Need For Speed No Limits - Beginner's Guide

Hi folks!

Here's a strategy for getting through the first stages of the game, without spending much (or any) real world money, and without getting frustrated.

The first car

You'll be starting with a Subaru BRZ, which gets you through to Level 2, where you can race for Golf GTI blueprints without having to upgrade much. I'd recommend the Golf as your first car, for a couple of reasons:

• It has 5 stages, so the maximum part level you'll need is rare (blue). 
• As a street class car, it doesn't take too much to upgrade
• It can reach a PR of 631 when fully upgraded
• It has two bars of "green" RPM, so a perfect start is all but guaranteed

Gold

You'll get some gold income via the daily assignments, as well as the car series races. There is absolutely no reason to spend it at this point, you should rather build up towards a stash of 1000 to 2000, which you can use later.

Real money

If you want to spend real money on the game, I'd recommend getting one or two monthly gold cards. You can get them for $2 to $3 when a "sale" is on, and each gets you around 1500 gold over the course of a month, which you can stash for later.

Upgrades

You'll be getting some parts and materials via car series and underground races, as well as the loading docks. You can spend some cash on additional crates as well - always by the 5-pack for 20000, so you get one free.

You'll need the Ford Fiesta to race for common upgrade kits in the Tuner Trials, and the BMW M3 to race for uncommon. Some kits will come in via loading docks and regular races as well.

An alternative to using upgrade kits is to max out the stage for the Golf, or any other street car. Once that's done, you no longer need upgrade kits here, since you'll get uncommon or rare street parts instead of blueprints.

Underground races

With some racing practice, the Golf can get you all the way to Level 11. That's where you can race for BMW M4 blueprints. The opponent is somewhat above the maximum PR for the Golf, but the race has plenty of drifting and jumping opportunities, as well as a long track, so you shouldn't have any problems farming this.

The next car

The BMW can get you way beyond 700 PR, so it's a good setup for the next stages. At this point, you'll be having a hard time actually getting to the XP levels required, so it's a good time to start building up some other cars, and use all the parts you've collected.

Tournaments

While you could pick up some tournament credits with the Golf when they let you, now that you're building up your fleet, you should be able to get some out of most tournaments. This is important, because you need the Toyota Supra for upgrade kit races, and that's a tournament-only car.

Events

Now here comes the time when you can actually use your gold stash - event cars are often quite powerful, but tend to be hard to get, or you need a decent chunk of gold to buy the missing blueprints.

I've got my M4 Razor that way, which has been with me for really a long time.

Have fun

What you do next is really up to you - you can work towards completing some car series, getting ahead in the tournaments, pushing towards story mode - whatever looks most fun at the time. This is, after all, a game :)