Talk:RR3 Wiki:Tips and FAQ for Generations/@comment-24.210.21.80-20160412181736/@comment-27123099-20160412213459

Got to pay the bills somehow with this free game. Guess upping the ad count wasn't enough.

That said, I still refuse to pay any more for the game than I have already (I think I bought like a $5 or $10 GC or R$ pack early on, years ago).

I've always been of the mindset that FM wants players of most all skill levels to be able to win the special event cars, so they've always been challenging, and generally required some upgrades, but could virtually always be completed without spending GC. This has been the case up until this event. Short of skipping levels (and spending more on that than upgrades), there didn't appear to be any way to win this event without GC upgrades whatsoever.

I wouldn't mind that if they cars had affordable upgrade trees. Sort of like how the Stingray event a little while back had a stage that required a few GC upgrades which cost about 35GC total or so. That was manageable, even for amateur players. However, to require something around 200GC or more in upgrades to win, like for this car, seems to suddenly make the challenge out of reach for some less experienced players.

I'm thankfully well beyond that level and I can earn R$ and GC at a decent pace these days, but I do feel bad for the players just starting out who will be locked out of these events just for lack of resources (and an unwillingness/inability to pay for the R$ and GC needed to win).

I'm curious to see how the Front Runner Event goes. It's an all-new event type and combined with the experience we just had with Generations, I'm a bit nervous. Could be a 500GC cost to wn the car (just based off the relative cost of the Hommage compared to the Venom GT). I'll certainly be hoarding a fair amount of GC just to be safe, but I'd much rather put that towards some of the other cars I still need to buy instead. Guess we'll see what happens when it shows up.