Do people pay more in the AH based on a publicly available livery/tune? I guess it attracts views, but unless it’s a one off livery or tune, that’s not really any extra value to the car.
I only visit the Auction House when I’m looking for a specific car that I can’t get from the in-game dealership.
Typically that’s only been when a #Forzathon challenge required a specific car in Forza Horizon 3. I’d buy the first car I saw, not care about price/paint/tune, strip it, do the challenge and then delete it from my garage.
I see almost no additional value in a car available on the Auction House as I can access one of the many hundred Paints/Tunes available for free at any time.
I agree with you 100%, but believe that as the game grows and people got their cars for collection and challenge purpose and the top painters has excess to the “Elite AH”, the focus will change from necessity/profit to a focus of seeking designs as in FM4. In this line I expect that once the top painters reached “Elite status”, we will see less of their designs in the Sharefront and more of it in the AH where it makes proper payment. FM4 deja vu. Still some way to get there, but I believe it will come.
Someone answer this then. if I like a design on a car in the AH I buy the car knowing it is locked and I cant alter it and wouldn’t want to. But I have been buying cars that I like the design but they have also been upgraded. Everyone usually has their owned preferred set up or might like different wheels etc. In FH3 if I buy a car that has had a major upgrade and unlock it then as I add parts I am charged for new additions however if the parts were with the car it would show 0 CR in the cart. In FM7 4 cars purchased I have left the paint/design as intended but unlocking the cars, I lose the parts. You buy the parts as you go with no final tally I am now reluctant to buy the AH cars unless stock standard mechanicals because I might as well buy from Car Collection and pick up the design separate then upgrade the mech from there.
Upon level-up I used to blindly take the car every time. Now that the AH is open I realise that I now have a whole bunch of …um… (trying to use words that won’t get up any noses) rubbish that I don’t want but can’t sell. Car collecting is over-rated, if you are offered an unwanted car for free, take the cash.
If you sell the car, its really none of your concern what the person who pays for it does. They paid for it, you sold it. Transaction over. Just like in real life.
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It’s been 10 1/2 years and people still haven’t figured this out
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Bad move not letting players retrieve credits when they ate outbid. Shouldn’t have to wait until addiction ids lost.
I agree with that. Super annoying.
I’ve seen several f&f pack cars and a lot of other freebie cars for sale in the auction house… How is this happening?
I ask because I want to dump mine off and I wanna know how they did it. I really hate to just remove cars when I could sell them to someone but I really wanna thin out some of the junk cars ive been “gifted”
OK OK one last time here we go if you BUY IT you can sell it if you DONT Buy it you can NOT Sell it, got it
So in other words if you want to sell F and F cars BUY Some to sell
But if you sell a car with someone else’s tune or paint on it, who gets credit for the download/use, if there is any at all?
i give up on the actual AH… lost interest by the credit cap , i sold few cars in lost in cr with the upgrades…
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@DamMe2006 How do you know you like the tune if the car is sitting in the AH? It is not about the tune. Regardless of the rating if the car has been upgraded and tuned by someone else then you should get the parts that go with the car. Yes, you lose the tune because that is someone else’s work. If I buy a car and it has had an engine transplant and various other goodies added but I don’t like the wheels and put it in the tire shop for a new set of mags when I go to pick it up they have not restored the car back to the original factory issue and knocked of my modded engine etc…
Yes but you have to understand the context of why they may implement such a system. In previous games, the build was maybe as much as 60/40 as important as the tune. So the tuners would get upset when someone could just download the tune, strip it, then look at the build that was left.
It was a cause of much griping on the forums and the wider Forza community. As someone who had stumbled across a great build, sold the car with their tune on it - next day, ten different people where selling the same build with no tune/ their tune.
Context is really important to a lot of the changes which happen in forza - they generally don’t do these things to wind people up.
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But the tune section is different to the upgrade section. We can both buy the same parts and go off and do our tunes and they will be completely different. If I go to my garage and sell a car the as standard E class I will get tier 1 say 20-40’000CR which is less than in the Car collection. If I upgrade it and add the parts can’t I ask more. I was tempted to buy a couple of Ford GT’s because I have a nicely balanced Upgrade - Tune and a spiffy paint job to go with it. The Ford GT is 445’000CR in the Car Collection and the ones I was looking at one was 495’000CR in the AH. Now it had no paint or tune so the only other thing that can carry the price increase is the upgrade of tires or the rims etc. If I buy that for 495’000 CR from AH and want to upgrade it to my specs not only do I lose those few parts then buy those and more back again. Then if I sell it to someone else and they don’t like the wheels or maybe my idea of an upgrade is not their personal choice then they would have been better off not buying my car either. I paid 500’000CR for a car that has a value of CC 125’000CR and anyone with an IQ that reaches double digits would be aware that that is not economical and borderline stupidity to do it again.
It is a fizzer IMO
I purchased a Mercedes truck but that was about the same money as CC add a little for the paint job and knew when I got it I would lose the few parts because it’s rating was only a wafer over standard it was not a deal breaker.
I do agree that the second you touch the paint or tune that belongs to someone else it should be removed completely but the parts removal is ridiculous.
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Do you guys know an easier way to search for the ‘Special’ cars in the auction house?
I dont think it is supposed to be easy. the only way to my knowledge right now is to just search for the brand and brows trough it.
You can narrow it down to manufacturer and division to find them fairly quickly. That’s how I’ve been doing it.
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I’have sold cars but I can’t get the credits any tips (Xbox one) ?