Board Thread:Social and Race Teams Threads/@comment-25956839-20171024213316/@comment-33524487-20171209111606

Kuedde wrote: The Timing of this update teamchallenges looks very strange to me, this Autocross, will not be a Problem for SingleTeams, it will be done in less than two hours. But whats up with that Lap challenge with the performante on 14.12, this is while "perfect storm", if they give us only LeMans on this day, the 500 Laps takes more than 24 hours. Same with the distance challenge with the MP4/4, this is while "fearless", if they give us just Hongkong or Porsche Dynamic to do 1060 km will take another 7-8 hours, and if you crash its over. I think the monkeys dont want us to earn Gold this update. :( I think the idea of TCs for a special event is daft game design fundamentally. Much like the idea that doing as badly as possible is the path of least resistance in this game, the idea that you must forcibly never exit a single race for 24 hours in order to compete in a competition is just counterintuitive to what a racing game should be about.

But even when a TC can be completed normally, it still results in a pure grind activity, repeating the same event over and over again for (up to) 24 hours.

No one would do that if there wasn't a leader board and gold rewards. Yet thousands do it because gold is an artificially scarce commodity essential to the game's progress design, deliberately set up as the counterweight for progress against monetary investment.

Essentially, the game's goal is acquisition of gold and the most efficient way to achieve that goal is to not race as best as you possibly can and do things repeatedly that are really, really tedious (or, in the case of a TC during a Special Event, deliberately not progressing through a loophole and still repeating the same event over and over again).

None of that is fun. But that's the essential doctrine of a freemium game; you can skip everything by paying but if you don't then expect to wait (not play the game) and/or do really non fun things to minimise that wait.

I'll do the Sylvia TC if it can be done in a couple hours but there's no way I'm doing the next TC.