Woo boy, I was hoping that the Jaguar event was an exception and not the new "normal" for new car events, but as of race 1 in day 4 of the Lotus Exige event, things do not bode well for this event. The updated Shelby GT500 (non-Snoop Dogg edition) event that introduced the new staged rewards based on how many days you completed of the event was very much doable and a very nice change of pace. Making BPs for the car available semi-permanently after the fact, and giving folks multiple ways of getting the car is great, and the difficulty on that event returned back to normal after the insanity of the final race of the Jaguar event.
Enter new update and Lotus Exige event. Days 1 through 3 were fine, but it just took me 6 attempts to get through event 1 of day 4 because there are quite simply not enough ramps to accumulate the airtime needed, unless you hit every single one the exact right way. And even then, you have to hit every single one perfectly - there is no room for error at all, and that is excessive. I am anticipating that the final race of this event will wind up being another Jaguar final event that will be impossible to meet all of the requirements AND beat the opponents. It may prove me wrong, yet, but I don't expect that it will.
Sadly, NFSNL is on its own in the market, at least on Android. I suspect if there was a real competitor, it would end up better both for players and for both games, as it would drive both of them to improve if for no other reason than to try and one up the other game. (Look at Forza Motorsport and Gran Turismo as a good example of this) Anyway, I will report back my findings as the event continues on, but should someone from EA end up reading these forums at all - you might want to reconsider how you tune these events, because this is getting out of hand.
