Efficiency Guide by Toymachina

(As posted on Reddit)

I noticed that in my team people do inefficient stuff and are progressing slowly. Actually that is probably the right way to play and truly enjoy the game, but if you want to min-max your time and get the most value out of it, here are some tips:

1) VIP subscription (cheaper one for 5$, not the x2 mastery one) is by very far the most valuable purchase if you are making any, if you plan to spend money, spend it on that, not other stuff. If you are really short on money, consider at least premium pass one for 2-3$, will improve experience by removing forced ads considerably and value is still really good, albeit worse than VIP (which also includes pass). Don’t waste money on anything else.

2) Adventure - intentionally die at 1st 500m chest - this is by far most value/time thing to do, since next meaningful chest is at 2000m. You may occasionally try to go all in with maxed out cars that you have low score on that map to progress and get Legendary chest per 50k, but it’s secondary and do so only once you done all the other optimized stuff.

3) Cups - these are the main ting to do, leave 6,8,12h chests for overnight, and play until you have no more 3h chests to open for free (or with ad if you play without VIP), stop there once you can’t open 3h chest for free. The only exception is if you ended up with 3x 3h chests in the evening, then open with diamonds until you roll 8h chest to open overnight. Use streak shields always - never miss a streak, simply invest adventure points in shields.

4) Events - play these to 400 points sharp, every event. Open 80 points purple chest, and buy adventure tokens with points, the rest is optional, but prefer 160 point champion chest, 100 point purple targeted chest, adventure tokens. Stop at 400, or if you are really good at event or have VIP, you might go to 600 if there is a meaningful reward which occasionally is (like this current event).

5) Play community showcase event every day always and intentionally die instantly. Play it with least liked vehicle (monowheel, moonlander, scooter and such) becuase it gives 600+ mastery points even if you instantly die. Every day. For example I maxed out Monowheel mastery like that in couple of months without ever playing Monowheel at all. Never skip this community challenge.

6) Complete daily challenges, reroll smartly! For example, if you see some crap quest to idk drive 2000m in a single run with bus somewhere and some great quest such as spend 50 adventure tokens - DO NOT reroll bad one. 1st complete 50 tokens by buying say 1 streak shield, and then reroll the bad one - that way you can again get 50 tokens one, which is really good. By optimizing reroll strategy you can do basically all quests everyday naturally, without any explicit farming.

7) Team research points - never level up bonuses to the right, they are crap recurring bonuses that waste research points, level up only permanent bonuses, and prioritize always smaller level ones even if they seem bad, since each level price increases exponentially, so by leveling lower level ones you get the buffs sooner but also level the lab faster, leading to new again cheaper and potentially better bonuses.

8) Team events - while it might be fun to score as high as possible, you gain nothing by it in the long run, by doing better you will simply be matched with better teams in higher leagues, which will basically lead to eventually losing as much as you win, near 50-50, so it doesn’t matter where you are, and time spent to perfect the runs is really bad. Only do that if you are hyped about the game and already done all the other time-efficient things. You will help your team by doing so believe it or not, especially long run. Just leave 1st score that is decent (as in you didn’t crash mid race) and leave it at that.

9) Scrap only excess stuff - always, even if you think you really need to level up some part but don’t have scrap. Do just excess parts and nothing else, and also optimize by going to up to 8h so you can use the ad (or nothing for VIP) to cut the time by 8h, and then scrap the rest. This is relevant for endgame, where you have a lot of excess parts to scrap.

10) Only use cars you don’t have maxed out mastery with, and prioritize spending gold on masteries, so you can unlock the next one, as you will occasionally be forced to play with specific vehicle (targeted adventure chests, certain events, and such), so if you stay stuck at maxed out 1st mastery, but didn’t pay 1m gold to unlock it, your playtime with that vehicle is “wasted”. Do not play with cars that you have maxed out masteries, ever. Simply avoid it, reroll adventure chest to vehicle-agnostic one if car that you are maxed out it appears. This way you will optimize time to get the masteries, for example I’ve maxed them out all with regular VIP (not x2 mastery boost).

11) Occasionally you can spend diamonds for mastery bonus points, but do so ONLY during x2 mastery events, so the multiplier scales and on such double mastery events make sure you play only with vehicles you don’t like, since these will be the most painful to level up, and eventually you will get to the point where there is only those hated vehicles left. So make a good use of those events to quickly level up those hated masteries, and simply play cups with the cars you like and they will eventually all level up naturally by just using them.

12) Scrap is the thing you will need most at absolute endgame, after 10y of playing (2 year of cheaper VIP sub), 15.1k GP, I have only scrap missing and it’s in millions if I wanted to max out all the items. For example I maxed out all masteries for all vehicles, have 11m gold extra that I have nothing to spend on yet I miss like 1m+ scrap to max out all remaining parts. So value your scrap and don’t bother about gold, it will happen in time.

13) Don’t waste diamonds on anything other than occasional mastery boost (during double mastery weekends only!) to level up masteries of cars you don’t enjoy and very occasional chest unlock as described earlier. Stuff come out for diamonds that you might really want. For example I’ve wasted probably thousands of diamonds for no reason during my 10y period that I amassed while playing on unlocking cup chests, and mastery, that now I have all maxed out masteries early, while I miss many mythical parts that I could now get with those diamonds from the new chests. So be conservative with diamonds, only occasional chest to get 8h one before sleep or mastery bonus during double event for scaling for bad vehicles.

14) Featured weekly challenges. Play only 1st three to unlock 500 scrap reward and forget about the rest, do it every reset.