Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27048832-20171216165849/@comment-28169398-20171216194841

RR3G&#039;hamO. wrote: My rant was done without thought of my position as if I am a regular user here.

The players have been around long enough to know that events will cost gold & if said players are not highly skilled they should expect to need more in order to obtain the car(s), before the event opened the cars page had it's details filled in with all the upgrade costs, just like the MP4/4 is now.

Given FM may expect too much from players hence why the recommended is not how players like it to be, before recommended PR every car was a free gift, literally all that was needed was R$ upgrades and we won another car that was when it was "too easy" & FM saw this as : the players need more of a challenge.

Now there is a challenge but the challenge is too great for players to handle. I made an assessment over how much it might cost me to run for this Lambo, I've not chosen how much I'll limit myself to for the MP4/4 maybe 50% upgrades max and have some fun challenging myself to get better at playing.

I want a game that challenges me to improve at every step, it's frustrating but the reward for finally passing that really tough step is far greater than one banging the whole kaboodle. I'm setting myself the other challenge of getting back up high in weekly too, again frustrating but rewarding.

Without the Wiki I would not be as good (if good is the right word there) as I am now, through this site I have taken on the challenges in the leaderboards, searching for better times, the first race team I joined was one created by a fellow user and because I knew them I joined while bonus fame was on and ignored the extra rewards on offer to have fun & it really was, I learned so much just from that one team. Now I've moved to a top speed team where I'm still learning and being pushed to improve and get better, seeing them do well in weekly gives me incentive to try harder because I'm not going to let the team down by showing up with bad results.

This is a racing game and racing is about getting to the finish as fast as you can, not about winning by the smallest margins, I see so many players scared to allow faster bots on the track I often wonder if they know what type of game this is, most seem to be playing either Pokemon collecting all the cars or Wall Street where having a massive gold stack is the most important thing.

I'm here to race. I encourage others to race too & I hope they will look to improve so that next time (and there will be a next time because it's not long till Fearless opens) instead of crying about the challenge being too hard..... However, racing is also a business, and usually those in the business know the costs of what they are getting into. Audi pulled out of LMP in 2016 because Development costs were too great. Porsche went from a 3 car to a 2 car strategy in WEC, and after a three=peat, they are bowing out. Manor couldn't afford to run F1 anymore, and Lotus pulled out.

Not know the costs going into something is called gambling, and not providing accurate information about what the costs will be is deceptive on FMs part. Just because there are a bunch of talented, smart and dedicated people here that collect data on the cars and events and are very good at working out strategy does not, in any way, excuse FM. If I need to fully upgrade to have a shot at the car, then Make that the Recommended PR for the event. and let us know before hand. Some would avoid, but others would still go into it. Some would even still roll the dice and take the gamble to play and need fewer upgrades to win.