Talk:Motorfiesta 2/@comment-159.205.253.197-20180911150917/@comment-27123099-20180911162844

The SE's anymore (like everything FM does), are all about how much GC they can squeeze from players.

Since SE's don't have a required PR, FM must make the challenges difficult enough such that they force most players to pay what FM feels is a worthy amount of GC for the event. Unfortunately, because of this, they end up making the goals too difficult for average players so that they can force above average players to upgrade as well. If they made the goals achievable for average players, then a lot of players would get by with far fewer upgrades, which is not what FM wants.

As I've stated many times elsewhere, this won't stop until and unless FM decides to implement a required PR on SE's. I frankly believe it's only a matter of time at this point. Not ideal IMO, but it's playing out exactly like I envisioned. They'll make the players so fed up with the SE's that when FM rolls out mandatory PR's, then players will actually welcome them because the SE's have become so broken by FM's insistence on pushing goals to the limit.

Also, keep in mind that this release also introduced additional ways to earn GC (revamped WTTT and OMP). You didn't think FM was just being generous right? Of course not, they are fully expecting players to fork over that newly earned GC by giving us one of the most maddening SE's they've developed yet. I feared this would be the case and it appears FM is doing exactly as I expected them to.

In any case, good job on completing this SE, I'm on 8.4 with the same upgrades currently. Hoping I can wrap it and Stage 9 up in the next 14hrs or so, though I have a full work day ahead of me as well.

Oh also, not sure how you play the SE's, but if you start the event just before midnight, then you do get nearly a full additional day at the the end. I always play SE's this way. In this case, Stage 9 opened up for me a day and a half ago (though I was busy and couldn't play much unfortunately). I had all day yesterday and until about 11:45pm tonight to complete Stage 9. It's the only way to play SE's IMO. May as well give yourself as much time as possible.