Talk:Front-Runner/@comment-27824793-20160504185543/@comment-27123099-20160504191832

It's somewhat new, we've noticed this with the Generation Special Event as well. I believe that was the first time it was rolled out.

It's definitely a GC extortion by FM. They make the goals nearly impossible if you aren't close enough to the PR level they want. However, if you happen to be at or above the PR level, your goals will become ridiculously easy (such that you'd have been able to beat them without the upgrades as well).

I remember a specific stage in Generations which was a Hunter race (6.1 I believe). If you were R$ only (as I was at the time), your goal was something like +264yds. Which may have been doable, but they wanted you to perform 2 donuts as well. This was an impossible goal (without getting really lucky in taking out the Silvia). However, as you added upgrades, the goal target distance dropped. I eventually won with the target at, I think, +11yds (with a handful of GC upgrades applied). But I heard of people who had even more upgrades who had targets of -500yds!

I've always prided myself on being able to win the Special Event cars without spending GC, but FM has nixed that option. So now it's a matter of seeing how little GC we can spend to win the car. It's still a deal either way, being that the car is 950GC and we're getting upgrades in return. But, I much prefer the old way where I could use my GC to buy cars and still win the Special Event cars as well.