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Hidden skills or decimals ?

Hi Dan
This question has been asked before on a number of occasions but the devs are not letting on and anything you hear from anyone else is speculation and opinion. Don't expect a definitive answer.
Decimals and rounding would answer some questions but not all of them.
Take a look at these three...





Driver 1: Attributes all 20 but level 18
Driver 2: 8 points lower attributes than driver 1 (all in Mental) but L19
Driver 3: Attributes as per driver 1 but L20
Who can explain that without hidden attributes.

The three drivers I posted images of are all male and all 51 kg (minimum) so weight doesn't explain the difference in level.
It was also not a height issue because this was also discussed at length in the original thread a little over a year ago.
Here's a link to the discussion, unfortunately the images are no longer visible... https://igpmanager.com/forum-thread/7508

I think stars are a bit of a red herring because they are a measure of the difference between the manager level and the staff level. As the driver approaches the same level as the manager he/she gets more stars and the training progress slows. When they are 5 stars they only train 3% per button push. More important for drivers are the attributes but I can't work out how this equates to level. As you can see the three drivers I posted are
Driver 1: Level 20: Total attribute = 220
Driver 2: Level 19: Total attribute = 212
Driver 3: Level 18: Total attribute = 220
The star rating of each is relative to my level which at the time I think was 18 (may have been 19)
I was looking for an explanation as to why Driver 3 is 2 levels lower than driver 1 with the same total attribute value and driver 2 is 1 level higher than driver 3 even though his total attributes is 8 lower.
A couple of POSSIBLE reasons would be:
All values between 19.1 to 20 are displayed as 20. If talent is a multiplier of other attributes then clearly a 19.1 multiplier is going to result in a much lower overall total than a 20 multiplier.
Or maybe there are some hidden attributes such as a "Legend" attribute which nobody can see.
Or maybe the level has no influence on driver speed and we're all scratching our heads trying to work something out for which there is no answer.
It's all speculation of course, the only people who know are the developers and they ain't telling LOL.

I have no idea what causes those level differences either, although I'm also pretty convinced that Talent got hidden decimals. Experience obviously got them. I don't know about the other skills, or if a skill up is applied in a way, aka just a +1.0, that would let them keep that decimal difference until the end. So it might be possible that some cap at 19.5 and others even at 20.4 there (depending on how those numbers are rounded the values might be different but the delta should remain the same), as long as it isn't a hard cap like the 100 in car attributes.

Another thing would be that for staff levels age is a thing. There are one or two age steps that can trigger a staff to level up. I do notice that Kevins examples are not only ordered by level but also by height and age. Height can't explain it though, because there are shorter drivers also with a high level.

Then there's performance. Sometimes a driver has a run, sometimes suddenly he turns into a complete dud. Or the constant in my old team that the first driver with higher talent most of the time won the in team championships of better training times, better qualifications and being ahead in more races (at least on same strategy) but the 2nd driver most of the time won by points and achieving more of the teams milestones like first Xth finish or podium. So like some car attributes fit some tracks better there seems to be that some driver fit better to a car and/or track and in my case those second drivers fitted better to the way I built my car or at least to those tracks my car was also more competetive on.