My Diaries

A Lurid Tale of Obsession, Depravity, Wits and Attempted Wit

Fri Feb 19, 1999

Used car cycles

It seems that used car stock does only change every 10 days, on the even 10th day, at least judging from a couple of different games I played last night, and it has nothing to do with whether you have bought any cars.

Well, actually the first time it changes after only nine days, since you start at day 1.

I finished up an A license at 78 days, which I will keep on another reference card. That was a reasonably honest 78 days. I had trouble with A-4 (Trial Mountain segment) this time and at about 45 days I was getting tempted to reset the attempt, but got it a couple of days later. I might have practiced it a couple of times last night after saving the A-3 at 25 days, but I don't think so.

Anyway, wrt used car stock, I compared the stock of my 17 day B license reference card with the result of 11 days (er, 10 days, actually, leaving me at day 11) of spot racing a Prelude VTEC (with no real success; for a FWD car, it sure tends to spin, sort of like my Toyota Tercel Station Wagon does), and the stock I looked at seemed identical. And the stock did not seem to have changed at all prior to that. When I imagined it changed after five days, perhaps it was 10 or 11. And I'm also reasonably sure there never is a Supra MA70 for < Cr6000.

Total time to get an A license for me seems now to be about 4 hours. A marked contrast to the first time I got it.

But I sure am sensitive to controller configuration. When I try a game from day 1, I usually forget to configure the controls before starting a license test or spot race. Wow, major mental confusion. I have built neural networks directly from the screen image to certain finger movements, or something.