Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-27109924-20160410163411/@comment-128.184.189.40-20180823050001

Its an interesting topic about participating in special (SE) and flashback (FB) events. But some things should be taken into account for the "newish" players. Let me introduce myself.

My level is 71 and I have finished 10% races. I have 52 cars in my garage, most of them are from expert group, a few (4-5) from the master, elite and legend groups. I did not understand the idea of special events at first (thats before I came to know about this page, which has been most helpful for me), so I missed the time window in speed rush to get the Audi R8 V10 spyder and the limited edition Maserati (From marquis). After loosing in these two events, my stat was something like 500 GC and approx. R$ 35,00,000. After these two, I was sort of hellbent on winning a special event. So from the 6.4 update I participated in the jag legacy (Jaguar F type SVR), victory by design (Mercedes AMG GT3) and light rider (Lotus type 125) and carbon copy (Mercedes benz C11). Soon I realized that carbon copy was out of my league (I never had that amount of GC), but I was able to somehow finish the flashback events. After 1 month, spending ~ 450 GC on flashback events (yeah, thats including the daily GC bonuses and a few career races), ~R$ 20,00,000 and a lot of sanity I came to a conclusion, which I would like to share here.

1. Do not participate in special events (at least until you're pro). Yes, you will get cars in 250-300 GC which would otherwise cost ~800-100 GC, but in the end the expense does not cover the payout. I understand that RR3 is designed to pay up actual real money, but it doesn't worth it at this stage. Another interesting bit about the upgrades. Lets say for light rider you have to pay ~1000 GC to complete the event while maintaining the PR. So like me you have decided to spend as small as possible and get the car, and get that GC back by completing career or bonus series (which also pays up a bit of GC). But those bonus series do not work until you meet the req'd PR. So in the end you end up with paying more GC than you can afford on a daily basis.

2. If you are absolutely sure to participate in SEs, learn how to drive without assists. Eventually in some or other race events Michael or Ahmed will ask you to complete some foolish task with assists off. Its better to learn before doing them in an unknown car.

3. Build up a GC reservoir first. In my guess, the figure should be somewhere around 1500-2000 GC. And remember, it'll take at least 10-15 times longer to earn back the amount of gold, which you spend.

4. Be very careful in choosing SEs. Not all cars have good return of investments (ROI), but some are better than others. Upgrading them might worth the time and GC. Till now I figure they are

Audi R18 e-Tron Quattro (2015) (just keep in mind that you may get the 2014 version by paying R$, but that wont get you the 10 lapper race), better to spend where its worth the hassle.

McLaren P1 tm GTR, Ferrari F40 and Ferrari F14 T, but this is what I think. I have none of these cars so I can't say these are best. But you can research on them a bit. This page i very helpful in that respect.

Now I am about to start redline: origins within a few days so that I can earn back some money from classic ferrari showdown.

But of course, this gase is easiest if you have a credit card lying around :P, but I guess my response will be useful to those, who want to figure it out without paying real money.

So best of luck and k eep racing folks!

Ciao.