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Leagues based on levels

It isn't really how it was before, other than ballast, applied to your account if you were in a lower league with a higher account. which is still in place today for pro. 

For me and I think i've said it in the past, the single biggest differentiator for a L21 account in Elite, is access to a good driver. It doesn't matter how many DP you have in the car when the driver is 10 levels behind. 


But lets just look at a few issues with a level based system.

What happens if you level out of range of your league mid season? Going from 20 to 21. Or in the case of a 3 level gap, get knocked out of that. Season over? Removed from the league. And what if you want to play with your friends buy they are behind in levels, so you have to wait or carry on without them? Or if the season finishes, what if you get hurled into the next league up despite not being in a promotion spot. Wouldn't that just make you feel worse? You weren't in the top spots in pro and now you are in elite? Would that not also be worthy of complaint?

Not insurmountable problems, but they are all factors that need to be considered and dealt with. Personally I think I prefer a merit based system, and to be asking for changes to the league system, a month on from a change, it seems peculiar. wouldn't it be sensible to give everything some time first? Most leagues will barely have completed 2 seasons under the new structure so far.


Also i'm just going to pick up on one of the last things you said HCR, "unless I buy tokens". I'm not saying that a slow progression is the right way to try get players to spend tokens (or the wrong way for that matter). But just as a side question, what would you buy tokens for?

Edit: Updated a few of the paragraphs as I hadn't seen HCR's latest post when I wrote this.

You did, our posts crossed paths. I added a few new parts just to try highlight the complexity but I'm guessing you may have started your reply by then :)

But you reached elite under the old system, correct?

A new system has just been implemented to try and help with the problems you are having.

- Rookie Tier Removed, Progression through levels 1-10 is exclusively through sprint races now

The idea is that this results in a more active pro tier, which slows down progression to elite. It's going to take some time to see if this has the desired impact or not. Which is the point i'm trying to make. Action has just been taken to make changes a month ago and your experience predates those changes.

No I don't think deleting you account and starting again will help at all. There's other factors that also need to slot into place which will take time.

Being in elite, you will be levelling up faster as you level up based on the level of the highest ranked player in your league. So you gain 250xp per race if you are racing against an L30.

My opinion is that allowing access to fully trained drivers earlier in level progression, or maybe even based on which tier you are in would have a better impact on the gaps between levels. You probably still won't be regularly fighting for wins I think there are times when you would be in the discussion.

Hard to be certain without being able to test that out though.