Suggested

Proposed changes to Car Design & Parts

this will change the game totally, now we need to focus on the training of driver and raising morale of the staff...
also need to build facility to increase the parts manufacturing

Can I suggest that car wear be set to the managers levels & the reliability stat on the car is fixed in place and cannot be worked on with design points or spies.

Level 1 100point reliability 1part per race to fix the car
Level 2 95point 2parts
Level 3 90point 3parts
Level 4 85point 4parts
Level 5 80point 5parts
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Fast-forward
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Level 16 25points 16parts
Level 17 20points 17parts
Level 18 15points 18parts
Level 19 10points 19parts
Level 20 5points 20parts

Not to de-rail the thread...but reliability should be something that can be worked on. Much like how parts are designed to last a certain kilometers, I should be able to determine how long my car's parts last.

I just got online, saw an 8th place finish just a moment ago, not good... anyway.

i have looked over your idea and the responsibility of a TD is to manage the running on the team, not just the design side but a lot of aspects. however the TD's function on this game is unclear, by giving it a better purpose is better than where it is, so i don't mind the change.

the last bit you mentioned about the parts thing, could you expand on that a little? a bit more details on what you propose for example, how much wear parts take per race, and such. at this point i don't know enough about your intention if it is a good idea or not.

Jack is going to increase wear rates and you will use Reliability to lower percentage of wear per race.
But I was thinking along the lines of high levels build the car faster causing a lack of quality, where as the low levels are slow at building the car means they have better quality parts.
Basically the wear is the same no matter what your level, your not having less reliability it's just costing more parts because of all those extra wing-lets you have on the front-wing & side-pods lol

I thought you were going to make more simple;)
First of all Looks good;)
As for the Research part as the Tech based of rating according to team level in my opinion Moral should be based of max possible office per team level (lets say 5 star moral would be office level 12 of level 12 team). the same for Research facility if getting involved.
As for the parts production (if all gone well and a team level 10 is fast as level 20 hehe) don't know if they can catch up with production if even if they have max facility (e.g level 10) or if they would spent all design points to have lower wear but in the end lower speed ;)

Would be good for balance i guess but i am more practical have to see it for real ;)
Thanks in advance;)

We actually started talking about something along these lines in my league 10 minutes before you posted Jack. I like what you are going to do.

Well at this point i am not sure on idea two at this time.

i am aware there is a choice that you could just nerf the amount parts gained per race on each level so you end up producing less parts but you would still end up with a surplus, just not as much as before. currently you can waste between 2-4 parts per race per driver on repairs alone and still build up 100's of parts. nerfing it by a large enough amount could leave 20 or 30 parts over a season instead. the exact amount depends on car league number 1 or 2 so they may or may not need to be doubled or not and just cut the number down per rank per race.

I'm not sure I understand this. "the full benefits will be obtainable to managers of all levels". But you already said that a 2.5-star TD unlocks 50%. What does "full benefits" mean?


I think the design points should be applied automatically to whichever part of the car the TD has focused his research on. Just giving us the design points to use where we want seems strange because it's supposed to be the result of specific research by the TD.


How much will morale be a factor in this?

It's best not to think on it too much, as it's just confusing let them do the thinking hehehe

6star = 100% or 99%
5.5star = 91% or 90%
5star = 82% or 81%
4.5star = 73% or 72%
4star = 64% or 63%
3.5star = 55% or 54%
3star = 46% or 45%
2.5star = 37% or 36%
2star = 28% or 27%
1.5star = 19% or 18%
1star = 10% or 9%

Is there a 0.5star and 0.0 star?
There is a 0.0star

I have a very simple idea for the manufacturing facility:

Why not say that you need as much spare parts to repair your car as your level is. So the manufacturing facility should produce as much parts its level or double as much if you are driving in a league witj two cars.

Maybe you could use instead of your level the highest level of the chief designer or design facility.



edit:
max(level CD, level DF) = spare parts needed to repair per car

level manufacturer * cars in league = spare parts produced

also i guess, it would be okay, if you can repair either complete car or nothing.

Hello, I have some suggestions to make the game better (sorry for bad english):

1. Tyre Wear data in Practice - This will allow us to make better decisions in terms of strategy and will make the free practice more realistic, now there´s no indicative of what tyres are better further than lap timing.

2. A tiny visual enhancement that could bring us more customization options and much better car looking would be to put the manufacturers in the livery (engine m. at the nose, fuel m. at the lowside or engine side, and the tyres in the tyre on white, i can make a montage but i dont know how to upload it here) now there´s not really diffence between selecting one or another, this way we add it a visual difference and a customization part.

3. 2 new facilities, wind tunnel and test track, and in the improving way your are following it could boost some stats, ex. wind tunnel downforce and/or cooling, test track handling and/or tyre economy, research facility fuel eficency etc..

4. Last but not least the Doctor should affect the recovery rate of the drivers.

1.another thing as i think is important is KERS/ERS, to see more realistic at the hibryd system of actually F1,
uses automatic all in every lap, and dont give the chance to spend all in 1 lap to get fastest lap.in addition in headquartes research
makes a new option as "battery recover efficency",and with this you have more or less ERS in every lap.

kers system to push all in 1 lap its totally Obsolete.

2. maybe introduce like F1, Ultra softs. more tyres more strategy fun.

3.and it's good no possibilty to spy another teams/manager. It is beneficial because it does not know everything about the other teams

Really glad to hear it, this is getting only better and better.

I've only just had time to read this thread, but I like what I'm seeing, it feels like we're really going in a good direction.

The sooner this plan is put in place to equalize things, the better. right now several races in a row, one team and driver has been 2.5 seconds faster than everyone else, no one can even touch him in the races. at this point i am considering moving to another league and taking the $20m hit. i would like to fight for a chance to win, not to finish every race where i know there is little point actually taking part because there is no chance of fighting for a victory and gaining prize money.