Talk:Victory in Motion/@comment-195.34.107.210-20180530055525/@comment-84.40.224.48-20180602132419

Well, to me, at least, what you're doing doesn't look like helping. It looks like taking up people's attention with pure speculation.

As you said yourself, all we know is the upgrade tree for the 917 and the max PR requirement for the Group 5 series. What you can do with that is figure out the cheapest upgrade setup for that PR. The one you gave isn't that, it's higher than required.

Yes, players have different skill levels and less skilled players can struggle even with the required PR. However, the best help you can give them is to come up with a benchmark that they can use as a reference point - i.e., how much will it cost to get to PR 77.2.

The only useful way to deploy a worst case scenario is to calculate the boundary beyond which it's cheaper to just buy the car when it becomes available. The 917 costs 670 GC; FU on the car costs 840 GC (plus R$). Assuming you'd want to 100% complete the Group 5 season, this means your upgrade tree has to stay within the 500-670 region.* Picking up a random PR which might suit someone, but not anyone else, seems a bit silly to me.

Alternatively, you could just wait until the recommended PR for this SE is revealed. The best advice to anyone who's stressing over this series is to give other players a day or two to figure out if it looks reasonable or not. An SE can always turn sour for you if you are somehow prevented from completing it - I should know, I lost the Fearless SE because I just didn't have enough money and time...


 * Two major notes to this:

1) This doesn't reflect the fact that upgrades done in SEs and LTSs stay on the car; if you can't win it and can't afford to buy it immediately, you just need to be patient.

2) The 500-670 range doesn't reflect the gains from the SE itself or from the Group 5 series. If you factor those in, the top end of the range goes to 865 GC, which is already more than FU on the 917.