Gran Turismo 7 Review - A Legacy of Love on Display

[KSUowls]

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I looked around online and tested some myself. The most efficient races for credit grinding seem to be Fisherman's ranch and the first race of the PanAmerican cup. Neither of these really satisfy the issue of buying an $18m car, or even a $2m car for that matter, but they do seem to be the best options available.

Fisherman's ranch was nerfed from the latest patch, but you can still earn $45k in about 3.5 minutes with a clean race. The big catch there is "clean race". Personally, I've never been good at dirt tracks in racing games, and so this one took a bit of practice to really nail down. I can consistently win the race now, but I probably fail the "clean race" objective 10% of the time which drops the winning down to $30k which is not a valuable use of time.

The PanAmerican Cup first race (Blue Moon Bay) seems to be the most efficient, if you have the right car. You have to run 6 laps around the track, but you can turn those laps in 30-35 seconds in the Dodge SRT ($1m to buy). So you're once again around 3.5 minutes for a full run. This track nets you $52k with the clean race bonus which is super easy to get since it's a triangle track with long & wide straight aways. The only downside to this track is the number of screens that you have to go through through in order to repeat it as it's part of a championship series.

Blue Moon Bay gives more credits per minute of race time, but Fisherman's Ranch might be more efficient overall since you can immediately Retry the race rather than going through multiple loading screens (assuming you can always get the clean race bonus).

[tc020791]

Gran Turismo 7 Review - A Legacy of Love on Display

I looked around online and tested some myself. The most efficient races for credit grinding seem to be Fisherman's ranch and the first race of the PanAmerican cup. Neither of these really satisfy the issue of buying an $18m car, or even a $2m car for that matter, but they do seem to be the best options available.

Fisherman's ranch was nerfed from the latest patch, but you can still earn $45k in about 3.5 minutes with a clean race. The big catch there is "clean race". Personally, I've never been good at dirt tracks in racing games, and so this one took a bit of practice to really nail down. I can consistently win the race now, but I probably fail the "clean race" objective 10% of the time which drops the winning down to $30k which is not a valuable use of time.

The PanAmerican Cup first race (Blue Moon Bay) seems to be the most efficient, if you have the right car. You have to run 6 laps around the track, but you can turn those laps in 30-35 seconds in the Dodge SRT ($1m to buy). So you're once again around 3.5 minutes for a full run. This track nets you $52k with the clean race bonus which is super easy to get since it's a triangle track with long & wide straight aways. The only downside to this track is the number of screens that you have to go through through in order to repeat it as it's part of a championship series.

Blue Moon Bay gives more credits per minute of race time, but Fisherman's Ranch might be more efficient overall since you can immediately Retry the race rather than going through multiple loading screens (assuming you can always get the clean race bonus).

If you have a PS5 Blue Moon is the way to go. You can make $700k per hour. But yeah it’s pretty ridiculous the cars cost so much compared to what we make in game. Even before the patch I had played about 100 hours already and had only made like 4mil credits. Admittedly I wasn’t farming for all those 100 hours, but I definitely did a small amount of it. At that rate, if I didn’t spend any money on anything else, it would take me over 500 hours to even sniff some of those cars. It’s absolutely absurd. They’re gonna lose half their player base in 6 months when people don’t have enough time to grind for a 20mil car. Not to mention if you want to tune a road car specifically it could cost you upwards of $200,000 [emoji23]

[jrnlgrn]

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So happy that the game is working again. However, I am now curious to see which manufacturers you guys are selecting for the upcoming online championships starting soon. For me personally, I usually didn't bother doing the Nations cup from GTS, and I am mostly focused on the manufacturers cup for now.

Just in case, you are curious to know which manufacturer I ended up picking Genesis as my manufacturer of choice. In the deep forest time trials, I ended up with a 1:28.9 in the Group 3 version with Manual shifting and Traction control on three. I could probably try again tomorrow to better that time but at least I wasn't horribly off the pace like the daily races that I attempted to qualify for last week!

I haven't played GT since online multiplayer became a thing. How do these manufacturing championships work?

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[jb12780]

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I dropped 20 bucks for 2,000,000 credits last night. I’ve been using the cars I’ve been winning, then tuning them. I do wish there was an option to sell these cars though.


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[jrnlgrn]

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I dropped 20 bucks for 2,000,000 credits last night.

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Don't tell that to the people on Reddit, they'd have a meltdown.

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[jb12780]

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Don't tell that to the people on Reddit, they'd have a meltdown.

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Oh I’m very aware I’ve been reading that for the last couple of days now.


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[jrnlgrn]

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[dickey1331]

Gran Turismo 7 Review - A Legacy of Love on Display

I bought 2 of the $75 PSN gift cards from Best Buy that give you 750,000 credits each. One gift card was to buy GT7 and the other was to buy the Show. The credits definitely help. I already suck at this game. Don’t need to make it any harder.


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[goillini03]

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I bought 2 of the $75 PSN gift cards from Best Buy that give you 750,000 credits each. One gift card was to buy GT7 and the other was to buy the Show. The credits definitely help. I already suck at this game. Don’t need to make it any harder.


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I did the exact same. Nice to get the GT7 in game cash for something I was already going to do. And…used BestBuy rewards points to play for $60 of the $150 transaction.

[videobastard]

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On one of the 4 star roulette ticket i received 500,000. Nice come up.

[KSUowls]

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I still haven't received more than I think $30k on any individual roulette.

I stand by the individual segments of what I listed in my final impressions yesterday, but I do have to amend my overall recommendation.

After another minimum cash roulette prize and spending an hour spamming the Blue Moon race I realized that this game has too much anti player bias for me. I enjoyed going through the campaign, and I can see myself possibly playing somewhere down the road this to satisfy a racing fix if I ever feel like doing another lap around the nurburgring ring. This game needs a massive overhauling to its rewards structure to be worth playing continually though. I have an Porsche Carerra Invitation that costs is $2.3m set to expire Tuesday, and a Bugatti invitation for around the same price that expires a few days later. To be able to purchase just one of these cars, I would need to run the PanAmerican Blue Moon race 43 times, or to land some gold bars in roulette (which obviously isn't happening). It doesn't feel rewarding to do your daily mileage quest because the roulette gifts seem to have such an immensely low chance of getting anything good, and spamming 1 race for 3 hours (roughly equivalent of 43 Blue Moon races) to be able to afford 1 moderately expensive car is just insane.

So my updated final thoughts are:
Fun game, but unless you are willing to participate in their MTX scheme then stay away until a major sell.

[DarthRambo]

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By far my biggest complaint is the low rewards for races compared to prices of cars. I agree with above poster. By 3-5 months they'll lose a huge amount of players cause of this.

If nothing else, online races need to pay out a good 10x more. Race C this week takes 20min+ to complete counting entering the race, qualifying session, etc. I finish top 5 and receive I think it was 15k or thereabouts. That needs to be more like 150k. It costs near 300k to fully tune a road car. I'll never afford a 10+mil car on this game and that really bothers me. No way I'm playing the same single player race for hours on end just to buy one car.

[jasontoddwhitt]

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Another example of micro transactions trying to ruin a game. Hopefully they get it balanced out, otherwise Polyphony is going to have a serious issue on their hands.


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[doubledeuceR6]

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Picked this up a couple days after the patch that broke the off road licenses.

Have enjoyed it for the most part but it's certainly a bummer they've gone in the direction they have with the rewards.

This is the first GT game I've played since GT 2 I believe. I was a long time Forza player up until a few years ago and completely got out of racing games.

This gave me the itch again though and I picked a up a Thrustmaster T150. I was going to get the 300RS but I already had a set of T3PA pedals so I saved a little money instead not being sure how long this itch would last. Other than not being able to be hard mounted the T150 is not a bad little wheel.

Looking for some ghosts to chase so if any of you guys would like to add me feel free.

PSN id: doubledeuceR6

[jrnlgrn]

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Yeah MtX aside the race payouts or price of cars will need to be adjusted. I was messing around with the custom race settings and a 24 hour real time endurance race only gets you a little over a 100k. If someone is willing to truly run a 24 hr endurance race you can't have a 100k payout.

I was on Reddit and saw someone was using remote play and a script as a way to farm credits. I'm guessing it was on a course like stage X and it would auto start the race over and over. Stuff like that is why we can't have nice things.

I'm sure at some point adjustments will be made. GT games have a long shelf life, 2 releases in a cycle if we're lucky. So I think they'll be more likely to find at least a middle ground going forward. Like easily exploitable tracks remains low payouts but others get a decent bump. Unlike an EA or 2K that are on a yearly cycle where there is huge reluctance to change major things.

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