I have some observations and questions related to locked cars/tunes. I’ve seen this mentioned here, but the descriptions don’t match what I think I have observed, so I’m asking here for clarification.
- I noted with my very first auction purchase that the upgraded/“tuned” cars came locked. I quickly found I didn’t like the way it drove and wanted to change something. It warned about locking, I immediately understood the IP issues for the tuner, but didn’t care about losing that, so I agreed. Only then did I find that the multi-class upgrades that came with the car just vanished without warning. First off, WHY WASN’T THAT MADE CLEAR?! I didn’t find that mentioned anywhere, including that warning. The ONLY mention I EVER saw was on this forum long after encountering the problem.
- Want to race that upgraded car in career or any homologation race? Too bad, ether buy another, or accept that all upgrade parts are gone.
- Even more concerning, I noted that cars from other sources (i.e. T10) also sometimes came “locked”. Why? No customer/player IP to worry about there?
- If I pay more for a car with 2 or 3 class level upgrades, how is it I don’t own the parts? Particularly without that stated ANYWHERE…
- Fine. Aggravating, but I, as I’m sure with many others, just started ignoring any upgrades when determining what I was willing to pay. If you buy that S class muscle car hoping you can drive it in an S class lobby, you better hope you like it…
- At some point I unlocked a car, I don’t recall which or from what source, and found I had a bunch of upgrade parts left! Happy day! I then think T10 finally decided to fix what to me seemed a really stupid design choice (not a bug, this was clearly intentional). Given that they never officially stated that they would delete the parts, I wasn’t surprised that there was no notice of change to that silent policy.
- So I bought some cars with upgrades. Imagine my aggravation when I noticed one drove horribly, and upon unlocking to adjust the tune, I find that my R class car became a stock A without so much as homologation parts!
- I don’t download many published tunes, so would have to test to be sure, but I am pretty sure this affects upgrade costs for applying public tunes. If you don’t like it, too bad, so sad, you just wasted that money just to try the tune! I’m certainly prepared to be wrong on this one, but I’m pretty sure that’s how it went the last time I paid to try a tune months back…
So, can anyone point me to (or provide) a comprehensive answer on this? If not, why hasn’t someone asked T10 to provide an official explanation? Was I delusional about keeping parts after unlocking on at least one car? It’s not like I buy a lot of cars to experiment and see if something changes. If not, I’ll go back to avoiding applying “upgrade” tunes, and paying at most 30% of stock market cost for any tuned auction car regardless of class. If I want it, I’ll pay up to 50% of new for cars that have NO tuner listed. After all, I at least get homologation parts for those.