Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-28169398-20180113032050

Maybe this will clarify the announcement for many of you who are having a problem wrapping your head around what EA and the Monkeys dropped in our laps yesterday. Green are my annotations.

In the February update (6.1) we will be making a number of changes to Real Racing 3.

Main Menu Redesign The main menu has been redesigned to improve access to in-game content. This is the main menu

This is what is being redesigned

*More features will now be accessible from the home page. This is the home page

'''You will be able to access more things here, meaning less swiping around and enhance usability... maybe.''' *Career groups will now be found beneath a new Career category. These are the Career Groups

'''Instead of being laid out this way, you will have a Career category that will consolidate all of the Career groups in one location. NASCAR will no longer be in Career.''' *Career Goals will be removed from the game. These are Career Goals

'''These are going away... Bye Natalia, you will be missed.''' *Exclusive series will remain on the main menu. These are Exclusive Series

'''These are not going away... You can find them where you always have''' *A new motorsports category will be created (more details below). This will be where the new NASCAR and Formula E content will live. So it sounds like the main menu will be something like OMP, WTTT, SEs, Flashbacks, Race Teams, Home Page, Career Category, Exclusive Series, then Motorsports. *The career button will be replaced with a race button that takes you directly to the most relevant series for the car you have selected. This is the Career Button (bet you didn't realize that was a button)

'''This is being replaced by a Races button. The only real difference is the after-click behavior. Before it took you to the Career group the car was in. You then had to click that, and maybe scroll over several pages to say Cutting Edge, then click on that and then chose the event you want. New behavior is to skip some screen taps and swipes and go straight to Cutting Edge if the McLaren MP4-X is selected. In other words, this is a usability improvement.'''

New Motorsports category and removal of Career Goals: ''We’re creating a new Motorsports category in-game. The aim of Motorsports is to improve access to our Motorsports content and streamline career progression.'' '''Currently, to get to the Formula E content, you had to progress through, Amateur, Pro/Am, Pro, and Expert Groups, and progress through Masters Group to earn 21 trophies in GT3 World Series in order to participate in Formula E: Showcase. Since FM spent a lot of time trying to develop new players last year at Formula E events, not letting them be able to access the Formula E content right away and instead making them progress through the main career means that they probably lost a lot of people who just wanted Formula E. Moving it out of Career makes a lot of sense.'''

As part of this feature there will be a number of changes:

All Formula E and NASCAR content will be removed from the Career and new content will be created in the new Motorsports category. Any of the series under the current NASCAR Group and the Formula E: Showcase and Formula E: Experience are being removed from the Career Category.

''*In total 16 series are being removed and 5 new series are being created. Whilst this reduces the total rewards, the number of cars required to complete the content is reduced from 16 to 5, significantly lowering the cost for completion.'' '''This means that the 14 NASCAR Group Series, for example Danica Patrick's Champion Cup are being removed from the game. This also includes the FE:S and FE:E. These will be replaced with 5 new series which will be found under the Motorsports Category. Knowing how this will breakdown is speculative and whether NASCAR Academy will remain will need more indication from FM or will be determined when 6.1 launches.

There are Currently 13 NASCAR cars in the game and 3 Formula E cars in the game. As you need Danica Patrick's car for her Championship and Joey Logano's for his, etc. You needed all the cars to get 100% completion of the NASCAR Group. Because of Showcases and the Sponsorships for the three cars in the Formula E: Experience, you needed to have each of these cars as well. Instead, with the Motorsports category you will only need one of the cars to complete the series to 100%, likely assuming sufficient upgrade. That makes it a lot less expensive, because you do not need all of the cars, only 5, unless it is for 100% garage goal. This fact would strongly suggest that the way the Series will break down is a car for NASCAR Academy, a 2015 NASCAR Cup Car, a 2016 NASCAR Cup Car, and a 2017 NASCAR Cup Car, then one of the Formula E cars.

Does this mean that there will not be future NASCAR and Formula E content? Only time will tell, but for the current content, there will be no changes.

Since 5 series will have less completion rewards than 16 (simple math 16>5), and they may scrap the sponsorship scheme, there is less chance to earn gold in the series, but also they are anticipating that players whose main focus is on then Motorsports Category will only chose one team to run with and won't be concerned with 100% garage.'''

'''This basically means that all of those Drivers Championships are going away and if you are not 100% complete by the time you update to 6.1, then you will no longer be able to complete them. If you have not earned the Sponsorships in these series, then you will forfeit the Gold from them. This does not mean that you should finish all of these series, especially if it costs more than you will get in return, just that you won't be able to. If you can wrap up sponsorships or series before February 13th, then you should work on that completion, since once you bank those rewards, they are yours to keep. FM will not take away any gold from you that you won.
 * The removed series will no longer be playable, and series progression will be reset. Any R$ or Gold series completion or collection rewards not obtained before players update to 6.1(launching on the 13th February) will no longer be winnable.

Also, all of those Cup cars that you have can be used to complete the new series that they will be creating in the Motorsports category. If you have a car that is sufficiently upgraded to complete the new series, then you will need no further "investment" in cars or upgrades.

The part about progression being reset simply means that if you are 46% complete on NASCAR and 100% complete on Formula E, that gets reset, as you would need to complete the 5 new series. Since they are going away, it doesn't make sense to keep them. Also, say if you completed to 75% and you could no longer play a series and that was not reset, you would have no way of ever reaching 100% completion. By resetting and removing, you do not have that concern. Yes it is changing the playing field on 100% completion, and I am sure we will have some smug people who will say, "well you are not really 100% complete because you didn't get 100% in NASCAR before 6.1", but lets all try to be nice and tak a page out of golf and play the game as it lies.''' '''What you have in your garage from NASCAR and Formula E stays in your garage and is usable in the new Motorsports Category. Nothing gets taken away from you and you will not need to rebuy things.''' '''All this means is that if you are 100% on NASCAR or Formula E, that does not block you from playing the new content and earning all of the rewards that those series will pay. You do not need to have completed to 100% but it also means you are not locked out if you have.''' All of the alternative liveries that you could obtain from Sponsorship deals will now be free, so the Kevin Harvick Outback livery will be chooseable without having to win it in the sponsorship or buy it as an alternate livery.
 * Your cars, liveries and upgrades will remain the same.
 * Players who have completed the removed series will have the opportunity to play through the new series and earn the new completion rewards.
 * Liveries that were winnable as part of collections in this content will be available for free in the 6.1 update.

''As part of this change we’re making a number of balancing changes to Motorsports cars:

'''This likely means that the 750 Cup cars will be repriced at 500 ... Sucks if you bought them, but if you won them, then Upgrade costs aren't changing, so no harm, no foul. Your Fully Upgraded Car will cost the same in upgrades as a new player's Fully Upgraded car. Playing field is level, if you didn't buy the car. Another reason to not sit out of Special Events or LTSs''' *In the case of R$ motorsports cars we want to align price with performance, their prices will be increased (cost and upgrades) but will remain R$. '''This is likely a reference to the TOYOTA Camry (Sunoco) Ford Fusion (Richard Petty Motorsports) and possibly the Chevrolet SS (NASCAR Academy) car. Likely the Sunoco will be priced closer to R$3,000,000.''' *Minor Performance Rating (PR) increases will be made to some cars to equalise the cost required to complete their series, these changes will not affect the cars performance. probably something like the Sunoco being able to complete the series it ends up in or possibly if one of the cars has a wonky upgrade tree, to bring it in line with the other cars in its series so that you wouldn't need extra upgrades to reach the same place as one of the other cars. *Some servicing times will be adjusted in line with performance, more cars will see their servicing time lowered instead of increased. The 4 hour service time cars (2015s) will likely come down to 3 hours and the Sunoco (2 hours) will likely go up to 3 hours.
 * For motorsports cars costing gold, a number of prices are being dropped and upgrades will remain the same (no gold cars will increase in price).''

'''See. It is not so scary when you read it critically.'''  