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Thanks, Rob. You're always right to bring this up.

It's not much, but the next structure we're trying is starting today, and there are three non-compulsory events, one with bonus points, but they are three CF events nonetheless, and all three will all end at 2pm BST.

I liked the idea of the event, and I didn't feel it was stingy. Maybe the big hoohah over the 10-year thing is what threw some players off... because you'd think such a milestone would be something a bit extra special, rather than a different style of event with similar-but-lesser prizes.

I didn't want to hijack this thread, I was going to post in event times but I'm already here. My big grievance was of course, ending times. However this time it was coupled with the bonus for winning races with a tuned up car x2. This means that pretty much anyone can beat anyone and so, yet again, I got dropped from 3rd to 30th overnight. 

I can tell you, I am really really hating the game right now. Not the game itself of course, but the decisions made surrounding it. 

I have no personal grudges against any of the Hutch team. You guys are just doing your jobs. It's just that for me and a whole region of players (by far the most populous region too) the decisions made really mar the experience of this game. 

20 minutes per 48/72hr event is important. The rest is unnecessary. That 20 minutes comes at a ridiculous time every night despite having the capability to enact change immediately. we KNOW you can alter the event times to accommodate ALL players and yet you refuse to do so. 

I think this challenge was a pretty difficult one. I can't complain – a challenge is a challenge and this one made us think. I'll certainly be more onto it next time with upgrading low-end cars as soon as the challenge tag appears. I scored a Cadillac Cien in the end which is a car I probably won't use a lot but I remember regretting that I missed it the first time round.

However, the BIG thing for me with this challenge is that Hutch now finally has a mechanic in the game for letting players choose their prize. This opens doors to a more varied playing field and has some real potential for interesting event design.

What if, instead of just giving away the Jesko Absolut, Hutch gave winners a token that allowed them to choose the Absolut or the regular Jesko? Handling and balanced performance OR all-out acceleration? You can only have one – what would you choose?

It also opens the door to a potentially more varied prize car landscape. What if Hutch offered the Peugeot 204 T16 Pikes Peak, the Donkevoort D8 GTO-40 and the Bentley EXP 100 GT all at once? You can only have one – what would you choose?

1. You probably won't choose the same as your friends
2. Unless they get the balance wrong, there will be fewer of each car around, so more exclusivity
3. Hutch could re-run these cars a few times per year so that you can eventually catch up

I don't know, I just thought this adds an interesting dynamic to the game which we haven't really seen a lot of recently.

RQ limit - 400

No communication about it on this forum. Sad...
Maybe because it is quite cheap?

5/5 for the initiative. Always nice to see this kind of "special week" with good perks, nice offers or cool events.

1/5 for what is offered to "celebrate".

I know the challenge is super easy (probably too easy and mostly aimed for beginners), but seriously, just a Ceramic and poor B/C cars to grab for a TENTH year anniversary?
Not even one CF for a such milestone, or an Epic, or at least B/C prize cars (I think there are far than enough to be awarded in the game).

Even the CF offer (+10 slots and 10000$) doesn't seem very generous to me.

The multi-player event could look decent, still with only 15/500 who will get a really nice prize, so just one more event for whales or guys teaming up.

The arguments against having to lock cars to keep from fusing them, but wanting to mark cars to keep in a fuse pool baffles me.  It would be the same exact action, so time spent as an argument for or against seems irrelevant, from that aspect?

I also don't understand the need for this fuse pool.  You're essentially suggesting a second way to lock/unlock cars, just with a different name.  If you want to keep something, lock it.  If you don't want to keep something, and have it available for fusing, don't.  If you "don't want to have to remember to lock every car", how is that any different from remembering to mark cars to be available for this fuse pool?  This boils down to having an extra action added to the game.  Lets review that:
1. Player opens packs
2. Player moves cars to garage from holding pool
3  Player wants to keep the car (lock button)
4. Player wants to fuse the car (fuse pool button)
You have now added extra steps to the game.  In order to fuse food, which the player just bought packs to do, they now have to spend extra time moving all that to the fuse pool, in order to use it.  This is similar to the holding pool, which players already complain about having to move cars one by one into the garage.  It's essentially the same process, except the fuse pool button may reside on the actual card screen (similar to the current lock button), so you'd have to drill into each card to move it to the fuse pool.

On a side note ...why don't you lock cars?  In your reply, you talk about mitigating risk of fusing something you didn't lock.  If you locked them, there would be no risk.  It sounds like you don't want to spend the time marking cars you want to keep (not fuse), but you do want to spend time marking cars for fusing.  This makes no sense?

To look at this from a different angle, Hutch already provided the fuse pool functionality, but they called it locking a car.  If the car is unlocked, it exists in the fuse pool.  If a car is locked, it doesn't.  You already don't like having to lock a car.  Why do you like potentially having to take a step to unlock all cars, in order to fuse them?

Moog said:

I've had the game on the back burner for a while now. I go for it with the challenges, but other than that it's play the bare minimum hands on standard events (normally 3 races does it).
I'm so close to throwing in the towel completely to be honest. I feel that COTW2 has been a let down and there's little enjoyment elsewhere. I'll give it a couple more weeks I think then it's a choice of blowing my saved gold and cash or selling everything

Would be sad to see you go That said, it's probably a positive life choice. I've long been the type of player you're describing - Moderate effort on challenges, the rest of the time I put 1 hand into each event and call it done, and sometimes I check in during the last half hour to see if I can move up a tier. I really only play when I have a few minutes waiting for my girlfriend to get ready or something rather than making time to play.

D3nzello said:

most likely I will finish stage 6 tomorrow with 7 days left and nothing else to do

Completely agree. As I said earlier in the thread, we really need something concrete to work toward on a day to day basis. Challenges do an alright job of this sometimes, but there really shouldn't be a day without a challenge to participate in assuming active daily participation (i.e. if a challenge is able to be finished in 6 days, another challenge should start on the 7th day at the latest). 

New features like PvP 1v1 racing would be awesome, but I hesitate to even request features at this point because I'm not confident that I'll still care by the time they're implemented. Seems like most significant feature requests have a 2+ year turnaround time. Personally, my biggest frustration with Hutch isn't the lack of new features, its the fact that they don't really take full advantage of the features that they already have.

Absolutely agree with these points. A content update will make a big difference for sure but we are now over 6 months without one...6 months! That's lunacy for a mobile game in my opinion...

So far the Challenge system has been promising but again limited in content...there needs to be something that keeps you coming back to the game and, before anyone says it, Clubs is certainly not that.

This game has a huge amount of potential and a playerbase who genuinely love it and put forward a vast number of suggestions but it seems these either don't get listened to (timezones, frequent updates, new championship series) or fall by the wayside (retune feature, clubs replacement/improvement). The focus seems to be on a new UI (yes, nice but not essential) and better graphics (pretty much pointless).

Content. We NEED content. And we need it more frequently. That will keep the players happy and the playerbase growing. I've been playing for almost 1200 days and have never felt more disengaged, which is a real shame.

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