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[HU_HeroZero]

I had 3 showdowns started in the morning.
The showdowns ran for 3,5 hors without my ride.
I joined in when about 1,5 hours left.
I won cca 440 chips in the showdown where I won all the tracks.
I won cca 300 chips in the showdown where I won 2 tracks.
BUT!
When I win al the tracks in a showdown from the start, why do I win only 550-600 chips?
1,5 hours = 400 chips.
5 hours = 600 chips? Where is the logic?

[jabbafox]

After winning a track, the rate at which chips are accumulated starts off fast and progressively slows down as the showdown timer counts down, so perhaps something to do with that?

[yjgalla]

Search the forums for "ping pong". You can make the most chips when track ownership changes a lot because chip rate "resets" when a track is taken. The hardest thing is to get an opponent who understands that.

[HU_HeroZero]

Yeah, I know ping-ponging.
I just talk about the weird rate between time and chips counting.

[yjgalla]

I just talk about the weird rate between time and chips counting.

But that "weird rate", the fact that time/chip ratio is not linear but a curve, is what makes ping pong so effective in the first place.