Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-26388545-20150620170856/@comment-144.24.20.233-20150625093504

My goal when I started was to get as far as I could without paying money but still feel like I was making progress. I've probably become a bit addicted along the way...

This led me to restart in March after realising that I shouldn't have been trying to max out the upgrades on every car (I think I was at 100% on the first 3 career series, but could see I would have no gold to proceed any further).

In part I decided to restart because the "exclusive reveal" was on and there were a few nice farming races (at least for someone who had only reached "Pro" and hadn't learnt to mess with the bots) so I figured I would run and rerun and rerun those to farm and get a headstart on the earlier events.

So then my new goal was to see how far I could get with just upgrading by R$ (unless absolutely necessary) - while trying to get every car along the way as it came up. I think I've used gold on about 5 cars so far (Lexus LFA to proceed, F14T to win it, Cayman to win it, Z4 Coupe - because you got more for 100% than it cost to upgrade it, Shelby GT500 - because you got more for 100% than it cost).

For a while I also had a goal of trying to make sure I got at least top 20% on all the time trials in career (with only the R$ car using tilt A and traction control) - but with all the events and farming I feel like my skills have atrophied a bit (and I use tilt B and no TC a bit more), so I care less now (although I do still try to post a decent time rather than just running it with an unserviced car).

I've been pretty lucky so far I got the 3 year anniversary car free just at the point I was going to buy it and all the events have re-opened just in time for me to complete them (and although I never used the gold farming technique that got fixed in the last release my gold tally is nicely over 3800).

I'm now about 400 gold off being able to buy all the cars - assuming I win the Countach and the Miura gets the showcase discount - which is apparently questionable? Current tally is 107/116. If they hadn't added the 2015 RSR I'd be there by now.

By the time I reach having enough R$ to upgrade all the cars to max R$ upgrade I should definitely have enough gold to start looking at trying to work through getting 100% on all series. I'm definitely still hoping for a few more discounts  on the big ticket cars though.

The 2015 RSR is the main pain point at the moment as I can't currently proceed to the F1 events because I still have the showcase event locked (I'm still hoping they might discount - but I'm not going to go past the showcase while I feel like I've got other things going).

And my fiancee also wants to throw my tablet out the window... :-P