I don't know if there's any smaller changes, but at the very least they haven't changed anything transmission related - a Tomahawk with a broken transmission is still 1358PP (so that side of the grind setup still works, it's just finding the optimal car to use that's fastest in a straight line for the least PP).
Hmm, I'm not sure I'd call 5 solid hours of grinding in order to afford one single car "everything in an instant", but I do agree to some extent.
I've played the game half an hour a day except when there's the weekly to do for the longest time and I've got every car in the game. That's one 30 minutes race around Le Mans.
So you won approximatively 1.5M Cr. per hour of gameplay.
I've apparently acquired an average of 523,000 Cr. every day and 330,000 Cr. per hour of game play - that sounds like quite a lot, but that means that a single 20M Cr. car takes 60 hours of gameplay for me personally, which equates to one 20M car (and nothing else at all) every 38 days.
we all play our games our own way. I don't have life time to grind at 1.5mill/hr to buy 20mill cars.. that to me is a joke and an insult to the value of our real life time, especially when we have already invested $800 on a console and $100 on the title just to have some fun. I prefer to get my cars and then focus on the racing and driving rather than the painful tedious grind of collection... This "exploit" still required 5hours of console dedication to afford a single 20mill car as opposed to Sardegna where it takes you 13hrs (give or take) - neither one gives you everything or even anything in an instant... and 5 hrs for one car when you have to work, raise children, sleep, prepare meals for families, etc, is still a lot let alonf 13 hrs for one car which is insane.. BUT, that is just me. I fully respect yours and everyones choice/opinion/desire to play the game in the way that gives you the most satisfaction!
and that my friend, is disgusting, absurd and horrifying game design! Just imagine if you had a life... I'm not sure who the target audience for PD is anymore.. it used to be car lovers...I've apparently acquired an average of 523,000 Cr. every day and 330,000 Cr. per hour of game play - that sounds like quite a lot, but that means that a single 20M Cr. car takes 60 hours of gameplay for me personally, which equates to one 20M car (and nothing else at all) every 38 days.
When comparing earnings versus car ownership, it's important to remember that you get about 50 million credits from circuit experience - which if you're skilled enough, takes only about as long as two laps of the circuits in question - and you win a lot of cars early on. Similarly with the online TT's if you're any good you can pretty easily get 500,000 - 1,000,000 Cr. with little more than a couple of laps, and, despite much criticism you do still occasionally win 500,000 - 1,000,000 Cr. on the roulette... so scaling earnings across the life of the game isn't that linear.
This is key and gets lost a LOT in conversations.
CE is "only" 50M (provided you gold everything), you'll need much more than that, and the cars you win won't get you that far either. TT's can earn you max 8M/month (and before there were juste one TT every 2 two weeks so that was half) so event if you've got gold since TT1, it is max 100M in nearly 2 years (being very generous).
Really? Well, they refuse to make payouts for normal races reasonable, and as soon as someone finds a way to make easy money PD are quickly removing it. Also, you can’t sell tuning parts or engines, and when you sell cars the money you get is way below reasonable (or realistic if you like) as well.
