Events are internet based competitions available to players of Asphalt 8: Airborne. Each event is only available for a limited amount of time, ranging from 1 to 5 days, after which players who competed can claim their rewards. For the most part, a racer's rewards are judged by their lap time although Multiplayer Events present an exception.
Events require fuel to play. The amount of fuel an event requires varies, but it is important to keep an eye on your fuel bar or you might run it dry. The fuel bar contains 10 fuel points, each of which takes 10 minutes to refill. Alternatively, you can purchase a refill for 65 tokens, or watch an ad video once a day and get a free refill--except Windows platform.
Events usually require you to own certain cars in order to play. On occasion events will allow players to drive a car they do not own, for free. The button to chose the car will say Free Try. Usually this is the case before a new car becomes available, and the top X players get the car as a leaderboard reward. A few times it was also to 'advertise' an already released car, such as with the BMW M3 Sedan shortly after its release, and the button will say Stock Vehicle.
Event Rewards
A list of rewards in event mode
There are several types of event rewards:
Race rewards
Race rewards typically include a prize for participating, for finishing in first/third place, finishing within a certain time, etc. Unlike with Leaderboard Rewards, other player's scores are not taken into account. Once you win a Race Reward, you cannot lose it.
Leaderboard Rewards
Leaderboard Rewards combine scores from all across the world, ranked from top to bottom with the highest scores at the top of the leaderboard, and the lowest scores at the bottom. Leaderboard prizes take in to account your position, and the prizes get increasingly more valuable as your position gets higher. As new scores are constantly being uploaded from around the world, just because it seems you have earned certain Leaderboard rewards does not mean you have secured them. There used to have a type of event "Division Cup" where usually only 1 people from a division will win a car (Like Ferrari 612 Scaglietti Cup), that was erased in Tenerife Update as well.
Score Rewards
Score Rewards are available in Multiplayer Events and reward you for a certain number of points you have achieved. As with Race Rewards, you cannot lose the reward once you achieved it.
Trophy Reward
Trophy Reward is another (rare) type of reward, a system that gives out prizes depending on the numbers of trophies collected in multiple races. A trophy on the other hand depends on your result in a race, and can include any of the above criteria: race, leaderboard or score criteria (participated, finish within a time, position first, leaderboard position, etc.). Since a trophy can depend on the leaderboard position, the trophies you achieve are not for granted. Mostly trophy events span across several days, with one race available per day as in the Acura NSX 2005 Cup, Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT Coupé Final Edition Cup, and the 2015 Ford Mustang Cup after which you received the car as a reward if you played every day. Though less typical, there have also been cups with several races available simultaneously, such as the Exclusive Cup in july 2015 with three races during two days. Check on the History page for the (recent) history of events with their cars, tracks and rewards.
Multiplayer Events
Similar to Multiplayer mode, these events pit racers against other players instead of NPCs (Non-Player Characters). The key difference is that every time you play, you increase your points, raising your Leaderboard position. These events require much more devotion, sometimes hours worth of gameplay, if you want to win anything. The one upside is that once you reach the top it is fairly easy to retain your position. Multiplayer events often are very expensive to play, sometimes costing up to four fuel points, meaning you can only play twice for every full fuel bar.
Multiplayer Scoring
The scoring system is somewhat intransparent. In general, the score bump you get decreases with your total score. For example if you place first in your first race, you will get an increase of 431 points. However if you it is your second race, and you place first again, you might increase only for 396, giving a total of 827. If you are at 4,000, a first place might give you only about ten score points. But this is not the case with every Race Event, some race events' scores increase flatten faster than other, for instance: first race 430, second race 430 + 344 = 774, third race 430 + 344 + 280 = 1054, and so on.
The following score evolution has been observed:
| 1. Race | Total | 2. Race | Total | 3. Race | Total | 4. Race | Total | Win decay |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 430 | 430 | 344 | 774 | 280 | 1054 | ? | ? | ~1/1.25 |
| 431 | 431 | 365 | 796 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ~1/1.18 |
| 431 | 431 | 396 | 827 | 364 | 1191 | 337 | 1528 | ~1/1.09 |
The following score distribution has been observed:
| Rank | Score |
|---|---|
| 1 | 431 |
| 2 | 376 |
| 3 | 320 |
| 4 | 265 |
| 5 | 209 |
| 6 | 154 |
| 7 | 99 |
| 8 | 43 |
This scale remains approximately the same with the Tenerife Update, offering 12-players multiplayer races in addition to 8-players races. The player placed 7th from the bottom earns 375 points (1 point less), and the 8th or higher from the bottom earns 430 points in the first race, thus in a race with 12 players, places 1 to 5 earn the same score.
Apex Wednesday
One of Asphalt 8: Airborne's traditions are Apex Wednesday events. These events always focus on a certain type of prize (for example Pro Kits, Tokens, or Decals) and are open to play every Tuesday-Wednesday evening.
Community Cup
Gameloft also inquires about the Cup players would create with a survey. The first in-game ad appeared on Aug 14th 2015 on iOS, though the date on the form says to vote before June 24 (possibly the date of the survey of 2014). The survey allows to vote for all of the different parameters:
- Which track do you want to race on?
- Alps
- Alps Reverse
- Barcelona
- Barcelona Reverse
- Buddha's Teaching
- Buddha's Teaching Reverse
- Dragon's Den
- Dubai
- Dubai Reverse
- French Guyana
- French Guyana Reverse
- Great Wall
- Great wall Reverse
- Iceland
- Iceland Reverse
- London
- Monaco
- Monaco Reverse
- Nevada
- Nevada Reverse
- San Diego
- San diego Reverse
- Sector 8
- Sector 8 Reverse
- Temple Drive
- The London Eye
- The Mirage Reverse
- The Rose of the Desert
- The Rose of the Desert Reverse
- Tokyo
- Venice
- Venice Reverse
- Wall Ascent
- Wall Ascent Reverse
- Westminister Bridge
- I Don't Konw
- Which class of cars do you want to race with?
- Class D
- Class C
- Class B
- Class A
- Class S
- I Don't Know
- Single-Player or Multiplayer?
- Single-Player
- Multiplayer
- I Don'tKnow
- Which game mode do you want?
- Classic
- Infected
- I Don't Know
- How many AI cars do you want in the race? (Only applicable in a Single-player cup)
- 0
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- I Don't Know
- How many laps do you want the race to be?
- 1 Lap
- 2 Laps
- 3 Laps
- 4 Laps
- How long should the event last?
- 1 day
- 2 days
- 3 days
- 4 days
- I Don't Know
- Do you want there to be traffic?
- Yes
- No
- I Don't Know
- Rank the leaderboard rewards that you want the most. (1 = Most wanted, 10 = Least wanted)
- Mid Tech Pro Kit Box
- Advanced Tech Pro Kit Box
- A Class Pro Kit Box
- S Class Pro Kit Box
- Tokens
- Credits
- Boosters
- Car
- I Don't Know
- Rank the race rewards that you want the most. (1 = Most wanted, 10 = Least wanted)
- Mid Tech Pro Kit Box
- Advanced Tech Pro Kit Box
- Engine Pro Kit Box
- A Class Pro Kit Box
- S Class Pro Kit Box
- Tokens
- Credits
- Boosters
- I Don't Know