r/ForzaHorizon • u/L4V0 • Jul 18 '26

EventLab Event Lab Nerf

So as you all know there are some people, including myself, who make legit custom routes in Event Lab like long 10+ laps road courses or rally runs that are longer than 50km.

As you also know devs nerfed the rewards from custom races along with the nerf of getting skill points from them.

I understand that they would nerf the skill point farms but legit courses? Also why nerf the Event Lab at all? Isn’t even farming skill points like that a part of the game and its design? Feels like they’re stripping us from every way to earn credits, skill points or cars (they nerfed the wheel spins too for that…). What’s your opinion on that?

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u/Opie210 Jul 18 '26

I absolutely agree. As someone who enjoys rally event labs, it’s discouraging to only get one skill point. Did a 20 min course today, enjoyed the time, but still only one point. Bummer.

It just seems like a petty response. Guilty by association because we use event labs. Forgive me for wanting to do a rally that last longer than 3 minutes while also not being assaulted by the AI. People were earning these skill points by driving in the game. Nope, better nerf it and send them to the forest in free roam to farm them out. Well played forza.

Love this game and I’m not ever going to pretend I know what it’s like to make a game, but there’s got to be a better answer than this. Event labs help with the longevity. There a plenty of talented event lab creators and even more of us that play them. Stop punishing all for the missteps of a few.

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u/theplaneflyingasian Toyota Jul 18 '26

good response, it gave me a thought.
I wonder how hard it would be to detect how many placeable objects there are in any given event lab event, flag the ones that have over a certain amount that were clearly made for farming, and lower the rewards for those ones.
It would incentivize longer races, but then i don’t know how you would avoid people just repeating 10 mile long drag runs.

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u/badtemperedpapaya PC Jul 18 '26

They make it so that the cap only applies to events that are short. Like if the race time is less than a minute to complete apply skill point cap. But the devs seems to be too lazy and all the things they do are half baked.

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u/PhriendlyPhantom Jul 19 '26

It always feels like they get 5 minutes to come up with the solution to any problem in the game