Talk:Road Trip/@comment-32878771-20180401094035

Done with 3353333. I started a day late, as I did have an issue with asset download at my home ISP (Comcast), and was not able to even launch the App. I as hoping 'All-3' would do, and I went there early, and ended up in making another upgrade for 6.3.

First and foremost, I thank everyone for the tip. SJ, ME7 (regular helpers), just to name a few.

With that said, I usually don't write much here, but I think I deserve the right to express my view here.

While many has expressed their frustration, I think this SE had one big effect to the community. We now think:

"There is a fine line between fun and frustration, and RR3 may be getting close to or may have crossed that line."

I am not a super player of any sort, but this SE was making me think RR3 may have crossed it. Yes, I did get frustrated in some of the goals, but actually enjoyed others. In many SEs I get both experiences, but this one had inclination toward the former.

I have no way of testing this event (especially 6.3 and beyond) with 3353313 like those superheroes, but in the trend of pas SEs, if those super-duper players needed 3353313, I would not have been able to be done with 3353333. In other words, SE is now a matter of spending, not improving the skills. This is sad.

I was actually ok to spend the extra GC to upgrade the body to get the car, as Testarossa is my childhood dream car. But I thougt the skills should matter more, in fact, much more. If it were for a car I would not dream of, I would have ditched it.

Yes, there should be a way for the late-commers to be able to compete with all these 4+ years veterans, but the skills, which late-commers can eventually gain, SHOULD matter, in my opinion.

In real world, I remember the fun and excitement of revving up the small engine of (relatively) cheap cars to the redline in the mountenous roads to race against bigger cars (like Mazda Miata against Nissan Skyline R32 or Lancia Delta HF 4WD). There, skills did matter. It's in my vivid memory, and it was so pleasurable. In any games, I think SKILLS SHOULD MATTER.

I hope folks at fm are reading here, and they hear the community.