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Term Contracts with Suppliers

Hey all, as you should know by now, yesterday suppliers were given more influence in how they affect the design of the car.

In order to continue maintaining a fair and balanced system, it's a good idea to require teams to lock in term contracts with suppliers for a given number of races.

For example, I can agree to use Tifosi as my engine supplier for at least 10 races. I can't switch or terminate the agreement within those 10 races. After those 10 races have passed, Tifosi remains as my supplier, but now I have the freedom of choice to switch to a different supplier or continue using Tifosi.

By having this, players with plenty of cash can't switch suppliers throughout the season without at least waiting for the term contract to expire. This maintains the fairness of the game and keeps the game away from the "pay-to-win" model.

What do you think of this? Should we add term contracts? Do you have something to supplement the idea? Let us know below.

Totally agree, Yunus! Furthermore, thus we will avoid the tactics: each race I'll change my suppliers to adapt the car to ongoing race. I mean, is not fair and not reallistic to change supplier each race. When you hire a supplier you know the strong points and the weak ones. So, in order to make it more reallistic the game, agree!

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Seen this idea floating about sponsors, been able to negotiate terms or something along those lines instead of the current you get this for 10 races, I believe there was different ideas around this area to

I agree with Yunus. To add to it I think there should be more excitement to the season by negotiating terms.
For example;
Your the customer of the supplier so the supplier could offer a contract based on
A. no. of races
or
B. a whole season ( better deal for longer)
To make it interesting the supplier could have a option of breaking the contract due to poor race results, to encourage live race attendance

Definitely, having the contracts fixed for a racing season would be better in my opinion...

Definitely, having the contracts fixed for a racing season would be better in my opinion...

Yeah, interesting idea. I agree with racing season contracts.

I think a season is too long and if it's based on a season what happens if you switch leagues (or leave a league and rejoin)?

A fixed number of races sounds better to me, perhaps with the option of a supplier reset during the season break to allow for change of cd and the impact it has on initial design.

Yes, I'd like to keep it a fixed number of races as well. Additionally, if I can pitch it as a good idea to Jack, we could later add reduced prices for longer term agreements. Depends though.

Yunus I completely agree with your idea. I think 15 races is a good contract length as season is 17 races so it gives you 2 -3 days to decide end of season if you wish to change suppliers.

Also I think if the suppliers can be tied to say start in Australia and 15 races later contract ends in Japan this way it stays constant even if people leave mid season or join different leagues etc and you always have minimum 2 races end of season to decide if you wish to change suppliers.

I really don't think there should be, being able to change suppliers every race adds more strategy to Car development. The development part of the game is one of the most interesting parts for me. Even with the old supplier system I used to change them to suit the tracks, before my car was fully developed.

I think if they are locked for 10 races it takes away a lot of the point in having the positive and negative effects of the new system. In which case it may as well have stayed the same.

I don't it will make the game pay to win. If you save your tokens from sponsors you can buy extra cash this way.

If they are locked for 15 races you may as well just choose the suppliers with no negative effects and develop the car normally. At 15 races your shouldhave a fully developed car,so again I see no point in the new system if this period was introduced.

I agree with James. Locking into a fixed term will mean people just choose the ones with no negative effect and just develop the other points.
Also as you can't go above 100 in development anymore, being able to switch suppliers means you can tweet the finer points of car development. The issue of pay to win is null and void as you pay for the suppliers per race anyway so any switching will just mean the payment for the next race is taken early rather than at the race.

Furthermore if you wish to "pay-to-win" surely you'll do that though buying engines rather than suppliers.
I regularly use my sponsor tokens to top up my engines to allow me to compete in tight battles towards the end of the season. However I have never bought tokens in this or any other game.

I think that the contracts should be to the end of the current season regardless of when you sign them. Then there should be prorata penalties if you seitch mid season depending on when you do.
For example you pay 10%of your race fee for current supplier multiplied by number of races remaining that the contract is not being honored for.

I agree with you

I agree. Very good idea.