
Post by
YourMomSA | 2019-06-29 | 05:19:50
I don't know about the others, but I do a mix. I buy full packs when I'm doing races where I want to go all out to try to win AND I think I'll need to use a lot of cards. Like the current Magellan leg, where navigating the strait is going to require an insane number of programmation cards. In the past, I bought full packs quite often, but less lately because I think they raised the cost at some point. Over time, I accumulated something like 40,000 credits, largely from earnings on races where I paid for full packs. Well... at some point you need to go ahead and spend those. So in races I want to do casually, or races like record attempts where you often can do well without using a ton of cards (and where you also get a month to collect 6 cards per day like you've observed a bunch of us doing near Carthage), I use the credits.
So for me, it has more to do with the nature of the race, and how seriously I want to take it, and the price of the full pack, than mathematically calculating a breakeven point.
After the finish of a race where you didn't buy the full pack, you can return up to 100 cards for 5 credits apiece. So the parking lot near Carthage is doing two things... One is to accumulate programmation and waypoint cards, in case another good starting weather window surfaces. You park near the finish so you can finish and restart without delay. The other is to rack up at least 100 cards to collect 500 credits when the event closes.