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

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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.

This was a real eye opener for me.

Shortly after the event started, maybe day two or three, not sure, the device I have been using for quite some time finally crashed once too often. Not related to the event, just a random crash. The device did not survive this particular crash.

Decided I wanted to try to complete the event so bought another device. Imagine that, no more crashes. I finally get to see this game from the point of view of people without constant problems. A downside is the game runs so much faster, I need to learn how to play all over again. The racing was much easier on my old device when I could get it to work.

Which more or less brings me to the Jaguar special event. I had to replay quite a few races during this event. Some of them more than five times. I believe this was due both to the difficulty of the races and my getting used to this new device and the major changes to the game because of it. So spent much more on fuel tickets than expected. Usually 180 gold gets me the fuel tickets I like to complete the event. I think it took around 900 gold this time. Not sure, but a lot.

Now the final race. Lately I haven't been buying blueprints during events, but I decided I wanted this car at stage 6, so bought 25 blueprints. All parts of the car were also at stage 6 except turbo which was at stage 5. PR for the final race was 774. That was at least 70 more than the idiot opponent cars, which were as described above, still rediculously faster. I tried the race twice and for the first and last time ever, spent gold to bypass the race.

Still don't know what to think about all this.