Community driven Comparison of playing styles

Fiesta:

1. 23,66
2. 23,04
3. 23,00
4. 22,34 (1.51km)

BRZ:

1. 23,36
2. 22,75
3. 22,79
4. 22,59

T86:

Impreza:

1. 22,71
2. -
3. -
4. 22,32 (1,54 km)

Skyline:

Mustang:

1. 21,97

GTR:

McLaren:

1. 20,76
2. -
3. -
4. 20,75 (1,59 km)

FIESTA:

   1. 23.66

   2. 23.05

   3. 23.06

   4. 22.65   1.52 km

BRZ:

   1. 23.34

   2. 22.69

   3. 22.85

   4. 23.02   1.59 km

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@HeretikJirka wrote:

In a different thread there was a question and discussion about how to drive most effectively, namely regarding nitro and drifting. I guess this calls for some tests. My idea:

Event: Against the Clock - Chapter 1, first replayable event (virtually without cars, has autostart)

Eligible cars: any fully upgraded car, so we can compare

Playing styles and rules:

1) Full easydrive - you have to have Easydrive set BEFORE starting the race, do not touch anything. This should be the slowest of rides, just to have some base and we can see if that value is comparable across devices

2) Easydrive with spamming nitros - you have to have Easydrive set BEFORE starting the race, as soon as nitro is available, go for it, spamming them as much as you can. Times here could be pretty stable as well.

3) Easydrive with nitro at will - you have to have Easydrive set BEFORE starting the race, you can fire the nitro any time you want. Now the times may vary much more, feel free to enter as many of them as you want (for the same car).

4) Show yourself - drive as you wish; this would normally mean a lot of drifting and nitro at will. Feel free to specify how much you drifted together with your race time

You can of course suggest other races/events we may use for this test.

For clarity, it may be a good idea to update your first post with new times, so that all your time will be in a single post.

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In #2 above explain what you mean by 'spamming'.  Do you mean hit the nitro and go immediately back into EasyDrive mode?

Same for #3, do you go back into EasyDrive after nitro?

@ruf997tt you can use nitro while on easydrive. And spamming means firing the nitro as soon as possible (there is a few sec delay before it recharges at least a small bit).

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@HeretikJirka wrote:

@ruf997tt you can use nitro while on easydrive. And spamming means firing the nitro as soon as possible (there is a few sec delay before it recharges at least a small bit).

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Holy smokes, I never knew that!   Thanks.  XP to U.

Imprezza:

1. 22.71

2. 22.09

3. 22.09 22.04

4.

Thanks for a few more entries, I've updated my list as well. Right now it seems that:

1) data is comparable across devices, that is same car on same track performs the same on different devices

2) track selected is good in that way the differences are small (that is, if you run ten races here on easydrive, you'll get just about the same result - which is not the case on more crowded tracks)

3) nitro style does not matter much - that means, whether you fire it as soon as available or when the bar is almost full, you can reach just about similar times (at least when you do not waste nitro, either by not firing it once the bar is full or fire it too late and not using all of it before the finish line).

4) drifting does matter, and when you do it properly, you can reach significantly better times than with clean rides without drifting.

You can ALWAYS get better times if you know how to properly drift. There is an art to it though. I can drift one corner and depending on the mechanics of my drift the speed exiting the drift can vary as much as 60 km/hr.

Depending on the radius of the curve drifting can be faster than not drifting.  I generally don't LOSE any speed drifting so I drift a lot to build the nitro faster and get a few extra cash.