I love TA! Thanks for the additional guidance. As an old school gamer I was used to instructions in the Atari and Nintendo days... Although the dating and portrayal of woman isn't great in the game "my opinion" the actual gameplay is some how super fun to Me. I guess just tapping with short races somehow is as addicting as it is etc... I'm still hoping I'm doing the right thing which is trying to upgrade my level two (two star) car to 10 and am beginning to use my other level two star to get to 10 so I can merge them to become a 3 star car. I've been able to upgrade quicker by using the level 1 star cars to upgrade the level of two star cars.
No problem. This game needs a little help from everyone to understand it all better. Unfortunately there's some maintenance right now.
The paywall realistically seems after Chapter 8. You don't need a 6* car to beat 8. I've gotten to the second to last mission on 8 with just a 4*. A 5* should be more than enough to clear it and probably should take me through Chapter 9 as well. I had huge progress the moment I unlocked enough girls to do "exceed limits", which give a huge stat boost.
Yes, I said "after" Chapter 8, meaning starting with Chapter 9. Even with a 5 star car, it Chapter 9 can be a bit rough. Like you said, doing "exceed limits" really helps out a lot. I've already done it twice with Julia and I'm in the process of doing it a 3rd time, but you have to take her out on 40 dates and she's on a 30 min timer after every date now. So that's a minimum of 20 hours to do that. Car stat comparisons can be misleading in later chapters. For Nicole's unlock race, my car beat the opponent's in raw stats by about 200-300 or so. With that kind of buffer, I usually expect enough leeway so that I can save a nitro or two to make a few extra coins. With Nicole's race though, even when I got about 70% great and the rest good and burned ALL of my nitro's coming out of a drift whenever I could, that damn car STILL seemed to be crazily faster than mine! It took me quite a few tries and I eventually I beat it by getting ALL greats except 1 good AND burning an extra nitro from my inventory, but I only won by 0.3 meters! The skin of my teeth! I probably would have given up and tried later except Nicole was the critical girl number 14 that would allow me to exceed Julia's limit a second time. Or she was, anyway. Now that the weekly race is over I will be able to unlock 3 more. Either way, there's a bunch more chapters after 9 and if I'm already encountering trouble here, the future doesn't bode well. One crucial piece of advice I have it to always shoot for an "RS" car, which you get by merging 2 of the same model. You'll be able to break limit on it's mastery stat without having to pay too much cash, which will give you a lot more mileage out of your car (both figuratively and literally because they are also more fuel efficient). My 5* is not an RS car so not only in the stat cap on the low side, but it guzzles fuel like a jet liner. I'm still using it for the time being, but now I'm focusing my upgrade efforts on the ultimate "Tiny" car. Since "Tiny" is such a common model to get as a reward, there won't be any shortage of them when trying to merge it over and over. And while it has the lowest stats of any car, it's not by THAT much and, more importantly, it has BALANCED stats. You'll notice other cars in its class tend to favor certain stats over others but the Tiny has perfect balance between all 4 so it'll be very versatile. The Tofu shares this trait and has slightly higher stat and mastery caps, but it's a unique model and thus a much less common reward so I don't want to tear my hair out trying to get enough to merge multiple times. Merging 2 different models is a bad idea because you forfeit any mastery limit breaks which leads to much lower stats in the long run unless you spend a lot of cash on the new random model you end up rolling. You get instant gratification but it tends to screw you over in the long run. Even if you DO spend cash on the new models to get higher mastery limits, they will STILL consume a lot more fuel than an RS model. My 5* (a Mustler+ S) consumes almost 100 fuel per race so at the moment I can only race with it 9 times before having to stop. I realize this process is incredibly tedious (I've only gotten to Tiny++ RS so far and that's just 1! I still need to make another one to merge to make a Tiny+++ RS and then I'll need two of THOSE to merge again!) but it's the most cost effective way (in real money, not coins) to get (literally!) the most mileage out of your car. The only reason I'm even doing it is because I find it fun to MIN-MAX. I wasted so much time in Oblivion meticulously leveling each skill so I could max my stat gains for every level up, including using the Shivering Isles debuff to break the normal caps. So yeah, I have a strange sense of "fun" I suppose.
^ Ah so you're saying instead of fusing random cars to get new ones you should keep fusing tiny over and over and get rid of all the other cars?
I'm a bit skeptical that it's worth it. Lower fuel consumption is not a massive deal for me, since my sessions are spaced out anyway on weekdays. How much stats do you get from limit break on a 5* car? How much better is a random 5* model than a Tiny? It's probably a net gain, but not when you take into account all the extra grind time. Edit: Facebook page says server is down for 9 more hours.
You can use other cars as upgrade fodder, but only merge the Tiny models together, yes. Fusing different cars usually results in a different car. It's actually possible to get an "RS" car from this, even without fusing the same model but it's completely dependent on RNG. Even if you do, Mastery still gets reset so it'll have lower stats than fusing the same model, so you only get the fuel efficiency benefits. When you break mastery for a car and combine it with the same model, the total mastery of the new car will be the combined total of the previous 2 cars. So two +1 Mastery cars will become +2 in the new model, which saves you a lot of cash down when you reach the higher star models because they will already max their Mastery limits just from the act of merging the lower tier models! Getting +1 Mastery on a 1* Tiny costs 5 cash. Getting +1 Mastery on my 5* Mustel+ S costs 58 cash. You don't have to be good at math to see what I'm driving at. Cheap Mastery caps AND fuel efficiency makes combining the same model the way to roll. Sure it's tedious, but it really pays off down the line if you have the patience. You don't have to use a Tiny model, but as I said in my previous post, it has the most balanced stats. If you want to use another model, I would pick one that favors Max Speed over Acceleration (for both Linear and Corner) because Nitros will give you a ton of acceleration in a pinch.
All cars within the same tier actually do not vary in total stats all that much. There's about a 10% difference in total stats between the best and the worst in class. But that doesn't tell the whole story because you have to think about stat distribution too. Max Speed is much more useful than Acceleration because Nitro boosts can be used quite often so long as you get at least Greats and Crazies. I've noticed most of the "top" cars tend to favor Acceleration over Max Speed. Despite having a slightly higher stat total, they tend to be worse than the lower tier cars in my opinion. You can try stacking a model that favors Speed, but I think balanced stats are safer. The girls don't always give even stat gains for every stat and neither do parts, and it's still not a good thing to get TOO lopsided. Also, breaking the Mastery limit makes a big deal later on. For a 1* car +1 Mastery only add 20 stat points but for a 5* car, +1 Mastery adds around 130 points per level (at least for the first couple levels). Assuming each level further level gives you approximately the same amount, +6 Mastery therefore gives you an extra 800 or so stat points! That is HUGE! And if you have to pay for each Mastery level with cash, it adds up very quickly (which you will have to do because unless you merge same models, Mastery is reset after the merge). Just to give you an idea, +1 Mastery on my 5* car cost me 58 cash. +2 Mastery is 63 cash. To get to +6 I would have to spend A LOT of cash, whereas combining the low tier cars gives you a free pass so long as you invest early as I stated in my previous post. Yes, it's quite a grind but it's the only way you can get away without spending a lot of cash.
guys, i was lucky enough to pull a 6 star TAURUS (the lamborghini) out of a car pack, and i couldnt believe my luck! the car looks sweet and has crazy stats close to 700 for everything -balanced stat distribution. Yet at Nicole's race, and at the chapter 9 boss stage, while my stats are 300-400 higher than the opponent, and i get greats and use nitros, i get destroyed. They leave me behind like a slow turtle, even with nitros.. What's the deal?
Check the boss' car stats. They may have one stat that is WAY better. This happened to me on the Epsiode 6 boss. Drift speed was 300 points better than mine even though my car was ~400 points better overall.
I have a 5* car and want to level it up. What should I do with my 1* cars now? It's hard to immediately see whether the best play is to: A. feed them into 2* cars to get more 2* cars to dump into the 5* B. sell them C. Some other option? I have some tips, by the way. - I read about people grinding the +money missions, and I think it's a mistake. You don't get that much extra money from it. The +ticket ones are way better, since they're important for getting the first-time bonus, memory bonuses, and meeting "exceed limit" conditions on all the girls. - To get a girl sulky you have to ignore her for quite some time and date the girl's rival. For instance, I dated Julia a lot and had Sophia get sulky because I had stopped dating her completely. Since it's so rare to get a girl sulky, you should make sure to get all the memory unlocks when it happens. These are: winning a race, losing a race, greeting, and redate. You get some cash on when you date them again. I was stupid and used a sports ticket on a sulky girl, and didn't get the sports event memory unlock. Uh, don't do that. - For fuel efficiency you should be doing most of your grinding on a 1* car. Your 5* car should be for dating and unlocking new missions. Once you get max mastery on it, there's no reason to keep driving it unless you're trying to beat a new mission.
Speaking of cars and dating... Does anyone know how to figure out what cars girls will like? I used cash on the 5* beauty car or whatever, but none of the 2*+ girls seem to like it. Which I believe has an effect on the rating of your date.
Ughhh after the maintenance, the first locked girl (top 30% in weekly rookie race) re-locked herself. She was unlocked earlier this weekend. Wtf. Edit: Scratch that. I lost all my progress from this weekend. I even lost the bonus weekend boxes I used. I got a decent 3 star car from the box and now it's gone. And the girl progress reset along with any race items I received. So basically it didn't save all the work I did on the weekend. .....
I think we need some sort of a FAQ, items each girl likes, favorite date spots, etc. I'll try to pay more attention as in progress to try to start something ...
Some more tips/observations for people that enjoy powergaming this stuff: - To expand on my previous posts, after you get a 5* car (and maybe before) you're going to want to keep around a 1* car just to clear easy missions. 47 fuel efficiency is really strong and lets you grind a lot more gold per day. - To answer my question from earlier, once you get a 5* car, just sell your excess 1* cars for 100 coins (keep one around to race with though!). Your rate-limiting factor is GOLD, so it's not worth spending lots of resources on a 1* just to bring it up to 2*. Given how expensive upgrades are, you have enough fodder to level up your 5* before you run out of gold. - Assuming the above two points are true (and I think they are), your choice of girl to power level becomes obvious. You want the girl who: A. Is willing to ride a shitty 1* car. B. Has Exceed Limits (sorry Claudia). C. Gives stats at a flat rate rather than scaling with the level of your car (since your 1* car should stay at level 1 to maintain fuel efficiency). D. Has a sexy British accent rather than some ditzy Ameritrash VA. E. Has the highest possible stats, given that she meets all of the criteria above. Okay D is actually a joke, but it's fortunate that my favorite character also appears to be the best one to power level. I'm on team Sarah for now unless someone can come up with a good argument to power level someone else. It's possible that later on I'll unlock a girl that meets these criteria and has higher stats than Sarah, but the trend appears to be more girls that scale with the level of your car (these suck, since it's so hard to get high star cars to max level) and more girls that refuse to ride in 1* cars. The endgame might actually be Sarah + some other girl that I use to actually clear missions, but either way it seems like Sarah is the girl to level for now.
you were right guys, i didn't know you could check the specific stats of an oponent. So i found out that while my linear speed and acceleration were 400 better each!!!, my drift speed and acceleration were 200 lower each. So i grinded and installed a 6 star brake, and finally won Nicole's date. ...and all i can say for her voice, is that she was worth it. Imo she is the best voice i have encountered sofar, it's almost distracting from my drift timing
I haven't spent as much time on the dating aspect although I know it adds stats to the cars as well... However, I agree that it would be beneficial to know what are the optimal answers. I'd also add though that this idea might be more beneficial for the cars with how to increase car power, grinding ideas, and which add ons are the best etc... Either way mor tips, strategies, or an faq for the game would be a huge help!
Great Advice Love the advice that's been spread around here. Especially the "have a sexy British lady". That definitely helps.
L., i hope you got your save back man, i read what happened, hope they restored it! And you can friend me ingame, Ramzarules there also
Just added you! I'm under a different name, starts with a C I didn't realize we were making usernames. I thought they wanted us to give our in-game name... -_- And I contacted them and they weren't helpful at all. They said there was downtime and they can't compensate me and ended it there. Well I guess I lost all my free weekend stuff. Pretty irritated. I had a decent 3 star car (my highest rated cars). I would've had two and now I'm at 1. So I STILL need another 3 star. Makes me pretty upset actually. At least give me the damn free car box again.
