Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-25956839-20150622153601

What if I said the break even point for the fame agent was around 3,000 points! Not what I expected to see, when I did the calculation too.

Story
I was having a chat on one of the forums a few weeks back, talking about using the fame agent for the 10 lapper, someone posted a comment, that any event with a fame over 7,000 you should pay the fame agent, no one event replied! I though that can't be right only 7,000 points? I know the amount of fame increases as the driver levels up, but so does the amount of Gold awarded. 7,000 points seamed so low, I couldn't be right or could it? A few weeks later, I thought I could calculate the break even point, when you pay out the same gold for the Agent as you are rewarded when you level up.

What do we know?
From Strategy there is a nice picture showing the gold rewarded every level up, thanks to Matthias. From Fame Chart there is a list of how many point required to level up.

Calculation
The calculation is therefore quite simple, the fame required to level up divided by the gold reward divided by two, as the fame agent pays double the fame rewarded. e.g. at level 149, the fame point required to level up is 175,130 divided by the gold rewarded, 28, divided by two is 3,128 points! Or to put it the other way around, if you did an event 28 times that pays 3,128, paying the fame agent 1 GC to get double fame points, so 6,256 fame points are paid out x 28 = 175,168, so level up is reached and are rewarded with 28 GC, but as the fame agent has been paid 28 GC, this is the break even point.

This table shows the results of this calculation:

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The first attempt, was to create the above table, at level 10, 20, 30 etc, but, that tends to be the entry point for gold rewards being increased, so the figures are even lower! You can calculate your break even point using the above calculation and the two sources of information above.

Conclusion
This is a break even figure, so there is no point paying the fame agent, for no reward, but any event over the break even point should be considered, also the race must be won, every time the fame agent is used.

For example at level 149, an event paying 4,000 fame points x 2 for paying the agent, after 22 events the level up is reached, paying out 28 GC for levelling up, gaining 6 GC.

I'm not suggesting an event paying 4,000 GC should be farmed! However if during the racing series an event paying out over 3,000 is reached it should be considered, providing you're confident to win :) 