Tip: career races, 3 stars and 3x FUEL in one go

[Art Blade]

Career races have 3 stages similar to Olympic medals, rookie, expert, legend. You gain 1x score per stage. If you skip rookie and expert, you gain 3x scores in a single race, saving you the trouble  ;)

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Edited the subject (making it a "tip")

[spaceboy]

I've been doing them all on Expert.  I figure it's enough challenge (too much sometimes) and up until recently able to beat in a couple races after learning the track a bit.  I haven't even tried one on Legend...tonight I will!

[JRD]

How harder is Legend compared to Rookie?
Smarter AI?
Faster AI (that would be dumb)?

[Art Blade]

JRD, the AI is better, more competitive, meaning harder... they are quickly ahead and have better pathfinding routines which, in the end, makes them faster.

Spaceboy, Until just now I always did each stage for each career race... Now I'll just do 'em legend.  ;D

[spaceboy]

It's also not a bad idea to race one as Rookie to get the layout and pick up a star in the process, I just haven't done that. 

The AI do pick short cuts that I didn't know about.  Last night I saw 4 of them come bounding out of the trees on a little path and cut me off.  Another time it was similar except I saw them coming and I was humming along pretty good - thought I'd make it but one dude slammed right into the side of my vehicle.  Pretty funny stuff.   I should record the one I was doing last night on the snow path, it was fun watching the other cars slide around and into stuff.

[Art Blade]

The AI do pick short cuts that I didn't know about.

Ha! Just in the race I took the screenie, I saw those who always won before me go to the left using a small track, right after the start. I only learned about it because I didn't start properly and therefore had a different view at the track. You can actually learn from them :)