Talk:The Elusive One/@comment-28169398-20171030061958/@comment-33275462-20171031071156

I was troubled by your post, Amrosa, and decided to investigate.

Look at the videos you took the screenshots from. They are clearly from the same device.

Your last screenshot is from a video that is quickly going through the upgrade tree. The purpose is to have a record of costs and PR improvements for each upgrade.

It is clearly preceded by a cloud save and followed by a cloud restore.

How do we know, you may ask.

Firstly, you have to be either mad or filthy rich (or both) to actually do the R$ upgrades with gold. But secondly, and most importantly:

The upgrade tree video starts with 4846 gold and zero upgrades, and ends with 2906 gold and all upgrades. The video of Stage 1 goal 1 starts with 4846 gold and zero upgrades, with is exactly what would happen if you did a quick upgrade tree video and then cloud restored to start the "Elusive One" with zero upgrades.

Unless I am missing something, there is no foul play here, Amrosa. There is only skill.

PS: I am happy to report that after one year of playing, I managed to complete a SE with only one more gold upgrade than SpeedJunkie. This I regard as a badge of honor. I'm getting there, albeit slowly.

PS#2: Ydiss, I feel, you, man. When I started playing the game I could not believe how fast the others were driving. To be honest, I thought most of them were cheating. Now I have become a half-decent driver, and I can tell you from experience that you can squeeze a whole lot more speed from any car than what you can achieve as a rookie.

As any experienced played would tell you, the only way to not fall behind in this game is to win those cars on Special Events and Limited Time Series. But indeed, at first you have to pick your battles, until you build up a buffer of gold to ensure that any overspending doesn't leave you bankrupt.