Gareth
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Gareth
It has been mentioned but managers of top teams who enjoy winning championship after championship just have a massive moan about it because their perfect little strategies might get messed up once a season.
I hardly ever win but when I do it is because I beat the best by playing hard not because my opponent broke the car inexplicably. do you want to win? learn the best strategies and develop the car as the best do.
I never said it has to be inexplicable. I have mentioned previously, that reliability and cooling should have a purpose because as things stand, they are useless stat that nobody bothers to upgrade.
Unfortunately, it seems as though there is an elite group of managers that feel almost entitled to win every race and don't want anything to upset the status quo.
What's the point in playing the game when you get to level 20, you max out your headquarters, max out your drivers and you still can't compete with the top two or 3 teams in your league. There's multiple features within the game which aren't being utilised that can and should promote a more competitive atmosphere.
Actually, many of the best iGP Manager players would like the game to be very different from what is it now. Trust me.
You also said:
"What's the point in playing the game when you get to level 20, you max out your headquarters, max out your drivers and you still can't compete with the top two or 3 teams in your league."
Well, you only listed the very basic things you can do in this game.
Everyone gets to level 20 sooner or later, everyone can max out his headquarters and drivers. But the game is much more than that. That's not enough to be competitive and fight againt the best teams. There are many more things to do, starting from car developement which can be very tricky (example: after every race your TD tells you who has the most developed car, but almost never happens that team actually has the best developed car, it's just the team who has the highest overall design but most of times that team has a very unbalanced car). And there are some players who perfectly know how to develope a car in the best possible way, race by race, depending on the next one. And this thing alone can make a very big difference.
Then, there's the live race. In which sooooooo many things need to be done. Mastering the kers management is very hard. I've been playing this game for more than 4 years and I won many races and Championships in many different leagues but I still have a very low consideration of my kers management. There are some players who can use less kers than others but more efficiently, depending on the race moments and bits of the track where they use it. Using 5% of kers in the right moment and right place can be more efficient than using 20% but in the wrong moment and wrong place. And this can make a very big difference.
Chosing the right strategy is not always easy, cause ot often depends on what others do. For example, in 1 car leagues, if you find yourself running alone cause you have a different strategy than others during a race where DRS is very important, it can kill your race from the start. But if there's another team with the same strategy and similar pace, you can score a BINGO.
Example: Bahrain 75% 1 car. There are 2 potentially winning strategies for this kind of race in a very competitive league: 3 stops on S tyres and 2 stops on M tyres. If you pick the 2 stops on M tyres but you're the only one, you will never win the race if you can't keep up with the S tyre train during the first stint. But if other teams picked the same strategy, you have a chance to win if your little group is fast enough. Cause you have drs every lap just like those in train of S tyres and cause harder tyres in Bahrain are extremely good, especially in the second half of the race, they're even better than Softs. So, chosing the right strategy is tricky, depends on many things and best strategy for the same race can change from league to league even if the race lenght is the same.
Last but not least, the push levels management. This is very important in my opinion and there is more than one way to manage PL very efficiently, you have to trust me on this. I've seen the most strange ways to do it. I have a very peculiar way to do it and some other strong players do it in a very different way than me. Some ways can be better in certain situations and races and some other ways can be better in other situations and races. Many other players don't even play with push levels, they just check the tyre temperature and keep it in the right range. But we can do much more than than with PL. And a good PL management can make a HUGE difference.
Everyone has got his own style, skills and ways to read a race. There's a big room for improvement in all those different things.
I consider myself an expert player of this game and my PL management is my strenght towards many other players. But I wish I knew how to properly develope a car and how not to waste a lot of kers for nothing during races, cause both of things are my weaknesses, especially car developing.
So as you can see there are many different things that can make a difference, this game is not just about getting to level 20 and maxing out facilities and drivers. Some players are better at developing the car, some others are better at kers management, some others are better at PL management. And there are some players who can do all those things in a very efficient way. And those are the best players in this game. If you want to fight with them, you have to learn and improve, cause the higher the level of your opponents is, the more a matter of little details it becomes.
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