11 minutes to do an ~8.4 mile lap??? That’s averaging under 47 mph on a track famous for having the longest straightaways in the world.
Because they’re GaaS that launch low on content, built to trickle out updates over years, and have mechanics that only exist to make players grind out play time.
As far as I can tell, the time it takes to gain a level hasn't changed, nor has the relationship between levels and car points, so it takes the same amount of time to get to level 50 as before, and most decent tunes were limited by car points previously, still are now, and it therefore takes exactly the same amount of time driving a car to be able to apply a particular tune as it did before the update.
The biggest issue wan't the "level 50" though. The biggest issue was unlocking upgrades taking too long. Now the upgrades unlock earlier, and so long as you do the practice laps and races, and you have your difficulty level set at default or higher, CarXP comes quickly as well. This means you can also hold on to your XP and not spend it until you unlock the items you really wanted now. The AI is still going to match your PI, so you don't miss out on anything by not upgrading to useless parts.
It wasn't, the biggest problem for any decent tune was the lack of car points. It still takes the exact same amount of driving time as before to get to the level needed to apply any decent tune, e.g. the tune (from high up on a rivals leaderboard) I've just become able to apply to my '08 Viper, which only needed level 12 to unlock the upgrades, but needed 4975 car points, which needs somewhere around level 30.
Ok, we will agree to disagree.
Just look at tunes from top 10 positions on leaderboards. Race cars won't be too bad, but for road cars, which is all we can use in the career at the moment, even in "open" events, car points are usually going to be the limiter. If you try making a tune yourself to match a top 10 ghost in rivals, you'll soon see why this is the case.
Ok, we will agree to disagree.
The bonding with your car thing is a great idea but seeing as after 5 races you're forced into another car it semeed to completely miss the point?
This is why I suggested making the system optional, like the transfer of cars from TC2 to TCM. If people like levelling up cars, they can opt into that system. If people want to be doing something else in the game instead, they don't opt into it and can get on with playing the other aspects of the game.
You don't have the game nor have you played it, what are you basing this off of? Also why would you pick one of the longest tracks with the fewest turns to try to push an idea? Without this update, I was at about Level 10+~ within an hour to an hour and a half, and that was while wasting time sifting through menus. What about you, what was your progression?
What is your gamertag?
