Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-27048832-20170313061510/@comment-31374292-20170422173511

RR3 Master Racer wrote: About that upgrades paying back for themselves thing, they only will pay back in the very long term (You'll need to have all fast cars almost FU to have a chance of getting that 500 GC reward per week. Once you start getting that, upgrades will pay for themselves in 5-6 weeks

Not that long. It took about one and a half year for me to collect almost all legend cars and to hoard gold for being able to buy/win the rest. You need to think in long term - go for all winnable cars, upgrade them reasonably or sometimes a little more than necessary in the event. On the other hand, you need to be restrictive with yourself - fully upgrading is not advantageous, costs too much. So there is a delicate balance to find.

Even if you have all the cars fully upgraded somehow, you need to be an exceptionally (!) good driver to get 300gold/week. For most of the players it is simply not achievable, I think. But 100gold/week, group B can be a realistic target if you have reasonably/well upgraded cars, you are ready to learn the tracks, proper handling of the cars, the optimal racing line, braking points etc and, most importantly, to constantly work on your times.

For example it took me several hours (and I really enjoyed it) to put together a quite good run in Catalunya this afternoon - 1:10.395 @F14T PR123.1, currently top500 time, I am proud of it. :)