Gumball 2014 - Discussion

[RedJohn]

No , mine.

[Johan.]

(2014-08-04 18:37)Pete Wrote:  

(2014-08-04 18:14)Kenwood Wrote:  Does it seem to anyone that this year's Gumball is more of a wealth race than a driver's race? There are some users doing the event in just XFR/UFR (or even GTRs) that can maintain a higher average speed.
Let's say a user with 100k wealth wants to try and win, but the fastest car they own is the FZ5. Okay, they'll drive that as fast as possible all day, every day.
Let's say there's another user, with 1m wealth and every car possible does the exact same.
It's much more difficult to keep up with a XFR in turns when you're driving a FZ5 (or even a LX6). It's also much more difficult to obtain a XFR with 100k wealth (let's say you're new here and started playing like 6 months ago).
Don't forget the potential speeding fines, speedtraps, and general loss of money from speeding and maintaining the XFR.
Unless you have several people giving you money, you're going to have a hard time.

The best driver can't win. Only the wealthiest one can. The best driver would have to give up sleep just to keep up with that XFR and then his health would be at risk, because of someone's money advantage.

It also makes it easy for a previous GB3K winner to just keep on winning, and winning, and winning until there's no point of competing for anyone at all.

Does anyone agree or is this just me?

I agree to an extent. People who win Gumball usually do the following:

• Prepare (Earn lots of money before the Gumball starts)
• Commit (Have plenty of time to spend driving)
• Consistent (It's a marathon not a sprint, do a similar amount of driving each day)
  

This means that the only real factor that could stop you from winning the Gumball is being able to commit the time to it. Like many, I have a very little free time to commit to Gumball but that doesn't mean I can't get a prize. There's something for everyone in the Gumball, you just have to fit it around your time constraints.

Its been mentioned a couple of times if I'm right to just ban these rental cars from Gumball. The people with money will be forced to drive a regular car anyone can get, and the poor people still have a chance of winning.

(Oh, and uh, its not just this year's gumball that's a wealth-race.)

[[TC] Connor]

(2014-08-05 21:46)Johan. Wrote:  Its been mentioned a couple of times if I'm right to just ban these rental cars from Gumball. The people with money will be forced to drive a regular car anyone can get, and the poor people still have a chance of winning.

(Oh, and uh, its not just this year's gumball that's a wealth-race.)

I don't think banning rental cars would really be completely fair. They've got to be fair on both sides, rich or poor, if they've got the money to use a GTR, then they reserve the right to use one.

You don't see them banning fast cars in the real Gumball? I know it's a different sort of rally there but still, same sort of principles apply. The rich use faster cars, the poorer use slower. I guess they'll have to deal with that and, as Pete said, work around their time schedules and work towards something else. Such as an aim for finishing in the Top 10/15 or the PTTM award.

[Jimmy]

http://forum.city-driving.co.uk/showthre...?tid=13385

I asked about renting cars but admins thinked it was bad idea

[Matt]

Guys...

It seems Dowpy's town (Fagersta) has been evacuated due to forest fires overnight. 1 dead, around 1000 evac'd. Pictures are pretty spectacular.

http://www.demotix.com/news/5453600/swed.../all-media

[Warped]

Hopefully he's alright.

[Makee]

So you are lucky winner again?

[Edwin]

Ohhh shit, hope Dowpy is alright :/

[[TC-R] Luke]

Damn... Unlucky, hope he is okay

Lets see he may come back with vengeance and hunt Matt down.

[[TC]►Spark◄]

When is the Skin Comp starting :/

[Toni]

Tomorrow

[[TC] Shino]

Hey, I was accepted to GB3K but still havent been added, i've missed 3-4 days, could something be done please? I understand you all have other things to do than admin the servers 24/7

[[TC]»Pete«]

(2014-08-07 17:42)CaptainK Wrote:  Hey, I was accepted to GB3K but still havent been added, i've missed 3-4 days, could something be done please? I understand you all have other things to do than admin the servers 24/7

Done. I'm not entirely sure how you were missed off of the list. Sorry for the delay.

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It's pretty close at the top of the table. The top 4 are separated by less than 500km.

[[TC] Shino]

(2014-08-07 17:44)Pete Wrote:  

(2014-08-07 17:42)CaptainK Wrote:  Hey, I was accepted to GB3K but still havent been added, i've missed 3-4 days, could something be done please? I understand you all have other things to do than admin the servers 24/7

Done. I'm not entirely sure how you were missed off of the list. Sorry for the delay.

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Thanks Pete mate, much appreciated

[Warped]

(2014-08-07 09:39)fakedeath Wrote:  Guys...

It seems Dowpy's town (Fagersta) has been evacuated due to forest fires overnight. 1 dead, around 1000 evac'd. Pictures are pretty spectacular.

http://www.demotix.com/news/5453600/swed.../all-media

Seems like he's alright.

http://www.city-driving.co.uk/gumball/

[Dowpy]

I dont know why matt posted that lol.

[Tibe [CA]]

Edit: Nvm. Just a bug in my internet.

[[TC]►Spark◄]

Skin Competition Starts today wish good luck to everyone who is participating.

[Pipa]

Here is how the badges will look .

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[Tibe [CA]]

Oh niiiice.