- Cash bonuses of up to 100k, there might be one or two even higher?
There are actually quite a few cars that have 100k, 200k or even 300k in their skill mastery tree. Every car in the Formula Drift DLC has 300,000 credits in its skill mastery (only the initial seven cars in the DLC. Cars added to FD afterwards do not have the credits.)
Even better though are the 1969 Nissan Fairlady Z 432 and the 1982 Porsche 911 Turbo 3.3. Each one has 300,000 credits in its skill mastery tree, but they’re both available from the auto show for only 150,000 credits each. Every one of these in the auction house will have already had the 300k removed, which means it’s cheaper to buy them full price in the autoshow rather than buying them at 90% off in the auction house. Allow me to demonstrate:
Buying in the autoshow:
-150,000 credits to purchase
+300,000 credits in skill mastery
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+150,000 credits ahead and you now have a cool car. 👍🏼😃
Versus buying in the auction house:
-15,000 credits to purchase at minimum
+0 credits because someone else already took the 300k
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-15,000 credits loss and a car someone has already plundered for all the good stuff. 👎🏼😩
Once you buy the car and grab the 300k credits, don’t bother trying to auction it off. No one is buying because they know the good stuff is already gone. Just delete them from your garage. Or keep it. I assume you’re going to buy more than one since each is a perpetual money machine. I know I was buying ten at a time.
Of course there is another cost. At minimum, you’re going to need to spend 19 skill points to unlock that money.
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@MOPARbarrett5, there are two ways to see your car’s skill mastery tree. In your house or the Forza Hub, select garage > upgrades & tuning > car mastery. Outside your house or the Forza Hub, select pause > cars > car mastery. Then you’ll know how many skill points you’ll need to spend.
It’s a little confusing, so let me see if I can unravel this for you. You get skill scores for everything you do while driving. For every 50,000 skill score, you get 1 skill point. It’s the points you use to unlock the skill mastery bonuses in each car. Something they don’t tell you, though, is you can only earn 10 skill points at a time. Thats 500,000 skill score. You can keep going and earn well over 500,000 skill score, but you won’t earn any more than 10 skill points, so there’s no point in going past 500k. You need to break it up a little. Every car has a skill multiplier you unlock in the car mastery tree.
If your skill multiplier goes to 5, earn 100,000 skill points to get 500,000.
If your skill multiplier goes to 6, earn 83,333 skill points to get 500,000.
If your skill multiplier goes to 7, earn 71,429 skill points to get 500,000.
During skill songs, your skill multiplier automatically goes to ten, so earn 50,000 skill points to get 500,000.
My favorite way to grind skill score is to take the BMW M6 FE (a drift car with a skill multiplier that goes to 7), and drift up and down the drag strip on the beach next to Bambrough Castle. The combination of drift and wreckage skills from drifting through the lane dividers means I can collect my 500,000 skill score in less than 3 minutes. When I hit 72k skill score, I stop, bag my ten points and and get back to drifting.
Some other hopefully helpful hints: Do the Festival Playlist every week if you’re able. Lots of excellent scars as prizes, as well as for completing 50% and 80% of each season and series. Collect those backstage passes you get from completing 50% of each series. Some very rare cars are only available through the backstage pass. It gets a new car weekly, but don’t worry, old cars don’t drop off so you have time to grind for those passes.
Check out the Super 7. Not only are the Austin 7 and Triumph TR7 available through it, the prize changes each week and it’s almost always a rare car.
The Eliminator is fun, and the Mercury Cougar Eliminator is available through reaching level 25.
I apologize if I’ve been fansplaining stuff you already know. I love this game and it makes me happy when new people discover it.
