What's the purpose of the chop shop?
I haven't been able to buy anything from it because the item conversion rate is so low. I bought an upgrade from the black market for $12500. I realised that it didn't upgrade anything so I went to r...
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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.
@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.
@andrewr_origin Saying Kelly's Chop Shop is completely useless is an understatement.
@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.
@GabeLogan100 Kelly's Chop Shop will always be useful when there's always cars from Special Events that are waiting to be maxed out.
@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
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.
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.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.
@andrewr_origin wrote:
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.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.
@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.
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.
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.
