Talk:2019 Spring Update/@comment-34188702-20190415014524/@comment-31625642-20190416010413

Yeah. I’d noticed that, too. It was too late to do much about the handling and acceleration going up, but I just caught myself going to use 2 of my 5 remaining free C upgrades on levels 4 and 5 of Nitro, thinking those would be the most expensive left, out of habit, before I remembered that the level 5 of each would be the same, and therefore more for the 5th-level handling and acceleration than for the 4th-level nitro... Gotta get that automatic reflex retrained, for spending free upgrades, even for as infrequently as they come, now.

Honestly, I think the leveling out of the attribute costs is REALLY @#$&ing stupid, even though some 5th-level top speed costs have been almost, if not as much as the actual car, in the past. The ranking increases are still crap, for handling and acceleration, still, which is a good thing, but it just feels odd paying the same, lower cost for top speed, which is most important, as reflected by ranking increases. While, at the end of the day, that works out great, on MP cars for which you just wanna rank up top speed and nitro, but for cars you wanna max, it’ll be a real drag, going back and paying the same as you did, for top speed and nitro, as you had done, for the top speed and nitro, too.

That’s all irrational, logically — minus maxing top speed and nitro, for MP cars, which means that it’s, overall, a better deal, the new, equal pay way (and handling and acceleration can stop complaining, now ;D ). However, for whatever “sim value” the game had, its completely gone, after that move, on top of the rest of the adjustments made in the Fast Lane and Spring ‘19 updates.

GL also killed tons of work, over years, for a lot of longtime players, with these last updates, to make it so that noobs can jump in, much, much faster, which is a real kick in the stones, for those who’ve been playing hardcore, even resetting some of their cars’ upgrades, so that they can better tune them, the second time.

While I don’t mind noobs having just as much fun, in the game, of course, to make that happen in a way that stole literally full days worth of time that long term players spent grinding and researching is, well, just garbage.

I saw a lot of people say they were gonna quit, with the Fast Lane update, and honestly, I hope they did and that they cut all ties with Facebook and other groups, as well as subs to GL’s channel(s), on YouTube, and etc. In fact, I hope they ditched all their GL games. I’m a relatively “loose” player, who hasn’t dug intomall the research, tweaking, and etc., and so, to me, the changes amount to pure joy, with different tech specs, even though I’ve been playing for four years, this month... Cheers!