Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-32971956-20180606033900/@comment-28169398-20180606161017

Trabant 601 wrote: Conta-Question: What makes a Sale good? A good sale, in my opinion, is one on a car with a Base purchase price in Gold, that allows you to get the car, fully-upgraded, for less than you can purchase all the gold upgrades on the car if you win it during a special event.

This implies that there is a sale on both the car and the upgrades at the same time.

An example of this was the sale on the McLAREN MP4-X in January 2018.

If you were to run Formula Future and win the car by fully upgrading it, it would have cost you 1,565 for the upgrades. Because you win the car, the car's purchase price is 0.

With the 50%-off sale that was run in January, the MP4-X purchase price was 600 and purchasing all of the Gold upgrades was 785. This gives you a total price of 1,385.

As a result, you pay 180 less on sale than you do to win the car and fully upgrade it.

Obviously if you were able to win the car for (3333332) and were able to buy the remaining upgrades on sale, that is the cheapest option (1,086 on 50%-off sale), but if you are upgrading during an event, there usually isn't a discount and you would need to wait for an upgrade sale to occur. If you didn't own the MP4-X in January, that would also mean that you would have to wait for a Flashback, then hope that you get another 50% off sale at some point in the future for the remaining upgrades.

The other caveat is that some cars will never need to be fully upgraded, so you could adjust the calculus for the series completion PR.