Board Thread:Social and Race Teams Threads/@comment-32545704-20170825125247/@comment-26829117-20170825135408

You don't need to do 12 hours to get gold in a top team but it's a judgement call whether solo is a better use of your time. For example, in the last event, only 5 of our players put in more than the equivalent of 2 hours racing. We comfortably finished 87th and the reward was 30 gold each. That's a lot less effort than running solo, except for the heavy hitters who were doing it for fun/competitiveness, but if 2 hours effort gets you 60 gold then solo is better.

Personally, I stay in the team most of the time because I'm racing against other team members rather than other teams. We tend to make top 100 for most events, with a few exceptions due either to missing key players or because others find a glitch we didn't. This is mainly because we can field 5-6 big hitters each race and the rest make up the difference.

Teams are getting a bit farcical though with speed events being dominated by the top teams stealing all the best players as "standbys" and running beauty parades each time and endurance events being spoiled by people either running bots, multiple devices or out right hacking. I'd like to see FM tighten up the rules.

One suggestion I made in the past that would greatly improve teams is to fix the team membership at the start of an event. This would stop the beauty parades and give more teams a chance at top 100 speed events.