Quote Originally Posted by Reezy View Post
I've worked out zone battle a little bit. Each speed pad you go over increases the boost guage.
The 1st pad gives you nothing, the 2nd pad 0.3 zones worth, the 3rd takes it up to 0.6, and then things get interesting.
Each pad after this moves the zone bar up more than the last, it might be as simple as +0.4, +0.5 etc etc. But it maxes out when you reach 8 zones.
So the worst strategy would be to use up your zone bar every 2 speed pads: this would give you 0.3 zones per 2 speed pads, and would take 55 speed pads to go up 8 zones doing it this way.
However it only takes 12-13 speed pads if you save it up. A massive difference.
Of course you may want to use your bar straight away at the start of a race to get ahead and make getting perfect zones/laps easier
These also fill up your zone bar, not sure how much yet.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh thank you! I was trying to boost as soon as possible, and getting rinsed by the AI (on Elite). I did a perfect set of laps, hit every pad possible and still came 4th. Now I might be able to keep up!