Talk:Fame Chart/@comment-208.184.141.147-20150426225620

At the risk of adding information that is already included below, here are some observations I have made while monitoring the fame from levels 155 to 160 (as I was very keen on making sure my fame was as close as possible below without actually leveling up before completing events in the current challenge series).

Level 155 started at approx. 14,260,750

156 at ~ 14,438,700

157 at ~ 14,617,150

158 at ~ 14,796,200

159 at ~ 14,975,750

160 at ~ 15,156,200

These numbers were accurate to within 80 fame points, which was the lowest reward I cam across when testing how close I get to the threshhold without going over. I generally rounded to a moderately even number to get these. What they showed was a 500 increase in the amount of fame required to from from 156 to 157 over the fame required to get from 155 to 156. A 600 increase in the fame to get to 158. 500 again for 159 and 900 to get to 160. I have not tried to calculate this out based on the information provided about levels in the low 200s, but this does seem to be consistent with a modest increase of additional fame required from one level to the next that over time will add up. This is why it takes a little over three double fame 10 lap Le Mans wins (56,800 each) for me to level up at this point while someone in a higher level will require three or four (and more for a much higher level).

I have also not tried to consider whether the proportionate increase in fame required to level up keeps the relationship of fame to GCs more or less constant or not. If it does, or worse, if the amount of effort (fame) required to earn each gold coin becomes greater as one progresses, I suspect people will feel less good about the "larger rewards" at higher levels. On the other hand, if the amount of time and effort required to earn gold decreases slightly as one progresses, people may feel that FM is rewarding longer time players for their commitment. If I had to guess, I kind of expect that the former is more likely than the latter and that someone considered this to be a less than transparent way to make players work harder for the GCs as they advanced. I expect to be paying attention for two more level ups and will add that information. After that, it will depend on whether there is another challenge series coming and whether the benefit/loophole of leveling up in a challenge series event remains.