Talk:The Gauntlet (Season 11)/@comment-81.219.141.255-20170112091236/@comment-26829117-20170112142909

I  would recommend adding more upgrades though rather than skipping. It will take you longer to complete the grind but the gold will not have been wasted. I'm assuming you've seen the Upgrade Strategy For 100% Completion which is a useful way to gauge what upgrades are needed for career completion and therefore prevent you from accidentally upgrading beyond this requirement? I am only aware of one car (can't remember which one though) that required higher upgrades to win than were required in career.

You're point about earning ~100GC/day is a valid one though. You need to earn ~50GC/day just to keep pace with new net gold required to reach 100% completion added each release as the average is ~2000/release (6 weeks or 42 days). Your strategy of keeping 1000GC buffer is exactly the same as the one I used when trying to reach a full garage. I missed out on the TS040 sale once because I didn't have the GC required and vowed to never drop below enough GC to take advantage of a sale ever again. I started a blog about a year ago to track the GC being added each release Gold, Gold and More Gold which you might find useful.