Talk:Asphalt Xtreme/@comment-68.168.119.230-20170720180809/@comment-5.254.80.164-20170724131612

O.K, so I finished the event, but...may I advice anyone who has just begun this event to stop unless you have several million credits to spare? (I'll emphasize)

The Bailey Blade XT4 'Special Projects' event is, as I note above, not very rewarding with 3 x 2325 Credits even way up on the 9th race of the 'Manufacture' third part going towards 10,000 total credits towards the end and A50 for the last race. The cost for upgrading the car however is huge... ca. 410,000 from class level 40-41 and a whopping 808,600 to go from class level 41-42. Going from level 42-43 will set you back 838,600 and this seemingly only gets worse.

Now for the above mentioned race 9, one of the goals is to drive it in 01:11 and for some reason, the best I've done so far is 01:11:xxx with the car at the required level 40. Upgrading to level 41 didn't help as the race-time became worse, from 1:12 to even 1:14 after 12 races (I actually had to bring it to level 42 and race three more times to obtain a time of 01:10:xxx) and so I think they want you to skip by paying 235 tokens. I reason this by the fact that I can play MP from start to finish and I almost always end in 1st to 3rd place, I only occasionally faulter in Mastery, but for the most I win every single race. What it means is that I am a rather good driver and know how to tap break to hold the inner path through curves even on ice and generally the best path throughout the various tracks unless being kept out by red walls the car can't break.

The last race requires the car to be at level 42 and since it does not get any cheaper, you can choose when to do it... Total credits needed is not known as I first noticed when it went above 400,000-still I guess you will need around 2,500,000 to follow recommendations for car level alone. If you're low on A$, you will probably have little time to finish the event given the four hour wait after every three 'fuses'

An observation: For me this is 'only' a game and while I never payed anything with this account, they have gotten the $50 I think it is worth as part of another account I uninstalled - However, the business model do come forth as a con/fraud/swindle and I'll reason even this. I got all cars for free as noted below, but if you didn't you won't have all masteries available and by offering a costly TLE such as this with no price up front, you are basically lured into a con where you find yourself with only two options. Either quit the event or pay and this choice only occurs way into the event... In my opinion, they should be forced to list the net value of the various prizes and the total cost for attending the TLE (based on the TLEs recommended car level). Such transparency would inform the player as to what virtual/real expenses he or she is about to undertake, revealing it throughout the TLE makes Vivendi/Gameloft's business model fraudulent in my opinion.

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