Talk:Veyron Community Challenge/@comment-33275462-20171011111055

I did some calculations, to see if it's worth participating.

My assumptions:

- Players will want to get to 450 laps as soon as possible, which means repeatedly running short and fast tracks with many laps. This in turn means that the agent will not be used, because a single race of this kind won't give enough fame to be worth using the agent.

- Practically all 450 laps will be run with an unserviced car. The Bugatti takes too long to service, even with ads. - FM will probably not give us the Dubai Oval or any other extremely short track. But I think we will have Brands Hatch, which is one of the most common tracks, and is quite fast. Brands Hatch appears in both series the Bugatti is in, and none of the shorter/faster tracks do. - I'm assuming/hoping the fame rewards in this LTS will be similar to (or greater than) the ones offered in Zenith series, and not similar to the puny ones in 12+ Cyl Slam. - I'm assuming that the rewards can be earned without completing the LTS, or at least without spending gold.

So, I'm going to assume we will have a race with at least 5 laps in Brands Hatch, which will give at least 440 fame/lap.

This is exactly like 18.1 of Zenith. This stage can be easily repeated every 3'30" running unserviced (by me, and I'm bad at this). This time includes the delay between races.

So, 5 laps every 3'30" is about 85 laps/hour. This means you need about 5 hours 20 minutes to complete the 450 laps. This will give you a total of 198000 fame, which translates roughly to 33 gold. Assuming enough players participate, you will get an additional 45 gold from the community challenge rewards, to a total of 78 gold.

For comparison, if you farm the EC 10-lapper 10 times, assuming a slow 32 minutes for each run, you need about the same time. For this you get 576000 fame (with the agent), which roughly translates to 86 gold (after subtracting the 10 gold for the agent).

So, if my assumptions are correct, participating in the community challenge is almost as efficient as farming. Plus, we will be helping new players who haven't unlocked any of the farm-worthy stages get some valuable gold. Of course, this depends on reaching the community goals, so it's up to us. For me, I think it's worth it.

Of course, my assumptions may prove to be wrong, or there may be an error in the above calculations, so please feel free to comment, check and correct me.