Jordan Murphy medal 5000 12 years 337 days ago
After listening to all the news surrounding Pastor Maldonado and Williams GP, and the accepted practise of yesteryear, I had an idea about pay drivers in iGP Manager. With some teams struggling along, nearly heading into debt, what about being able to sign a driver who will pay for his/her seat, as in say 1m per race or whatever?
Obviously they would be of a fairly low level talent wise, as are/were the vast majority of pay drivers.
Jack Basford medal 5193 
CEO & CTO 12 years 336 days ago
The main reason we haven\'t done this is because it would unbalance the economy too much to have some teams paying a lot of money for a driver and others getting a pay driver.
Perhaps pay drivers could become available only if you are in debt.
Jake Goodhall medal 5000 12 years 336 days ago
That might have solved my problems during the beta testing!
But I think it would be difficult to manage - at what point do you then have to \'buy\' a driver?
It might be worth looking into though.
Mart Välja medal 5000 12 years 336 days ago
Well, pay drivers are usually worse at driving (that\'s why they need to pay) so they are slower so top teams would not want a pay driver so it would benefit only teams in trouble.
My 50 cents.
Michael Morrison medal 5000 12 years 334 days ago
The term \"pay driver\" seems to be misunderstood. Pay drivers are drivers that have a relationship with a particular sponsor. Thus, a team will get more money from sponsor x than they would from sponsor y for driver the next Michael Shumacher or what have you.
In Maldonado\'s case, he is the best guy from Venezuela, and Hugo Chavez needs people to come to his country and what not...you can go on, but its something that is a bit tough and needless to replicate, especially how this sim looks.
Ti Papak medal 5000 12 years 332 days ago
Yap, but in histroy of F1 there were rubbish drivers (bankers) who payed to drive one race.
DELETE ACCOUNT medal 5000 12 years 315 days ago
How about some form of sponsor bonus linked to specifiec drivers?
E.g if you pick Joe Blogs as a driver, your sponsor iwll give you a 10% bonus per race.
Dean Boy medal 5000 12 years 314 days ago
\"Rick
How about some form of sponsor bonus linked to specifiec drivers?
E.g if you pick Joe Blogs as a driver, your sponsor iwll give you a 10% bonus per race.
like this idea....
Matt Parmenter medal 5000 10 years 324 days ago
I also think pay drivers should be linked to suppliers, e.g if I signed a japanese driver, Wonder engines would come cheaply
High Rev Racing medal 5000 10 years 324 days ago
I was playing a very simular game to this about 4-5 years ago an they had a "Pay" system. Where you would use pay-pal to purchase game credits to in a way rent parts and drivers for 4-8 weeks depending on how much you paid. You could also pay for extra pratice sessions an so on.
Also all the game credits went back into the game. The major con to this was if you were only playing the game for the love you never stood a chance against the paying teams.
BD
Dennis Olsen medal 5000 10 years 322 days ago
"Brian
I was playing a very simular game to this about 4-5 years ago an they had a "Pay" system. Where you would use pay-pal to purchase game credits to in a way rent parts and drivers for 4-8 weeks depending on how much you paid. You could also pay for extra pratice sessions an so on.
Also all the game credits went back into the game. The major con to this was if you were only playing the game for the love you never stood a chance against the paying teams.
BD
A bit off-topic, no?
