Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-75.78.103.8-20150723232033/@comment-208.184.141.147-20150724205312

RR3SeanR - I basically agree with your methodolgy (though I think the extra 53,960 fame points comes out to a little under 9 GC in value rather than 8, but whatever). I am focused only on Fame Points/GCs, and agree over the 11 days you get an extra 28 (almost 29) GCs worth under the new system. Obviously, if the reports about what happens when one has a full month (i.e., when there may be 60%, 70%, 80% and 100% Bonus Fame days and days rewarding 20, 25 and 30 GCs respectively) are accurate, the numbers become even higher. Nothing crazy, but even an extra 150GCs a month is not bad.

I would add that I would have assumed that the agent is used for every race. Since the extra 28,400 fame points one gets from doubling the fame reward is worth a little over 4.5 GCs, one is ahead by 3.5 GCs when doing this even when one does not have the free agent. This takes care of the difficulty of timing the free agent with the the bonus fame days and leaves the player in question net-net ahead. If I were doing the comparison, and assuming your 4 free agents during the 4 days, it would look like:

Old system: 11 days - fame earned = 624,800, GC spent = 7, Net GC Val = about 95 (abt 102 from points - 7 spent on agent)

New system: 11 days - fame earned = 678,760, GC spent = 7, Net GC Val = about 124 (111 from points - 7 spent on agent + 20 from bonus).

These numbers illustrating how spending the extra 7 on the agent for the races where the free agent is not available actually yields approximately 25 extra GCs during that period.