I'd imagine the price tags of 3 million credits each will have an effect on some numbers too. The cheaper a car is, the easier it is to access for more players, and vice versa.
Well... It ends up I was right about the Twingo VS the new Hypercars.
There's always the cult potential of the Twingo, but you'd be amazed at how many players simply don't have the three million to spare to buy even one hypercar. Which always baffles me as the game basically throws money at you as long as you race even a bit, let alone do the weekly challenges.
It does throw money at you to an extent but if you are unable to bag a gold or silver online time trial (and even then you have to wait around 2 weeks to claim your prize) you're left with 250k. Even adding the Weekly Challenges, that adds up to around 1.5 million max with clean racing bonuses. So, from scratch, it would take around 2 weeks to earn one LM hypercar if you don't participate anywhere else.
1.5 million for what amounts to about 40-60 minutes of work a week is a pretty generous payout, all things considered. On top of that, if all you're doing are Weekly Challenges and online Time Trials, then of course it'll take a long time to save up enough money: you're only playing a fraction of what the game has to offer.
Interesting theory. I've been doing some speculating myself, mainly the Red Bull X2014 Fan Car, after randomly appearing in the updated Apex Magazine, (Automotive Engineering, Sect. 4-2), and several GT sponsored cars, like the Ford Performance Mustang Mach E that ran at Goodwood last week. Just an idea, I probably will feature these in an update prediction next month
Fuji not only has a connection to the current Super GT cars as well as the 2016 and 2008 cars already present (and technically the Audi RS5 Turbo courtesy of the Dream Race) but it also has abit of an, admittedly unfortunate, connection to The Toyota GT-One.
True looking at it that way, it appears quite generous. However, I'm not a fan of grinding the same races over and over. Sure, you could even do the Spa 800PP endurance race for an hour a day and get 1.6 million.
Clean race bonus guaranteed no matter how dirty the race is, provided you don't ignore yellow flags, should they ever happen.
Even as a relatively new GT player/simracer, I have to agree with this. I know some people are time poor (like me), but the somewhat quick learning curve I went through with a steering wheel meant I could still easily grind for expansive cars, but not without a lot of practice actually driving beforehand and some progression in the GT's career mode (when it came to offline). So yes, I guess we're both crazy
Some car prices are absurd and GT7 does need a little payout increase, but even if you are a "bad" player the worst thing you can do is complain about the prices PD isn't going to fix. I'm not saying you should "git gud" as much, more "get patient." I respect your point though, not trying to talk down on you as I am in the same situation myself, as I mentioned earlier
the issue is that credit payouts are all over the place
I've invested over 500 hours in GT7 over 4 years so patience is something I'm used to.
On the other hand there is like 0 fun in collecting cars in Forza as you get one every 5 minutes. Today collected my last missing car in gt7 and took me 1140h on main account without grinding high paid races over and over again. Mostly getting money from golding weekly time trials (and of course finishing whole single player content). Thats probably too long but wouldn't change that, enjoyed the game.
I speak for myself, but the Forza system isn't fun either when you are constantly awarded cars left and right. It takes away the "value" of each car (so to speak), and I don't think it would work well in a Gran Turismo.
This is patently untrue and I wish people would stop rolling the line out.
I get what you're saying with Forza but ultimately, all the cars are digital and so can you really categorise them based on any "real" value? When I finally obtained a 20 million car in GT7, I wasn't particularly ecstatic. I was highly relieved, as if I'd been walking for hours in the scorching heat and found a 1l bottle of ice cold water to drink.
That one is because it was recycled from the GT6 edition of Beyond the Apex:
