Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-98.100.100.197-20170105153918

Having just completed MotorFiesta, I got to thinking about my history with this game. I read a lot of comments about how hard special events are these days. Comments about how FM making it impossible to win these events. But for me, I have always seemed to be under less pressure or stress to win these events than I used to be. So I actually they have gotten easier. But, in completing MotorFiesta, it did seem as though the goals were easier than I remembered. But I assume I am a better driver now in 2017 than I was back when I first tried that event over two years ago. And part of that is true. But in thinking about how lucky I was back then. I actually won the F14T and the 375 F1 but failed to win the 412 T2. Wow! How lucky was I. Lucky that it wasn’t the other way around. I mean, I actually had a second chance to get the 412 T2 by completing MotorFiesta which I did yesterday. But what if I had won it and not the F14T? There is no second chance in the game for that car. I would be stuck having to pay 1050GC or maybe catching it on sale. So then it dawned on me. Now I know why events seem to be easier for me these days than they were back then. It is basically all relative. New folks have nothing to compare to. But back then, I did not know about this site. So I had no idea what to expect from challenge to challenge. I am not even sure this site existed then? Even though some of the races seem easier to complete with less gold, service times were insane. Nobody knew about “cloud restore” and there was no such thing as ads to speed service times up. You just had to wait it out, and try again. All the while the clock was ticking on the event. I mean if you had a 2 lap race at LeMans with no off track and on the last corner you accidentally slid off… It left you with no bars, and a car like the Toyota TS040 took 5 hours 25 minutes to service. You had to wait it out and try again, maybe only to fail again. Next thing you know, you are a couple stages behind and the clock was still ticking. So in reflecting back, yes, in some respects, I do think that having this site to prepare, ads to speed up servicing and the cloud restore trick. Yes, I do believe special events are easier to complete these days as compared to a couple years ago. But I guess it is all relative. For new folks they never had to grind it out like us old timers did. JMO 