Spying on opponents, cloning when the part is lower spec than current

Only way to explain this is with an example... is there any gain to be made by cloning a part that is significantly lower % than the part you\'ve developed yourself? or will it just be throwing money away?

i.e. my front wing is on 63%, I spied on another team about 6 races back, the result of which was that their front wing was, at that time, at 18% - if I spend the few 100k to clone it, will my part take a performance hit / stay the same / eke out a tiny fraction more performance?

I\'d give it a shot without finding out first but don\'t want to chance my own parts being downgraded :)

thought the same....my guess is that in reality, it will make no effect on your % developed, but would just serve to further increase the interval for which you can next research the item again....

It doesnt do anything just get mail saying that nothing can be learned.

I didn\'t get charged when I tried it a few days ago

Same here;  no charge.

I\'m another that had excess performance and cash so clicked just to see what happened. It was interesting to see tha nothing happened.

I tried cloning, clicked on the make clone button and nothing happened, i am a little confused as to if it even works.

when i cloned i got a mail from cheif designer like below , so i believe it did work  ;)

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Have you unlocked Reverse Engineering facility?

edit - I see you\'re level 2, so no you haven\'t unlocked reverese engineering. That\'s why it won\'t work for you.

It works if you have a reseach facility.  I was able to reverse engineer a component that had a higher percentage than my component.  I didn\'t the full percentage of the opponent\'s original component, but just 2% short.

Screw you. Spying is for cheating punks.

LOL, if it was cheating they wouldn\'t add it to the game.
It happens in real life to you know!
BTW, watch ur language man youre not at school here. :)

Really you should have to buy a photocopier before you can copy a chassis.