Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-33166700-20180117100709/@comment-28169398-20180118175702

Biscuits N&#039; Pulp wrote: Sirebel wrote: Skipping is a sunk cost, upgrading isn't but it doesn't matter how many times we say that people just don't seem to get it.

There's a cost benefit analysis. I've skipped 1 so far with 1 or 2 more maybe needed depending on the challenges (would be 70 GC spent to win the car). 1st skip was on Boss 13, so not getting past this challenge would mean many, many more boss challenges. If I can pass boss 14 with no skip then it would be down to 30 GC spent (end run on boss 15 then skip Boss 1 at worst). No upgrades are available for that price and the ones that are close wouldn't have made enough of a difference to pass the challenge I was on. I don't have much of a use for this car after this challenge, it's all about getting the car into the garage for minimal GC.

I don't like how much luck is involved with winning the gauntlet - head to head at Melbourne is super easy at R$ at late levels - speed snaps almost anywhere become impossible with only R$. If boss difficulty was the same on every level then I wouldn't care (Boss 1 on Run 1 is the same difficulty as Boss 1 on Run 2, 3, and so on) but since it just keeps getting harder then a deep run the first time is crucial for those of us who can only race for 1 to 2 hours a day (even on weekends). Getting that deep run is why I'll skip a boss challenge instead of upgrading, I'll take my chances on the next challenge instead of hoping my upgrades will make enough of a difference. You are making a time argument while Sirebel is making a pure in game argument. If you are saying your time is more valuable to you than the skip cost that is a perfectly legitimate argument to make.

From a purely in game argument though, skips do nothing to improve the performance of the car and is money to the monkeys that doesn't help you in any way in the game. If you want to think of skips as part of the purchase price of the car, then they are a reduction in the 100% sale price discount you get from completing the event. The RSR is 650. If you pay 65 in skips, then you have reduced your discount from 100% to 90%, 130  from 100% to 80%, and so on.