Design cloning

Is designer time used by cloning? I had not noticed until today. But after cloning my design schedule had changed about four weeks later. Or is this a part of this same glitch.

In this case my parts deveolopment were scheduled to occur on June 5th and 6th right before the end of my season. I had my design development slider all the way over to "next season" so that the last increase would go entirely to next season. I came to check it this morning and found that the dates for parts improvement were now in July instead of June.

By the way I have never seen the problem listed in the OP myself.

Thanks, I used cloning a lot this season and had not associated this with cloning until now. This means that cloning has the negative effect of delaying your conventional development. It might be good to include that information in the guide.

I wouldn't say its a negative effect, more of a knock on effect.

If your at 50% and clone and gain say 10%, you are now at 60% so ofcourse it would take longer for the same no. of designers to make an improvement on 50% than an improvement on 60%

Seems negative to me. Clone one part, say rear wing, and the other parts now take three times as long to complete as they would have otherwise. I'll never use cloning again unless it is near the end of a season and I think I need it to win the last race.

How can you clone a rear wing say and suspension takes more time to complete ? This is the first I've heard or seen of this.
Only the rear wing would take longer to complete

The problem is I cloned one part and installed on my car. The next day the dates for development of all my other parts, chassis,rear wing, fromt wing, internals, sidepods, etc were all one month and a few days later than when I had last seen them before the race at which the cloned part was added to the car. Exactly the way Jay described.

i see

I could have sworn that information was in the guides somewhere but I cannot find it, so it seems to have 'disappeared' somehow - maybe I just can't find it.
Yes, the fact that there is a negative impact should be explained somewhere.

As I recall, last season I cloned almost every part but did not notice that conventional design was affected by cloning until late in the season. I thought it was a glitch of some kind at first as I had to keep readjusting my conventional design manpower. It was my habit to try to assign manpower so that all my parts advanced on the same day. Thus the due dates kept being pushed back and after 2/3 of the season I had not seen any next season development.

I no longer use cloning at all and my design style is to apply manpower to only a few parts at a time in order to achieve some progress almost every day. Moving sequentially through the parts this way I get every part upgraded in about four to six days.

I searched through the guides at the time I first posted this question and found no mention of this conventional design delay. In this case "find out by yourself" seemed very cruel and I wished that the guides had mentioned this.