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[CaptainWeelie]

They have logic built in to charge you more diamonds

An update on this.... I have an alt account that I have been running a fair amount as well today... Around 6 times or so. I have spent no gems on it at all that I can recall... It doesn't have a lot....and I just got a lucky run and am now ranked higher than my xitooner account. Yet it STILL gets to try every 10 minutes while my xitooner account has to wait 30 minutes.

Maybe if you spend gems, you are being penalized....?

Hey Riders,

Even though we initially had the above system, we’ve now redesigned this so that everybody has a same timer [30 minutes] with a reduced gem cost on retries. This is completely independent of the number of retries.*
Please refer to this link for more information --*http://bit.ly/2dL9lHO

Cheers,
CaptainWeelie

[CaptainWeelie]

They have logic built in to charge you more diamonds

An update on this.... I have an alt account that I have been running a fair amount as well today... Around 6 times or so. I have spent no gems on it at all that I can recall... It doesn't have a lot....and I just got a lucky run and am now ranked higher than my xitooner account. Yet it STILL gets to try every 10 minutes while my xitooner account has to wait 30 minutes.

Maybe if you spend gems, you are being penalized....?

Hey Riders,

Even though we initially had the above system, we’ve now redesigned this so that everybody has a same timer [30 minutes] with a reduced gem cost on retries. This is completely independent of the number of retries.*
Please refer to this link for more information --*http://bit.ly/2dL9lHO

Cheers,
CaptainWeelie

[Rocknrolll21]

I have a problem with this new update. It sucks. It's like there was no thought put in to this one. "Hey Jim, y'know what would be sweet? [You hear a water bong] Let's make the new update just like racing a [exhale] ghost in the game and charge them gems for restarts."

This update is BS. I'm barely playing it. I got to rank 35ish and then I'm bumped somewhere closer to 100. I'm in the top 1%. Why go any further? Work on getting a better time at your own leisure just like we do with the rest of the tracks and you won't use gems for restarts (once the track is in the map). This update S.U.C.K.S.

[Juantastik]

A HUGE problem also is that when you finish the race and lose, all your remaining tries get taken away from you. This is terrible. As you get better on your track time, you start racing against better opponents, so a lot of the matches become pretty close, meaning it could be a minimal difference of 0.01 seconds. So, if you end un racing till the finish line for that minimal difference, and you don't succeed, you are screwed, all your extra tries you previously had are lost in the nebula and have to spend the gems or wait for the timer.

Didn't nobody experience or thought about this when testing, at all?

How about adding a RETRY button at the end of the race screen?

[jabbafox]

A HUGE problem also is that when you finish the race and lose, all your remaining tries get taken away from you. This is terrible. As you get better on your track time, you start racing against better opponents, so a lot of the matches become pretty close, meaning it could be a minimal difference of 0.01 seconds. So, if you end un racing till the finish line for that minimal difference, and you don't succeed, you are screwed, all your extra tries you previously had are lost in the nebula and have to spend the gems or wait for the timer.

Didn't nobody experience or thought about this when testing, at all?

How about adding a RETRY button at the end of the race screen?

I very much agree. It seems to be the one of the underlying aims of this event is to be a massive gem sink, possibly a way to get those with a pile of gems backed up to spend an awful lot of them. Because as you say, the only way to get more retries without a retry button at the end of the race (especially while you're focused and 'in the zone') is to spend three gems. And then three more. And then etc. etc. Before you know it, a mountain of gems can become a molehill.

[CZE-Barton]

Ok, I have huge pile of gems, so why not restart the track, so I spend 3 Gems to restart, but I dont have again 3 retries!!! WTF?! BUG? I doubt it. they just made it on purpose to spend even more gems!!! how the f*ck would testers overlook this restart problem? they didnt!!!! they know about it and keep it till end of the event.

Can you imagine how much gems by this would be overall spend?

RL > YOU ARE RUINING THE GAME !!!

[justinman114]

Ok, I have huge pile of gems, so why not restart the track, so I spend 3 Gems to restart, but I dont have again 3 retries!!! WTF?! BUG? I doubt it. they just made it on purpose to spend even more gems!!! how the f*ck would testers overlook this restart problem? they didnt!!!! they know about it and keep it till end of the event.

Can you imagine how much gems by this would be overall spend?

RL > YOU ARE RUINING THE GAME !!!

I did this MULTIPLE times before I realized you could exit, then pay the 3 gems, and get all your retries.

Just another in a long list of "why didn't they play-test it" questions.

[CagBall]

I did this MULTIPLE times before I realized you could exit, then pay the 3 gems, and get all your retries.

Just another in a long list of "why didn't they play-test it" questions.

I still keep using gems by mistake, even though I know you get one try. My restart reflex is too quick for my brain to intervene.

[justinman114]

I still keep using gems by mistake, even though I know you get one try. My restart reflex is too quick for my brain to intervene.

Yeah dude, I'm the same way. Sometimes muscle memory is a bad thing!

[HU_HeroZero]

Yeah dude, I'm the same way. Sometimes muscle memory is a bad thing!

Let's bet they have been employing experts for this kind of purposes.
Or... why the hell can not be that "3 diamonds Retry!" button colored red? Or on the left side?
Just because to drive us to mess more diamonds.
We should think that these things are not tested or not polished or not configured well enough.
Oh, no, these are deliberate.

THANK YOU VERY BUTCH!