A short story of the ring
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Level 1
The ring
Every city has one roundabout that nobody is allowed to stop. This one turns all day and all night. You are not behind a wheel. You are the one who decides when the next car gets to join.
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Levels 2 to 3
The radio
Then the radio crackles, and police cars join your queue. At Level 3 the first violet pickup barges into the ring with a countdown. Your ordinary cars cannot stop it. Only a police car can.
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Levels 4 to 5
Cash and gas
An armoured cash truck comes round, and nobody must touch it. Then a gas tanker joins the traffic, and what it takes with it when it goes, is everything close by.
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Every 15 levels
The syndicate
Somebody is sending the pickups. Every few levels the syndicate's boss itself comes for your ring, with escorts, armour, or no lights at all. Put one away and the stolen money is yours again.
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After the first boss
The Family
They respect a driver who put their boss away. They lend, and they collect.
A different crowd notices you now. They lend money, and they want it back, on the day on the letter.
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Whenever you are ready
Start again
When the career has no more to give, Prestige sends you back to Level 1 with everything you earned, and the road plays harder. Five stars in, a famous roundabout of the world opens its twelve roads into one ring: the Étoile.