Vincent Tramontana medal 5180 5 days ago
I have been in the same league since 2016, so have next to zero experience changing leagues.
Our league races once per week.
Because our season last about 6 months we were in between seasons when the game switched to 300pt from 200pts and at the end of our season it was recommended from our league manager to leave the league and rejoin or there would be a penalty because the switch happened between our season.
I switched to a daily league, and since it coincided with my vacation, I decided after years of once per week I would just finish the season in the daily league. I saw the penalty and deemed it ok to be competitive. Also, I would only miss 3 races in a 24 race season in my regular league, so figured I would try it.
Not only was I competitive, I won the league. At the end of the season I joined my old weekly league having missed 3 races.
After looking at how everyone has developed after 3 races, I am so far behind it’s laughable. Forget competitive, not even close. Most categories for other teams are sitting, as far as I can estimate, at over 100.
Mine are 9.
Not only is there no way to ever catch up, but I also have 3 less races to develop for next season. Which means this season, as long as I don’t get relegated, is dead. I might as well not even play and next season will be difficult.
Add the face that it is a once per week season, that is a full year before I am back to normal. Not game year, a full real year.
This can not be the way it is intended.
I have been playing for so long. But this, with all honesty, is what will probably makes me stop.
The reality is our season ends in December, and there is little reason to even bother when you are so far behind.
I don't have a suggestion, I don’t even know what one would be, but this can not be the way it was intended to work.
Kevin Bissell medal 5003 Super Mod 5 days ago
Unfortunately Vincent, it has been this way since the design rules were last changed over 7 years ago. In a daily race league, the pain would only last three weeks at most, the fact that you race in a league which takes 6 months to complete a season makes it so bad for you.
Your design deficit is for this season only, you will not suffer a second season.
This is when the current design calculation was implemented. Believe it or not, before this it was even worse.
New Design Balancing system when changing league Vincent Tramontana medal 5180 5 days ago (Last edited by
Vincent Tramontana 5 days ago)
In the link you supplied it says
“If the new league is in a season greater than 1, then your designs will be scaled to the progress of the season. For example, if the season is in race 10, then you get "10 races of design progress", and if it's in race 16 then you get 16 races of design progress. This is applied to both the current and next season design, matching all progress to the league.”
It clearly says “matching all progress to the league”
That clearly does not happen.
Sorry, just incredibly disappointed.
Wanted to post an image to show how far behind I was, could not figure it out.
To add insult to injury. If I continue, I am so far behind I will most probably be relegated at the end of the season. After 13 years in Elite.
Again, i dont see how this is the way it is intended to work.
Kevin Bissell medal 5003 Super Mod 5 days ago
Yes, your design is scaled to the progress of the season, this just means that if there have been 3 races completed you will receive 3 races worth of DP.
For an account with a CD the same level as the team this equates to 24dp per race, distributed across the eight design attributes depending on your CD strength and weakness. You should also receive 9dp to assign where you wish. So, if you miss three races you receive a total of 3 x 24 + 9 = 81dp.
What this rule fails to address is the fact that all of the established teams started the season in race 1 with:
Number of races in season x 24dp spread across all design attributes.
So the baseline for the established teams in your league for race 1 was 22 x 24 = 528dp. They will also have benefited from 3 races worth of Design HQ points (90dp for a L30 team) plus whatever they've earned from research in the first 3 races.
I'm not saying it's fair, just explaining how it works. Like I say, it's been like this for 7 years and is affecting you so badly because your league only races once per week and therefore has a season lasting nearly 6 months.
You will most likely avoid relegation because with such a huge deficit you will earn a lot of research. For this reason, in the latter part of the season you should be competitive. If you do find yourself in the relegation zone, you can leave the league a couple of races before the end of the season and re-join during the break.
Vincent Tramontana medal 5180 5 days ago
So, then maybe after 7 years something should have been done.
“ We've implemented a variation of these which I believe makes switching leagues easy in a balanced and fair way.”
But your own math shows that after 3 races, most of the teams will have over 600pts of DP.
But the fair and balanced system gives a team like mine roughly 80.
I am thinking the system is broken because it does not seem to be fair or balanced, which was the stated goal.
And since I am so far behind on everything, I am only getting 4% from research. With 21 races to go, I will never be competitive, even with the worst teams, let alone the sharp end.
I need 30 liters of fuel more than probably anyone else will need.
It’s obviously too late for me, I lost the season and 6 months of gameplay, But maybe a rethink is in order.
Aldo Bertorelli medal 5160 4 days ago
In my opinion you should just get the same number of design points that you would have gotten if you participated in all races in the previous season.
So if a level 30 player with 5 star CD would have gotten a car with 400 assigned design points at the beginning of the season for participating in all races, then a new level 30 player with 5 star CD should also get a car with 400 assigned design points.
You would just lack the HQ points and research points. But, since you have less design points than the others you will gain a lot through research. Maybe not enough to win the championship but I think it’s fair. At max I would give like 33% of the design points your HQ produces per race you missed. So if you are level 30 and missed 3 races you should get 90/3=30 design points.
The most important thing is that the next season you should absolutely be on par with your rivals (if you joined with decent CD).
If this is the way it currently works than ok. I would just leave the league and join another one that is about to start and re-join the other one during the season break.
