Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-28568987-20160929125720/@comment-27170954-20160930143104

ME7 wrote: Clsj35 wrote: ME7 wrote: I would NOT be cool with paying for a track!! Next thing you know, they charge us for every new track. After that, they charge new players for all tracks but the 1st one. I have over 5,000 gold and I'm still not willing. I have MANY cars I'd rather upgrade vs. paying for a track. you already do pay for tracks. it is accomplished by relying more heavily on expensive GC cars and upgrades. You can run almost every track in cheap $R cars if you want to. In fact, I think you can run all of them. When you include the online multiplayer, time trial and newer series, it's all covered. It used to be that LeMans was only in the Master & Legend category, but they've long since changed that. I used to run LeMans in my Ford Focus every time it showed up in the Online Multiplayer event. Most Group C drivers are not very good at the track, so winning is almost a guarentee.

You can win the 10 lap LeMans race in the 2014 Audi without spending 1 gold on purchase price or upgrades. Unfortuneatly you need a heavily upgraded Porsche to get there!

my analysis is full of holes and a is subjective based on my preferences...i only look at cup races, for example, and rank by lap count and fame paid.

Yes, you can run the tracks in in the cheaper R$ cars. As you point out with the lemans example, access for R$ cars increases over time, but the best (i.e. longes, highest-paying) races will require a lot of gold. This is the case with every track.

for the 2014 Audi...yes you can run and win with a R$ only audi, but only AFTER spending gold to unlock the race. in fact, you will have to spend hundreds of GC just to access RTLM before you can even unlock the Audi.

Look at Daytona. Outside NASCAR, the "best" (by length and/or fame) available to a R$ only car is 3 laps, 1,400 Fame in German Grand Tour. A speedway race outside NASCAR will cost you minimum 200GC. The longst daytona races require at least a 650GC GTE-pro car or a heavily upgraded Venom GT.

long way of saying i agree with your points, but still say the cost of the tracks is embedded in the cars, especially in the ones granted early access.

and i'm not saying it's bad, just the way the game works. I'm glad to hae the GTE pro cars to race on the road course. they are a blast!