Grinding = Car Value (esp. FGT)

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Really, I dislike having to suffer through grinding. However, I love that it's part of this game. The fact that the Formula GT costs so much, requires so much XP to reach the required level to purchase it, and that it is very rare in the used dealership makes it so much more valuable, imo. Right now I'm sitting on level 21, with about 2,500,000 cr. saved up and I'm aspiring to get the FGT. I'm pretty excited to hopefully finally get the car this week. I know it's a game, but this scenario makes the FGT a bit of a big deal to me, whereas if it were easy to acquire it would simply just be the fastest car on the game. It means more this way, imo, especially when it's a bit rare still among average gamers. I'm excited, even for all of the grinding and waiting you have to go through to get it.
 
If you like grinding away to get the FGT car, you're gonna love waiting for the damn thing to show up in the used car lot. LOL
 
JohnTheHater
If you like grinding away to get the FGT car, you're gonna love waiting for the damn thing to show up in the used car lot. LOL
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Yes, I do like that fact. Again, it adds more to the value. The car is more rare because of this. The average gamer isn't going to have it, and if you really want the car you have to make a substantial commitment. I'm cool with the wait, and honestly it's not a big deal once you reach 5,000,000 cr. You can just keep playing the other races, earning more credits, and just keep from spending yourself below the 5mil mark. That way when it finally does show up you're still able to snatch it up.
 
JohnTheHater
If you like grinding away to get the FGT car, you're gonna love waiting for the damn thing to show up in the used car lot. LOL
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Once I got the credits for it, it took about 10 minutes of cycling through the license tests and used dealership to find it.
 
I understand loving to work to achieve something in a game, but why not just create tons of events for people to play instead of having players run through the same events over and over. I just feel like there's not enough A-spec events...
 
coreyvf
I understand loving to work to achieve something in a game, but why not just create tons of events for people to play instead of having players run through the same events over and over. I just feel like there's not enough A-spec events...
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I totally agree with this. I realize I'm not addressing this side to the grinding. I really don't understand why there aren't more races. Doesn't make a lot of sense.
 
Its not really "rare." If you want it, you can get with about half a days work at Indy in the American Championship and about a half hour of menu surfing to get it to show up in the market. Its just the average gamer doesn't want to put such amount of work for 1 car.
 
making races is not that hard, pick a few tracks, car types, laps, done, they could have easily had a Honda race, Lexus only, Benz Meet, Benz 300hp limit meet, Ford Pre 1980 MUscle car bonanza 10 laps on SSr5, the Maclaren F1 Fest where you win 5 cars instead of a Vitz..............................................

really, they need to hire some people that can put thought into races, because clearly everyone was just modelling and sitting on their hands.

just my thoughts
 
I agree with the OP the difficulty of achieving the purchase of said car shouldn't be easy nor should any really nice car. I enjoy the added emotion that gets tied into the purchase this way as it is something more meaningful then if it was gained easily.
 
All that buildup is deflated when you actually attempt the championship. Theres 6 20 lap races with no option to save in between so make sure you have about 3 hours to devote, plus the FGTs are fickle beasts that either violently spin when braking in anything other than a straight line, or once you tune them tend to roast the tire coming out of a turn instead. The grand finale, though, has to be the "AI" and I use that term loosely. Punting online from dumb humans is bad enough but to get it at high speeds where an accident that isnt your fault cant be corrected because restart is absent during championships, total joke. Im honestly thinking of telling the championship "i submit you win" and putting my FGT up on the market for a stupid amount of top end machinery.
 
It's keeping me from using it online. I don't see what's so good about it. PD just needs to split the game into two parts.
 
OP: I completely disagree with you.

This game isn't an RPG. It shouldn't require hours upon hours of grinding to do a race which to be honest I don't see it as much of a challenge. The FGTs in GT4 were fun, but having them accessible was no detriment to their fun.

The scaling and number of events is to be honest pathetic. If you do all of the races in all of the events that should be enough for you to do the FGT. But no. You have to grind and grind and grind. And even worse you could be done grinding and then have to be lucky enough for the FGT to turn up. So then you have to grind through days.

The fact that they threw away A-spec points and brought us a very poor levelling system really show how out of touch PD are with reality.

Don't get me started on the poor selection of tracks during the events. Cote d' Azure appears what, once? Gimmie a break.
 
xNEVER-ONEx
Its not really "rare."... Its just the average gamer doesn't want to put such amount of work for 1 car.
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That's what I mean by "rare". You won't see every gamer with it online, although it is the fastest car on the game.



Also, I clearly said in the OP that I don't like grinding. I'm just saying that I like that it makes you appreciate what you earn in the game more.
 
I'd appreciate it if it turned up only after you'd completed every other event. That would be enough. But no. They went with the stupid "everyone who plays this game can devote 90% of their life to it" approach.
 
SS_1182
That's what I mean by "rare". You won't see every gamer with it online, although it is the fastest car on the game.



Also, I clearly said in the OP that I don't like grinding. I'm just saying that I like that it makes you appreciate what you earn in the game more.
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Well, if you want it, its pretty achievable for everybody. But that the thing, you have to want it. All it takes is enough time wasting. If it was rare, it would require maybe actually having a skill set. Like in real life, getting a rare car is not that easy as you have to have the finances (which is much more difficult to get compared to GT5), and the contacts to be able to pull it off. Now if the FGT was maybe a prize car for a extremely tough series, then its rare, because then it would be truely desirable.
 
We just need the old pikes peak car than you can ramp up the hp on till it is like 1200 or so then get a rubber band and penny and setup that endurance on the speed track and just let the thing ride the rails for an hour or two and collect a million.

All gts have had a certain amount of grind to afford cars, it is nothing new just in the older GTs we had bigger payouts and little glitchy ways to gain cash easy.

I do not think it would be a bad idea tho to up the cash reward for the endurance races cause lets face it the payout is stupidly low for the time invested in any of them even tho the xp is through the roof, but then i think the xp system is just plain stupid as all get out and the cash rewards should pay out droves if i am going to sit for 4 hours doing 1:01 -1:03 laps over and over and over and over.......bad enough that our b-sec guys get half the payout we get but the payout is junk to begin with and cars cost money to fix up when you are running them hour after hour for endurance races.
 
meeekael
OP: I completely disagree with you.

This game isn't an RPG. It shouldn't require hours upon hours of grinding to do a race which to be honest I don't see it as much of a challenge. The FGTs in GT4 were fun, but having them accessible was no detriment to their fun.

The scaling and number of events is to be honest pathetic. If you do all of the races in all of the events that should be enough for you to do the FGT. But no. You have to grind and grind and grind. And even worse you could be done grinding and then have to be lucky enough for the FGT to turn up. So then you have to grind through days.

The fact that they threw away A-spec points and brought us a very poor levelling system really show how out of touch PD are with reality.

Don't get me started on the poor selection of tracks during the events. Cote d' Azure appears what, once? Gimmie a break.
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Totally agree with this.

It's ridiculous what BS the game puts you through, but yet I still want to keep playing anyway. I guess that's just the GT fan in me. But yeah, because of the crap you have to put up with described above, I'm through with A-Spec. I'm just grinding for money so I can get my favorite cars to drive in time trails and online. I'll deal with A-Spec once we can earn credits and xp online.
 
Would've been much more awesome if the car was Premium...

Can't stand how they make you go through such huge hassles for many cars which are just standard poor models. The lack of cockpit view is really what devalues most cars for me personally. Getting the FGT is more of a matter of luck/dealership cycling.

Anyways, its been said over and over again at how broken the leveling/car system is in GT5, hoping PD will do somethin about it. I'm glad I put more time into B-Spec: I have the game running on an Endurance Race now. I seriously wouldn't be able to do some of those long ass races or repetitive grind, especially on those occasions where i have to step away from the ps3.

Bob does most of my leveling now......working towards that X1! Though I guess "working" isn't the right word for it when its just leaving the ps3 on and afk'ing :z
 
Technically, you shouldn't need to grind too much to get to at least level 25 and have 5 mil in the bank. I bought some cars during my A-spec, got my single b-spec Bob to level 16, got a mixture of silver and golds on the special events, and am just about to hit the 5 mil mark, and level 25. I had to do maybe 1/2 hour to an hour of grinding to get to level 24 to open the last event, but once I did, that one event, plus the last Mercedes event is a significant boost to your level and cash.

Once I've finally gotten the FGT and completed that event, then I can move on to collecting some cars and doing some casual races. I won't be striving to hit the higher levels any time soon.
 
Well, if you want to have a laugh, I just spent 2,000,000 of my 2,750,000 on a Veyron that came up in the used dealership. I figured this will help get me to the higher levels faster. I've been running with a McLaren MP4 forever now which is finally starting not to cut it against the fast cats.
 
SS_1182
Well, if you want to have a laugh, I just spent 2,000,000 of my 2,750,000 on a Veyron that came up in the used dealership. I figured this will help get me to the higher levels faster. I've been running with a McLaren MP4 forever now which is finally starting not to cut it against the fast cats.
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You know you get a veyron free......brand new one to dont even have to fix it up. And veyron itself is only good for a handful of races.......
 
Hate to say it, but I think you just wasted 2 million...

1) You win the Veyron on one of the events, and so don't need to buy it used
2) While the Veyron is fast in a straight line, there are cars that are overall better, for less. The McLaren will probably do just as nice a job. A fully tuned Corvette RM can handle most the competition, including a Veyron, and costs less than half.
 
Yeah, but I can't stand B-Spec. Maybe after I've finished everything else I'll go back. Not now though. Once I unlock the 500 getting the 2mil back won't be that big of a deal.
 

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