Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-31526827-20190514081652/@comment-28169398-20190520014033

If you all want to say that SEs are harder, that you have to upgrade more to win the car than you did in the past, then fine, those are facts. FM wouldn't deny this.

Each and every event has a car that has a certain cost associated with it and they set revenue targets for each event based on those costs.

LTSs are easier to control because it is required PR. Fact. As long as they get their target for player participation, they hit the target. There QA hasn't always been the best, but the Game Changer program raised some issues to them about LTSs where they found problems and they addressed them so it was indeed an "if you pay you win event".

SEs have more of an inherent risk to FM, as players can pass and may just sit on the car, as I've done with the PORSCHE 918 SPYDER WEISSACH PACKAGE, the KOENIGSEGG REGERA, the KOENIGSEGG ONE:1, and FERRARI F14 T and LAMBORGHINI ASTERION LPI 910-4 (until upgrade sales).

They cannot control player performance. There are some players that are going to ace the event no matter what they do short of making them impossible for all.

But they have easier tools that they can control to make Special Events more difficult than messing around with the performance stats of the cars, unless they are building that into the script. And usually those aren't the goals that are intended to be pay gates, i.e. the places where they want to make sure that they get a certain amount of upgrades to achieve their revenue targets. They aren't going to add additional risk to SEs by using less controllable tools than ones they have more control over.

So are events designed so that FM hits their revenue targets? Yes. Fact. Absolutely. They couldn't keep making the game if that wasn't the case.

Do events require more upgrades than before? Yes. Fact.

Do upgrades require more gold than before? Yes. Fact. That reflects costs and ongoing operating expenses.

Are Special Events designed to be easy for everyone? No. FM explicitly admitted that on Reddit.