LeGeNd-1
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Just out of curiosity, I totalled how many hours I've spent grinding in GTS. Daily marathon never gave me anything more expensive than the Veneno, so I had to buy all the expensive cars manually. Thankfully GT League keeps a record of the number of races won so this makes it easier. The race time are from memory so they might be off a bit, but for this purpose it's good enough.
Premium Lounge BMB = 275 wins x 12.5 mins = 3437.5 mins
Nostalgic Sarthe = 165 wins x 7 mins = 1155 mins
X2014 Sarthe = 60 wins x 9 mins = 540 mins
Total = 5132.5 mins = 85.5 hours or just over 3.5 days of continuous driving
The scary thing is, that number could be much higher if I didn't take advantage of the Nordschleife pitlane bug before that got patched. I bought all the cars in the vanilla game (before January 2018 update) this way so that saved me many hours. Of course, if I had known the Lewis DLC is coming I wouldn't have needed to grind so much back then but it is what it is.
I don't know about some people here, but spending 80+ hours repeating the same race again and again is just not good gameplay, no matter how you try to spin it. I have 150 hours in Assetto Corsa according to Steam, and NONE of that is spent doing career race or grinding. It's all just pure having fun trying out cars and track mods. Now that is quality gameplay. Pretty much the whole first year of me playing GTS is basically just grinding grinding grinding. I didn't even get to do any Sport mode until the second year - which is supposed to be the main draw of the game. How dumb is that? A lot of people who don't have as much free time or patience as I do would give up long before that, and I would totally understand.
I don't think the "expensive" cars should be handed out on a plate, but there is such a thing as too much grinding, to the point that it ruins the reward:effort ratio. Older GTs were reasonable in this regard due to the various ways of earning money quickly (see my post on first page), but I think GTS just falls on the wrong side of that. GT7 just need to make it more balanced and we're good 👍
Premium Lounge BMB = 275 wins x 12.5 mins = 3437.5 mins
Nostalgic Sarthe = 165 wins x 7 mins = 1155 mins
X2014 Sarthe = 60 wins x 9 mins = 540 mins
Total = 5132.5 mins = 85.5 hours or just over 3.5 days of continuous driving
The scary thing is, that number could be much higher if I didn't take advantage of the Nordschleife pitlane bug before that got patched. I bought all the cars in the vanilla game (before January 2018 update) this way so that saved me many hours. Of course, if I had known the Lewis DLC is coming I wouldn't have needed to grind so much back then but it is what it is.
I don't know about some people here, but spending 80+ hours repeating the same race again and again is just not good gameplay, no matter how you try to spin it. I have 150 hours in Assetto Corsa according to Steam, and NONE of that is spent doing career race or grinding. It's all just pure having fun trying out cars and track mods. Now that is quality gameplay. Pretty much the whole first year of me playing GTS is basically just grinding grinding grinding. I didn't even get to do any Sport mode until the second year - which is supposed to be the main draw of the game. How dumb is that? A lot of people who don't have as much free time or patience as I do would give up long before that, and I would totally understand.
I don't think the "expensive" cars should be handed out on a plate, but there is such a thing as too much grinding, to the point that it ruins the reward:effort ratio. Older GTs were reasonable in this regard due to the various ways of earning money quickly (see my post on first page), but I think GTS just falls on the wrong side of that. GT7 just need to make it more balanced and we're good 👍