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New Community Management

Hi all,
Big updates always create new opportunities and possibilities to move in new directions. One such change is that I will be overseeing community management and support for now.

The iGP Manager 2026 update is an opportunity to review how everything is done and to better connect with our community. I want to work with you to create an atmosphere where you feel heard and represented in the development decisions we take. For now, this means the connection between development and community is 1:1. Direct. Previously, information was filtered before it would reach me, and while this was good for reducing distractions, it left me buried in dev and disconnected from our wonderful community.

I understand the general consensus, among hardcore managers, is that development has not focused on your priorities in recent years. That is changing with iGP Manager 2026. We have put many of your concerns on the agenda, including tyre physics, pit lane glitches and more. Casual managers will find plenty to enjoy in the 2026 update too. New content, features, gameplay and significant improvements to UI/UX. It is slightly surreal for me whenever I open the live version of the game, seeing how far we've come in the new 2026 edition. It really is one of the biggest improvements we've ever done, so I'm excited to share that with you soon. Big news will arrive this November.

In the meantime, if you have any suggestions or feedback on how we handle community management, I'm open to hearing it in this thread. Now is the time to make your voice heard, because those changes will be implemented now.

It's also done, in iGP Manager 2026. We've covered everything! :)

It's also in iGP Manager 2026! We will be introducing a VIP Pass subscription which can unlock a bunch of extra perks and features.


Leagues will be changing fundamentally in iGP Manager 2026. They unlock basically from the start (after just a few races) and are populated by the game itself. You simply choose a race time and get assigned a league with players of a similar skill and experience level.

Basically, we will take care of ensuring the leagues are populated with active players for you, and shuffle them at the end of every season. Player-created leagues are an unlock much later in the game cycle and remain an option.


I quite like the idea of rewarding engagement with XP, I'll look into that because we don't do that currently.


Soon after the update is out I hope to add community events to the game that will run through a system like Sprint Races.

FYI Sprint Races have changed a lot in iGP Manager 2026 too. They run in batches (every 10 minutes) and are split on skill level, similar to the new league system I've described. It should make it much more enjoyable for everyone but especially new players, who were being mismatched on skill.


There will be a lot of news to come about the tier system, I'll save that for the announcements.


Fair point, the system should be smarter.

In the end, it's not really worth the effort. It would be such a fundamental rework of gameplay as to be like another game at this point. Also, I think it's better when you can share a game with a friend and they can download and play right away. No sales pitch or convincing needed beyond "let's play".

I'm one of those desktop gamers that used to be against F2P games, but after I played a few really good ones I became a believer that F2P games can be as good or better than premium games sometimes. It depends on the experience, and social experiences work best with less friction, and free to play reduces friction a lot.


In iGP Manager 2026 it won't be as critical, I believe, because the automatic league system will group players on skill. You won't see level 30 and level 15 racing together unless they go out of their way to do so in a player created league.


In a way, I've answered this already. Leagues have been completely reworked so that it's automated for the most part.


They might not always be useless! The circuit characteristics are meant to imply the ideal car setup / design indirectly, but I guess you're saying you want something that explicitly says "the best attribute to have here is acceleration" or similar?


Working on it. In iGP Manager 2026 the market is global.


This is a tricky one. Handing over all our traffic to discord isn't a great idea, as an app developer. App stores track time people spend in your app. When you start sending them off to other apps, you lose that engagement, it hurts your store ranking etc. and has various knock-on effects that hurt the growth of the app. That's the main reason we've been against doing that so far, but I did seriously push for the idea a few months ago.

It wouldn't be that hard to build chat rooms into our app. That's another possibility, then it skips the need to sign in or download anything else, we could even reference your team information etc. directly inside it. The main challenge is how scalable does that need to be? how will it be moderated etc. and discord takes care of a lot of those headaches.

You can join a league after completing just a few tutorial races / sprint in iGP Manager 2026. It might be as little as 3 races, going by memory. Also, it will release before 2026, it's just the name.

Checking my chat history, I did read your thread. I actually sent it to Slack on August 20th and asked if there was a better way to handle these cases. At the time, I was told it wasn’t an immediate concern, so I buried my head back in development and left it with José and the mods.

Now that I’m here, I’ve never been a fan of how these cases were handled. I pushed several times for a fairer approach, and I completely understand the frustration people felt from the way bans were implemented. You raised valid points that deserved a better hearing. That said, I also stand by our moderators and everyone who enforced the rules given to them. I have to take accountability for giving them a system that allowed farming, then they had to put out the fires, and they did. That was not their fault.

It harms everyone when leagues are filled with dummy accounts, so we're never going encourage or allow farming.

The good news is we don't really need to debate this, because the league system change in iGP Manager 2026 will make most of this a non-issue by design. Options for farming type practices will reduce dramatically.


Your message was genuinely quite touching. Thank you. This is one thing I missed from the forum and community, it's really easy to lose touch and become disconnected if I'm not here.

To quote something you said in your other thread: "there’s no need to reinvent the wheel, just listen to them. Players want to be treated with dignity, heard, and involved.". That is my aim from this point forwards. I want to introduce better systems which remove any need for draconian bans and get us to a place where we can all enjoy racing again.



Oh, you're going to love iGP Manager 2026. It's all in there. Leagues, the need to login to claim rewards, everything. No more idling in a zombie league. Inactive managers will be aggressively pruned from the system, leagues will be populated from all over the world and filled with active managers only.

There will be a transition phase where existing leagues need to adapt too, but I will explain this all in the announcements in the weeks ahead. I think everyone agrees, we had to do something drastic to the league and progression system, and we did!

That's similar to the event system idea we have, those will be wider community events. Likely this won't be in the release but will come after it. It's an idea we've hinted at before, but we've actually developed a working system already, so it's no longer just an idea. There is a system partially ready sitting in storage.


Where did you envision this in the new interface?


Not deleted, but "consolidated" into the new system. There will be ways to keep them together and a system something like Discord's "server boosts" to unlock additional features, where members of the league can contribute to make their custom league have more features and flexibility. We're moving towards a more organised league system overall, which allows for more community-wide engagement, higher activity levels etc.

The nature of the new system means there will be some restrictions on leagues that don't boost to unlock more flexibility. E.g. Calendar's will likely be restricted to synchronise with the wider community, and having a fully custom calendar will place the league outside of the normal bounds of the system. This is because the new system runs in cycles and assigns players to leagues. Hosted leagues (this is the term we're giving to player hosted leagues in the update) can opt-in or out of receiving players from auto-assignment.

Everything will be explained in more detail soon. I'm saying a lot already, but drastic changes were needed. We believe the end result will be a much healthier league system.


When I referred to pit glitches in my original post, this is one of the things I'm referring to. We're looking into this at the moment alongside the behaviours inside the pit lane.


There is a recharge effect in the new update, you will gain some additional boost every lap. We're going to move slowly and with small incremental changes to these mechanics, as we've tried a fully recharging system in the past and it took away all strategy. Everyone had to deploy at the same point every lap and it required no thinking. We're trying to strike a balance that means you don't save it all for the last lap, but which also requires strategic deployment throughout the race, where each manager may choose a different moment. This should spice up the racing a bit.


It should be possible to maintain an offline league via Hosted Leagues (basically these are like the current leagues in the game). Also, I agree on point 2. More customisatoin = more fragmentation. The 2026 update will be a move towards consolidating the community into a more unified whole, where most leagues are synrhconised on their schedule, that's the main change.