Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-34609328-20180208213711/@comment-26829117-20180209100643

Calculations are all well and good but they are just calculations. I have been tracking my gold daily since update 5.4 on 17/07/2017. At this point I had 100% garage and 100% completion. Since then I have done no farming, the only gold I have gained has been through special events, LTS, flashbacks, series, WTTT, daily bonus, ads, team events and level ups. I have just played the game as it was intended to be played. I started that update with 10,081 gold coins and, at the end of this update (6.0.7), I will have 8,986 gold coins so the game has cost me 1095 gold coins in seven months (211 days) or just over 5 gold coins per day. I have only upgraded cars to maintain 100% completion and for WTTT and Team events. The only advantage I had was that my LaFerrari was already fully upgraded for WTTT. So otherwise I should have been 3170 gold down or 15 gold per day (i.e. two Le Mans runs per day on average).

So, to maintain a full garage and 100% completion in this game you need to :
 * Collect 5 gold per day (35 gold per week)
 * Be elite (220 gold per month)
 * Finish in group B WTTT (100 gold per week)
 * Win all new cars in Special Events and LTS
 * Farm Le Mans twice a day on average

Note: If you aren't in the top 5% of players then you replace this with 20 ads per day. If you aren't elite then you will be 110 gold down every month until you are (it doesn't take long to get elite status).

Remember, this gold spend is to win all new cars AND upgrade them for career completion. If you don't own all the cars and/or aren't 100% complete then you will need more gold each month.

However, and this is the key point, if you are patient and wait for flashbacks, sales and upgrade sales, you will spend significantly less gold. 100% completion isn't something you should rush to achieve. Most people pay a lot less than 20% for new cars. Even LTS cars are free as long as they cost less to upgrade to win than required for 100% completion (the Muira, for example, is not a free car, neither was the LaFerrari when it had an LTS).

I speak from experience, I raced through career, opening all the series and ignoring showcase discounts. This was in the days before flashbacks and LTS so I then either had to buy cars at 100% or wait for a sale (I waited over a year for the TOYOTA TS040 Hybrid (2014)). I have created a strategy for opening up all the series and, if I have the time, will write it up and publish it once they have changed everything around (it will need revisiting). This strategy should then be extended to open up all cars and then eventually complete all series (i.e. tied into the 100% completion strategy). This then presents a complete game strategy for 100% completion that includes obtaining all cars (but will still be dependent on winning the expensive cars).