Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-28169398-20180528054929

This started out as a comment to a post with the usual complaints about special events on Perseverance, however I realized that it likely was more of a forum post than a comment so here it is.

Having to pay the purchase price for the car to advance in series and STILL having to add the upgrades they would have had to in the event to win the car for series completion... That is a monumental  drain.

I have entered every special event there was while I played, and that includes Track Day Domination the first week or two I was playing the game.

The only one I didn't complete was The Gauntlet (Season 6) (Eventually got the JAGUAR C-X75 in the LTS), and that contributed to quitting playing for 14-months.

The only skips I remember paying were 8.5 and 8.6 of Front-Runner. Though there might have been one or two others early on, but I can't recall the specifics.


 * I am up to 171 cars
 * I will be adding an additional 4 through completing the events the rest of this update.
 * 41 fully upgraded
 * 70 were won in either special events, limited-time series, gauntlets, or flashbacks
 * That accounts for 35,395 "saved" that I would have had to come up with if I was to buy those cars at full price.
 * 5 were fully upgraded after the event, during upgrade sales, so none required full upgrades to win.
 * That includes the FORD SHELBY GT350R that I won the first two weeks of playing and the PORSCHE 911 RSR (2015) that I won in The Gauntlet a few weeks after that, with Extreme Difficulty challenges.
 * The only reason I went with skips for the Venom GT over upgrading was that the final upgrades were significantly more expensive, and the were power and not grip upgrades, so I didn't think it would help not skidding off track...
 * I have purchased 24 cars
 * Full Purchase price of those is 8,755
 * Obviously most of those were purchase on Showcase, but not all.
 * I have Purchased 8 cars on Featured Sales.
 * Three were the Formula Es at 80% off
 * AUDI R18 E-TRON QUATTRO (2015) for 300 unlocking EC long before I would have through career. I think I only reached the point in career where I would have unlocked EC last month.
 * KOENIGSEGG AGERA R on Racer's choice so I could unlock RTLM, EK and the TOYOTA TS040 HYBRID (2014) as there was a 50% off sale at the holidays that I did not want to miss if locked.
 * TOYOTA TS040 HYBRID (2014) and McLAREN MP4-X on 50% off with Full Upgrades
 * TS040 because it has never had an event and rarely ever has sales
 * MP4-X because the car cost less to fully upgrade on sale than if you won it in Formula Future
 * JAGUAR LIGHTWEIGHT E-TYPE for personal reasons

I have about 15-months of actual game play experience and have not made a single IAP. I've made it to Level 286, so not ridiculously high.

I have used ads to my advantage, earning 20 a day from them for the past year.

I don't farm a lot. I can go days without running a 10-Lapper...

I have only had WTTT results with Gold payouts the last month.

I have a gold balance of ~3500 which anyone can track with the gold ledgers on my blog.

So everyone complaining about SEs or upgrading during SEs, the data is above. Figure it out for yourself. 