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[CasuallyDressed]

I agree. Continual improvement until you get a respectable time (even when you are currently ahead) is the best approoach. there is no benefit to "barely winning". the cardinal rule though is.... DONT go over your current set of "showdown tickets". If you hit zero, wait 30 minutes and use the next ticket to try again. Replaying once you hit zero will use one of your all-important Golden Tickets that you really need to start another Showdown.

....Bugger. I just exhausted all my tickets (including my golden ones I assume) trying to beat some dude. Do these regenerate over time? Or do I need to buy them?

I'm not entirely sure what the deal is with the ticket generation tbh. I know I can receive and send gifts of them.

[bunnyhop90-]

a super crappy thing about this update it they finally found a serious way to give people that pay real money a huge upper hand. anyone with tons of tickets to play with can be really hard to beat especially if they have just the tiniest amount of skill.

and what makes you think so?

[xitooner]

a super crappy thing about this update it they finally found a serious way to give people that pay real money a huge upper hand. anyone with tons of tickets to play with can be really hard to beat especially if they have just the tiniest amount of skill.

Not sure about that; still seems like a fools game to me to buy golden tickets. You can buy 10 for a dollar (40 for $3) and what does it get you? 10 more attempts to beat somebody else? Seems way overpriced to me. And all you would get is a slight move up the rankings. Looks to me like the best thing to do is get friends who are willing to gift a lot,and get your tickets that way.

You see that "OPENING SEASON" countdown timer up about your showdowns? It says 52 days and 23 hours... at the end of that time what happens; do we all go back to rank 25 and do it again?

[Sespion]

You can watch an ad for a golden ticket (each day I assume)

[CasuallyDressed]

has anyone else noticed certain friends on your list that you seem to be able to give gifts to constantly? I wonder whats up with that?

I've just noticed this and think I figured out why it is.

There seems to be a bug with new friends and giving gifts. If you add a new friend, then immediately go into 'Ze Bunker' to send them a gift, it'll just continually loop round without confirming a gift. Gives the impression that you're showering your new buddy with gifts when you're not actually sending anything.

A quick restart seems to fix it. Accept your new friend, quit the game, then come back in and you can send the gift.

[bunnyhop90-]

Ranking and the Legend Leaderboard
- There are 25 ranks; all new players start at 25
- Not clear what it takes to increase rank yet.... but for now keep winning!

hey xitooner i didnt want to mess up your other thread, but i think we do know the requirements for higher ranks - they're listed in the same place where we give friends gifts - when you swipe from side to side, for example. rank 24 requires 1000 coins, rank 23 - another 1000 coins and 5 gems etc. makes sense?

[bunnyhop90-]

i think if you give gift and it's not accepted - or if the person has not updated the ap yet, then it goes away and you can try giving it again

[LerryJawler]

yes but someone who is going to spend tons of money on this game is a fool anyway so if i happened to get matched up against someone that can start a track over and over again with no real penalty because they have tons of tickets im at a serious disadvantage.

the biggest challenge in this game is getting a good time with 0 faults in limited runs. someone with tons of tickets doesnt have the same limited runs issue.

[xitooner]

As a confirmation for the point of inversely proportional chip replenishing:
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Also, if you look closely at how fast the chips replenish after you just won vs. when you won hours ago, you'll get the striking difference.

Thanks! Its encouraging that it seems to promote competition, although I wonder if at the end of the day you will have a really significant number of chips or not. Not sure that an additional 100-200 chips will matter much (unless total chips earned is how ranking is determined?) We know so little at this point.

Also; if I have the paintjob already, it would actually make those winnings less desirable to me. Wonder if they check for that....
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[xitooner]

hey xitooner i didnt want to mess up your other thread, but i think we do know the requirements for higher ranks - they're listed in the same place where we give friends gifts - when you swipe from side to side, for example. rank 24 requires 1000 coins, rank 23 - another 1000 coins and 5 gems etc. makes sense?

I think the title indicates those are the "prizes" for reaching that rank, not the requirement for reaching it. I may be wrong though

Also.. I will be rewriting that opening topic part a lot I think, as more facts come in. Feel free to keep pointing out things like this though!