Refillable perks that don't function?

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I’m working up a new dirt racer (the Opel Manta). It has two refillable perks: one 25% bump for dirt races and another 50% bump for campaign races. The campaign race bump doesn’t seem to be working.

From some testing I did back in FH4, it’s my understanding that road races, dirt races, and cross-country races, but not street races, are all considered to be campaign races, and it seems that would be so in FH5 as well.

I ran a 5-race series without the perk charged and averaged the xp values, then filled the perk and ran another 5-race series, averaging those xp values as well. The averages of the two series were within a couple hundred xp of each other, when the second series should have been significantly higher. I tried this on a dirt course and also on a cross-country course with the same (lack of) behavior.

Anyone else see this behavior? Is there something I should know about how those perks are applied? Would it be reasonable to open a ticket for what looks to me like a bug, or is this just too insignificant for the devs to address?

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put in a ticket, yes

I have noticed the counters don’t go down in many situations

campaign counter goes down for any race/event except midnight battles
road/dirt/cc/street work for turn-up-and-race events, blueprints and championships but not trial, tour or open
the hot wheels perks do not work at all

there is a bit more to it but I’ve not actually looked at the payout to see what’s working or not

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Thanks, @SpirantCrayon22. I’ll bug it.

This came up when I was following up on your research on one-point perks, for which I must thank you once again. The Opel came up on that list with a 50% campaign xp bump on a one-pointer, and I was looking for a good dirt racer that would be cheap to campaign. Then I was puzzled when it didn’t seem to pay off. In fact I’d been suspicious about those campaign bumps before but never explored it. So I went into a research mode of my own and started running races with this perk and not that one, and so forth.

Even without that bump, that Opel can bring in a skill point per lap at, say, Pipila.

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