Occasional Tales

I had to start with the seasonal On the Trail to get the GMC Syclone so that I could do the weekly. This was the start of me building cars which kept being the wrong year. Old person problems. The weekly was all right, although spare me the Street Scene races. I took a pic of a Jag from the 90s, and then went smashing bamboo, which got me the Crown Vic and the FE S-Cargo (following on from the FE MB 150E the other day). I dealt with the Evolving World car meet and a picture there. I’m inclined to observe that they could remove the car meets in a future update, and no one would miss them. uox populi cum uocibus magnis uox omnium non est as they might have said in Latin. Cosworth your Worth was my second attempt to use the wrong car even though it was eligible in all other respects. I ended up driving the 1995 Corvette ZR-1, which was another stock+ car (i.e., minimal scope for upgrading, and thus piss-poor handling). I wasn’t overly impressed by the inclusion of Soni, which is little...

It was easy enough to determine the location of the treasure chest from the picture (beach east of the spaceport). I did the new Hokubu car meet. Don’t see the point of this feature, which seems to have been added because a few vocal sorts were mistakenly believed to speak for everyone. Clearly most players are wary of these things. The weekly. Well, that was a little embarrassing. I’m so used to having the car that I didn’t consider that I could get it from doing the Street Runner seasonal. In truth, the Delorean’s so cheap from the Autoshow that buying it was no great bother. The tasks for the weekly were no great bother, either. I think the Delorean was also eligible for the photo. Another stupid phrase ticked off my bucket list. For the drag race, the target time was 21 seconds, which I just managed to do in the 911 Turbo 3.3. I’m sure some people willingly do these drag meets, but this feels like another forced engagement task on the playlist. I managed to one-shot the Deep Forest...