Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-27170954-20200111202633

Yes, M$355,000 in reawards for the Japanses GP event is less than the previous three F1 events. But it is incorrect to say the rewards were "lowered." Yes, they are lower, but they were not lowered. The rewards were not disclosed, they were unknown before the event.

This event's rewards are 18.5-19.6% of upgrade costs, depending on the car you select. That is on the low side of typical, but still in a normal range. All the cars in the 7.x era of the game retuned between 15%-70% on upgrade costs necesary to complete the event. That 70% number was due to the unusually high reward paid for the Honda NSX-R. The 2nd highest is "only" 40%. The average for all those new cars wes 24%. I think my accounting is correct...and this is only for net event costs. The average is much, much lower when you take series completion and exclsives into account.

So far the F1 events have returned (approximately, depending on the car selected) 43%, 30%, 24%, and 19%. If the 5th event also returns 19% then the average for the 5 will be 27%, matching the highest of any 7.x release.

I, too, would have preferred all 5 events have the same net cost. This pattern has been established over the life of the Motorsports category and is the expected behavior by now. But 27% overall is pretty good relative to recent history. And I also suspect the rewards in the earlier events were set higher (not increased :-) ) to ease the M$ constraints a little for the first cars. 