Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-32545704-20171129011513/@comment-28169398-20171130231244

RR3Germ wrote: Roadfighter90 wrote: OK, this McLaren thing is expected to be awesome but let's discuss possible costs a bit :)

How will we get it? A SE or LTS? If a special event (likelier) will it be a reasonable on like Track to Tarmac or do seizures of frustration wait us like Formula Future or FXXK event? I actually expect crazy hard goals for that :(

Also what about Flashbacks. I don't think FM would let the new Mc be overshadowed by MP4-X so Formula Future is unlikely. Are we finally at the multiple cars territory? I truly think this car will be released on the holidays exactly as last year's

High Voltage

Under this concept it opens at the exact same time for everyone and gives you exactly the same starting date and time. For me in U.S. MST it opened at 1700 (5 PM local time) for day 1 of the event on December 23rd and day 2 opened 1700 local on December 24th. This is an everyone starts at the exact same time regardless of what time zone you live it, it is based on a start time of 00:00 GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). That event was 9 days long and you had exactly 9 days (216 hours and 0 minutes exactly). The High Voltage event was much griped about bcos it was the first Formula E car offered and needed a lot of adjustment and many wound up over upgrading the car (above the recommended PR) due to A not as much time on the last day of the event (everyone only has 24 hours to complete the final day) and B it was the holidays and people wanted to enjoy them with family still. Read all the comments on this closed event it and it shows in the attitudes of many. While I do hope this car is offered at a different time I truly would put a $1,000,000 bet in Las Vegas that it will be the holiday event this year.

I would suggest if you can run an F1 style car (like the T125 that was just available) run it so you know how F1 cars handle in this game. To be fair, events for new types of cars that need to be adjusted to are generally much longer, and that is likely an effort by the developers to allow players to adjust to the different characteristics of control, before the final harder stages.
 * Road To Le Mans has 12 Stages
 * Scuderia Ferrari Championship has 12 Stages.
 * MotorFiesta 1 has 9 stages.
 * Le Mans - Pursuit of Victory has 10, for each car.
 * Formula Future has 8
 * High Voltage has 9
 * Furai Rising has 8

The holiday events have indeed follow the 9 day, 216 hour format
 * Version 2.0: No Special Events yet; started in Version 2.2 according to http://rr3.wikia.com/wiki/Series_and_Special_Events#Special_Events
 * Version 3.0: probably was MotorFiesta 1
 * Version 4.0: Reign Supreme
 * Version 5.0: High Voltage
 * Version 6.0: ? - Possibly MotorFiesta 2? I thought I remember somewhere Ahmed hinting at a second MotorFiesta, but that could have been a Flashback.

I still think that if we were to see the McLaren MP4-X make a return to a special event, the greater likelihood is an LTS which features Spielberg rather than Formula Future... Then again, that would be logical, and we know how much the monkeys thumb their nose at logic.