Top Drives - Car Race Battles 4+

Great and close to perfect

Everything is good down to events and campaign levels.
1) Events (at least the big ones) are controlled by who ever spends the most money. i agree if you spend $50 you should have an edge, but why can’t we get more than 1 common pack to start😂. you basically have to spend money unless you are stacking gold.
2) Campaign levels are great and even replaying them getting the loot out of them is enjoyable. they should either reset with different cars to earn, reset and be harder levels, or have a new set of 10 locations in different cities. i only have 2 cities left to get loot out of and my playtime on this game will likely go down with how the next campaign goes. getting that currency is grueling when you don’t have good event lineups.

Anything other than those are opinions like i think garage inventory should be infinite and cash should easier to come around. my cars are getting fused cause of extra cars but cannot upgrade very fast. once upgrades slow down i cannot fuse with extra cars and progress is much slower.

Major update has ruined my game

The new update has only seemed to have brought 1 or 2 good things here and there, yet everything else has been bad. First of all, they switched a ton of the cars that were decent from the green and blue ranks up to yellows and reds. Not only do you lose all the work and upgrades you put into your cars that move up a rank, the tens and thousands of dollars (game dollars) of work, the hours and hours of playing, and take it away, not even changing anything but a few cars stats ( there weren’t even that many cars that actually had a stat change), but the only compensation they give you is just some measly upgrades for the mediocre cars that are left in the previous rank. For example, I had an off road rally car, previously yellow rank, and moved up to red. Literally one point up, from 49 to 50. Nothing was changed about the stats of the car, just moved up one single point. Not only did all the work I’ve put into that car get taken away by making it stock once more, but all they give me is upgrades for the yellow cars, even though the only few I care about already have been maxed out. I would’ve loved if I could’ve had a warning to this, so I could actually prepare for top drives to take all my stuff, and I wouldn’t spend all my in game cash right before they take it away. The least they could’ve done is keep the upgrades on the cars that moved up ranks. Especially the ones that weren’t even changed stat-wise

Developer Response ,

Hello! Thank you for your feedback and we're sorry you were unsatisfied with the 15.0 update. The premise of the tokens system was that we didn’t want you to lose value where a car you invested lots of resources in has gone down in rarity, or for anyone to gain an unfair advantage where a car they upgraded when it was cheap to do so has gone up in rarity. You certainly haven't lost anything in the process - the value was returned in the form of tokens.

Too Much Time

The game itself is exactly as advertised. You can race to win more cars, open packs, upgrade cars, etc. It was fantastic when this is how the game worked. Now, you’re *REQUIRED* to spend either ample amounts of time or small amounts of money just to win one event. Before, I’d get on the game, check the current events, get in my 5 races for that event and get offline. Well, if you do that now, you will stay in the lowest rank, which will also decrease your rep by 10 per event. My tickets do not refresh for over an hour, so I can’t continuously grind out my races to make it to one of the top spots. I could go 15-0, have more points than anyone else, and I will still be ranked 50th because I didn’t run *THIRTY* races in 24-48h. The expectations are quite high if you want anything decent in the game and it will take you much longer than before. I have played for a few years now and I only have 4 or 5 S class cars, so getting the exact one you want is almost guaranteed to never happen. And again, it will take even longer than those few years to get the exact same results. I have spent a little bit of money on the game as well but never anything above $20. I would say this last update pushed the game from almost P2W to fully P2W. No one has the time for 30 races in a day to get first place.

Developer Response ,

We're glad to read that you like the game! Thanks for your feedback about the minimum tickets per prize tier feature. We have introduced this feature to tackle some issues we often see in-game, and ultimately make Top Drives events a fairer and more positive experience for all. In the past, we have had situations where players have been able to win reasonably high prizes with very little participation in the event, whether this is by joining late, deliberately playing only a very small number of matches, deliberately avoiding leaving ghosts hands for opponents to race against on the event, or other behaviours - and we do not believe that this can always be in line with our intended design for the mode, or the spirit of PvP in general - so although we understand your concerns, it is our belief that this feature can make a positive change to the Top Drives PvP experience. Although the tactical decisions you make in matchmaking and hand assignment, the cars you choose to race in each match, and the overall strength of your garage are all important factors, we believe that sometimes the amount of effort and participation invested in an event can also be part of what contributes to the best PvP experience. An event with prize tiers that require a certain number of matches to be played challenges players to demonstrate not just the above factors, but also a consistent level of play throughout an event’s duration - and rewards players for their efforts and their commitment. Specifically, the number of races required being too high is something we've heard from a few players - this is a very fair point, but I would remind you that these values are not set in stone; the number of races required to qualify for any given prize tier can be set by the designers as they choose; it is not one blank slate that applies to all events, whether or not it is suitable - it will always be part of a deliberate and thoughtful design. Our designers will be aiming for more enjoyable, less frustrating designs, and avoiding the inverse! Moreover, even if you feel that this feature provides an unfair advantage to players who have spent money on the game but in reality a big part of the intention behind the feature is to actually do the exact opposite. Some of the experiences that this feature addresses are most easily performed by the stronger players in the game; namely, where players have in the past been able to win reasonably high prizes despite very little participation in an event, this is often by virtue of the strength of their garage and therefore the strength of the hand they can submit for an event, allowing them to join late or deliberately play only a very small number of matches, but rank highly if their ghost hands are difficult to defeat! It is not our perspective that this kind of experience can always be in line with our intended design for the mode, or the spirit of PvP in general. There should therefore be no disadvantage to players earlier on in their Top Drives journey specifically; if anything, this feature should address some issues that they may have been running into in the game! :)