Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-26388545-20190626002005/@comment-28169398-20190627181821

Fdalbor wrote: Well at least they are trying different things in the game. But the fame shortage is still a thing they ignore competely. Like its not going to go away and racers are still going to complain about it. It would seem they would at least offer one or two decent (not even great) fame paying races but they refuse. Think its going to bite them on the behind in the end. Fame and farming is what dictates their pricing. They are trying to limit it so that they can offer new content at a lower cost to players than they would have to if they gave lots of fame, which they aren't able to monetize.

The Event Vault is an attempt to reduce the cost of future content in a few ways. The first is that if you look, each time an LTS was run again, the required PR went up to cover the rewards given to older players. This made the car more expensive to own for new players, so with the Event Vault, they may not get the rewards from the first run, but they will only have to upgrade to the lower PR.

Also by not offering completion rewards for Event Vault runs, they don't have any cost associated with offering the events, other than the developer costs required to get the code working and making sure that the events added work in the vault. This means that as newer players, or even older players who missed cars upgrade to get the cars in the event vault, it improves the margins on those cars, meaning that they may not need to price new content as high as they are now. Whether that happens or not remains to be seen, but I think that this is one of the goals.

That being said, I am interested in the enjoyment factor. I want race cars that can be raced in races that aren't only a few laps. I wouldn't car if there was a 10-lap race for the GTE cars that was half the fame of the old farming races, as long as the AI was improved and the races were tuned better. I also wouldn't mind if they made a race that was similar in fame to the old farming races but was twice as long, so that Fame/Minute wasn't too much.

I am not trying to argue for of against anything here. I am only laying out the reality of the situation and trying to give some insight into the reason choices are made. I am also not looking to start a debate on what is owed to the players or a flame war about greed. It is what it is... I only want an enjoyable experience, and 2-Lap races in the Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo Championship were anything but enjoyable. They could have given me 0 Fame if the races had been 5-10 laps long so that I could actually run them like a race and not a demolition derby and divebomb fest.