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As somebody that owns all the commons and is close to completing the rares and uncommons, I enjoy challenges like this. I would say that the game has never really placed a ton of value on the collection aspect of the game. It's always sort of been focused on keeping the best cars so you can do as well as possible in events while spending the minimum amount of gold on slots. On the one hand, I enjoy challenges like this with very granular requirements because they're challenging. They're not a walk in the park like the ones that came immediately after the challenge update and they actually provide a feeling of gratification for completing it. That, and because they give me the opportunity to utilize the lower end garage I've spent so much time building.

But I completely understand the frustration here too. Players that haven't spent a good chunk of money and purchased a lot of slots likely can't afford to hold onto the "meh" cars that would normally gather dust, so they struggle in challenges like this where the requirements are very specific. I completely get it. I think another big problem with it is that for a time, this was the only challenge going on. I'm glad we've gotten the In the Clutch challenge with a lot more forgiving requirements. But if the case was that this was the only challenge going on and a majority of people couldn't complete it due to the specificity of the requirements, that's a problem. I believe I've seen Robin mention (or at least express interest in, if it wasn't something he personally mentioned) wanting to have a multitude of challenges running simultaneously that have a wide variety of requirements. Then you could just pick the ones that suit your garage and go after them. 

Maybe a way to encourage acceptance of these granular challenges would be to give out more slots as prizes in the challenges. I think as the game continues to adopt flexible criteria (in both events and challenges - looking at you 2007 petrol and diesel finals reqs), and emphasis is put more and more on having that car that would normally be fused, being a little more generous with slots as prizes could be a good way to help ease people into that transition, the alternative being what it is sort of becoming now: "Buy slots with gold to keep everything or miss out"

Looking at the requirements to this challenge, the minimum required would be 5 each of common, uncommon, and rare maxed Renaults. I only have couple of these, so I went back to my cost of upgrading post (https://forums.hutch.io/discussion/comment/20431) to figure out how much needs to be invested.

The cost of maxing cars specifically for this challenge is $346,375, assuming (1) you don't need any different cars for stages on the same rarity and (2) you already have the cars you would need to do the fuses. If you don't have the cars laying around and have to buy packs for them, that goes up to $566,750.

The total rewards for the challenge are $58,500, and I'd go ahead and say that most of these cars will not be very useful to have upgraded going forward.

So Hutch, I've gotta ask - did anyone do this math? If so, what was the logic? If you have to max even just one of each class to complete the challenge, it no longer pays for itself. I sure hope that nobody did the math, because otherwise it looks like you're intentionally conning less analytic players out of their resources...

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