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New: Retirements

oh wow, 7 CD's & TD's from 4 teams all retiring at same time, ouch, there goes all my 4.5 & 5 star crews....

What is the retirement age?

Jack i just checked FB page..
and it says
"Got aged drivers or staff in iGP Manager? Retirements are returning this week. Extend their contracts before they retire! #igp"

....Extend their contracts before they retire!..... ,
can we have the chance to extend the contract considering i never had encountered FB page and not usual on Twitter, plsssss give a chance my CD is going to retire today its a chance for me to retain him

still cant find out what is the retirement age, any help please

jack i want to retain this CD pls let me retain him

hi jack, sorry i should understand ur problem as well
my CD seems was not happy to my team, he did comeback and is available in market, i bid for him as well and somehow a fellow racer of my league/tier also bid for him.

https://igpmanager.com/app/d=staff&id=70977

@Jack : Considering how the market works currently I doubt that was the best idea to introduce retirements so early at least regarding staff for the following reasons :

In all leagues I'm in, a lot of people have difficulties to find decent staff (4.5+), this is especially true for high level teams (15+) but also for low level teams (I tested a rookie one). It personally took me 20 days of everyday searches (2/3 times a day) to find a 4.5 stars CD after I reached lvl 16 (previous CD dropped to 4 stars). Here is an example in league chat but more than that we're mostly speaking about it during races :



Density is about equal : 30/35% for each kind of staff but this is not the same regarding quality and the problem is coming from there. TDs are the only staff you can hope to find at 5 stars with a bit of luck or at 4.5 stars easily, DRs are "a hell" to find and I've personally never seen a 5 stars DR for months. Finally, the most important part comes from CDs, even if their quality is not that far from TDs they have weaknesses and this is almost impossible to find a decent CD without a crippling weakness.

I personally thought to remove weaknesses from CDs in order to give us a better time to find them. Kevin Bissell also suggested the possibility to train staff like we do for drivers or at least to allow them to passively improve their skills in our team. If I'm not wrong this is already the situation and staff skills passively improve : exp after a number of races and morale (linked to the HQ facility) but talent is fixed and all of this is not enough to keep staff in our team for more than 1 level.

Why not to change the fixed talent to a real skill which can be improved ? After a number or succeeded objectives for example. That would give objectives more importance and staff a way to improve and stay in our teams for a little bit longer. What is sure is we really need some changes regarding the staff market, because if it was really tough to find staff in the past I don't even imagine how it will be in the future with the new retirement feature. Retirements are not bad themselves and are needed for more realism but the staff market is not ready for it.

and please change some of the the CD's Strong and Weakness. Mix them up some more. some of you 4.5 star CD's have the same strength and weaknesses.

agreed, and some way to change them would be perfect. i don't know, train them somehow, i don't care, maybe using tokens (i know what everybody think about this but, i like the game to be free and this tokens system could be the answer, ppl buying tokens makes the game free for everyone at the moment).

also, like i suggested <a href="https://igpmanager.com/forum-thread/6768"> specialized facility thread</a>
we could have one specialized staff, it's a free slot to hire any specialized staff with different possibilities.
- extra CD (helps CD)
- agent (helps find good drivers)
- personal trainer (helps training)
- constructor (helps speed headquarters upgrades)
- tyre's specialist (helps with tyres info or tyre wear)
... and many others we all can imagine.

cheers

First of all i have nothing against retirements.
I don't know if there is a problem of work time as few working in game or is another matter that market a bit back.
The point as joey said will be hard to get new staff as it.
I know that the database will be huge if we just add staff on market and have to clear up a bit maybe before we do so. Maybe we start with drivers only for now?
As we go high on levels maybe should be less good staff for hire as it is in real few are Top.
Maybe can make a generator according to teams.
For example there are 100 teams that racing (not those out of leagues) 19-20 level we can have 150 CD in game with those levels with mixed stats and 75 TD & DR as those don't have extra attributes. The generator could keep up according to changes every week for example.

Thanks in advance.

yes, i think we all agreed. it's really hard to get new staff so, everything making that harder is not very welcome.
I also know retirements have to be part of the game.

if i have to choose what's first, ok i'll choose new staff, rather than retirements but, won't make a huge diff if more changes are coming soon so, i can wait ;)

High level staff availability is a growing problem especially when trying to take the fight to other teams. Obviously having multiple staff retiring across many many managers around the same time is only going to make the problem worse in the market so its great to know that this is a priority for you Jack cheers! I agree with you Dan I'd love to see specialized staff and also bonus traits included with staff.

sounds great. ;)

Well, now one of my staff members can retire at 125 years old, with 37 races remaining in the contract!

@jack. Not fair. You gave him the chief designer with 5stars. What about me? I saved money and tockens to get that CD. Thats not how an admin. should behave.