Stephen Fizer medal 5000 6 years 204 days ago
I have 2 CD,
1 CD w/17-16-17, Strength Handling, weakness TE,
2 CD w/18-20-18, Strength Acc., weakness Downforce
Which one would you recommend keeping,
I'm a LVL. 16 and just looking for a little help, yeah thought about keeping both, but just a little expensive .
John Doe medal 5017 6 years 204 days ago
Staff levels don't matter, how many stars do they have??
Jack Brabham medal 5097 6 years 204 days ago
Keep #1
Best strengths to have are Acc, Downforce & Handling. You don't want to have any weakness in these. Absolutely no reason to keep 2 CD's.
Kevin Bissell medal 5000 Super Mod 6 years 203 days ago
Two or even three five star CDs with good attributes, if managed correctly, will give you an extremely strong car at the beginning of the season. The downside is the expense.
Also, because of levelling and having to build facilities it's not worth considering until you get to high levels.
Once you get to L18 and above you level up so infrequently you begin to accumulate wealth and a five star staff member remains five star for a long time, this is when multiple CDs becomes affordable and effective.
Currently I'm experimenting with 4, but I don't think there's any great advantage over 3.
Stephen Fizer medal 5000 6 years 203 days ago
There both 4.5 stars, so which would you keep?
James Greer medal 5000 6 years 203 days ago
Keep #2 18 Talent.
Downforce maybe important but Supplier can boost it and avoid using research on Downforce build it all yourself to get best gains from research.
Kevin Bissell medal 5000 Super Mod 6 years 203 days ago
Stephen.
Sorry to contradict James, but I would keep #1 which in my opinion would give you a stronger car at the beginning of the season. So now you're no closer to an answer than when you started this thread. Maybe do a poll and take the majority decision.
Gustavo Heiden medal 5167 Super Mod 6 years 203 days ago
Knowing they're both 4.5★ I would keep #1 and sell #2 just because it's not good having a under developed starting desing in any of big four attributes (acceleration, braking, downforce, handling).
@James, when researching on a WEAKNESS, it will give you most of the times half of what you would normally get.
Kee Cheyenne medal 5000 6 years 202 days ago
One measure managers use when deciding which CD to purchase is for the CD to have a "good CD's weakness" in addition to having a good CD's strength.
While strengths in the big 4 (Acc, Bra, Hand, Down) are considered good, in order to maximize your gains, especially for next season's car design, you'd want the same CD to have a weakness in stuff like Cooling or Reliability, stats which do not significantly contribute to your car's performance.
As such, look not just at your CD's strength, but CD's weakness when evaluating which CD you feel is best for you.
Frank Thomas medal 4977 Moderator 6 years 202 days ago
For me a good weakness is more important than a good strength even. So my vote is keeping CD #1. I'd be not happy with the 2nd one for a 2 CD strategy but there he can work because A) you don't need him for that many races and B) research is no problem because at that time the other one would be in charge. Still, even there if the 2nd CD has a Top4 weakness I'd prefer one that is a strength of the other CD.
@Kevin: Are things that competetive in MJL again or are you preparing in case of Marcel returning? ;-)
Kevin Bissell medal 5000 Super Mod 6 years 202 days ago
@Frank. Yep, it's competitive. Quite a few Managers are now fast, if Marcel returns he might find things have changed in his absence.
Even Gary Collyer got a team up to elite and then departed after a couple of fruitless seasons. We like to think the competition was too hot for him but considering the number of accounts he has at 10k rep points, his explanation of unsuitable race times was probably correct.
Two races into the new season and I haven't won either of them so 4 CDs was an expensive experiment that didn't work.
@Stephen. Sorry for going off topic, I hope you retained CD #1, it's like a couple of people have said, just as important as a good strength is a good weakness and in my opinion a weakness in TE is slightly better than a weakness in Downforce. Not only do strength and weakness contribute to next season design they also have an impact on research. Other managers tend to develop the big 4 as a priority, so having a CD strong in one of these allows you to maximise research in that area. Whereas having a big 4 as a weakness forces you to place your Design Facility DP in this attribute because the CD weakness significantly reduces research.
