Re: What's the purpose of the chop shop?

Opening crates is the best way to get the parts and blueprints. If the crates give you back dollars for extra blueprints though, that money can't be used directly in the chop shop. You have to buy a part e.g Black Market and the conversion rate is low. I also seem to only get roughly the same 8 parts showing in the Black Market, no hyper parts. I have a couple of legendary items and loads of epic items in the chop shop but when I hit the salvage button at the bottom to scrap them and convert to currency, none are worth more than about 1300 tokens each. I have over 40 upgrade parts (some are x5 units each) in there from hundreds of races but the total value didn't come to 40k tokens, which isn't enough for a single Porche 911/991 BP.

The upgrade parts I win from the Tuner Trials but I get 1-2 parts per race. This conversion rate means I have to do nearly 100 Tuner Trial races to get a single blueprint or 2500 races to unlock one car and I can only do about 2 per day, sometimes 10 if it's all access.

I'm going to stick to opening the crates as that seems to be the best value way to get upgrades although it costs real money for the gold ones. I will also do more Blackridge races as that can give 5 gold crates. But again, there's too much grinding with those. It's 12*5=60 races for the first crates and then another 60 for the gold crates.

It's not even as if this setup encourages people to pay more money because gold can't be used in the chop shop. It just makes the game tedious to play through. If I could unlock more cars then I could race more and that would encourage spending more gold because I'd have more races and parts to unlock.

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@andrewr_origin wrote:

The conversion rate is 1-4%. Even at 4%, this means that 152k chop shop tokens for a single blueprint is equivalent to $3.8m in the black market. In other words, I have to sell $3.8m worth of components to afford a single mid-level blueprint when I can get those same blueprints in the black market for $70k. This makes the chop shop completely useless.

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@andrewr_origin Saying Kelly's Chop Shop is completely useless is an understatement.

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@GabeLogan100 wrote:

 I have maxed out a few cars and can 'Tune them' for a Blackridge rival race but once I have finished my Lambo Aventador and have all the BP's for the KOENIGSEGG then I suppose the chop shop will be pretty useless.

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@GabeLogan100 Kelly's Chop Shop will always be useful when there's always cars from Special Events that are waiting to be maxed out.

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@andrewr_origin wrote:

Opening crates is the best way to get the parts and blueprints. If the crates give you back dollars for extra blueprints though, that money can't be used directly in the chop shop. You have to buy a part e.g Black Market and the conversion rate is low. I also seem to only get roughly the same 8 parts showing in the Black Market, no hyper parts

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You don't know what you're talking about.

Buying performance parts from Kelly's Chop Shop is the best and most efficient way. You get the performance parts instantly after purchase and it saves you from farming materials in Tuner Trials weeks on end for a bit.

And if you do get extra blueprints for a car, then you get Scrap points that CAN be used in Kelly's Chop Shop.

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TheRealJony wrote:Buying performance parts from Kelly's Chop Shop is the best and most efficient way. You get the performance parts instantly after purchase and it saves you from farming materials in Tuner Trials weeks on end for a bit.
And if you do get extra blueprints for a car, then you get Scrap points that CAN be used in Kelly's Chop Shop.

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I can afford a couple of the performance parts but I can't see any higher than 3 stars in the Chop Shop, some of my cars already have 4-star parts. Plus, I can't figure out which upgrades work for which cars. I bought a 3-star street gearbox and it doesn't show up as an upgrade in all the vehicles with 2-star gearboxes.

That's good to know that extra blueprints give scrap points rather than dollars. The Black Market stops offering me blueprints once cars are fully upgraded so I'll either have to win them or get them in crates. If the blueprints give me enough scrap points then I will be able to afford other blueprints but using salvage is no good.

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@andrewr_origin wrote:

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TheRealJony wrote:Buying performance parts from Kelly's Chop Shop is the best and most efficient way. You get the performance parts instantly after purchase and it saves you from farming materials in Tuner Trials weeks on end for a bit.
And if you do get extra blueprints for a car, then you get Scrap points that CAN be used in Kelly's Chop Shop.

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I can afford a couple of the performance parts but I can't see any higher than 3 stars in the Chop Shop, some of my cars already have 4-star parts. Plus, I can't figure out which upgrades work for which cars. I bought a 3-star street gearbox and it doesn't show up as an upgrade in all the vehicles with 2-star gearboxes.

 

That's good to know that extra blueprints give scrap points rather than dollars. The Black Market stops offering me blueprints once cars are fully upgraded so I'll either have to win them or get them in crates. If the blueprints give me enough scrap points then I will be able to afford other blueprints but using salvage is no good.

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@andrewr_origin  That's because you're only viewing Street performance parts.

Click "Street" and then a drop-down menu will pop up. Then click whichever car class you want to purchase performance parts.

There are 6 car classes in No Limits, which are:

1. Street class

2. Classic Sports class

3. Muscle class

4. Sports class

5. Supercar class

6. Hypercar class

Only performance parts for one class will ONLY work for that class.

For example, a Hypercar performance part will work on a Hypercar but a Street performance part will NOT work on a Hypercar.

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TheRealJony wrote: 

@andrewr_origin  That's because you're only viewing Street performance parts.

Click "Street" and then a drop-down menu will pop up. Then click whichever car class you want to purchase performance parts.

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Ah, now I see the options. Ok so I was just looking at the cheapest ones. Hyper parts are over 300k each, is the blueprint method the fastest way to get scrap points? The salvage mode gives me hardly anything back for parts. I have some legendary parts in there and they only give me 1,390 on salvage and I get one per race in Tuner Trials so I'd need to do over 200 races there for one hyper upgrade. If the blueprint method is fastest, what's the most reliable way to get auto-scrapped blueprints, just opening crates and hoping to get ones for maxed cars?

Also, what's the fastest way to build up cash? I seem to get quite a lot in the BlackRidge races and they give out loads of crates but I don't want to grind through too many races if there's a better way.

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@andrewr_origin wrote:

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TheRealJony wrote: 

@andrewr_origin  That's because you're only viewing Street performance parts.

Click "Street" and then a drop-down menu will pop up. Then click whichever car class you want to purchase performance parts.

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Ah, now I see the options. Ok so I was just looking at the cheapest ones. Hyper parts are over 300k each, is the blueprint method the fastest way to get scrap points?

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@andrewr_origin Getting blueprints of cars that you already have all the blueprints is the fastest way to get Scrap points.

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@andrewr_origin wrote:

If the blueprint method is fastest, what's the most reliable way to get auto-scrapped blueprints, just opening crates and hoping to get ones for maxed cars?

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Yea, that is the fastest way.

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@andrewr_origin wrote:

Also, what's the fastest way to build up cash? I seem to get quite a lot in the BlackRidge races and they give out loads of crates but I don't want to grind through too many races if there's a better way.

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Do these if you want to get a lot of In-Game Cash:

1. Do 15 Blackridge Rivals races a day (You're already doing this)

2. Win Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday Tuner Trials races

3. Win Boss races on every chapter for a chance to win more In-Game Cash

4. Farm as many Event Credits and Prototype materials in Special Events for them to be converted to In-Game Cash at the end

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TheRealJony wrote:

Getting blueprints of cars that you already have all the blueprints is the fastest way to get Scrap points.

Do these if you want to get a lot of In-Game Cash:
1. Do 15 Blackridge Rivals races a day (You're already doing this)

2. Win Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday Tuner Trials races

3. Win Boss races on every chapter for a chance to win more In-Game Cash

4. Farm as many Event Credits and Prototype materials in Special Events for them to be converted to In-Game Cash at the end

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Thanks, now that my cars are upgraded a bit, I have been managing to complete the $50k Currency Trials on Sun, Tue, Thu and do 2x each time so $100k on the days they are unlocked. The all-access pass with VIP 4+ would allow these every day.

I got my first set of scrapped blueprints after maxing out my first few cars. I only got singles around 2k scrap points each but if I get multiples in a gold crate, that could be as much as 10k points in one go, which is higher than scrapping all my component upgrades.

I don't like the way they convert the Special Events. I was spending all my credits on upgrades for the car but I knew I'd never win it anyway because they set the limits too high. They don't give you anything for the car itself, just remaining credits and materials. That means it's better doing as few upgrades and hanging onto the parts and credits while the time runs out.

It would be nice to be able to scrap whole cars too. I never used the Toyota 86 and hardly ever use the lower Subaru or VW now. Some of them are used in the trials but they can always give me stock cars to use there and let me clean up my garage. I'd rather scrap the lower cars and get back e.g 100-500k scrap or cash to be able to buy BPs for higher-end cars.