Occasional Tales

Treasure hunt. Nevera. Easy money. The weekly in the CC8S was mostly straightforward apart from the showoff skill which I got, er, somehow. I had to stop racing to find out whether I’d completed this especially vexatious task. The Eventlab tiles weren’t just broken again, but really broken. Normally I can restart the game and they be fine. Well, probably fine once I’m outside, but it took a reboot to get the tiles functioning. Grrr. Eventlab (1). Sunset Palms Raceway . Apart from a lack of elevation changes, this was a good GP circuit with its sweeping curves and well-designed technical sections. Eventlab (2). Calvo’s Karting . Oh dear. If the game had karts, this might be quite fun, but this was an irritating tangle in the stadium. It was also another event where you won the car (the Mustang Boss 302) you needed for another event. Eventlab (3). Cordillera Rally . Oh dear (part 2), someone didn’t proofread the name of the event. Two l’s, one r. Not bad, but suffered from my lack of fam...

After finding that I wasn’t the only player to find that the drivatars were misbehaving in the Formentor seasonal, I did some testing. For my first building, I added race weight reduction first, and then other upgrades after that. It got me a PWR of 0.303 and the following results for the races: San Juan: 04:09.275 [+0.667]. I was about a second and a half in the lead when the back end slid near the end of the race, and the drivatar closed the gap. Desierto: I forgot to record the time, but I was a goodly distance ahead of the drivatars at the end of the race. But it was a scrappy race at the start with mush sliding sideways from one wall to another. Mulegé Scramble: 03:53.504 [+9]. A much greater gap than I was expecting. My second build was max. engine, but that still left me enough PI to add other components. I also added aero because of awkward shortcomings, but ended up with a PWR of 0.362. San Juan: 04:10.393 [+8]. Not dissimilar to the first result, but the Formentor outpace...