thomas IronLotus medal 5000 8 years 70 days ago
Across several seasons I trained my drivers up to maximum speed, attack, defence and physical (to be fair one still had about half a season's worth of training to go on physical). Sticking with these drivers for so long and now highly trained, I felt I had a chance to compete midfield in the elite tier. However, when the new version of the game is released I find that maximum stats for the drivers has been slashed down to 8. As a result I am now a complete backmarker in the elite tier and soon to be relegated so have written the season off before it even began. I understand that my simulator is capped at a specific level, that is fair enough. But I do not think it is fair that having trained both drivers from scratch up to the top level that they are now average at best. I am sure there are several other teams in the same situation, if so please add your comments to the thread. I'd like the IGP team to take a look at this issue and ideally for me reinstate the driver statistics that took so long to achieve as I feel I have lost out big time :(((
Charles Sandfer medal 5000 8 years 70 days ago
this was a thing because the driver levels got reset to where the team level is and could not be trained to far above it. This was covered in another part of the forum concerning Driver Training
thomas IronLotus medal 5000 8 years 70 days ago
I know the driver levels were reset to the team level, that is the problem.
Jack Basford medal 6098 
CEO & CTO 8 years 70 days ago
We can't reinstate driver stats. One positive is that you should be gaining XP much faster than the other teams, if you are many levels lower than them. To be frank, at level 8, that's very low for Elite. The level cap of Rookie is level 8. Part of the balancing measures will help to prevent level 8 teams going up against level 20 teams, although there will be some pain short-term as everything re-adjusts and finds an equilibrium.
Sorry for what has happened to you, there are a few cases in every situation whenever a "catch-all" operation is run like the driver balancing. We have more updates on the way to improve car design balancing which may benefit you in the near future.
thomas IronLotus medal 5000 8 years 70 days ago
Ok, well it was worth a try. You might be right, I'm not sure how much XP I'm gaining per race or how much manager rating points I'm losing for that matter. I can see that the figure is lower each race. That's good to hear at least, thank you for the response
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