blackridge rivals

Hi Team... well, I finally cracked it thanks to your advice....  Icon 4501 SP currently sitting in 108th position on the leader-board! Whoohooo

That said, I do think it was more a case of good luck, than good racing.

I woke up this morning and decided today was the day I was going to claim that gold icon, whatever it takes... and boy did it take a lot!

I started the day on about 4448 PR thinking I'd be past 4500 before I'd finished my first cuppa coffee. Wishful thinking! My first 5 races were a disaster, with the second race almost driving me to delete NFS-NL permanently, when my 1053 PR CCX was smoked by a LAMBO in what couldn't have been a more perfect run on my part. WTF?!? (could only have been a cheater, which is extremely annoying)

Anyway, I let off some steam in a symphony of expletives and got back to business, only to get thumped in the next few races and plummeted back down to a humble 4320. But, I stuck to my 'whatever it takes' guns and burnt through all my remaining gold (about 400) to sneak back past the 4400 mark again by midday. After a long break of hourly refills I finally started enjoying a bit more 'luck of the draw' along with a consistent string of races without making too many mistakes. By 11:30pm, it was mission accomplished.

However, the brief sense of personal 'victory' was quickly overshadowed by the foreboding feeling that my new 'Icon' status was more of a lucky 'slot machine' spin, than a well deserved win (if you get my meaning). Yes, a measure of skill is required to 'be in the game' but I strongly suspect this accounts for less than 50% of your actual progress and the bulk of progress is actually determined by how lucky you are with which opponents you draw in which events.

If we at least had the ability to choose which opponents we raced against (based upon SP ratings), a measure of strategy would be introduced to BRR. E.g. Choose an opponent with a lower SP, giving you a better chance of winning a few points and progressing slowly, coupled with the higher cost of losing against this opponent if you make a mistake, verses selecting an opponent with a higher SP, giving you the chance to progress faster if you win while losing fewer SP if you lose, although the risk of losing is much higher... so it's a trade-off decision we would each make as players, as opposed to having this decision made for us by the game.

I certainly look forward to seeing how BRR evolves after pre-season. Could be epic, could be a disaster. Time will tell.

55...lol! Gotta love it! Got the icon status since then though...watching some videos on Reddit and those maxed out CCX's are fast! I have the turbo and gearbox blacks parts left to install on my LaFerrari and I'll be maxed out around 1026-28 but the CCX is 1060 I believe...but all of this is supposedly changing when the update comes out! Go to Reddit ppl! Much more info!!!