Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-25956839-20150622153601/@comment-208.184.141.147-20150622175137

Michael:

I think I am the person who said to use the Agent for any race paying 7000 points or more. If not the one you are thinking of, I have said basically that a number of times. My problem with your methodology, and I have just skimmed this very quickly, is that you seem to not take into account the fame you would earn without the GCs in your calculation, causing you to conclude it is worth it to spend the GC at half the level I would suggest. In other words, if you are comparing the situation you would be in with and without spending the GCs, you need to account for the fame you would earn without hiring the Agent and the GCs that would earn. So in your hypo of running the 22 events, I would say that the person not using the agent is about 14 GC up if they don't spend for the agent and 14 GC if they do spend for the agent because they will have achieved no net benefit from those 22 races. If I am not being articulate, I can try again. (You also seem to be missing a digit in your fame required to level up at the last of the two levels in your chart).

I have been watching carefully from level 155 through 186 and am happy to provide the numbers (some already provided on the page that discusses the amount of fame required to level up from various levels). I think the correct calculation is number of points required to level up divided by number of GCs rewarded for level up = the amount of fame points each GC is costing pplayes. This number over the 30 levels I have been monitoring, which is consistent with what others have reported I believe, is a little over 6000.

So, if it takes just over 195000 fame points to go from level 184 to 185 and you run 33 races providing 3000 fame points, if you don't use the agent, you will earn 99,000 points and be a little over half way to earning those 32 GCs (i.e., have 16GCs in value). If you use the agent for those 32 races, you will be flat on the GCs AND not have any progress to speak of towards earning more that you would have had without the Agent. On the other hand, if you have a race that pays about 6000 and run it 16 times without the agent you will be half way to earning the 32 GCs and if you used the Agent those 16 races you would earn the 32, have spent 16, so really be in a break-even position. If the race in question paid 7000, for example, you woudl be ahead.

Sorry for rambling and for potentially not being clear (and maybe not correct).