Frank
Yes, I think the first step should indeed be fixing the league search. As I was searching by filtering the race days that are most convenient for me resulted in quite a lot of leagues presented to me but not a single one actually matching my search settings. If I did not knew this league I'm currently in existed before I did my search and thus me actively looking for it by other means and I would've never found it, or knew that any exists matching my preferences. I still don't know if there would have been another one with single car teams, which was my first plan as I wanted to try that one out for a change.
I completely agree, the problem is not the amount of leagues that exist, it is the way players find leagues. To find a new league with the league search page is impossible and 90% of players are joining the leagues that the game has given to them because they have literally no idea or literally
HAVEN't been shown any kind of sign that other leagues exist. To a rookie or noob they might literally believe that the game only has 6-10 leagues because of how uninformative and unhelpful that page is.
The league search is way too similar to the transfer page, the same staff are shown everyday just like how the same 30/32 car leagues are being shown everyday. The staff that are the easiest to get are taken by the rookies, just like how the leagues that have the most cars are joined by rookies. These rookies have to clear out bad staff so other players can get better ones just like how almost full leagues must be filled to make way for smaller ones. Although this only works for the transfer market and it makes no sense for the league search! Leagues that match your search settings should be shown first not after and most of the time not at all ffs.
Idk why the system has stayed the way it is for so long but if iGP really wants full leagues then how about we just create dedicated leagues for each and every time zone with each of them having their own schedule and format. Once a dedicated league is full a players will then gain the ability to make one more league with the exact same time zone as that league. BUT IT'S TOO LATE NOW IS IT? Too many league hosts for that, too many players! You let it get out of hand! FIX IT!
K now that I've calmed down, I'm starting to realise that maybe too many leagues and a bad league search are only part of the issue. I'm seeing many league hosts here that used to have decent if not full rookie tiers but now have almost empty tiers. It seems as if there is also an inactivity problem in this game. Maybe the fact that it is the summer holidays is a factor but idk. It is iGP that have all the numbers & data and yet they aren't doing much with it. Maybe there should be be an "official iGP league hosts" group that directly relay these issues to the devs because I feel like league hosts aren't listened to as much as racers even though they are just as important.