Level 32-35

[Rich S]

I've always wondered if someone at PD actually played through the whole game doing A-Spec and B-Spec events trying to reach level 40.

No way....They didnt even play the actual game at all bro. They get versions where 500-1000 cars are already in their garage and they can enter any race with them.

Like the guy from Top Gear said, he gets the game shipped to him with it already completed.

 

[SuperShouden]

Yeah, I thought the 4 Hours of Nurburgring was lvl 32. the Tsukuba 9 Hour is lvl 33 followed by the 24 hours of LeMans at 35 and 24 Hours of Nurburgring at lvl 40.

 

[RikkiGT-R]

I'll never do the 24hr Nürburgring endurance, not if I have to grind my way to level 40 like a robot with nothing better to do in life.
But, on the positive side, why would I want to? I can go to Nürburgring and drive for as long as I want, any time I want, in any car I want. I see no incentive to get to level 40.

 

[Mygroth]

Isn't this easy to fix with a minor update? I heard Kaz is sometimes answering unpatient clients at Twitter, well I hate Twitter but wouldn't this subject be the first one that's actually important to all of us on GTP? I'd love to see someone spam him asking for a solution against grinding.

 

[II IVORBIGUN II]

Im currently level 35 A Spec, 27 B Spec with only the 9/24hr endurance left in A Spec and all the endurance left in B Spec. However im not even going to bother attempting these unless we see an update that allows us to save when pitting.

Like I said in another thread PD spent two years developing some of the tracks but it looks like 2 mins developing A Spec, B Spec. This to me was poorly designed, rushed, wasn't properly tested. Call me paranoid but could the reason why we can't save during endurances is Sony hoping to increase sales due to PS3 consoles blowing up. Surely common sense would of told PD that its impossible to expect gamers to leave their PS3 consoles on for over 24hrs. What about a typical gamer who is married and has full time employment and only plays an average of 2hrs per day. This means to complete a 24hr endurance will require there PS3 to be on for 12 days!

I love the GT5 physics, graphics, but the rest of the game is a total shambles which is why many have already abandoned GT5. I can see the sales of GT6 being much lower after this farce!

 

[samdu]

It's crazy some of the EXP awards though what do you get from grinding the same track over and over again nothing but a bad experience?

Also the difference in the licence test exp from Silver to Gold is so small it is hardly worth going for gold unless your after the car at the end of it. A difference of 406 from silver to gold on all the super licence tests = pah

I wasn't aware that anyone tried for gold on the license tests for the EXP points.

 

[samdu]

My electricity bill is usally $71 a month and thats with 3 kids

I haven't sniffed anything as low as $71 for an electric bill in over ten years. What're ya - Amish?

 

[Stephen220378]

Yes, it's around 8 or 9 times. What I do is let B-spec Bob drive through the night when I'm sleeping.

 

[Greycap]

(All following is A-Spec)

I was at level 35 before I even did my first Tsukuba 9h. Of the endurances I've done GVS300 once, Roadster 4h once, Laguna Seca 200 once, Indy 500 twice, Suzuka 1000km not at all, Nürburgring 4h once, Tsukuba 9h once. Now at level ~35.5 and I haven't even grinded that much, the American Championship barely gives any noticable XP so it hardly counts as XP grinding.

I'd say this game doesn't take half as much grinding as many people make it sound - the trick is to win everything, gold everything. The faster you drive the less you have to work. Also, if something takes too much work... don't do it. I wonder why people have a serious obsession to win every race in GT while they'd happily muddle through an FPS on the easiest level and leave it at that without even considering going all the way to the grande finale on the insanely hard difficulty because it takes such an amount of work.

 

[II IVORBIGUN II]

(All following is A-Spec)

I was at level 35 before I even did my first Tsukuba 9h. Of the endurances I've done GVS300 once, Roadster 4h once, Laguna Seca 200 once, Indy 500 twice, Suzuka 1000km not at all, Nürburgring 4h once, Tsukuba 9h once. Now at level ~35.5 and I haven't even grinded that much, the American Championship barely gives any noticable XP so it hardly counts as XP grinding.

I.

Yes im at 35 without doing any of the 9hr/24hr. However what helped me get from 30-35 easily is getting gold on the Vettel challenge. However what about the poor devils who do not own a wheel and cannot get gold on the Vettel challenge. Now considering the huge amount of xp you get from this challenge thats alot of grinding for those DS3 owners.

 

[Zoom!Zoom!]

Continue trying to get gold on the Vettel Challenge will be the same as grinding to 99.9% of people. You doing the same event with the same car over and over again.
Honestly I really don't care to spend a lot of time on this challenge as I rather races with "real" cars and not a car that drive like something from Wipeout.

 

[vaneyk]

Yeah I really don't know why they designed the leveling system like they did. At the end, it's more of a chore than anything.

No kidding. I really hope PD has something planned to get XP jumps. Seems like the Seasonal events are ramping up on XP.

 

[bigjoe]

If I haven't lost count I've run the 9 hr race 23 times to get from 35 to almost 38. Other than wear and tear on the console it not a big deal. I start one before I go to bed. Start another in the morning before work. About 1.3M XP a day. And I still have some Aspec time in the evening.

 

[venth85]

just another 2x 24lemans to lv.40, after that, gonna take a break from GT5 for abit

 

[infintewisdom]

my theory is that PD where just trying to 'fit' 9 events on one page e.g. extreme endurance or whatever.

Although I personally like the layout, with a little picture of some cars racing or a race driver, I think that they should have a page 2 and page 3 at least in extreme series.

Also more events (or even the same events - american muscle or whatever with different tracks, conitions - default settings e.g start on half fuel or worn tires or damged car) will give players a good opportunity to use the cars, that might have been ignored before.