Why does Bob get old?

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I have six Bobs, and two of them are near career end. I am going to retire them because their speed and strength is declining.

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The thing that bothers me is I have no idea how this whole mechanism works. They both have less than 100 races. What have I done to abuse them so hard?

I have other drivers at 100+ races whose career is only about halfways.

Their "mood arrow" has been down for the last 15 or 20 races the others have been running. Usually some time off makes them happy (green or blue) again, but now they just stay grumpy.

But why did they age so fast?

Is GT counting race days, in both A-spec and B-spec, and making up the "age" of a driver that way?

Is it something about their win/lose ratio?

Do I yell too much at them? Or too little?

Are they getting sad because I do not use them in every race?

Or are they feeling abused when I force them to race when in orange mood?

Should I let them pit when their strength is down? (I only let them pit when tyres or fuel is down)

Are they getting exhausted by hard races, and less so by easy wins?

Were they just "born" with poor mental or physical strength?

Or have they just realized that they will never really be good at racing?

Anyone, please enlighten me!
 
I don't know what to tell you, to be honest. I've never seen anything like it before! Poor Bobs.... maybe they're like people in that some are naturally more durable than others?

But hey, at least you get to choose cool new names for two of them sometime soon!:sly:
 
Some say he has a glass of E85 for breakfast, and that his left nipple has a shift light underneath it. All we know is that he's called Bob.
 
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This is exactly why I don't do B-Spec, this **** would drive me nuts!
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It has more depth than you would think just from looking at those four simple commands. Timing of commands, selection of skills, selection of drivers and tuning cars right for them...

But this thing I just can't grok. Has everyone else still got their first Bobs?
 
My Bob's are getting old, I don't want them to pass away, when Bob get's so low I have to fire him, I'll always remember the good times we had, from when he entered his first race to when he rolled over my Miata.
 
I have 6 Bob's. My oldest Bob is now level 32 and he has done 105 races winning 79.

However, his career bar is less than halfway. That is the difference. Have you run 84 very short races or have you run very long races? I ususally only run my Bobs at the level they are competing or higher. eg if bob is level 24 I enter him into a race which is lvl 24 or higher.
 
Neenor
Have you run 84 very short races or have you run very long races? I ususally only run my Bobs at the level they are competing or higher. eg if bob is level 24 I enter him into a race which is lvl 24 or higher.
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At the beginning they did a lot of shorter races in Pro/Expert/Extreme. After I got to the enduros level they have been running the asphalt off Tsukuba in some mx-5.

At some point I also did some beginner events, just to see if they actually had to go through those, to become better/complete drivers (no, did not help :indiff:).
 
Ha i never enough knew about this. I thought the idea was to enter all the events with one driver to try and fill up the career bar lol :dopey:
 
I don't know if this matters, but training a lvl 0 Bob in professional/expert races will increase their skill SIGNIFICANTLY, will boosting their experience/career very little. My first bob has about the same skill (err... points?) as my newly recruited Joe. However Bob has a higher career/experience bar then Joe because Joe only did 5 races in Expert.
 
Stune
Ha i never enough knew about this. I thought the idea was to enter all the events with one driver to try and fill up the career bar lol :dopey:
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So did I! Imagine my disappointment when those skill/strength bars started to grey out! :ouch:
 
Pfffthahaha this thread made me lol ;-) ... im on my 2nd Bob, the 1st one was fast but then thought he could tell everyone who he was and write a book about it .... (i wonder where thats happened before lol)
 
My 2 oldest bobs are declining, thank god they not the ones i spent an hour cycling through names to get a name i wanted...but their career bar is not as high as your in the pic and they still are declining at a pretty large rate.

So i wonder if it just comes down to the amount of time you have had them as much or more than their career bars are climbing.

Either way it is not hard to level up a new bob especially with a x1 just enter them solo in any endurance race and their levels will skyrocket like crazy and they cannot possibly lose.
 
r2nyGT5
I don't know if this matters, but training a lvl 0 Bob in professional/expert races will increase their skill SIGNIFICANTLY, will boosting their experience/career very little.
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I have seen that too. Somehow it does not make sense, I mean it should be more right to train your Bob and use him where his skills are sufficient, rather than forcing him straight in an FGT.

But apparently yes, 5 expert races mean no more career progress than 5 in beginner, but much more xp. It even seems to be the same for enduros, where in one race they can get the same mileage as in everything before it combined. So their career is definitely not determined by mileage.
 
I'm not crazy after all, my level 39 bob has that too, but I have to admit that I abused him really hard, he has done many many endurance races alone, so yeah.
 
ugh mine is 32 and not even half full. and he has like 176 race son him, 164 wins. Dam i want it to go up so he can easily do historic cup/NASCAR/FGT etc.
 
The Career/Experience Bar fill rate depends on how you use Bob. I have 2 different Bob to test this theory out.
-Bob#1: I use him to go through all events from Sunday Cup to endurance event in a variety of cars -> his Exp Bar fill up at a faster rate than #2, almost full at only Level 36
-Bob#2: He only race the Dream Car Championship and Indy 500 in the X1. The EXP bar only 2/3 full and he's at Level 39.
 
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ugh mine is 32 and not even half full. and he has like 176 race son him, 164 wins. Dam i want it to go up so he can easily do historic cup/NASCAR/FGT etc.
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Sounds like you have run him through everything from the beginners and up. Is this all safe wins, or did he have to fight? I often use cars that are not too overpowered, just because it is less boring, but I wonder if he gets worn more from that.
 
cicua
Sounds like you have run him through everything from the beginners and up. Is this all safe wins, or did he have to fight? I often use cars that are not too overpowered, just because it is less boring, but I wonder if he gets worn more from that.
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he has been through bspec 1 to bspec 29 so a lot
 
I hated Tamagochi and never saw the fun in it.
So this is a Deja vu forced on me.
I have 121 races done with my bob and he's almost 1/5 of his career and he's level 21.
 
my Bob at level 33, so far only half of the EXP filled~ and this is the same bob when I 1st started B-spec
 
Bob's life expectancy is greatly reduced once you put him in a Toyota 7 race car. This results in his "career bar" increasing dramatically. True story.
 
Polyphony really needs to release some material on B-Spec outlining how it works, what each thing does, and how it affects your drivers.

it seems to be very complex, but there is little to no information about it.
i don't get how they can really expect us to get full enjoyment out of it if we can't do anything but guess at what does what and what it means.
 
It's quite simple. All bob's career bar fill whenever a B-spec race is ran. They grow older wether you use them or not (time is passing even if they don't race).
They also will grow older if you start a race and then quit it. It's still considered as a valid race in their career.
 
I thought this awhile back, so I decided to experiment. I created a bob but never used him. After 30 races with my other bobs, his experience bar is still at the same area. Not sure what the factors are on what causes the experience bar to go up.

Also I have a bob, N. Gardner, that I started out with, hes done 130 races and at level 34 I believe, and his experience bar is about half way. R. Nixon on the other hand has about 80 races under his belt, mainly endurance, and FGT. He is at level 36 and his experience bar is almost at the same area as N. Gardner. It may have to do with either the level of competition, or maybe length of the races.

And probably about hundreds of other minuscule factors.
 
My first two bobs have filled up more of their career bar than my third bob who is at a higher level. I think it's just about what races you enter them in. If you push them into races above their level they will get more experience from one race without having to get the career drain of entering more, lower rewarding races. So I think it's better to put your new bobs in a un-losable situation above their head for the massive xp but smaller career hit in the end. If this is the case I think PD have screwed this up.... however it is good for building a capable bob fast.

As for the getting old... maybe it has to do with racing them when they are in the orange down arrow too much? As for how they get these arrows and how long they last... im not sure.
 

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