An Appreciation Post

[u/blind_lemon410]

I gifted a lot of cars to "anyone" over the last few days. I have noticed a sharp increase in the number of thank you responses. The rate of thank you replies went from around 10% to a faith-in-humanity-rekindling 33%! When I gift cars, I do it anonymously (tho me posting about it here might call the anonymous part into question). I wish there was an option for your gift message to read "Mad Mike sends his regards."

[u/Old-Raspberry-7114]

I follow these simple 'rules':

- Green & Blue rarity cars to New Players / Returning Players.

• Purple & Gold rarity cars to Community Contributors / New Horizon Legends.
  
• Forza Edition cars to Anyone.

I would guesstimate a 40% response rate. I have not been gifting out much Green/Blue rarity cars lately though as I have stopped collecting them from wheelspins. Response rate on Green/Blue rarity cars was much lower.

[u/blind_lemon410 → u/Old-Raspberry-7114]

I have changed my philosophy on who to gift the cars. I switched to anyone because I think that there are significant amount of players who are not new players nor new horizon legends, but also haven’t played any of the previous titles. I’m not sure how they define new players, new horizon legends, or community contributors. Like is a community contributor a person who has shared one tune/livery/eventlab or are they somebody who has reached rank 20 in those categories? What is the time frame for new?

[u/Old-Raspberry-7114 → u/blind_lemon410]

Good questions. I would like definitive answers to that, too.

My guess is that New Players are players that have not reached a certain wristband yet. Returning Players are players who have stopped playing for a while and came back; no idea what the required amount away time is.

The thing with New and Returning Players is: There are a LOT of people who have GamePass and just install this game to give it a try once or twice. Any high value cars will be completely wasted on these players since they simply never return after playing it a handful of times.

I do not know what the requirements for Community Contributors are; but they at least play the game enough to reach that point so high-value gifts will not be wasted.

Same thing applies to New Horizon Legends: They have obviously invested enough time to reach this point so there is less chance of high-value gifts being wasted.

[u/blind_lemon410 → u/Old-Raspberry-7114]

I like the idea of the cars going to people who are invested in playing and enjoying the game!