Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25956839-20160111200243/@comment-25956839-20160114172331

I've added R$ to User:RR3 Michael P/Sandbox09, the design is getting quite complex! The base data is still from the Cars page, the existing PR can be changed to the current PR, required PR is now a parser |PR=, the purchase cost can be changed to 0 for cars already in the garage, two extra parsers are used for the upgrade cost, |UGGC= for gold upgrade cost and |UGRD= for R$ upgrade cost. The parser |SC=Yes is still used for showcase cars.

The last two Ferrari, in the sandbox, gives an example of how it could be used. Given the work involved, for the casual racer, I wouldn't expect a high uptake! For someone more dedicated, with a handful of cars left to upgrade it could be useful. Let me know you thoughts and I can convert to a live template.

The rough steps would be:
 * 1) Copy the cars from the cars page to your profile
 * 2) Rename the template name to the new name (possibly just add ug so h-r-t/car becomes h-r-t/carug)
 * 3) Remove all cars other than cars that need to be purchased and / or upgraded
 * 4) Change the base PR of the cars to the current PR of the car, in the garage
 * 5) Add the parser |PR= for the required PR
 * 6) Change the cost to 0 for any purchased cars that need to be upgraded
 * 7) Add |SC=Yes for cars, for cars that can be be purchased via 20% off showcase events
 * 8) Calculate the R$ and  upgrade costs
 * 9) Add the parsers |UGRD and |UGGC with the upgrade costs
 * 10) Publish!

I haven’t got the time, but in theory someone could create a default r/carug template, with 135 cars, from base PR, with upgrade costs, for the required cars to complete 100% of RR3, the players could copy this to their profile and modify it. It would give the cost for a new racer, starting today, to purchase every car and upgrade the required cars to complete 100%, big exercise but could be done, in theory.