Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-31679999-20170913000819/@comment-27897271-20170913183032

The psychologists studying the limits of player frustration must be having a good time with the 5.5 update data. The last day of Front Runner, the borked advert supply, and the desperation to acquire second rate (in the game) cars like the 720S and these Superexpensive Aussie Nascars.

My main game reached peak-farm at the beginning of the last update, so I've been watching all the ads, and started a second game, where the ads have been watched in favour of farming the PTT Short for cash. The supply in both quickly settled down to a long string of 15 second jobs, all Motor Articles. It took about 80 minutes, and I got up early to do it. Boring, but no problem. It's not Le Mans, so better.

5.5 brought a big change. The old game, level 153 onwards, about 1200 hours, now only gets long ads, without much change in the supply. It's intolerable for more than 30 ads. The new game still gets the short ads, but has the supply issues as described above. I can still get all 190, but it takes about three hours, which isn't a good plan.

What to do? Put up and shut up? Give up altogether? Since I started trying to play this game three years ago, I've been sure the devs don't want us as players or customers. 5.5 only re-inforces that suspicion.