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Inactive player starts season with the best car?

Is it fair that a new player joins a rookie league and finds it is dominated by an experienced player opening a new account and having Talent 20 drivers donated from a primary account? This isn't a bug either, but just like "second season development" is a feature which is exploited by experienced players to the detriment of newcomers.

@Dea. I don't have a problem I have an opinion, isn't that what forums are for?

I was simply pointing out that the game has certain features that experienced and knowledgeable managers can exploit. One of these is the second season maximum design feature which many managers are aware of and which in reply #3 above you say is unfair. Another is the ability for experienced managers to recruit Talent 20, low level drivers into rookie teams that are only 1 or 2 days old from other accounts and use these drivers to dominate lower tiers and boss it over inexperienced managers.

Neither of these is a bug and neither is strictly speaking unfair but to exploit them requires knowledge and experience of the game which many newer managers don't have. For less experienced low tier managers to have a championship or promotion taken away by experienced managers using these tactics must be demoralising. You recruited two talent 20 drivers into a new team which was only one or two races old and used these drivers to win promotion in your rookie season at the expense of (in your own words) "the rest of long term players who struggled and took a lot of time, effort, tokens and patience". In my opinion, this falls into the same category as a manager who gets maximum design by exploiting the second season development trick.