Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-37524703-20190605141842/@comment-31526827-20190609213029

Wouterman wrote: DrestinBlack wrote: What’s the total cost to upgrade to LTS level? 660 GC for all 3’s with 150 GC reward —> net 510 GC Expensive but not as much as I feared. Cool ... Cool. 510 GC to get a car for "free" --- um... I remember explaining it to a friend who had started to play; "Right... you pay so you can get an upgraded car for free." "How is it free if you pay for it?" "You are paying for the upgrades." "What if I don't want upgrades?" "Oh, then you have to pay full price, except the very first time it's available, then you get 20% off" "How do I know what it's like before I drive it?" "The stats" "Do the stats tell you how it'll handle?" "Well, just accelleration and braking, handling doesn't include aero" "What about this PR thing?" "Oh, that just gives an idea how expensive it'll be." "Ok Ok, I'll just upgrade it so I can get it free, whatever. How do I do that?" "Well, you've got a limited number of days to complete almost 60 races." "How many races can I do a day?" "You can do about 3-4 in a single session, then you need to spend 3 hours waiting for it to service" "Well, I can only play for an hour a day, it's just a game. So, how would that work?" "Umm... well... Play for 15 min, wait 3 hours, play for another 15 min, wait 3 more hours, play 15 more min then let it service over night, this way you can finish 3 groups of 3 per day and then you can get your 60 in a week" "I have to play every day? Three times a day? And I'm paying for a free car? What can I do with it after I own it." Well, maybe race in WTTT or OMP and earn somewhere between 50-300 GC back?" "300 back? Hell, that'll pay for most of it, how do you get 300?" "Be in the top .1% of the world." "What about OMP?" "Well, if you are in the top 1% you can make 20 GC." "How about one of those there ES things" "OH, you get to race another 60 times and earn about somewhere around 60-100 GC" "Well, at least I can see how it matches up against other cars." "No, you'll be racing against identical cars" "Wait, so I'm going to race about 60-180 times against the same car over and over? Can I at least take it for a really long spin? Like around Le Mans a lot?" "No." But isn't it designed for that kind of race?" "Yes." "So why not." "Ummm... well... it's um..! Licensing! That's it, yea, licensing!" "Why wouldn't they want the car to run as it was designed?" "Because if you run a lot of laps at Le Mans you can earn back some extra GC" "AHHA, now that'd be useful, how much?" "Well, if you race for hours upon end you upgrade your driver level and can early like 15-50 GC afters hundreds of hours of play"

At this point I get the "Dude, are you frickin' kidding me with this? Let's just get girls and drugs - it's cheaper, easier and more fun."