Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-119.247.23.42-20180401124650/@comment-28169398-20180403200835

Awnia wrote: Amrosa wrote: Where does the gold that you pay for things in the game come from?

I got the Gold to may for the upgrades from watching ads during the days the event was on and only reduced my reserve balance by 5 to pay for the upgrades I needed to win the TR.

Then, No TR, No 80's Poster Exotics, so that gold goes towards the TR as well. And I get to +30 (5333333) gets 75% completion.

Events are very rarely gold positive in a vacuum. But advancement strategy takes into account all inflows and outflows. The inflows can be matched to the outflows.

So, if I'm on 0 gold but buy 1000 gold then the car net me 800 gold? (since I spent 200 on it.)

Or that I ran 5690 races as of now, and I have a 4k gold account.. Does that mean the gold came from there (yes), and the car actually net me 3800 gold? I'm not trying to argue if the cars are gc positive or not, but that it makes no sense to claim a car is a gc positive addition to the game since I'm doing something I already do. If I did, let's say, Hypercar Charge to 100%, and I'd add the earned gold in my own spreadsheet (I'm running one where I don't do any races just the 4 new series that were added plus the flashbacks and lts's, but that's irrelevant), that'd make absolutely no sense. I'd have done that series either way regardless of the update, has nothing to do with it, just like gold ads with gc positive or negative cars.

If I do 10 ten lappers a day, I can't proclaim that a car was gold positive if that has nothing to do with the car. (well to your account it was gold positive, but in itself the car did not pay for itself and then some.) From the perspective of game strategy and accounting then you would apply 200 gold from you purchase to the car and the other 800 goes into reserves not attributed to anything until you actually use it.

This is different from the example of the completion rewards of the series, as those rewards are a direct result of the TR being added to the game and a Bonus Series being added to the Legend Group as a result.

As for farming, from a strategy perspective then, yes, I would assign all of the leveling up gold to the cars you farm with. That informs you and other players that you are sharing your strategies with that the most important cars in the game are:
 * BMW Z4 SDRIVE35IS
 * AUDI R8 LMS ULTRA
 * FERRARI F40
 * FERRARI F50
 * AUDI R18 E-TRON QUATTRO 2014 and 2015
 * NISSAN GT-R LM NISMO (2015)
 * PORSCHE 919 HYBRID 2014 and 2015
 * TOYOTA TS040 HYBRID (2014)
 * FERRARI F14 T
 * McLAREN P1™ GTR
 * FERRARI FXX K Fully Upgraded
 * McLAREN MP4-X Fully Upgraded

The AUDI R18 E-TRON QUATTRO (2015) has been hugely gold positive for me. At least 125 level-ups are directly attributable to it.