What's changed today?
- When in a league, you no longer earn XP from Quick Races. Your level XP gains become tied to the league.
- Level XP gains from leagues have been restored to previous levels
- If you are not in a league, you can earn level XP from Quick Races at a rate of 10XP per race for up to 10 races per day.
Note: As with the first release, remember that we are still at the beginning of the development of this system and it will constantly evolve. This is simply a first step to better balance XP. Larger updates can be implemented further down the line.
What are the expected and intended outcomes of these changes?
- Level XP gains from leagues have been restored to previous levels - this should allow lower level managers to catch higher level managers more quickly if they are racing together in a league.
- Quick Races can still earn level XP outside of a league - We have maintained the ability to earn level XP from Quick Races, and for some it will be faster than they can earn it in a league, but the balance of parts/engines does not favour playing this way currently. This is temporary and larger long-term plans will eventually address this and other concerns.
- Quick Races now earn 10 level XP per race and up to 100 level XP per day - This is quite a dramatic reduction to coincide with the rise / restoration of level XP from leagues to a higher level. This is intended to balance the gains obtainable from both and to make it less attractive to leave a league just to gain level XP, as we want to ensure leagues are still the main focus.
Essentially, this is the just step 1 towards implementing what people voted for in our Future of Quick Races poll. We will now continue brainstorming how to evolve the systems before we come back to you with more news.
EDIT 14:32 GMT - I have revised the wording to remove references to 'Option A' from the recent poll (linked above) as it was clearly causing confusion as to what we are actually doing here. This is an interim update moving towards implementing 'Option B' which people voted for. The first few replies immediately following this might not make much sense until you know that. This post was initially worded differently and its meaning was misunderstood.