DS gains

By coincidence i learned on another chat that the DP gains are not understood very well and a bit of a mystery. So i started to monitor it. 

So far i can confirm that you gain 1 DS every official race (races for points). (this is 100% confirmed correct up to 5.0 and after...Perhaps at a certain point it changes?)

I did a 100 lap race at the docks which lasted 5 hours and resulted in + 3 DS.

I also did a 100 lap race which only lasted 1,5 hr and resulted in +1 DS

Anyone else want to share their thoughts and views, or tests on DS gains? 

So far my feeling is that you gain 1DS for every 2 hrs of activity. A race takes 1 hr to load, and then the race itself. That gives you 1 DS. This closely matches my 100lap races. 

I swear we just had this discussion in another thread...

Figure this into your equation:

I hit 40.0 DS at 10 am TCT Dec 28, 2018 on a parkland 100-lap race... since that time, I have only raced 100-lap docks races using a fully upgraded (Turbo 3, Long, Tarmac) Ferrari 458.

Through eighteen 100-lap docks races my DS has not changed. So I am gaining less than 0.1 / 18 DS per 100-lap docks. One of the reasons the DS gain formula is difficult to figure out is the fact that I have no idea what I am gaining from each race. It appears I have gained nothing, but we can be somewhat safe in assuming a gain of 0.005 or so from each race (I expect to gain 0.1 in the next race or two, but I'm not sure).

When I was in the 30's and worked at Guy's 10* mech shop (so +50% skill gain), it took 11 docks races to gain 0.1 and something around 50 speedways. I think I deleted the table I was making, unfortunately.

Anyway, the possible variables include driver class, car/car class/upgrades, track, time, laps, official vs unofficial, starting DS (assume it's something like hunting with diminishing returns), racing points earned (lifetime). My guess is the formula is exponential or logarithmic, as most Torn formulas are, so a flat DS per time as you suggest is unlikely.

Race	Start DS	End DS	Race
0	39.9	40.0	You came 2nd in the Parkland race. Your best lap was 02:39:22. [View] 2018/12/28 10:06:04 AM
1	40.0	40.0	You came 1st in the Docks race. Your best lap was 02:49:59. [View] 2018/12/28 6:01:05 PM
2	40.0	40.0	You came 1st in the Docks race. Your best lap was 02:50:20. [View] 2018/12/28 11:17:03 PM
3	40.0	40.0	You came 1st in the Docks race. Your best lap was 02:45:25. [View] 2018/12/29 4:29:04 AM
4	40.0	40.0	You came 2nd in the Docks race. Your best lap was 02:48:96. [View] 2018/12/29 9:39:05 AM
5	40.0	40.0	You came 1st in the Docks race. Your best lap was 02:50:62. [View] 2018/12/29 7:44:03 PM
6	40.0	40.0	You came 1st in the Docks race. Your best lap was 02:50:51. [View] 2018/12/30 12:44:03 AM
7	40.0	40.0	You came 1st in the Docks race. Your best lap was 02:50:14. [View] 2018/12/30 5:44:04 AM
8	40.0	40.0	You came 6th in the Docks race. Your best lap was 02:50:80. [View] 2018/12/30 10:58:04 AM
9	40.0	40.0	You came 1st in the Docks race. Your best lap was 02:50:56. [View] 2018/12/30 7:10:04 PM
10	40.0	40.0	You came 1st in the Docks race. Your best lap was 02:50:61. [View] 2018/12/31 12:11:04 AM
11	40.0	40.0	You came 3rd in the Docks race. Your best lap was 02:43:00. [View] 2018/12/31 5:20:04 AM
12	40.0	40.0	You came 1st in the Docks race. Your best lap was 02:50:64. [View] 2018/12/31 10:22:04 AM
13	40.0	40.0	You came 2nd in the Docks race. Your best lap was 02:48:00. [View] 2018/12/31 7:12:04 PM
14	40.0	40.0	You came 3rd in the Docks race. Your best lap was 02:49:71. [View] 2019/01/01 12:31:04 AM
15	40.0	40.0	You came 3rd in the Docks race. Your best lap was 02:47:42. [View] 2019/01/01 5:40:04 AM
16	40.0	40.0	You came 6th in the Docks race. Your best lap was 02:50:10. [View] 2019/01/01 11:04:04 AM
17	40.0	40.0	You came 3rd in the Docks race. Your best lap was 02:50:70. [View] 2019/01/01 8:21:04 PM
18	40.0	40.0	You came 2nd in the Docks race. Your best lap was 02:50:48. [View] 2019/01/02 1:26:04 AM

The key is to find that threshold. So far it lies between 5.7 and 40. 

 

Anyone still gaining 1ds  per race that has 7ds, 10ds, 14ds etc?