Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-26388545-20150620170856/@comment-27554970-20161105072608

I've always thought there may be a good game in here somewhere. I've been playing for 10 months now, and I've been putting lots of time into the game, and I'm at 44% complete and barely keeping up with the new cars. I've had a lot of fun, and learned a lot, but both are decreasing, and it has become obvious that I'm not going to get anywhere significant.

Furthermore, the game keeps getting less "real" and more insane, and the latest "concept" F1 car, the MP4-X belongs more in a "futuristic" racing game than a "real" racing game.

However...

If one would take the MP4-X, completely upgrade it, and then not service it, it becomes somewhat similar, or maybe just a bit more, than modern top racing cars (F1, Le Mans, Indycar), at least compared to any other car unserviced. Futhermore, being fully upgraded and unserviced, one could run time trials as long as one wanted, without servicing or farming or spending any time except driving. And one would have their own ghost to race against, so one could continuously improve. And while the physics model is flat out wrong for a normal low downforce road car, it may not be as bad for a high downforce race car. I'll never drive a high downforce race car, and I never will, so I won't know the difference, but I do autocross road cars, so I do know the difference.

And I happen to have enough gold and R$ to win and fully upgrade the MP4-X (maybe in the other order, though).

So that's what I'm going to do. I'm quitting the rat race after this event, but I'm not quitting the game. The MP4-X is in two series (bonus and exclusive), so I should have a few tracks to time trial on, and that will have to be good enough. I may even have enough gold to upgrade the Lotus 125 and/or the F14T to do the same, if the tracks are different, and I get bored with the MP4-X. Of course, I can still run other races if I want, but I don't know that I will want to.

And, if I do have extra time, maybe I'll join an indoor karting league, and do some real racing.