Talk:Endurance Gauntlet/@comment-120.23.107.40-20150321081711

These events are starting to aggravate me. I can tell the developers are manipulating the races to get people to spend gold and silver (real money) to fully upgrade their cars to win.

They are 'tweaking' the performance of cars in the front. Basically, you usually "almost" always win (ending in 2nd place or something close), which makes players feel they need to upgrade their cars. E.g In  Circuit des 24 Heures, if I don't beat the front car in the first 2 corners after the main straight, it was almost impossible to catch up and beat it. If I manage to overtake, say at the first corner after the main straight, the rest of the race, that car could hardly keep up. When you are behind, the car performs better, when you overtake, its performance seems to ease back.

In last event, 5.6, after 3 hrs I gave up and spend 50 gold coins to skip. While trying to get the hang of manual braking, I skid off track in the first corner multiple times, so I quit and try again. The race times of the 1st car was usually between 22 and 24 minutes (this is just quiting then retrying). I then decided to do the 10 laps to finish the race, even though I had crashed a few times and skidded off track. I manage to finish in 20 minutes (with all the crashes and going off track). The top car, 19 mins, the same car that was registering between 22 and 24 minutes in previous races.

I've notice this in a lot of the other races. How can this game claim to use other player's race times, when those race times actually changes depending how a player is currently racing.

I would think this is illegal, as EA/Firemonkeys are manipulating players through their game to spend money.