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Why Isn't My Team Developing?

Hi Steve.

You’ve competed in 341 races so you already know that everyone’s car design resets after Abu Dhabi and you all start afresh with your new design in Australia.

Your design is based on the CD(s) that were designing your car for the previous season. I don’t expect that your design is lower than everyone else in all attributes except one. You will find that most other teams, like you, will have one or two attributes which are strong and others which are weak, no single team will be stronger than all of the others in all of the design attributes.

The number of dp a CD will generate over 17 races depends on their level/star rating and strength and weakness. An ideal CD will be the same level as the manager (4.5 or 5 star) and will have a big 4 strength and cooling or reliability weakness.

A CD with these characteristics will design a car with 43dp in six areas, 50 in strength and 22 in weakness, giving a total of 330dp before supplier bonuses are added.

Your CD is a level lower than your manager level so will most likely give a shortfall of 7dp, total 323 before supplier bonuses are added. Also you are suffering because your CD is strong in Reliability and weak in Downforce. So, in a nutshell if you’re in a competitive league you seriously need to change your CD as soon as possible because every race this season your current CD is designing a bad car for next season.

Then it gets more complicated because you can get a better design (344 total) by utilising multiple CDs but this is expensive in terms of wages and only viable when you get up to higher levels and are not levelling up so quickly.

Phew… does that help? LOL

Steve

Apologies, it wasn't me who closed this thread but the person who did close it did it with best intentions to keep the forum tidy. I believe he tried to re-open it but possibly a glitch in the system caused it to close again.

Anyway, in an attempt to explain your experience...

Unfortunately you didn't say how much stronger the other three teams were. There are two possible scenarios:

1. They have 4.5 or 5 star CDs who are the same level as their manager level. As I said above this will yield 43dp in the standard attributes (not a CD strength or weakness) whereas your CD, because they are lower level than your manager level will at best only generate 42dp. If this is the case your competition will be stronger than you in all the standard attributes and the only one where you will be strongest is CD strength which, assuming you're Elite tier, will hit the cap of 50dp.


2. Your opposition may be running with multiple CDs which will allow them to achieve the design cap in more than one attribute. Many experienced high level managers use this strategy but it is very expensive in terms of tokens and game cash, especially if you attempt it at low manager levels because you're always chasing new staff as you level up.

I think the most likely scenario in your case is #1 above because you mention three teams who are all equally strong in certain attributes and it's unlikely they are all running multiple CDs with the same strengths.

Does that answer your question?

Thanks
Kev.

This is because for every race in the current season the CD generates 1/17th of the design for the following season and the design accumulates as the current season progresses. You don't lose the design that has already been generated if you change CD.

The exception to this is if you change leagues. The optimum time to join a new league is in the season break, you will be awarded a starting design that assumes the CD who is active at the time of joining the league has been active for the previous 17 races.