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[IvanOffalich]

Not that this is important, but I'm passing time tonight while waiting for my last 24 hour Endurance race to finish.

I decided to try something out and retired one of my drivers. I made a new one at level 0 and put him into the Endurance race as one of the 4. I have not raced him even a single time before entering this race.

Since the Bobs can be foolish and waste time with their mistakes and there is no way in hell that I'm wasting an entire day again if they mess up, so I gave them the crazy Red Bull car.

Even if the Bobs screw up, they will have lapped the other cars so many times that it won't matter. I've made sure that I will only have to race this once and only once.

The point of this? Well, if you give even a level 0 Bob the Red Bull car, he's able to magically drive it without seeming drunk. Basically, the better the car that you give a Bob, the better driver he magically becomes.

Give him a normal car and he drives into a wall. Give him the Red Bull and he can do Nurburgring in under 6 minutes without a problem. Silly, but true. The opposite would be true in real life. A beginner driver could never handle a car that fast.

So, when the race is over. Brand-New-Bob will gain a crapload of experience. I've put new Bob's in higher level races and had them gain lots of levels at once. I know at least once, I've gained over 20 levels just for one event.


It'll be interesting to see how many levels this Bob gains for this 24 hour race.

 

[BobbyBRAKEaNek]

200% sign in bonus will do the trick big time for him. ;-)

 

[IvanOffalich]

Yep. I haven't missed a day since I got the game, so I always have the 200% bonus now.

 

[IvanOffalich]

I found out the answer to the question:

How many levels will Bob gain from running the 24 hour Nurburgring once?

35

Yep, with one race under his belt he is only 5 levels from max. Of course, he has almost no experience, but he's not the most worthless driver in the world either.

Just in case anyone wanted to know the stats/info for the race:

-The Bobs had to pit every 4 laps because the Red Bull Ridiculousmobile uses that much fuel.

-Despite the pits eating up about 2.5 extra minutes every 4 laps, my Bobs managed to make it around the track 227 times.

-The fastest lap that they managed without my input was around 5:51.

-By the end of the 24 hours, they had lapped the 2nd place car 63 times.

-By the end of the 24 hours, they had lapped the 12th place car 87 times.

Yep, it's ridiculous, but I won't have to tie up my machine for a whole day for any B-Spec offline races again. I've finished them all now.

 

[LeGeNd-1]

If you want to get a level 40 Bob with least races just do the Nurb 24h and Nurb 4h races one time each (with 200% login bonus of course). I calculated level 40 needs around 9,813,224 XP.

A Bob maxed out this way will be slower than a Bob you train properly through many races though.

 

[IvanOffalich]

I wondered if they would be less capable drivers if they leveled up too quickly. I guess that answers that question.

For what I'm doing now, basically running the B-Spec drivers with friends for the "Peak" trophy and to get money for cars, I don't mind if they aren't the best drivers, just as long as they drive while I'm busy doing other things in real life.

I've finished all of the B-Spec stuff, including the Seasonal Events, so they are just for grinding now.

Thanks for the info. I was curious about that.

 

[Moondance]

If you want to get a level 40 Bob with least races just do the Nurb 24h and Nurb 4h races one time each (with 200% login bonus of course). I calculated level 40 needs around 9,813,224 XP.

A Bob maxed out this way will be slower than a Bob you train properly through many races though.

The number of races a Bob does makes no difference to his performance. If you create Bobs with the exact same initial setup characteristics they will turn out exactly the same. A level 35 Bob with 200 races will be just as fast as one with only 2 or 1 races.

For more info check out Famines post HERE