Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-31526827-20180119124813/@comment-26388545-20180217200624

I think FM had to make the LTS change to 15 tiers based on profitability. It's a game to us, it's money and jobs for them. I am guessing they exponentially more people complaining than what this Wiki represents.

Many people don't have the time or patience for 22 tier, 66 race LTS's. Most people out there don't know about bot slowing. The first few tiers are easy. But the average Joe, with full assists and HUGE margins of victory will start to have trouble soon. Joe will have to service after almost every tier, more towards the end. Joe could fully upgrade and MAYBE get 2 tiers done before needing to service. Then he'd have to watch ads, pay gold or leave the game for a while and come back later. Well Joe may only have 30 minutes a day to race. Joe opens the game one day and finds the event is over while he was still at tier 15. Then angry Joe deletes the game in frustration. Extra frustration if he bought a gold pack, which may lead him to seek a refund from the app store.

15 tiers is reasonable for these people, not such a grind. I don't think they came to this numner 15 by accident. The average Joe can handle that much servicing. Although the 2018 NASCAR LTS requires even more servicing because of the long races. I like NASCAR and don't mind the races. However beginner to intermediate drivers may find all the servicing frustrating.

Here are the facts. I went through EVERY LTS ever. It was never just 22 or 15 tiers. At first they fluctuated a lot. 22 tier would show up here and there. Then there was a period of about 5 LTS where every one was 22 tier. Then it fluctuated a bit again. Now it would appear that 15 is the new normal, although nothing is for sure.

On average the pay for 15 LTS is 27.4 gold less than 22 tier LTS. Mind you, one 22 tier LTS only paid 20 gold!! In fact, both the highest and lowest paying LTS were 22 tier with the high being 110 gold (3 of those).

Here's is a historical summary;
 * 22 tier = 18 with average pay of 81.4 gold
 * 20 tier = 2 with average pay of 60 gold
 * 18 tier = 4 with average pay of 57.5 gold
 * 17 tier = 2 with average pay of 80 gold
 * 16 tier = 3 with average pay of 21.7 gold
 * 15 tier = 10 with average pay of 54 gold
 * 14 tier = 1 with pay of 50 gold
 * 21 tier = 1 with pay of 50 gold
 * 11 tier = 1 with pay of 50 gold
 * 9 tier = 1 with pay of 58 gold

NOTE: The basic formula for determining averages was used. That being add up all figures in a category and divide that by the total number of figures in that category. EX: (6+7+8+9)/4 = 7.5 average