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I was an obsessive grinder in GT5. I had to. I played the original game, without a single update, till the end.
There's a thread out there somewhere, buried among the quarter million threads in here, that detail the agony and ecstasy -something on the lines of "Thanks, Kaz, I'm fully upgraded now' or something to that effect. I must add to it - but I guess I have to find it first.
Getting credits in GT4 was fairly easy, once one trained good old B-Spec Bob to do his job.
GT5 was a bit of a grind till one trained their bots to grind and then the grinding was shared but still a huge amount of grinding to get a Miura for instance.
I never bought the Miura till I had upgraded my game fully to the compleat GT5, it was that hard to get the Miura - just lots of grinding, too much of grinding - though it made me drive hundreds of thousand of miles.
As soon as I upgraded from Version 1 to the GT5's final cut, I was boggled. Credits were so easy to make that they were coming out of my ying yang left, right and center - before long I was floating in cars. And credits.
Credits have always been an important part of the game. To some as important, if not more, than photography, or tuning, or racing, or even dabbling in that murderously obsessive and very addictive time-trialing. Or just plain enjoying the looks and feel of hundreds of cars.
Some would say if there were no credits, the game would be broken instantly.
So I was quite happy to suddenly receive a huge windfall of credits - and even though I had over a thousand cars, I still needed get some 20M cars that I had missed.
In effect - if not for the 20M cars, then GT5 Vers. 1.00 credit system would be okay, though a bit of a grind.
I know - because I did it. And can compare the differences from both sides of the fence.
So the sudden windfalls after the total upgrade solved the 20M problem, but in the end became a flood of credits and people were actually throwing credits away.
As well - the GT5 drive-bots that were being farmed out also raked in the moolah and the banks were overflowing.
Credit system broken.
On to GT6 credit pay-out system now.
What do you think?
Let me have your thoughts on the present credit system before I run off another epistle on this subject.
There's a thread out there somewhere, buried among the quarter million threads in here, that detail the agony and ecstasy -something on the lines of "Thanks, Kaz, I'm fully upgraded now' or something to that effect. I must add to it - but I guess I have to find it first.
Getting credits in GT4 was fairly easy, once one trained good old B-Spec Bob to do his job.
GT5 was a bit of a grind till one trained their bots to grind and then the grinding was shared but still a huge amount of grinding to get a Miura for instance.
I never bought the Miura till I had upgraded my game fully to the compleat GT5, it was that hard to get the Miura - just lots of grinding, too much of grinding - though it made me drive hundreds of thousand of miles.
As soon as I upgraded from Version 1 to the GT5's final cut, I was boggled. Credits were so easy to make that they were coming out of my ying yang left, right and center - before long I was floating in cars. And credits.
Credits have always been an important part of the game. To some as important, if not more, than photography, or tuning, or racing, or even dabbling in that murderously obsessive and very addictive time-trialing. Or just plain enjoying the looks and feel of hundreds of cars.
Some would say if there were no credits, the game would be broken instantly.
So I was quite happy to suddenly receive a huge windfall of credits - and even though I had over a thousand cars, I still needed get some 20M cars that I had missed.
In effect - if not for the 20M cars, then GT5 Vers. 1.00 credit system would be okay, though a bit of a grind.
I know - because I did it. And can compare the differences from both sides of the fence.
So the sudden windfalls after the total upgrade solved the 20M problem, but in the end became a flood of credits and people were actually throwing credits away.
As well - the GT5 drive-bots that were being farmed out also raked in the moolah and the banks were overflowing.
Credit system broken.
On to GT6 credit pay-out system now.
What do you think?
Let me have your thoughts on the present credit system before I run off another epistle on this subject.
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