Talk:Research & Development/Lamborghini Centenario LP 770-4/@comment-34600274-20181228001052

GL obviously designed this thing for the Village Idiot. The only way I could justify investing serious time in it, as well as raiding my inventory and tokens, is if I didn't already have the X2 or AIE. That said, having recently completed the AIE R&D Revival, I really have mixed feelings about it overall. With respect to the Centenario R&D, the AIE R&D was an excellent value for a top-level car because of the free S-Class Upgrades, the availability of V12 engine cards, and the fewer number of flawless races. That said, my big disappointment with the AIE is that it wasn't the ultimate MP killer that I thought it would be after all the stress and time that I invested in its R&D.

As a test I decided to race the prior MP season exclusively with the AIE and discovered that I had to work twice as hard to get to the same rank as I had previously done with the ARSE. I guess the lesson I learned here is that unless I'm into collecting cars, the high-end cars are only going to be marginally better than one another. A .71 km/h top speed advantage, for example, is going to easily be wiped out by poor driving. The top performing cars also happen to fall within the most crowded field of competitive racers in the game, regardless of hackers being in the mix. While that sort of thing can be a lot of fun, what's not so fun is losing a ton of points for making a single error. MP doesn't hand out mulligans for a single bad race in a thousand or a misfortunate disconnection from the Internet. This is why people work so hard on MP tunings and why I was growing less-and-less fond of MP 2.0 after its initial testing period. If MP 2.0 ever makes a return, the Centenario will consequently be one of the worst R&D investments ever made. While the Centenario hasn't been designated an overall "King" like the AIE, sometimes hype isn't anything more than hype. I wasted a good deal of coin on the AIE only to find myself not wanting to use it in MP anymore.

I don't think that it was by coincidence that these R&D's are getting less "friendly" after the launch of A9. I think the reemergence of A9 advertising in the Holiday Update is an indication of GL's underlying intent going forward. The danger of GL poisoning the A8 platform is that it doesn't guarantee that people will automatically move on to A9 or that they'll continue to play A8. GL is ultimately playing with fire here and the most likely victim of getting burned is GL.