I have been playing forza for a while now (Since 2) and with the upcoming release of 6 and the implementation of the rewards system I would really like to max out my tier and rewards prior to pre-order. So I am 100 points from tier 7 and on track there but I find I just dont make that many credits.
While I believe i have enough to buy 100 VW golfs or something I would really like to collect each and every car I can. As it stands currently I have 175 cars in Horizon 2 and something like 4mil, over 200 cars in Horizon with 2mil, roughly 125 cars in F5 with 2mil, and over 200 cars in F4 with something like 2 mil.
I have seen others in the past receive offers of assistance, specifically when discussing the 300 car challenge, and so now I am shamelessly putting myself out there in the hopes someone (or someones) might be willing to donate some of their cash to my cause.
No one can help you with FH2 and FM5 - there is no way to transfer cars/credits between players in those games.
In FH2 the cheapest car is the Subaru BRAT @ 3,000 cr, so your 4 million should cover enough of those (125 * 3,000 = 375000). It is DLC though. Non DLC cheapest are the 1990 MX-5 Miata (free DLC) or the VW Rabbit GTI both @ 5,000 cr (125 * 5000 = 625,000).
In FM5 the cheapest car is the Nissan Datsun 510/Toyota Spinter Trueno GT Apex/VW Rabbit GTI @ 12,000 cr which your 2 million will just about cover (175 * 12000 = 2,100,000).
Otherwise more time playing the game is the only answer (or buying DLC which gives you one of each car in the packs for free (no in game credits) the first time you buy one at the autoshow).
For FM4 and FH1 - check out the FM6 forum (There is a thread there offering help by Raceboy77).
Otherwise the credits you have should be plenty to by 100 of the cheapest cars in these as well (several cars @ 5,000 cr in each game).
I have to admit I spend most of my time solo and was just assuming there was still a way to transfer credits or cars like in FM4 in the newer games. Well I was hoping to buy all the nice cars but it looks like I will be spending a few hours buying hundreds of cheap cars and then selling them back. Can someone confirm, its one the 300 cars posts in your stats online you can sell everything and still be eligible for the bonus 5mil right?
i dont know about the bonus but if you want to sell your cars back after buying them, dont do it in FM5. your only option there is to just get rid of the car. There is no buy back like in 4. I hope they changed that in 6
Also the way I understood it you need to have the cars in your garage when you play FM6 for the first time. I could be wrong about that but it would be safe to wait to remove them until after.
Thanks for the input. I am planning on keeping them all in my garage until at least I get 6 and confirm that the reward show up.
How can i best confirm everything is working? In the FAQ (http://forums.forza.net/turn10_postst262_Forza-Rewards-FAQ.aspx) it explains how you can find your number of cars recorded but there is no tab for FM4 or FM3. Also how long does it take these to update? I now have 300+ cars in everything except FM3 but it only shows in one game and it has been over 24 hours (BTW I wan to shout a thanks out to Raceboy77 for helping with FM4) which makes me kind of wonder how many other things are not up to date and holding back my tier.
Supposedly it is the maximum your garage has ever had, but I wouldn’t bother selling them until you start FM6 (and being they are cheap cars it isn’t much in the way of credits anyway).
For the scrolling issue at the moment - either resize you browser (make it very narrow) and arrows to scroll from one game to the next will appear and allow you to get to the missing games. Alternative and far easier is to select the game to the far right (FH1) and press TAB on your keyboard which will change the game bar to show FM4, FM3 and FM2.
There isn’t a set time for things to update and some things take longer than others, and on top of that some things are still broken and being looked into.
The Rewards FAQ thread has all this info and answers to just about any other question on the Rewards program and is where T10 are posting update to the system when they have them (Watching Polecat).
Thank you so much for the tab method, I had no idea.
To clarify other questions here, it may be a collection of all the cars you have ever owned in the game even if they are not currently in your garage. Why do I say this? Because I just learned about the tab method to view FM4, FM3, and FM2 details and under FM4 it says that I own 1145 cars. Clearly, this is beyond the limit of the game and includes all the times I have started over and bought cars.
Then again, I’ve also played through FM3 a few times and purchased many cars and it only shows as having 139.
From what Watching Polecat had said it is the highest numbers of cars you have had in the games at one time (same as any of the other stats really) - FM4 is an exception and is still counting every car you have ever owned (which was supposedly fixed ages ago but still seems to be broken - have one friend who it says has over 32,000 cars!!!). Seems this is part of the memory issues that were causing games to crash when the garage still thought you had cars you had sold/gifted/etc.
Interesting. Guess that explains my insane FM4 car count. Are you sure it’s maximum number owned at one time though and not maximum number owned overall? I had an issue with the FM3 data showing only 162 and I believe that may have been accurate from long ago. Then I went and bought another 305+ cars in FM3 and instead of showing 305 in the friends compare data the number has jumped to 467.
TerribleTeacup check out that link and make a post. Hopefully everything appears correctly very shortly.
Yep - WP confirmed it but not going to look for it with the current state of these forums. If it is doing the same as FM4 (which was supposed to have been fixed so it was only the maximum at any one time), then it makes it easier for everybody so no harm done from a players perspective.
Has this issues ever worked backwards? I showed as 200 cars in both FM3 and 4 from old saves. Then I just recently bought over 300 cars which I have sitting in garage currently. Now FM3 reads 406 on rewards page and FM4 shows 94, WTF!?
Waiting for the full 25 mil to register before pre-ordering.
Anyone have good input for someone that is sitting right at Tier 7 and wants to make 8. What achievements, etc provide the quickest number of rewards points?
TerribleTeacup, I can’t tell you what ones will give you the max result for the time. I can tell you that you don’t have to do all the achievements in the game to max out the rewards for said game. Look in the rewards page and check each game and see what you need. Some may be as simple as playing a few more days, some I think are miles driven some clean passes. You will have to decide what’s easier for ou with what you have to do yet. I have done them all but in no particular order so I’m really not much help there.
Are there mods? Who do you contact about your rewards being wrong? I have had the 300 cars in every game for two weeks now and for whatever reason FM4 wont update on the rewards. So I am missing 5 mil. I have pre-ordered and installed. I want to start playing FM6 but dont want to do so if its going to short change me 5mil.
I have tried buying more cars, racing, auction house, etc just to get it to update all to no avail.