Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-26829117-20170429145221

If you were ever in doubt about the importance of special events, let me give you some statistcs you might find interesting. I've been updating the Gold, Gold and More Gold blog with old updates and added a totals table. It's not complete but here are some headline numbers you might find interesting.

If you were to start RR3 today and didn't play in special events or take advantage of sales, it would cost you 51,650 to buy or 43,580 with showcase discounts. Cars worth at least 49,865 have been added to the game since the original release meaning that you could buy all the cars in the V1.0 for 1,794, a bargain by today's standards. To win all those cars cost somewhere closer to 6,563 (though I haven't checked this includes the cars you couldn't win yet properly). However, when you factor in the rewards from the special events, then the cost of maintaining a full garage was just -786 (i.e if you played every special event and won the car, FM are still paying you in gold over all).

When it comes to updates to complete 100% the situation is a little different. Since the start FM have added 29,536 to career completion. Even with career rewards this only drops to 16,471. These figures will go up, I haven't completed the tables for all career series yet, it's a bit harder than the cars and special events.

If you started the game today you need 83,657 to buy all the cars and upgrade them for career completion. Of which 79,401 has been added since the first release.

So if you still doubt it's worth competing in special events and winning the new cars, you clearly haven't understood what I've just written, go read it again ;-). 