Board Thread:Social and Race Teams Threads/@comment-25956839-20171024213316/@comment-33524487-20171128133510

Being a new player, I've tried to balance my choices between gold acquisition and spending very carefully. I was burnt by the Front Runner flashback and the Elusive One events (thankfully, I was able to reset my save and get the "lost" gold back). Now, I fully research each event before committing gold to it.

You're right, purely focusing on gold is self defeating (why get gold at all if you never intend to spend it) but I don't think anyone does that and that's not what I meant.

Right now, my primary focus is on progressing through the game but spending as little gold as I can. I'm doing that because I'm fully aware how scarce gold is in this game, compared to the requirements of gold throughout the game. So I'm currently only completing gold positive series (where possible) and I'm not getting 100% if it results in a net loss of gold. I do events if they're gold positive or if I really like the car and the net loss isn't too high (this LTS is an example of that, for me).

But I didn't do the Lotus LTS, I just used the Base car to complete the team event.

Because of this approach, I now have over 2.4k gc, I've got access to the classic Ferrari showdown 4 lapper for R$ and I'm able to take advantage of these events when I think they're worth it.

At some point, I'll have no more gold positive series left to do. That's when I'll start focusing on spending my gold rather than saving it.

PS 100% completion or full garage don't interest me. This is a fun game but I'm not going to bother with that amount of time investment/grinding. I'll have got bored of the game long before then so I'm going to get as much gold as I can now while I'm enjoying the game.

I'm pretty certain it'll take me a tiny fraction of the time it takes me to spend all my gold compared to how long it'll take me to save it up ;)