Need advice on spending gold when just starting

Hi,
Just downloaded the game and playing on Android in case that makes a difference.
I tried searching and found a general thread on gold but when you are starting out, you make progress quicker spending gold in places you wouldn't later in the game, so my question is, where will I get the best results spending my gold?
I am figuring chests are not the place due to the fact you get a good amount of trash mixed in with some goodies.

richieluv76
8 years ago
@Game_Of_Races i agree with @yud111, dont spend your gold, use it in special events (although i dont like skipping races) as you may be able to get a car that you can use in campaign mode that will save you a lot of grinding, but be warned though, special event cars are linked to your rep level so you may not be able to use them, this happened to me when i first started playing, the first special event i entered was the lamborgini academia to win the huracan, but it was locked until rep level 60, by the time i reached level 60 i'd gotten my mustang to a higher pr than what my huracan was

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Anonymous
8 years ago
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Spending gold for the crates does not always yield great results. For example, I use gold for tuning racing to have more legendary spare parts. Or in bundles that occasionally appear.
yud111
8 years ago
My advice: don't spend your gold early in the game. Save as much as you can and use it in special events to win (or skip...) races which require higher skills than what you have.

Early in the game it's easy to build parts as you don't need many components for each part. Nor do you need expensive components. All you need is a lot of patience...
richieluv76
8 years ago
@Game_Of_Races i agree with @yud111, dont spend your gold, use it in special events (although i dont like skipping races) as you may be able to get a car that you can use in campaign mode that will save you a lot of grinding, but be warned though, special event cars are linked to your rep level so you may not be able to use them, this happened to me when i first started playing, the first special event i entered was the lamborgini academia to win the huracan, but it was locked until rep level 60, by the time i reached level 60 i'd gotten my mustang to a higher pr than what my huracan was
Anonymous
8 years ago
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The first thing I did was spend gold in the Black Market on the Viper (250 gold for 5 blueprints, it switches to $350k sometimes). This allowed me to win a lot of races as the base PR is 648.
I would recommend the gold crates over anything besides the Viper though. You do get some useless crates but you have to think about the best return for your spend.
The Special Events are a waste of time, they make them far too hard to complete in the time limit so you would just be wasting money. I stopped playing them altogether. I was just playing for currency at one point but you get more from the Tuner Trial currency event (the Viper is used for the highest one).
The best value gold purchase option is the monthly one as you get 50 gold for 30 days for £5. This is 1500 gold, which costs far more as a one-off purchase. This is enough to buy 16 gold crates. Even if just half of the crates are blueprints, they have 4-5 blueprints each so you are getting about 30-40 blueprints.
Each car needs about 20 blueprints for each stage at the beginning so it's a long grind to unlock them. I bought 5 months of gold for £25 plus a one-off £10 gold option, which had a bonus amount. This gave me somewhere over 8000 gold. I unlocked the Viper with the first 1000-1250 gold then just used it on crates (about 75 crates).
The game is designed to slow down your upgrades as much as possible so that you will be frustrated enough you will want to open your wallet for sweet relief.
One thing I neglected to begin with was Blackridge races because I thought you had to win them all but you get the rewards even when you lose races. They give out 15 gold crates there every month and the game gives out a free gold crate every 48 hours so those are good for 30 crates every month (2700 gold equivalent). You get some gold from the achievements too, some have 220 gold for a certain number of races.
A faster way to go could be to get a car upgrade pack in the store just as long as you get the right car. If you can buy a really high PR car pack (800PR or more), that alone would let you unlock the first 15 chapters of the campaign.
My recommendation would be Viper plus gold crates, with Blackridge and currency trials but ignore Special Events.
Anonymous
8 years ago
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I forgot to mention race skips are good to have. I didn't know what they were for originally but when you are upgrading parts, they mean you don't have to replay the race to win the part. If you can manage to get to VIP level 4, they give out 5 race skips every day and you can get them in Black Market and daily tasks.
This makes it really easy to get parts. You would go into your garage, choose the part you want to upgrade, tap to see which race replay gives the part as a reward and instead of doing the boring race all over again, just hit race skip and it jumps right to the reward. You still have to choose one out of 3 random rewards so you might not get the part you want but it saves a lot of time.
Each race is maybe a minute or so long. Some upgrades need a dozen parts and the random reward means replaying often. You cut the time down from tens of minutes every day to just a few seconds.