Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-80.50.97.122-20181010100423/@comment-28169398-20181015164629

Gwilbor wrote: I'd say that there is a trade-off between how much time and effort you need to "spend" to win a car and how many tokens it will require: the cheapest you get a car, more time you need to complete a special event or LTS. If you don't have time to loose on such events, wait for a discount. If the discount is not likely to come in a short time, unlock the showcase and get a 20% discount. Still better than buying at full price. LTSs are fixed cost.

SEs make the game interesting. And usually it is only the last day or two that requires more than a few minutes of game play.

If you aren't running the special content, then what are you doing? Career only? Only WTT or OMP?

If you have the money to do IAP, then do it. There is nothing wrong with paying to play what you want to. But if this is a strategy discussion, then years of analysis on this site have proven that the most economical way to get any car in this game is to win it in an LTS or Special Event.

Yes, that completely discounts time invested, but based solely on in-game economics, winning a car is the lowest cost option, almost always. There are the rare exceptions where the car and upgrade sales make the car cheaper to buy and fully upgrade than to win and fully upgrade without the discount, but in every other instance, the "cost of ownership" is lower by winning. You also have the possibility of lowering cost of ownership even further if you win at less than full upgrade and then can buy the remaining upgrades during an upgrade sale.