Using GT Sophy to Grind Credits: 1.6m per hour?

[Akwaaba]

Using the custom race 'credit' glitch with my detuned Mazda Atenza 196.80pp to set up the races, and switching to the maxed out 578.33pp which is roughly tuned for circuits, I wondered how many credits each GT Sophy race would give.

Track	Payout	# Laps	Race Time	Fastest Lap	Credits	Credits / Min	Credits / Hour	Cr / Hr Rounded
Laguna Seca	68,300	3	4.52	1:34.257	102,450	22,666	1359956	1,400,000
Trial Mountain	62,300	3	6.31	2:07.310	93,450	14,810	888590	900,000
Grand Valley	87,900	3	6.22	2:03.964	131,850	21,198	1271865	1,300,000
Road Atlanta	66,800	3	4.41	1:31.481	100,200	22,721	1363265	1,400,000
Interlagos	74,100	3	5.24	1:45.408	111,150	21,212	1272710	1,300,000
Spa	104,600	3	8.03	2:39.499	156,900	19,539	1172354	1,200,000
Le Mans	189,400	3	13.52	4:36.320	284,100	21,013	1260799	1,300,000
Maggiore	98,200	3	6.47	2:12.833	147,300	22,767	1365997	1,400,000
Deep Forest	53,000	3	5.09	1:41.076	79,500	15,619	937132	1,000,000
Red Bull Ring	69,500	3	5.09	1:41.809	104,250	20,481	1228880	1,300,000
Brands Hatch	64,800	3	4.50	1:34.936	97,200	21,600	1296000	1,300,000
Dragons Trail	76,400	3	5.44	1:53.623	114,600	21,066	1263971	1,300,000
Mount Panorama	126,600	3	7.49	2:33.537	189,900	25,354	1521228	1,600,000
Tsukuba	57,800	4	4.05	0:59.955	86,700	21,407	1284444	1,300,000​
Suzuka	98,800	3	6.55	2:18.103	148,200	22,626	1357557​	1,400,000​

I am not even remotely a fast driver, and was cautious about gaining the CRB, and these were all one-and-done events. I didn't use nitrous, and the same tune and gearing for every event. I think that I could easily take 10 seconds of the Mount Panorama time, and probably much more as I was so slow on the first lap.


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[Zero2Oblivion]

While this is useful info for some, and Sophy can provide more engaging racing, if the end goal is credits against time invested, I'll stick to the La Sartha PP700 grind in the Red Bull Junior. With that race I get closer to 1.7mill (850k X2) for an hour's effort and only have to restart the race once.

Seems less tedious than restarting a race every 8 minutes to maximize potential credits against time invested.

 

[Jump_Ace]

AFK credit grinding is where its at. Not too difficult to setup and makes credit grinding, well, less grinding!


Jerome

 

[Akwaaba]

While this is useful info for some, and Sophy can provide more engaging racing, if the end goal is credits against time invested, I'll stick to the La Sartha PP700 grind in the Red Bull Junior. With that race I get closer to 1.7mill (850k X2) for an hour's effort and only have to restart the race once.

Seems less tedious than restarting a race every 8 minutes to maximize potential credits against time invested.

100% agree that Sophy provides engaging racing, I just wondered how using Sophy compared with the custom race credit grinding. I don't remember how much the Daytona custom race glitch pays out thesedays, but I expect some people are still exploiting that.

You are right about the highest payoff being the Le Sarthe700pp - but I am personally a bit bored with with this race. I rarely grind for credits, but I am willing to explore potential avenues where a few extra credits can be obtained differently.

AFK credit grinding is where its at. Not too difficult to setup and makes credit grinding, well, less grinding!


Jerome

To be honest, if grinding is required in a game, I personally feel that the game economy isn't quite right - but alas GT7 has been set up to encourage those who are likely, to purchase credits. To those who AFK credit grind - fair play to them - but it isn't for me.

 

[TheNormsk]

AFK credit grinding is where its at. Not too difficult to setup and makes credit grinding, well, less grinding!

Unfortunately my AFK got screwed with the 1.55 update. My Beat in detuned form now exceeds 300pp (the lowest I can get is 300.79) so I am no longer getting as much as I could (about 2/3ths pre update).

EDIT: Just found a setting that helped bring me back to sub 300.

 

[Jump_Ace]

To be honest, if grinding is required in a game, I personally feel that the game economy isn't quite right - but alas GT7 has been set up to encourage those who are likely, to purchase credits. To those who AFK credit grind - fair play to them - but it isn't for me.

I totally agree with you. The cars can cost whatever amount, I don't care. Traditionally, there's a few 'money races' that pay out generously and/or have a prize car that you can sell over and over to get mega money. That piece is missing unfortunately, to create rarity in the expensive cars is more or less what Kaz said a few years ago, IIRC.


Jerome