I'm starting with 2.4 million credits and lots of cars?

[ΛƘ 420]

I thought that in Career mode I'd be building my career from scratch, having to earn credits by racing and building my team and car step by step.. At least that's what I've read in reviews.
Now I found out that I have 2.4 million credits and can choose from over 30 cars to begin with.

Is this how it's supposed to be?

[Nero]

yes thats the effect of the Bought DLCs

everyone is annoyed with this ..

what you could do is maybe: Sell all the cars and then use Cheatengine to take away the money

[Roughdude]

HAXXXX!!!!!

[ΛƘ 420]

Originally posted by 🅺🆄🅼🅰:

yes thats the effect of the Bought DLCs

everyone is annoyed with this ..

what you could do is maybe: Sell all the cars and then use Cheatengine to take away the money

So from buying the GOTY edition, I'm already rich and have everything set up for me?
With which cars am I supposed to begin with? And how much money? I'd like to have the original intended experience.

[Nero]

Originally posted by LouCris:

Originally posted by 🅺🆄🅼🅰:

yes thats the effect of the Bought DLCs

everyone is annoyed with this ..

what you could do is maybe: Sell all the cars and then use Cheatengine to take away the money

So from buying the GOTY edition, I'm already rich and have everything set up for me?
With which cars am I supposed to begin with? And how much money? I'd like to have the original intended experience.

You get the DLC cars for free and a bonus of like 100.000 credits

[Nero]

Originally posted by 🅺🆄🅼🅰:

Originally posted by LouCris:

So from buying the GOTY edition, I'm already rich and have everything set up for me?
With which cars am I supposed to begin with? And how much money? I'd like to have the original intended experience.

You get the DLC cars for free and a bonus of like 100.000 credits

You should start with 0 credits and Only the H1 Lancia Fulvia and the Rallycross opel corsa

[ΛƘ 420]

Thanks for the tip! I'm currently trying to reach 0 credits by buying and selling.. But I think I won't be able to reach exactly 0 though.
Too bad Codemaster didn't add an option to start from scratch for their GOTY edition.

[Storm's End]

That's kind of annoying. The fun for me is building a career and starting from nothing. Guess I'll do this too.

[d[-_-]b]

What happens if you reset all your progress in the settings? Does it zap you to zero or give you back the starting money and cars?

2.5 million doesn't go that far really. I pretty much tapped it out buying only 2 cars, upgrading them, and upgrading a couple of engineers. I couldn't really care about the grinding anyway, I'm more in it for the driving.

[Axe]

Originally posted by LouCris:

...Too bad Codemaster didn't add an option to start from scratch for their GOTY edition.

It should have been the case from the off, no options required :-/

The number of threads about this on the forums since game release is absolutely ridiculous which indicates the massive disappointment in this 'stupid beyond belief' decision.

[Axe]

Originally posted by Max Headroom:

What happens if you reset all your progress in the settings? Does it zap you to zero or give you back the starting money and cars?

I can't answer that as I didn't get a version in which I received these credits but when I did a total reset of everything I did go back to where I started which was zero credits. So maybe it always goes back to where you started which would be 'with' those credits.

[Xenial Jesse]

Can confirm that. And just think, if you could just zap yourself to 0 credits that way it probably would have been the first suggestion in this thread, and all the other threads, since this topic has been around the block so many times.

So just for clarity: If you reset Racenet data, you just get all* the free cars and credits back.

*Except the 5-car gift pack if anyone got that.

[Simon said EAT DUST PLAYER_1 !]

Originally posted by LouCris:

Originally posted by 🅺🆄🅼🅰:

yes thats the effect of the Bought DLCs

everyone is annoyed with this ..

what you could do is maybe: Sell all the cars and then use Cheatengine to take away the money

So from buying the GOTY edition, I'm already rich and have everything set up for me?
With which cars am I supposed to begin with? And how much money? I'd like to have the original intended experience.

This is not intended to be a "Gran Turismo" game. But somehow they thought bringing in some "game-economy" for the sake of providing a challenge was a good idea... ...so there you go.

You start with a one-man "team", solely relying on your co-driver and your chief-mechanic. You then build up a more skilled team (to facilitate more complex repairs within the time-limited service-windows between stages). And you pay for parts-repair and -replacements during events.
Naturally, the more modern and high-tech your car, the more expensive that gets for comparable amounts of damage.

So you can generally keep your wheels on the intended path but you happen to acumulate a lot of repairs and find yourself unable to finance all the fixes at some point of a rally, unable to continue with a clean and fully-functional ride: "welcome to the (virtual) reality of rally" (where you have to weigh the amount of risk that you are willing to take with the amount of cash you still keep in your pocket.

Short answer: you purchased dlc, so "you're worth it"

[d[-_-]b]

Thanks for the info.

Other people have stated the credits are a one time gift and once you use them, they are gone and you don't get them back if you reset - which is counter to what some people are saying here.

I appreciate some people like to grind career modes, but I generally just play custom champ or time trial. I just wanted to tool around with the career/challenges for some extra fun, so don't have a problem starting with a big advantage. Though I might reset it at some point and try it is the main reason I wanted to clarify what happens.

If I need to play pretend from 0 I'll just mentally subtract 2.5 million and work from there. None of the cars you get for free are upgraded anyway, so not a huge boost, or just don't use them.

[Schnauzahpowahz]

*cries in vanilla game with barely enough funds to repair cars*

[Axe]

You are doing something wrong then. You need to start with the 2 (I think) cars which are free to repair and get some finances under your belt with the dailies and weeklies etc, first before you start spending. There may be other ways to get the cash but that's how I did it.

Can't remember which 2 cars they were though. Someone will if you yourself don't know of course :-)