With the obvious increase of pricing of cars this time around, Credits are obviously more important than previous Horizons.
I’m perplexed at the staggering amount of CRs that some people have, hundreds of millions, or 50+ million after buying all cars, etc. I know PC players could sell HE cars for 5 (10?) Million pre-patch, but that can’t possibly be the SOLE reason, can it? Especially with the relative rarity of HE car wins on wheel spins (at Lv. 419 and only had one duplicate so far, a Focus RS.)
The question that I’m working to is, am I missing something? Some hitherto unknown method of racking up CRs? I’ve found it quite difficult to get CRs thus far, even at Lv. 419 and having completed most exhibitions/championships/showcases, etc. Even grinding Goliath with a skill HE car, which might net me maybe 1-2 million per hour plus maybe another million from spins if I’m lucky. Currently have about 18.5 million, around 27 million total winnings and have only actually bought a handful of inexpensive cars so far. Am I just extremely unlucky with wheel spins? Is there a better way to earn CRs than grinding Goliath until I tear my hair out?
When you rack up enough skill points you unlock perks that assist you in increasing your XP entitlements. Nonetheless, I agree with you on the parsimonious nature of the game and the exorbitant prices of cars! We paid good money for this game only to have it pull an uncle Scrooge on us, and it’s not even Christmas yet! LOL!!!
It’s quite easy to make a million in a few hours just through casual racing and their spins tbh, and hardcore fans will be racking up a ton of those hours.
Don’t underestimate how bad that borderline exploit on PC was though. HE cars in spins are rare, but remember that you only needed to win one in five million credits worth of spins to make a profit. I have no trouble imagining pre-patch PC players hitting the credit cap if they wanted to put the time in.
It is not easy to make a lot of money. Yes, at the beginning you make a lot of money from spins, happened to me too. But from level 300 on it’s not that easy. I am level 400 now and I need 50.000 XP to level up compared to 20k for the first 300 levels. Which means the amount of money made through spins went down from 100 % to 40 %. By the time you reach max XP (200k per level at level 900) you will get 10 % of the extra money you get during the first 300 levels. So say you made 20 million CR in your first 300 levels, level 300 to 600 you will only gain another 6.6 million CR through spins, level 900 to 1200 will get you only 2 million CR. Of course these are not the actual amounts you get, it’s scaled to time. In the time I can make 20 million CR at levels below 300 I can only make 6.6 million CR in the same time and so on. Basically you get less and less money throughout the game after level 300. Now at level 300 I had about those 20 million. I owned 200 cars, a lot of them from wheelspins. But the number of cars that are winnable is maxed. The highest priced car you can win costs 600.000 CR. The rest you can only buy. And that rest costs easily an additional 100 million CR (quite a lot Ferrari go for 10 million each). To make the money required to buy every car in the game without exploits (like the PC HE cars) means you have to play roughly 600 hours. The casual player will simply never be able to buy some of those cars. There is no point in including them in the first place if you make them so expensive. It takes 20 weeks of tier 11 rewards to buy just one 10 million car. That’s how ridiculous the pricing on the 50 most expensive cars is. Or how little money you actually make in the game. Yes, it feels like a lot in the first hours, because it is. And then it dries up.
100 million in about 3 hours of non-stop spinning and selling all HE cars for 5 mill a piece.
I actually like the credit rate.
I have not bought any cars over a couple of mill, have around 10m in the bank but have finished the game achievement wise.
I like that I am maybe about 20% towards the full car collection as it gives me incentive to keep playing.
I pondered the same thing OP. Im roughly level 550 and am sitting on 50 million credits in total.On the other hand ive a drivatar (friends list) in my line up who is just over level 500 but somehow has over 800 million credits. Then again my chances with rare car spins has been poor. I got my first HE car at level 100.
Its not quite as bad as some folk make it out to be if you can acquire one of the HE credits boost cars and use the perk that doubles credits you on along race like 3 laps goliath and yo can earn like 500-600 credits in about 30-35 min not factoring wheelspins that is if you are willing to grind
However I do agree outside of methods like that money does take a bit longer to earn
Ultimately I feel like it’s down to time investment and luck, as some of you have pointed out. Luck being the wheel spins, of course. I’m one of those that constantly will have it land on the 5k CR slot between the HE car and the 100k CR slots lol.
No doubt that some people have sunk insane amounts of time in. I have no time to play that much though, working 60 hours a week.
As the person above says though, I’ve seen screenshots of people half my level with 5x the credits I do, and claiming to have most of the cars already. shrug
Zeem, you have a point. I didn’t consider that they could’ve been buying wheel spins. Certainly possible to get at least one or two HE cars in 100 spins and have turned a profit.
Honestly I’m amazed that some people have the patience to do a 50 lap Goliath. I’d lose my sanity before the halfway point lol.
I can tell you from experience that buying spins to win HE cars on console is barely worth it. I spend 9 million CR spinning the wheel, took me more than an hour. I got ten HE cars which I sold for 10.5 million CR. So 1.5 million profit with roughly 80 minutes invested. It’s an OK return but not mind blowing. And the auction prices are going down already, some cars sell for less than 500k but you still spend 1 million in spins to get them. I did not buy those spins to get HE cars, it was actually the easiest way to get all those entry level cars. Buying them in the shop is just annoying, you enter, look for it, select it, select a color, buy it. With spins it is just added to your garage, takes a second instead of a minute.
HE credit boost cars are not worth it until late into the game. The XP bonus and associated spins give more money than the CR boost.
I think it is going to take me about 30 years to get all of my favorite Hypercars in this game. Even when I do get a Wheel Spin game, it only gave me about $2,000. HA HA HA
In Forza 6, you can get up to $3,000,000 in Spin game. If I don’t get very much credit in this game in the next few days, time to return this game.
quick question. do credit bonus HE cars give you bonus credits for beating bounties in head to head races? if so that could be a quick way to earn cash.
They, do, yeah. Turns the 50k into around 80k.
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Deal done. Thanks Y.H.
I guess a lot of you have never played FM4, right? Loved the economy in that game…but a lot of people were whining until credits are redundant in Motorsport now. At least Horizon keeps the spirit alive that you actually have to work for something. If it’s up to me, make them even more expensive and throw the perks out of the window, plus make a cap for xp in races so you can’t farm as easy as it is. These games were not meant to be played through within days originally…but it’s not coming back I guess…
With all due respect, I disagree. For starters, I work 60+ hours a week and don’t have time to grind Goliath for hours on end. I’ve done my share of grinding in racing games dating back to the mid 90s. The fun for me isn’t in grinding the same one or two exhibitions with the same car over and over ad nauseum. If I wanted to grind for money and levels I’d go play an MMO.
No, the fun for me is in driving and customizing the cars I want, in the races I want to use them in, and across the open world as I see fit. These cars are already (mostly) unobtainable in real life, they shouldn’t be nearly unobtainable in a video game.
Who’s to say that the way YOU want to play is the only “true” way to play the game? This is Forza Horizon, not Dark Souls.
FreddyRacer: Yeah, I’ve gotten a few good deals in the AH. One of the problems I have with it is the only cars that are ever on sale there are cars from wheel spins, meaning you’ll only ever see the same handful of cars at any given time.
I’ve seen some people making money with expensive cars on auction house.
Once I was looking for the Centenario (costs 2,3 mil at car dealer) and found one in the auction house for 2 mil (instant buy). I didn’t have the 2 mil yet, so I went out grinding xp for wheelspins. About 1 - 2 mins later I’ve gathered the few credits which were missing and went back to the auction house but the 2 mil Centenario wasn’t there anymore. There were only a few ones for 2,3 mil bid and 2,5 mil instant buy. Almost all had the same prices.
Flipping cars is a nice way to make more…at certain times of day you can get very good prices. It’s the natur of the AH.
Outside of boosts and perks, you can make a lot the old fashion way:
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Spend the time to create very nice paint jobs and copy the paint to other cars. If it’s good it’ll get used.
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Create tunes for drag, drift, racing, playground games, or whatever you think is needed. Label the tune appropriately so others know what the car is for. If it’s good it’ll get used.
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In the AH buy low and sell high. Lots of credits can be earned here with the AH flooded with wheelspin cars on the cheap.