Why exactly are you grinding?

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I’m sure all the discussion in countless threads about what a grind GT7 is hasn’t escaped anyone and I thought I would like to hear from others who are also grinding (on the Ranch for example) why exactly you are doing it?

For me personally I can easily admit that I’ve been doing it because I’m on a quest to try and be the first (or one of the first) to snatch the platinum trophy. Like several others I’m at 97% and only missing the Three Legendary Cars trophy for which a lot of credits most likely will be needed.

If I hadn’t been so focused on the challenge mentioned above I would’ve probably taken a more relaxed approach to the game while also doing a little bit of grinding (42 kms of the Ranch per day or every other day for example) as it’s nice to have a decent amount of credits to be ready and prepared. But nowhere near the level I’ve been gridning so far. Currently have acquired 45,1M Cr and sitting with 19,2M right now.

So, to all others here who are gridning, why exactly are you doing it? Same reason as me? Something similar? Anything else? Why are you taking the approach you are taking? Heavy intense grind? Easy laidback driving and racing whatever you like? Please feel free to share.
 
For me it's just being able to buy all the cars I want (most of which are not the 20m credit type) - being able to upgrade them fully so I can then tune them appropriately to different PP Sport mode races. This includes race cars as well which will be more appropriate for Sport mode as the online aspect improves in scope over time (PP being fixed / track limits fixed).

Trophies are completely unimportant to me personally.

I have golded all menu's / post menu races - golded all licenses and missions (so the "traditional" GT points of progress for many are now finished for me). Expert difficulty is not tricky enough - maybe in a future update they have an option to wipe progress in GT Mode and have a harder difficulty.

Without any longer endurance races the single player is effectively dead to me at this point so grinding is just towards ownership of vehicles which I will predominantly use on Sport mode or Lobbies as mentioned above.

Salute to your commitment and patience with the game to get that credit amount and be at near 100% so quickly.
 
I don't grind and don't intend to. I don't intend to collect all the cars either. But I would like for example to get the Porsche 919, to try it on the Nürburgring as I am challenged by a buddy with this track/car combo. As of now it would eat most of what's left of my earnings so I wait a bit.

Other than that I'd love to find some GR3 GR4 and be able to tune them for online racing, and tuning is really costly.

That's why I would love more events where we can get some good credits, even if they are long championships with many events, I am ok with that.
 
Buying cars and tuning them can get quite expensive. If I were to say buy 3 cars I want and modify them, I'd probably blow all the credits I have so far. I don't want to grind, but it was the quickest and easiest way to get enough money to repeat what I've done with a set of new cars. Also helps when I hop online with friends and we want to race with a whole variety of cars.
 
If there were more varied events that granted higher payouts, I wouldn't bother grinding the same event over and over. But honestly, I don't bother myself that much over credit grinds right now, I'm still going through the menubooks and license tests.
 
I just like to be able to drive different cars. It's really as simple as that. I'm not a collector in the sense that I need to check off boxes, but I would like to be able to have a variety of cars that I could have fun with. Really just that simple.
 
I did that for the exact same reasonm, though it's auto grind via remote play and scripts so didn't take much time. I imagine it's usually one of the followings; a) to acquire the Three Legendary Cars trophy as soon as possible, b) have a list of cars they must get for some reasons and want to be prepared when it's released, c) want to collect all cars for some reason, d) want to maintain sizable balance in order to buy/try new daily race meta cars as soon as possible.
 
I'm going to get lambasted for this, but I actually find Fisherman's with a stock Focus Gr.B and a DS5 to be really fun. Helps me practice how to slide a car. I know it's nowhere near realistic, but I've never gotten how to drift in GT before, so this is a first for me.

I'm grinding for cash to buy pretty cars so I can customise and take photos of them. Maybe if one day the RWD physics get fixed, I might actually drive some of them.
 
I don't
They told me it's a sp game, I only play single player, now I'm done and there is nothing to play this game for until new races added, which is unknown when, i got every car for each event, no point to grind, other than buy overpriced relics and place them in the garage for maybe there ever will be an actual events for them, which I doubt, only relevant cars to me are gr1, 2, 3 and 4,everything else is a part of the museum and I really don't like museums much in video games
 
I only play online. This schizophrenic approach to the game is a mess. Shoehorning single player mechanics into online dailies means I have to grind boring races I’ve no interest in to able to buy cars to race online. They could of course pay more than 10k credits a race online but nope.
 
Think I’m at $5 mil credits but that’s mainly over time, not a specific grind.

If I were to grind, maybe the various Gr3 events. Gotta put miles on the Ford GT LMGTE.
 
I am not grinding. If I want to earn a bit of credits, I play the gr3 championship. Which I actually like, so that's 450 K credits if I need them.
 
Because the game is built around collecting cars, some of those cars are priced at very extreme prices, so the only way to buy them is to find events that pay the most per minute and do them over and over again until you can obtain enough credits to buy them.
 
I was grinding to get more cars to try them out in different types of races.

Turns out there are no races to try them out in as races, it will just be obstacle courses (queues). So what's the point? I don't think I will bother with this game any more until we get some new modes like seasonal races or something like that where you actually race some more interesting cars.
 
Well, I was grinding because as a "reward" I was given two week invitations to buy expensive cars from Aston Martin & Ferrari. I had about $200k when the invite to buy the One-77 ($1.3 million) and the Vulcan ($3.3 million) and even less when invited to buy the LaFerrari ($1.6 million?) Enzo ($2.5 million) and FXX ($3.6 million?). So, two weeks to earn something like $12.5 million credits before I had even completed the game? And I can't really stand grinding, so I could force myself to do Fisherman for about an hour and earn about a million in that time (because getting clean wins on dirt is not easy for me) and I was making headway. But now I won't bother. And maybe I won't bother with the game at all. I went out and bought a Playstation for the first time in years because I was excited for a supposed return to form, hadn't played a GT game since 4. Well, Kaz, you got me good.
 
I'm not grinding yet. Some café owner is telling me he wants me to do stuff and then he'll give me goodies. But when he finally gets tired of me, I'll be doing the funner races so I can buy sports and supercars, race tune them to various racing specs, slap liveries on them, take photos of them, and race them. And take pics from the replays.
 
Well, certain people have a lifestyle built around being good at Gran Turismo, and they need to figure out which Group 4 and Group 3 cars are the best.

Those are the only people I can rationally explain "why are they grinding" this software.
 
I'm not playing the game at the moment (nor any game, most days) because i simply don't have time to game these days, but if i did find time to play it i most certainly wouldn't keep doing the same race over and over again as i've never been a fan of repetitive grinding in any game. I'd most likely just be doing what i did in GT Sport, do my daily 40 km's by doing solo runs around tracks testing out the cars i have, and if i still had time i might try muck around with custom races for a wee bit.

But because the payouts in all the races are so low in GT7 when compared to Sport, the end result of that is that i'm not modifying anywhere near as many of my garage cars as i want to, as i would quickly run out of credits. I basically think seriously about whether i want to spend credits on modifying or buying a car, incase i need the money for a 'rainy day'. :(

It's so annoying not having decent money to be able to just modify whatever i want like i've done in every single other GT game, because of the fact the payouts are so low and because i don't have much time to dedicate to gaming at the moment (with a nearly two month old son, a million tasks to do around the house/section, and work).

The time i do get to play games these days, i'm actually more enticed to play anything but Gran Turismo (for various reasons) which is an unusual feeling so soon after the launch of a major GT title. I plan to just be keeping an eye on updates for the game, and when something gets changed/fixed/added/improved that garners my interest enough, i'll likely fire it back up.

When i get time. :boggled: :lol:
 

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