Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-26388545-20150620170856/@comment-26983563-20151210224420

I started playing RR3 very early after it was released (did play RR2 quite a lot as well...) so I do not have limited mechanics, like many others who joined in later.

Initially, I did not really have a specific goal, it was just about getting some cool cars. Which was also possible in the beginning of the game, when there was no "career" one had to go through before one could buy "nicer" cars. In my case that led to the BMW Z4 GT3 and the Lexus LFA being the fourth and fifth car I bought in the game. Which was nice, as they opened up some races where earning R$ was A LOT easier than with the Focus or the Nissan Silvia.

Then I found a blog about the game and started exchanging thoughts and strategies with other players (most importantly, I stopped wasting Gold on Upgrades I did not need). I still only have 9 fully upgraded cars (all but one of those date back to the first 6 months of playing RR3).

When the career was introduced, I already had access to all of today's main Series and thus did not have to go through it all in a predefined sequence.

On the other side, I got only 3 to 5 Gold for the first 200 or so Levelups and THAT made cars like the Agera R seem completely overpriced as I had no idea how I was supposed to save 800 Gold. Ever. But I still tried to do it and got lucky when it was put on a 50% rebate at some stage.

That was when I really started to think about what goals there were for me in the game. Goal Number One was to get to own ALL the cars in the game. I did manage that one fine day when 109 cars were in the game. Then they introduced the Porsche 911 RSR (2015) and I was pi...ed, because I had no option to buy it with even a 20% Showace rebate.

I almost threw in the towel then, but discovered Team Racing and found a good Team of nice guys to drive with and thus stuck with the game.

Next time I almost stopped altogether was when they started to make new Updates outrageously expensive. NASCAR was REALLY bad in that regard and the one after that was pretty bad as well. Good thing I had the Team Events to keep me going (from a motivational point of view AND from a "gold income" point of view).

I then also started looking for another - doable - goal in the game and found the "I want to get to 100%" target for myself. As I had not wasted Gold uselessly for quite some time and won pretty much all the free cars during Events, I noticed I needed only some 3.500 Gold to buy all required upgrades to get to 100%.

So I decided on a priority list of when to upgrade which car, which now (some time later) only contains 6 cars:

Ferrari Enzo Ferrari (the worst - it'll cost me 1015 Gold alone) - 9 races with this one

McLaren 650S GT3 - another 260 needed (already partially upgraded with gold) - another 2 races

Ferrari 412 T - another 196 required - 2 more races

Hyundai i20 WRC - 175 to go - yet another 2 races

Renault DeZir - 101 missing - you'll guess it: 2 more races

Lamborghini Aventador - 97 Gold for the last 2 races

Obviously I am also missing the 3 cars that can be won during events in the current update (and 4 races each), but I suppose that will not be a problem. At least, it never has been in the past ;)

So, I am at 99% and counting, almost 75% of the Gold needed for the Enzo is "in the bank".

I should also add that I ONCE chipped in 15,99 € to buy 1019 Gold (targeted offer), as I just received it the very moment the Toyota was rebated (40%) for the first time ever. Didn't think long about that one :-D

I am currently at Level 345, need some 280.000+ Fame per Level and get 46 Gold in return. It'll be 48 once I reach Level 350, which also helps. I will hopefully have saved enough gold for the Enzo by the time the next update arrives (I am guessing mid January or early February), so I can decide whether splashing it out makes more sense or keeping it together for another "expensive" update (this one seems MUCH nicer so far... Hope that impression lasts!)