I know it’s January, and I know that means it’s cold – even in the southern climes. Still, it seems everyone is simply in bed all bundled up.<\/p>\n
Myself, I have been working my way through the bureaucratic maze that is state licensing. Finally got my New Mexico license, only to find I now needed to apply for a New Mexico Controlled Substance License. Note there was no mention of this in the original license application, nor a steer about where to go. I guess you were just suppose “to know”. All my other state licenses had the CSL same time. When you renew, you pay an extra fee (of course! It’s government!) but it all comes about at the same time. So $75 and an overnight FedEx later – I will hopefully get it next Tuesday (literally).<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, to while away the hours, when I am not frustrated working iin a little place where it’s darn hard to find somewhere to send the sick ones, I have been playing this racing game. It’s called Real Racing 3<\/i>. It’s an app. It’s “free”.<\/p>\n
Heh, heh, but not so fast! If you actually want a car that can go fast, you have to get improvements. These cost money or gold pieces. Both of these things you can win by winning races. But oh, so slowly<\/i>! So you end up from time to time going to the xtore and buying (with REAL dollars) more – mostly gold pieces, as those are the hardest to accumulate.<\/p>\n
But of late I’ve been avoiding this path. See, I managed to acquire a Ferrari 14T race car, fully upgraded, way back when. I have raced through all the sections in the special event just for this car and another Ferrari, a 412 T (which I don’t have). Then I discovered something. You can go rerace races you’ve already raced. AND you can buy the use of a Manager and an Agent for a race – for the cost of 1 gold piece each. So IF you race one of the last races, a 3-lap affair at Le Mans, AND you buy the Agent and Manager, you get double dollars and fame – if you come in first. But with this car, I always<\/i>\u00a0come in first. So this has been my “cash cow”. I race the car, put it in for maintenance which takes about 4 hours (and about $2,000), then race it again. Each race, which I win, I win about $115,000 and about 20,000 fame points. You need, at the level I am, about 100,000 fame points. Then you go up a level – and you get 28 gold pieces. I am at lever 138. I am hoping by 160 that the number of gold pieces increases some.<\/p>\n
Now, since it’s the same track over and over, and I am generally in the lead before the end of the first lap, I have taken to seeing just how fast I can go. Some days I am fast, some not so much. So a full race is about 9:30:000. But I can do better. I have gotten it down a couple times into the 9:26:500’s. Never less than 9:26. The first lap usually takes about 5-8 seconds longer than the next two. I can usually. to the next two in the 3:07 range. I get it down to 3:07:011 if I’m flying, and sometimes when I am NOT so fast I even turn 3:08’s. But four times<\/i>\u00a0in all the races I have run, I have beaten 3:07. My best was 3:06:049, but I have also done a :950 and :951 – and then one 3:06:970. \u00a0Still, I am rather proud of these laps, since I have absolutely no idea why they are quicker than others<\/i>. I have tried to reproduce the same technique, including cuttin corners in the same way, but the results are variable.<\/p>\n
So. ?Does this make me crazy, an addict, a dope, or just stupid for playing. ?Any of you have any “addictions”.<\/p>\n
I know it’s January, and I know that means it’s cold – even in the southern climes. Still, it seems everyone is simply in bed all bundled up.<\/p>\n
Myself, I have been working my way through the bureaucratic maze that is state licensing. Finally got my New Mexico license, only to find I now needed to apply for a New Mexico Controlled Substance License. Note there was no mention of this in the original license application, nor a steer about where to go. I guess you were just suppose “to know”. All my other state licenses had the CSL same time. When you renew, you pay an extra fee (of course! It’s government!) but it all comes about at the same time. So $75 and an overnight FedEx … Continue reading