Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-38105396-20191126201852/@comment-31526827-20200113000843

ME7 wrote: DrestinBlack wrote: In my totally uninformed, unscientific and completely speculative opinion: FM wants All races to end by lap 20 or so. The crash in 8.0 was purely unintentional, of course. But ... ultimately, endless endurance is too easy a way to uplevel, get “free” GC and therefore not good for the bean counters.

I could be wrong. It is certainly not free gold. People invest a huge amount of time to earn it. I know many people who learned no assist driving and fully upgraded cars only for this purpose. It is a direct exchange of time for fame for gold. Even easy races become hard because you have to stay focussed and you can definitely get fatigued. I had to quit endless racing for several months because I got an upper back/shoulder injury from it. Too much time spent doing fine motor skills.

Many people are of the opinion that endless endurance racing only benefits the racers, I don’t necessarily believe that. One metric I expect would be useful For FM is the amount of gameplay per day, per week and per month. This could be something that advertisers would like to know or even something that stockholders would like to know. Endless endurance racers drag up this metric for those who don’t do it.

I’ve been of the opinion for a long time that this is mutually beneficial. I think the amount of effort that they put into making endless racing work again supports this. "Free" in quotes was me indicating that nothing is truly free. Back during Windows vs Linux days we used to say "Linux is free if your time is worth nothing" - the amount of time and effort people put into EE is absolutely astounding to me. Personally, the math doesn't work for me (ROI is too low),  it if others have the free time then it can payoff. And more power to you folks. When I first began RR I was laid up for sometime and literally had nothing but time to kill. I blazed through the game. I can't spare even close to the time needed these days. Despite my still appearing in these forums after giving my Farewell, I am racing perhaps 10% of the time I have before.

(sorry, off topic there). They fixed the app crashing when going over 20-something laps because, app crashing is bad. Period. That it was during EE is only because that's literally the only time you'd reach such levels. I think the longest race in the game is 22 laps and getting over that in a EE is not easy or common for most people (this forum includes many of the best racers, and only, perhaps, 1% of total racers). I don't think they fixed it to service EE as much as to simply not have an app crashing bug!

i don't believe they care how man races/laps are run anywhere near as much as, how many IAP purchases and how to drive more of them. EE races provide a way to level up and make GC and therefore represent less opportunity for IAPs. EAs reputation for greed is well established, I think the only reason they don't simply program bots to slow or stop appearing after X laps is to avoid the backlash for a vocal minority, it would be trivial to program.

please take nothing I wrote as a complaint or anything demeaning towards EE races or those who do them.