Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-32052843-20171215141202/@comment-28169398-20171216151634

I agree with everyone in saying that spending hours on a single goal when you have paid for the Recommended upgrades is just wrong.

However, I will say this. The game designers have actually made the challenge to special events about racing these days and improved driving and not the ridiculous challenges of the past, such as Perform 3 donuts and win the race, Break the rear windows of 10 cars and win, push the old man from behind around the race track and finish third, perform a 3 second drift (these are tarmac cars and not dirt track Sprint cars or drifting cars with the necessary modifications) etc. And while the no skid is still an unrealistic demand, it at least gets you to better car control.

And yes, these challenges have been too hard for the majority of us, but I feel like I am getting better at the game because of them. I am getting better at finding the racing line. I am getting better at searching for the edge of performance. I am getting an intuitive feel for brake points. I can adjust faster to new cars with different performance characteristics. And I am learning to drive at the limit. This is much more challenging, frustrating, but also more enjoyable that incessant bot slowing and bot management. So while I will always be one of the first person to say that the Recommended PR should be the one that the vast majority of players can have to pass Goals within a few attempts and not several hours, I would rather these challenges placed before me than Bot Slowing, Drifting, or Demolition Derby.