Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-38662856-20191010053420/@comment-27170954-20191020141023

my opinion – since I think I started this instance of this debate

The long race has many advantages. First and foremost, this is a pastime and longer races pass more time.

The next best reason is short races are common. More than half the cup races are 3 laps or less. less than 15% are longer than 6 laps. Longer races differentiate a car/series from the masses.

other reasons

Longer races are more realistic. It's a game - it's all fake - I get that. But a long race allows you to develop a feel for the car on the track and actually race. You don't have to drive like a crazed lunatic to win a longer race. You have time to setup and pass and try to drive clean.

Short races are like fast food. You just need to eat and move on to the next thing. Short races belong in LTS, Special Events, and in the low tiers in race series. Those are all obstacles to player progress and their purpose is to make the developer money. We should be able to get through those quickly and painlessly so we can move on to what is worthwhile in the game.

You have at most a capacity to service 3 cars at a time. 4-5 minutes in short races and a car needs service. 12-15 minutes and you’ve reached the capacity limit. Now you must wait or pay the developer to continue. Longer events allow you to extend your playing time before you reach the capacity limit.

Once you’ve made the investment the developer asks, the constraints on your playing time should be relaxed. One way they do this is the longer driving distance for fully upgraded cars. The other way they do this is longer races available to cars in the top tiers of series. (I can’t think of other ways they currently relax those constraints).

Investment should provide rewards not available without that investment. There are nearly 2,000 cup races 3 laps or less in length. About 2/3 of those are in the lower tiers of series where investment is low. 2 or 3 lap cups at the top of a series or in an exclusive does not provide increased rewards for increased investment.