Talk:Veyron Community Challenge/@comment-31679999-20171018194931/@comment-31433854-20171019121858

It is possible that all of a sudden, lots of players decided to start putting in lots of laps. There is some anectdotal evidence here to support this. There is also lots of anecdotal evidence here and on FB that a number of players are not putting in lots of laps.

I am skeptical of the timing and magnitude of the change. My thinking is that FM are using this format to keep people engaged at the end of the update. As people here have noted, there is a major dropoff in traffic for this site and several people here are doing thousands of laps because 'there is nothing else to do'. If this were a regular LTS, everyone would be done by now (plus, it would have required high upgrades for them to make it gold negative, which would likely further limit participation).

I don't think they are faking IP addresses or anything like that to promote themselves to sponsors, race teams, race series, etc. But they can point to how frequently and long people play to help convince the powers that be to pay to have their product in game. As it was, we were on a steady track to hit 30m with some time to spare but 60m was looking more and more impossible. For those who are doing this event, would you keep tapping away after 30m was reached with 2 days left, knowing 60m would require 4x the rate of laps observed to date? I think its that extra play time in the last days of the update that FM is buying from us for 10gc a head. I have to imagine that is good economics for them.

Anyway, this is all hypothetical and none of us will ever know for sure what is going on, nor does it matter. Its just a fun thought experiment. Please remember this as you post so we can stay away from insulting those who have differing ideas.