Gumball 2014 - Discussion

[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.)