Proving Grounds (Jaguar XE SV Project 8) special event thread

Most of the events wind up being very doable without spending any gold/hard currency at all.  Yes, the final day is 17 races, but you're ignoring that you should have built up your ticket level to max before the day begins (this varies, of course, depending on if you've spent any money and have any VIP level in the game).  Say you have a max total of 5, this means you'll be able to run through 5 events, and then over the course of 12 hours (out of the 24 hour period) you'll gradually replenish the tickets needed to complete the event.

That said, this event has some other massive difficulty issues that I'll be posting in a different thread that has made it basically impossible to do without spending gold on, and that is a change of pace, and not a good one.

After spending the gold to just skip the final race in the event and spending some time digging through the NFSNL subreddit, it became very clear that this was not just myself that experienced this issue.  I am far from the best player of this game in the world, but far from the worst as well.  I have been able to complete most events without feeling the need to spend gold on them unless I wanted to accelerate moving the car to a higher stage over the course of the event, rather than waiting for blueprints to come available in replayable races later.  This event has been a massive exception, and primarily focused around one area: the final race.

If you get the exact right combination of layouts for nitro zones in conjunction with the static ramps, it is theoretically possible to win this event, as can be seen in the linked YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tSbDXjpZBE), however the nitro zones are completely randomly generated on the track, and it is more likely than not that you will not have the right combination of zones near the beginning of the course to allow you to overtake the AI vehicles.

The real problem here is that the AI vehicles' behavior does not line up with their listed car PR values.  You can see that they accelerate away from the player at the beginning of the race at a rate that far exceeds what they should be capable of doing, even with a perfect launch and immediately activating a nitro boost.  Granted you are dealing with acceleration heavy cars like the Ferrari 458 and Lamborghini Murcielago, but even taking that into account, they are clearly operating at an abnormally boosted rate, even worse than the 458 boss race which is also a notably difficult acceleration race.

This event was not tuned well, and the final race behavior is exceptionally out of line with where it should have been. Hopefully this is not a sign of things to come for the future of this game, because I greatly enjoy this game overall, but this event made me want to throw my phone out the window in frustration, and that is not a thing that tends to happen for me.  I would suggest taking a look at the NFSNL subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/nfsnolimits/) to get input from the rest of the player community as well, because I am clearly just one voice here, but this event was poorly executed, and insulting to your player base.

Among the Russians, too, many are dissatisfied with this event, and this season.
But especially for the Jaguar XE.

Perhaps no one will pay attention to the claim from Russia, but many are dissatisfied.

@phil3819 Made your thread the ultimate thread for Proving Grounds (Jaguar XE SV Project 8) special event.

@e_SonOfAnder, @Badhor174, and @GabyMk1 Merged your posts into this thread.

@GabyMk1 Please keep the font size to the appropriate font size. It makes it easy on the eyes. 

Thank you.

Now here is what I thought of the last race of Proving Grounds (Jaguar XE SV Project 8) special event.

I'll be lying if I said the last race is actually easy. (I still stand by the two notorious hunter races from Nissan 180SX Type X Fastlane special event as easy races)

Since I'm a free player, I'm forced to spend a lot more time playing the game than people that invested real money into the game. So getting stuff from Pro store and upgrading my car wasn't a big issue for me.

However, the last race of the special event was incredibly difficult.

The AIs cheat. It's blatantly obvious that the AIs are cheating in that race. Whoever says otherwise is either blind as a bat or high as a kite. 

There is NO friggin way a Ferrari 458 Italia or Lamborghini Diablo SV could accelerate just as quick as a Hyper car like a Ferrari LaFerrari.

I had no issues with the requirements to complete the last race. I only had a problem with the cheating AIs.

However, the cheating AIs are still beatable. It took me 11 tries (11 tickets), but I managed to win the insanely difficult race. Spent 180 Gold to win that race.

It's not impossible, but it's very improbable.

So whoever failed to win the Jag, I feel ya.

So tell me, how in the holy hell do you manage to gather nearly 7000 gold? The most I've ever had is around 60 and have had to use it just to level up in the normal game, never mind the special events.

That's about how much gold I have too.  Just play and don't spend any gold for a year. You can earn about 500 gold a month through daily tasks, Car Series and SE's.  That's 6000 right there.

And yes this SE was designed to force players like me to spend gold on the last race, with rare exception.  Gold does not HAVE to cost real cash.  I can be earned freely within the game. No one can justifiably say they were forced to spend real cash on this game to get something.  It's just all a matter of time.

@TheRealJony 11 tickets for the last race, i gave up after the fifth attempt and just paid the 150 gold to skip it, i was generally raging about this event anyway but that last race was just crazy, i even succumbed to buying 2 legendary parts from the pro store and with the other 4 parts at epic 5 star i was nowhere near being able to win that last race and that was with 742pr! props go out to you for managing it with only 721pr

I tuned my Jaguar to 721 and after about 5 or 6 attempts in last race, gave up - had to spent 150 gold for a first, and I'm hope last, time, for SE.

I'm also hope EA will draw conclusions and never ever do the buggy SE again.