Thats really frustrating to wait! 5 bars per run, i rather use 10k per run. My best is still 0:59xxx. Is the last corner just a short drift and perfect nitro finish or other new tricks? My no.1 is 0:58:680, Summer Rain.
I think we can forget about it, shit-loft wouldn't do such "nonsense" things. If they wanna ban them, just can and will done that long ago.
To some extent, the fuel system is better than rental fee. When rental fee was required, people (mostly these clan dudes) did not care much about the cost as they were using third party tools to restore their account to an earlier state after uploading a fair time. Fuel system kills that cheating method and also makes TLEs approachable by newbies. The downside is that it also makes these clan dudes use multiple accounts. I'm sure that is not something Gameloft wanted, but it is their job to fix it.
Yeah, they don't give a f**k about that. A good way to fight the multiple accounts can be restore the rent-a-car for tournaments and remove the fuel system. I can even accept a 1k prize per race. Atm cheaters/hackers knows how avoid GL game rules, with all those cloned accounts even get in top 100 becomes hard. In Windows we have just 2 clans, but they can occupy all the top spots in every TLE's. No reason to play TLE'S with that mess anymore.
OK, but with the rental fee, at least we could all run pretty much as much as we wanted. We can no longer do that. So now, the only ones running lap after lap, try after try are the "cheaters."
For the last corner, I triple boost after a short drift, 60-70 meters. But you should only do this if you have the nitro to suffice. That run I just talked about. I did. I messed up by drifting to early and having to double drift so I wouldn't fall of the road. A perfect drift, like normal, would have given me drastically better results. I get your point but that's a weak argument. Fuel system doesn't really kill the cheating method because people still do it. If hackers want it bad enough, they can get it. The fuel system is perfect for the majority (players without the certain car, money to rent, etc). But people who have the money to constantly rent get screwed over on how many tries they can get. I've said this before but I spend more money on the Mclaren tournament than the car itself just to have the best time. I easily won the car but the drive to have the best time consumed me. The same is happening to me in this tourney (and will happen in the GTR Nismo tourney). There is more of an urgency because 1st only gets the car. So not beating the best time ends up in extreme frustration for me. I'll describe it: When I have the bars to race: I get nervous and anxiety because I'm afraid of messing up. If I mess up or am unsuccessful, I instantly feel sadness. It lasts till I find something to do to kill time until the bars full up. It's like an addiction. If I am semi successful, I have a strong drive and desire to continue playing but have to wait. I've already wasted about 4 extra tanks on this car alone which is rare for me.
I agree with ur point, but for us is quite a hassle for a 5 bar per run, which they could put it at 2-3 bar per run for us to get use to the car. I'm sick of seeing those f...king clans on every TLEs. They are wasting those slots while all of us are hoping to win one.....that includes me! Also, the Division rankings are stupid, with 1000/5000 players, only the Top 1 get it, why not the Top 10 or 20 gets it? Anyway i'm sick of this game, btw is Need For Speed good? Is S$9.00
I don't think it has multiplayer if I remember correctly. I don't remember the game being that good. It has the whole fuel bar thing just like Asphalt.
Thats how i feel too, waiting for the fuel bar to replenish and wasting the Extra Tanks is horrible. Most frastrating part is i know i'm doing well but with that minor things that will affect my time makes me go insane and down. Racing against time is not my piority and type.
You have to drift from the outside to the inside. Meaning, drive closer to the edge of the road (the outside) then drift towards the right wall (inside). Because if you drift around the wall, you'll go further near the edge, slowing the run down. Like I said before, tight corners are crucial in tournament runs. The same for me. I was never a tournament type of guy before this game (racing ghosts just felt boring to me). Turbo was apart of the reason that changed. The race against time is an acquired taste.
Well, that's 3 of us then. Let's also add that credits are still grindable, so should you ever run out of them, you could always race a bit and grind the money back for another try. In the end, everyone had unlimited tries theoretically. It just came down to the patience and skill of the player in practice. EDIT: While the fuel tank works similarly, here's a few differences: - Because you have to wait for the fuel refills, your tries are more limited due to the tournament being limited in time. With renting, you have more tries since everyone is fast enough to get the money back with 1-3 races. - Renting a car can effectively stop grinding on tournaments. As people rent the car, they gain money from playing in the tournament. If the rental price is around 4000, you would still lose money (no double credits boosters or daily rewards included). With fuel, you gain money (with free boosters). What's really annoying is not the fuel tank itself though. It's that the difficulty to get cars on tournaments is way higher since they are given to a really low amount of players, and it just adds in frustration (I think that, even with renting a car, tournaments would be still frustrating). Remember the times where you didn't need to be in the top 100 to get a car? Those were the days.
I know. But as I said, rental fee is pretty flawed as well and restoring it would just be dodging the issue at best. Gameloft should really work out an effective way to detect and ban people using manipulating accounts (and according to them, they're working on it... and it has been for a while though). Personally, I like the idea that newbies are given the same opportunity in getting the new cars as veterans who's got millions of credits. As a veteran, I would definitely prefer rental fee for my own interest, but I feel sorry for newbies who could not afford for the fee. Fuel system does limit the numbers of tries you could make, but that is the same for everyone. Speaking of cheaters, rental fee is not fair for honest players as well. Why do we have to spend hundreds of thousands credits when the cheaters can spend none? Moreover, you can easily get a decent save file (with all the cars, millions of credits, free boosts and everything) from these clan dudes for just a few dollars. And you don't have to worry about get banned as it it s blind spot of Gameloft now. I think this is the true unfairness and something Gameloft should take actions on immediately. I understand the frustration about the nervousness, because it is the same for all of us. I'm just looking at the bright side of the fuel system. Like I said, as a veteran, I prefer rental fee from my own angle, but I don't think it is fair to newbies. I think it is just a terrible cycle. The more cheaters, the less Gameloft can earn from IAP. Then Gameloft introduces features like pay-to-refill, dollar-boosts and 100-dollar "premium" cars, and then cheaters starts to do more cheating that hurts Gameloft's interest even more. After all, it is only the honest players getting hurt. Gameloft should really just targeting on cheaters rather than following their footsteps.
If you want to grind, the Lamborghini Sesto Elemento Season 9 race (with fully upgraded cars) is the way to go: 1m10sec race without traffic grants you 4.5K gold. It's about the best I've found so far when balancing income/race time...
I am now 4092nd in my division for the savage cup with a time of 2:10 i shall decide whether to bother with the race when I have assessed my competition in 2 days time....not going to waste my time with this ridiculous fuel system time limits and decrease my double tanks, with all these k-b's, opens, summers, 774g''s, winters, sky's harvesting everything.
Are you somewhat new to the game? if so, you neutralize an earlier poster's view that the fuel bar is awesome for the newer players. ...
I'd like to recommend my strategy to anyone who struggles with the fuel system and other tournament-related stupidities: Do one unboosted run somewhat late in the game and check if you're in an easy division. If you are, wait until 10 minutes before the tournament ends, and take the #1 spot with one (or two) fully boosted runs. (That actually works. I won two divisions with that strategy.) If you aren't in an easy division, just let it go. Some of those cars (e.g., the Biome and the Roadyacht, from what I've read) will be available for credits anyway. And the others aren't worth the emotional distress some of us are going through. Besides, if you want Gameloft to improve things, you really shouldn't keep competing and confirming their business model. On an unrelated note, the more Gameloft tries to make Asphalt Overdrive happen in this thread, the less interested I am in that game. And that's quite the accomplishment, as I wasn't interested at all to begin with.
For me it's the satisfaction of winning the car and having the best time. But I will try that method. I just raced my the last two fuel tries I had on the Roadyacht like two mins ago. First run, I jump the first barrel roll ramp too high then get the "half barrel roll" spin on the ramp leading off the bridge. Second run, the AI car goes haywire (the most infuriating thing that could happen to me in this game) and gets in my way, slowing my car down extremely. So that is the 3rd extra tank I've wasted today. I guess I'm about to waste another one when the fuel bar is full again, sigh.
Pretty much the same for me. It's about getting better, shooting for rewards, getting fast laps, learning tracks so I can fly in MP. After running the previous system for several months, this new-ish one is just out of whack. You can try a TLE with just nitro and the tuning kit, but you won't post top times. So, you add the extra tank. That lasts four hours, but at five fuel bars a pop, you make two runs in five minutes and feel bad because you have a free 30 or 40 minutes left, but you've got no fuel bars. I can't sit there for four hours. And if you come back to it, it's rare that you will get a fast time in your next two runs something will go wrong, you'll make a mistake or just feel to anxious. We aren't broken; it's the new system that's broken. It does seem like some people can devote a ton of time to this game, more power to you, but I simply can't. So, I just have to go for personal bests how well can I do in a non-boosted car, or a car no one is using in the TLE. It's OK, but not preferred.
