Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-30576757-20170221050616/@comment-77.231.119.56-20170222175721

Don't fool yourself, if you were a regular group E there's no way you'll get to C now. Most of borrowers will still beat you with a 0 upgrades car. If you wan't to get competitive, drop the assist and learn the lines. Precisely, I think one of the reasons why they had to act now was because the impact of borrowers was starting to be felt on the overall results. This has been going on for some time now, but still, last summer and fall it was still relatively easy to get to group B with cars below FU. As another user says, I had noticed that in the last 2 or 3 months it had become much harder to get the results. After a strike of Bs last year, I got down to C, then D and in the last month I was in E a couple of times. Always with similarly upgraded cars. All of a sudden this rule comes in, I begin the week in D and I see how times to the next group start falling day by day, as they used to do in the past, but not lately. That's surely the flow of players that give it a go, they used to borrow or they still borrow, but now their times get deleted, so they have to settle for what their real garage/skill allows. As it used to be in the past, when only a minority of players exploited the save/restore trick and their impact was difficult to assess. Now that it was massive and legit players really felt it in their results, FM had to do something, and finally they fixed it (we'll see for how long). While a jump from E to C might be a bit ambitious, after a long time in E-D I'm now back into C, and I doubt it's because I've suddenly improved as a driver. I rather believe, without fooling myself, that this new approach by FM has a lot to do with it. We'll see in the next 4 weeks. Furthermore, with less borrowers, I'm now willing to upgrade more, become "less rich" if you want, for a chance to be in group B again and improve my garage while taking some invested gold back (the total is still depleted!). All players who have been pissed by the change should realize that borrowing was only a shortcut, but it's definietly possible to build your garage little by little and finally make it into the gold-paying groups.