometimes just crashing while driving on a smooth road. 2 or 3 times I got 'stuck' against a wall or ramp and had to reverse to get out of it - needless to say if that happens, there's no way you're beating the time.

Rather than wait 12 hours (even with 2 days left), I decided enough was enough. I just kept refilling tires, kept crashing and wasting them. The times I didn't crash, I would get close enough to the finish that it tempted me to refill and go for it again. Knowing what I know now, I would have just auto-passed.

Eventually, I did the shortcut "cheat" for Iceland 3 (the one where you don't take the jump at the start, but instead swerve immediately to the right and have a much shorter race. It required me slowing down to almost nothing to make the turn without wrecking, but I comfortably finished within the time.

SDH though was a different beast. No amount of tries could get me past race 5, so I paid the auto-pass. WIth a full set of tires, I decided to leave 1 for the Grand Finale and try to beat race 6 within 4 attempts. I couldn't. That was another auto-pass. Overall, I spent 2600 tokens tonight, and went from Iceland 3 to owning the bike. The way I justify it to myself is that there probbaly won't be too many new vehicles coming out that I will want to spend those tokens on, or by the time another good car does come out, I will have built back up to 3 or 4,000 again.

Sad thing is, I can't ever see me driving this bike out of choice. On the rare ocassion that it's the best vehicle for a TLE, sure, but I'll never use it in MP ahead of IE, AHGT or ARSE. The mastery isn't even that good. 5 TK and 2BP? Bah. The rewards in Moto Blitz season 13 are ok so-so too.

Good luck to everyone still playing. I participated more out of boredom thatn anything else, and I'm glad it's over. Going to sleep now, and hopefully I won't see red numbers counting down when I close my eyes.