Not really. Habakuk told me he progressed through Season 8 WITHOUT any grinding. Damn man, you should be superman to do that.
Nope. Did first playthrough to 900 stars with no iap. Or grinding. Its not grinding if you can do a race again and take a completely different route on the exact same course. It just becomes a different race. Just because one has to buy cars wisely to finish it doesn't mean its iap heavy. There's plenty of posts on this thread with list of cars that are the best to aim for and they are not the most expensive in class. Just don't buy every single car you come across, they are not all needed.
Well instead of saving up for buying a super high tier car, you could've analyzed which races you had in which seasons you've unlocked and make the right purchase then >_>
Depends on what you understand for grinding. You can play against ghosts or even online, lose many times and win money even losing. Sure, you're grinding, but it's not a "suffer-grinding", you're just enjoying the game by racing over and over, and getting coins in the process. In a few words: if you like the game, you won't feel the races as grinding, you'll just enjoy the races and get money to buy new cars and upgrades. If you don't have too much time, you can help yourself with car packs. Just weigh your available time VS car pack prices, and buy the one(s) which suit you best, or don't buy any and expect racing many times to achieve the money you need.
For the sake of curiousity, where are you in the game? How many stars, seasons unlocked, cars? How many seasons completed to 100%? Have you upgraded any cars fully, and if so how many?
They could atleast have gave you a full map of each track... so you could analyze it before the race.
The most I've seen on a grind is 3300 in season 7. Lambo vs Ferrari. Anyone know a better race? 200,000 to go...
I do enjoy replaying the races, especially Barcelona where I get first place easily with a B class (1st mission of season 3) but it's gets tedious after a while. The problem I see here is not just grinding but how unrewarding it can get. I enjoy grinding if there is a proper reward at the end, like how I grinded over 800k gold before getting the Hammer of Sigmar in Warhammer Quest. That hammer exponentially improved my gameplay later on. In this game I'm just grinding to get the next car, then the next marginally better car that doesn't really improve anything in the game except to get the next set of 5 stars. The grind isn't rewarding at all. I felt the same way with Minigore 2.
It's pretty to knockdown cars in the regular races - but it seems harder to do that in multiplayer. Is it just me, or is that how the game is designed?
Veneno, 458, f12, S4 and Lotus were my primary cars. I had about 38 or 39 but those five were my best for completion. And all those cars were got with no iap and very, very little re racing events. Obviously I needed others for the one off events but I was well in to series 8 before I even bothered buying up the rest of the cars needed and was making plenty of cash at the time. The five i listed had upgrades but mostly up to second level. The 458 I enjoyed a lot so that got 4 levels on acceleration and 3 on the rest. Well, that's exactly where you're making your mistake then. You're looking at the game in an owning all cars completionist way whereas that's actually not the case. The extra cars are there to get you to come back after completing the 900 stars but they are in no way necessary to get 900 stars and all events. Why would you just get the next marginally better car anyway? You can buy in the middle of any tier at any stage in the game as the different series unlock and open the different tiers. Its actually a very easy process and actually a very natural system. I don't really know why you'd just buy every car as you unlock it. Before I even played a race I'd more or less made my car decisions. Its unrewarding if you go through the process of buying every car. But if what you want to do is race every series in a nice car, that's not really what one wold do. Its wasteful even. And blaming the game for your own bad decisions in relation to buying cars is not exactly fair either because you summed it up yourself when you said buying a marginally better car. Why buy it then if its marginally better? Isn't that completely counter intuitive? Wouldn't one aim to buy one that is substantially better? And wouldn't that make sense? The grind element that you're having trouble with is the complete ownership of every car whereas what you should be focusing on is getting every star instead which will allow you to race every event. It is a racing game after all, not a car collection game.
As part of my OCD, I want/need to get every car - but I understand that there will be grinding as a result of that. Same with getting every car possible in all the other racing games I own. To me that is part of the fun. Getting all the cars and trying them out, buffing them up and racing them all. Of course, I won't blame the game for my choice to play in this way. To me, it adds more replay value - If it is a game I love, it is one I will keep coming back to so am not against spending more time in it (of course, I would be 10 times as happy grinding if the multiplayer worked more and was faster at connecting me with races, as I think the cash return for multiplayer "grinding" is way better than grinding by replaying races I've already five starred).
And you know what, I don't disagree with that way of doing it either because you understand why you're doing that and what'll be needed. (I've a bit of ocd that way myself) I just took a different approach on my first playthrough and after getting the full events and all stars, its the getting all the cars is the next part of it and I will be doing that as I got to 38 or 39 on the first one easily enough. I'm going for all 47 (think that's right) this time and using different cars this time to get there. And its a definite extra that is keeping me coming back to it. I'm not sure if it was easier to get all the cars on the first playthrough whether I'd still be playing after completing all the events because if I had all the cars and all the events, I'd have little motivation to come back and would just be sitting waiting for a content update. At least this way, I still have new cars to try out right now. And funnily enough, I'm still finding alternate combinations of the routes that are improving my times so for me this is really a very complete and compelling game that just won't let me give up.
I didn't buy Finance Manager 2013. I paid for a racing game and I shouldn't have to be stuck with grinding which we all know is exactly what the developers intended. You managed to play the game without grinding or IAP, congrats. Good for you. For a lot of people it's still a problem.
