Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-32528471-20170713213747/@comment-32528471-20170714212350

OP returns! To be clear, I didn't start this thread with the premise that my statement was absolutely right. I wanted to see what your thoughts and ideas were. Admittedly put in a slightly bold statement, to spark discussion. :)

Aurelio Zen - Fair enough, people who have put in the time/effort/money have earned their cars and upgrades. But as for WTTT, like you said, you started soon after RR3 was released. The playing field was a lot more even then, noone had a huge advantage. People who start now do have a huge disadvantage. Furthermore, the disadvantageous position is reinforced because the big WTTT rewards are unattainable for newer players. A time trial should be about who's the fastest racer. Not about who has the most gold/upgraded cars. When players were still able to 'rent' the cars/upgrades this was less of an issue. The advantages people have earned by investing time/effort/money are better suited to be (and are) rewarded in something like OMP, even moreso with the different classes it has.

Pearrow - See my reply to Aurelio Zen. And no not communist, but socialist, as I am talking about the economic system and the means of production (the cars in this case).

ME7 - Relatively new players wouldn't even have all the top cars, so they have no chance to place high, even if they do have the necessary skills. See my reply to Aurelio Zen.

122.172.163.172 - The absolute top is getting 500 gold every time, definitely more than they put in at this point (as they already have most cars fully upgraded).

117.195.48.190 - Good point about the WTTT providing an incentive to upgrade cars, obviously a way for FM to make money. And I completely agree about WTTT still being worth it for newer players, it's good fun even if you don't place high.

Rr3daniel - Good tips, for sure.

SwiSwe - Great ideas, all 3 of them! Now that is what I wanted from this thread. I started thinking about it after the 'renting' thing was made impossible.

2605:A000:CEC6:33F0:C944:16E4:48C9:79F1 - Of course FM needs to make money. But, see my reply to Aurelio Zen.

PDQCarrera - Imagine you were already faster than Usain Bolt right now. You have the talent, the skills. But you have to pay millions of dollars to IAAF or do 10 years of unnecessary additional training to be given a chance to win a race against him. That would be strange, wouldn't it. The very essence of competitive sports is testing your skills against others, nothing else.

Oh and for those of you who assumed I'm a complaining n00b who wants a free ride.. nope.

I've put in quite a bit of time, and effort, and money. I'm no RaduTan but with adequately upgraded cars I place in group A in time trials. I complete special events with upgrade levels considered as the minimum on the wiki, and I do that with clean racing mostly. No bot slowing in career and limited time series. I've filled up my garage decently and built a proper gold reserve which provides me the opportunity to buy and upgrade any car if I want.

My point, as I explained above, is that the WTTT is not really entirely about who's the fastest racer. I reckon it should be.

The rewards are not even that interesting to me. I don't aspire to own all cars or have 100% of the game complete anyway. I play for fun.