Issue with pit stops

Alin Costrasuc

OK, this is getting ridiculous. Game is up for ages now and still the issue with tire switching hasn't been resolved. Today I had a race with changeable weather. I started on softs and around lap 4 it started to rain. I deselected "follow weather strategy", and selected "unschedueled pit stop", selected wets from the pull down menu and hit PIT button. My drivers pitted and guess what they took ? Softs... As of result, my race was ruined.

Please fix that horrible bug once and for all. It spoils our races. We pay money for this. It didn't happened to just me and this particulary race. Josh Brain had the exact same issue as me and Eton Fed's drivers didn't pit when instructed.

I would tell you a joke Edwin about my word that offended you so much Edwin (word which by the way was just a figure of speech, I'm sure everyone understood), but I'm afraid how you will take it (although is just a joke, it's funny and it's not directed at you).

Most of the concerns have been fixed in the latest development build for the simulator, but the new simulator is not stable for release on the beta server.

@Alin - you are a beta tester - you should know all that?!

Know what ?

The fact that this game hasn't seen an actual gameplay update in so long to fix crap like this, or to reduce the random factor of quali.

Or to give managers control of their drivers during quali so that quali is less random.

Or the fact that tyres are 100% backwards in this game and that 95% of the time, the Hards and Inters are amazing un-viable.

Or that people are still having problems with this game and Java. Or the fact that this game is still a "Pay to Win" cause 9/10 managers not using 2D in Elite will get destroyed by managers in Elite using 2D 90% of the time.

Or the fact that drivers in this game are cowards 90% the time and will sit behind a driver for an entire lap while being lighter and with optimum versus cold tyres just so they can pass with DRS.

Or the fact that vital information is hidden from people who don't know to press "¬" on their keyboards to see track wetness.

Or the fact that some tracks were clearly not tested in all weather conditions to compensate for less than 0C conditions due to the range of times races are held at.

Or the fact that keyboard hotkeys aren't implemented into the game to allow both drivers on your team to simultaneously use Kers.

Or the fact that the default setups don't have accurate fuel stints to prevent a splash and dash that because the game is still rather dumb isn't a splash and dash but another 55L fuel stop that might be 3 laps before the end.


This is such a long list of major faults for a game people are paying to play. Sorry, want to help support you guys but you are really bad at showing your customers that progress is being made, making us really lack confidence in your ability to fix this.

We constantly hear, "fixed in beta/development", "high on our priority list", "a very well known un-squashed year old bug", blah blah blah blah.

Had it not being for some of the great lads in the league I race in I would've dropped this game months ago and I'm almost certain that'll be the same for 95% of managers (which probably 25% don't have second accounts that bump up the manager number giving false readings of how many people actually play this game).

This isn't the online version of the old Grand Prix Manager games we loved back on our ancient Windows 2000 PCs.

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You are right Ethan, track wetness should be made visible on-screen. I mean, i real F1 information about weather and track wetness is known by managers. I mean, common, they can measure the wetness in the pit lane (sure, not the real thing, but still) and communicate with their drivers and receive feedback about this. Some will say "I want this tire or another".

Andrew did say earlier in the week that he's currently working on putting the wetness into the 2D hud. So atleast we know it is coming some time.

On a closer look to Ethan's last posted pic, it kinda makes sens the wrench icon close to the helmet. Sometimes, my drivers run so bad it makes me wanna (like in adventure games) combine the wrench with the driving helmet...

I agree with everything that Ethan has suggested. We are paying for a game that has known bugs that still aren't fixed in the year i have been playing.
If these are not addressed by the next time i have to pay money then i am certainly not going to renew my subscription.

Didn't know about the free viewer :O Other two I did xD

Look forward to that Jack

Well this update can't happen any sooner.

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Fantastic news, thank you!