Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-50.24.127.7-20180425230343/@comment-28169398-20180427062318

SeedSpeed wrote: Amrosa "Otherwise there wouldn't be a thousand and one comments every event about how greedy Firemonkeys are. If people thought the way you say, then they would see the increased difficulty as "look how much Firemonkeys is trying to get us to improve." Because by your logic, the harder they make it, the better we need to be."

I was talking about videos not Firemonkeys making anything. When people post "greedy monkey" comments on SE your theory is that they are influenced by the videos. What makes you think that FM event hardness ( read8.3) has got nothing to do with comments? Some players were FU and still could not make it. The videos show that you should be able to do it with threes or less. If they can't do if fully upgraded then they aren't "motivated" to get better, right?

That is where peoples expectations get set. And there aren't that many people out there who are willing to say I suck, there is no way I can do what they are doing, and I am just glad to have some path where I can participate in this event.

I did it with Drivetrain -1. But then I just made overall group C in WTTT this week too, for the first time... And the two have nothing to do with one another.

At all threes, I am not good enough to get through sector 3 of Catalunya without losing too much speed to maintain the required average speed. Then I simply made a mistake and upgraded engine instead of suspension and tires first. Then I wasn't in balance enough so I had to add the body. My mistake. Oh well, I still have the car upgraded more than enough for series completion. Oh, yeah, and it is fun to use in the game upgraded that much. And you know why I don't feel bad about it? Because I don't give a flying duck about how few upgrades others are doing it with, or how much the upgrades cost. I would have been a little bit more bother about having to upgrade over the recommended PR, but like I said above I made the mistake this time, not FM. But I have gotten good enough to know that the mistake was mine and not theirs.

And if I cared about the PR that SJ did or the cheating, because slamming into a wall two times to get passed a goal without upgrading is... cheating, if not explicitly, then implicitly, that ME7 did to get through at a low PR, then I would probably think I was cheated, but I wasn't. I enjoyed the event. I enjoyed the car in the bonus series, I am happy that Firemonkeys continues to develop the game, and if they stopped tomorrow and had the game removed from every device, then it would take a few days to adjust, but I'd move on to something else.