Thread:RR3 Michael P/@comment-29605676-20180817212428/@comment-26829117-20180819122644

Steve,

Looks good, thanks for picking this up, it's not easy sometimes. The idea of this blog is similar to the upgrade strategy but not the same. It is intended to track the extra gold requirement added to the game after each update so it doesn't necessarily cater to the new user like the upgrade strategy. It is supposed to provide two key bits of information:
 * The net cost of winning the new cars (i.e. maintaining 100% garage)
 * The net cost of upgrading to complete all new or amended series (i.e. maintaining 100% complete)

To work this out I capture the following data:
 * The cost of winning new cars
 * The cost of upgrading those cars to complete series
 * The rewards for special events, Time Limited Series, Gauntlets and flashbacks
 * The rewards for completing new or amended series

Because FM keep changing the format, the data has evolved over time and may not be consistent looking back. The key points though are:
 * Flashbacks shouldn't include any win or upgrade costs, just the rewards for completing them again (the assumption being that you won the car the first time around). For people that didn't win the car the first time around I add the data from the original series above the table. Maybe this should be in a table for flashbacks?
 * The win cost and upgrade cost are independent of each other (i.e. the upgrade cost doesn't subtract the win cost). This just keeps things simpler in the table and allows the totals to make sense.
 * The table doesn't include the standard rewards that everyone can get (mainly because they aren't that standard) but I usually work out the rewards from watching 5 ads per day and picking up all the daily rewards as an elite player just so people have an idea of the total delta of the update. This doesn't include level up rewards which whilst they will be reasonably consistent for every player (ignoring team and OMP) are much harder to calculate until the end of the update.

If you have any questions then just post them here and I'll try to help. I still check the wiki every now and again just to see how everyone is doing so replies might be a bit slow but you will get one eventually.

Oh one thing worth mentioning, there is a totals table at the bottom. You need to add a line to it for each update. It calculates all the totals automatically.