Talk:Time Shifted Multiplayer/@comment-26338036-20150608075038/@comment-81.98.183.12-20150608095522

I'd imagine that FM/EA don't see it as a bug but a feature - it's a way of encouraging people to upgrade more. You want to beat your friends then you upgrade ahead of them and beat them. So you'll pay gold for that last engine upgrade - and maybe pay with real money for that gold... And they want to beat you so they'll upgrade, etc, etc. Similarly to time trials, team comp etc - if you want to compete you have to max out the car.

In terms of racing against friends they (apparently... I've not got any friends... :-P) do compensate you for that by giving you R$ as a friend beating bonus - although as we all know R$ is linear to earn, Gold, not so - so it's no real compensation.