Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-2A01:CB00:51C:F800:5901:3AF8:1B28:CBBA-20180331081353/@comment-34685136-20180401155618

76.99.200.215 wrote: First time ever posting on this site. I'm an average driver; I get top 60-50% in the weekly time trials, and usually don't have the best car or a fully-upgraded car when I do so.

Am I the only one that thinks that this game is for people who are unemployed? Everything about the game makes it seems like someone who works a lot should not play this game. From 4-5 new cars in every update, to new events in every update, to needing high amounts of gold to update cars, to hours for cars to get repaired unless you spend 5 minutes hitting the reduce button and letting a video run (and sometimes these videos don't work, like the Dodge Ram ones), and so much more, it seems like you would have to play for 2-3 hours a day to get fulfillment out of this app. Is there anyone older than 17 with that kind of time? Sometimes I only have time to check into the game just for the daily reward, and if it's one with increased fame or money, just do a speed snap or drag race to earn it so that I can get back to work. If it's gold or the $100,000, I may not even play the game that day. I have actual work to do, and can't be stopping my day for a game.

This special event reminds me how frustrating it is to participate in a special event. It makes me want to stop playing the game. You have to plan out an entire week of your life for these special events and make sure you won't have a busy day of work on the day the event ends, otherwise you're just giving yourself one less day to complete it. I stopped playing for a month once after investing almost everything I had into one of the cars, coming up short (no doubt had a busy day of work right near/at the end of the event), and then having no gold or money, and no car. It's the equivalent of having a catastrophic injury and then all your life savings are wiped out and you struggle to pay your mortgage. I slowly got back into special events knowing that I should only start them and buy the upgrades if I know I can win. I figured that with a classic car like this, it may be easy to finish, but then I'm driving a car with a rating 2+ more than the recommended rating and I still can't beat Ahmed by 793 yards or have to upgrade to 37.2 and turn off all assists to hit 159 mph twice in a race. Now this speed snap at Laguna Seca is impossible, and even with the car at 37.9 I can only get to 112 mph. It looks like all my investment in this event is going to be pointless, and now I've used up half my gold and a ton of money on a car I may never own.

Is there anyone else in the same boat as me, just falling farther and farther behind in the game with each update? Knowing that you don't have the time in your day or week, nor the fake money or gold for upgrades, to complete any of these events? Looking into someone's garage if they have the top time in a time trial event and wondering how they have every car in the game, and they're all fully-upgraded, and they have extrra gold to customize the paint jobs? Is there anyone else that gets frustrated half the time you play the game because of all these problems?

I am totally in your boat. If you don’t see me, that’s because it’s sinking! This game used to be a lot better.

As you run out of new series to race and earn GC with, it becomes frustrating. So you think you can catch a break and run a new series or two by winning an SE... then exactly what you described happens. And lately it’s been on a lather, rinse, repeat cycle.