Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-26249703-20150522225052

I was curious about the real value of Gold as Firemonkeys intended before EA put down their profit-driven boot. This is mostly due to the frequency of please asking for an exchange up to 50 million R$ for 1,000 Gold. If TL;DR, keep to the last two paragraph.

From the store, you can buy R$ or Gold. From that you can determine how increasing cost increases R$ or Gold received and it's interesting to see that Gold increases much slower than R$: if the ratio R$:G for the least expensive pack was used for the most expensive pack, the user would receive 1,600 Gold, not 1,019. Many people would agree that is still way too much, as buying and fully upgrading every car (before messing about with customisation) still costs over 35,000 coins!

Anyways, getting into the point of this post: it's noticeable in the dealership that cars are classed by manufacturer and are listed from least to most expensive, regardless of the currency. A few exceptions are the F14 T, 412 T2 and 919 Hybrid. The first two are listed as less expensive than the LaFerrari and the Porsche is listed as less expensive than the 2013 RSR. Since those 3 cars were all available to win for free by completing events, it is clear that their real value is much less than listed and therefore excluded from my calculations. They were done by checking to see what the biggest R$:G ratio was when the R$ car was listed as less expensive than the gold one and the lowest ratio in the reverse scenario.

Those two relations were the Huayra to Zonda R (1,358,000R$:400Gold=3,395:1) and Carrera RS 2.7 to GT2 (300,000R$:180Gold=2500:1). So without an exact figure, which could be obtained through interpolation (including outliers etc), the value of 1 Gold coin in terms of R$ should be between 2,500 and 3,395 R$.

Hence, this means that the actual value of 1,000 Gold should be between 2.5 and 3.4 million R$. Going back to the earlier store value, 1,600 Gold coins should therefore be worth between 4 and 5.43 million R$.

Obviously, this shows no reflection on the economic system, since Gold is so much harder to earn than R$, but I do hope this illustrates how even the people that are willing to pay exorbitant amounts of money still don't get their money's worth. In fact, the secon-least expensive Gold pack is nearly as good value as the most expensive, but better value than all the other ones! Thanks EA :) 