Why is this so hard to get?
Listed as “common” but I have never seen it.
There was a seasonal event some time ago so I can no longer try to win it
and the auctions are always the same.
Some one gets in on the last few seconds before my bid is no longer accepted.
I tried to time it just right but when the auctions says ending soon, its too late for me.
I got out a stop watch and timed it to the last minute and 40 seconds but then someone still
gets in a bid even when it says “auctions ending soon” where for me it is too late.
I dont have the 7.5 mil to buy outright.
I really want this car as it was my first irl car I owned and it’s kind of a sentimental thing.
Well, it’s not available in the Autoshow as it’s a previous exclusive car, which means it will be relatively hard to buy. There’s one which you can buyout currently at the AH for 5 million. Otherwise, you’ll need to find one with a lower start bid price but if it is quite low, there’s likely to be a lot of competition and it’s luck on the “ending soon” screen as to whether you get it.
Its less about bragging rights, and more about being simply a mechanism to keep people coming back to the game week to week and month to month.
The problem is this element of the game is not really broadcast loudly to new players.
There should be a video focusing on the weekly challenges, what they are and how they work, for every new user…instead you get hit with a car to pick, a race, and then your map starts to get filled up with races to achieve and so forth…this element, the weekly forzathons really get lost.
It’s not hard to acquire forzathon points, and if you save them you’ll have plenty to spend on whatever car you want. Nissan 300z, Prelude, Lambo Performante, Ferrari Pista, etc. But getting them is on their time, not yours, you have to check weekly and you have to put in a little time to bank some forzathon points for when the cars are made available to buy (or, alternatively, just to win by competing challenges).
To the OP: The Prelude is a car only made available via the weekly Forzathon challenges or in the Forzathon store, which is where you use the points you win by completing those weekly challenges. Sometimes the car itself will be a reward for doing the challenge, other times the car will be available in the weekly forzathon shop for purchase.
If you do the 4 weekly challenges in a month and you own that specific house that doubles your forzathon points, you’ll get 200 points per week. If you get into the habit of doing that weekly challenge every week you’ll be drowning in points.
Example, this week you can buy the Bugatti Divo for like 650 or so points.
It’s not just the Honda Prelude, there’s an excessive number of cars that are nearly unobtainable due to the whole timegating mess to try to coerce players to log in each week or miss out on these exclusives. IMHO this is the single worst aspect of the franchise, and I really hope they do away with it in future games (or better yet, push out a FM7 style car unlocking update to FH3 and FH4 and kill it sooner).
Not a very useful car either. If you live for them ok, but tried various tunes, haven’t used mine much.
Weird how R34, Trueno, a few others are all huge money on AH.
Popular, but many don’t have the CR like some of us have.
Need to put stuff in CS, even at premium prices.
Can’t figure out the Ctypes going for more than a new one in CS either.
Or Supra, Ranger,…
IMO old market was much better with locked prices and lowest default settings and search reset, so you could always grab some cheap ones.
I could buy that Prelude for you and list it as low it can go, but again it’ll probably get snatched by someone who just flips them.
My view would be that the current system is much better. The old system meant that you could only sell some of the rarest cars in the game for peanuts. Obviously, that meant that no one sold them (at least no one who understood that a Crown Vic was quite rare) and the divide between legendary painters and normal players was even greater. The current system should properly reflect market forces and encourages sales at a level which seems sensible. I do disagree with the change to have the buyout set to the maximum (rather than minimum) though. That’s really removed the ability for people to pick up bargains and was presumably brought in just to protect stupid people.
Buying a Prelude and selling it to Baker should be feasible. I bought one yesterday and re-listed immediately for 1,000,000 (way under the going price) and it took 10 minutes to sell. This isn’t a car that’s that in demand that its guaranteed to sell instantly (of course, you might be unlucky in that someone else does happen to search at the same time).