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Spying Result as per star...

Hi,

Can anyone suggest, which gives better result.
Let say selected Cooling as Spying attribute
Have 3 CD's
CD#1
3 Star with Strength as Cooling and weakness Downforce
CD#2
4 Star with strength Acceleration and weakness Reliability
CD#3
4.5 star with strength Downforce and weakness Cooling (I think this CD will not give any output for cooling)

Which CD will fetch me best upgrade

The more stars the better the spying result, the research power figure shows by how much it changes. The strength and weakness only affect the starting design points of your next seasons car.

CD #2 will give you the best results.

Think of the CD's strength as +2% and weakness -2% on top of the overall research percentage rating, you will always gain more points in the area of strength and less in the area of the weakness, other areas are standard rate.

4.5 level staff usually give 1% less than 5 star staff gives. But ultimately the closer you get to level 20 the lower of an advantage you will get in research.
For example
level 12 with 4.5 research in one area is 61% but 5star is 63%
level 11 with 4.5 research in one area is 62% but 5 star is 64%
level 10 with 4.5 research in one area is 63% but 5 star is 65%
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level 20 with 4.5 research in one area is 38% but 5 star is 40%

Other thing is, if you had lets say CD 5star and TD 4.5 then research will still say 4.5 but it will only have 1% less than full 5stars for both and the same if it was the other way around TD 5star and CD 4.5
But the CD is the most important Staff Member you really want 5star here even if they have a high priority area as a weakness in order to get the best starting base for the new season.

If you are feeling confused then this might help:
5 Star is best
4.5 star is 2nd best
4 star is 3rd best
3.5 is 4th best
3 star is 5th best
2.5 star is 6th best
2 star is 7th best
1.5 star is 8th best
1 star 9th best
0.5 star is 10th best
0.0 star is 11th best

Why didn't you just say that last bit in the first place you might be saying

thanks all for details, I think I need to study you peoples details and then do some experiment with CD's to check the affect

Experimenting is good but you really do want the biggest baddest CD & TD you can get hold of to get the most out of research

There is nothing in the rules saying that you have to spy on everything at once, if you are 3-4 points off the best team in an area you can leave it out and use your own design points, it will get you bigger gains in another area that you are further behind in.

This account I seem to have spare design points at the end of the season car is maxed nothing to use them on.

i'm having 5 star CD,

but only 58 percent gain showing at the research


even I tried another cd with 4.5 star, that time as well it shows same 58 percent gain. my level is 14

The lower the manager level the higher the percentage of research power. 40% lvl 20 & 98% lvl 1

middle of the class versus top of the class

James, I think you're drunk.

i don't get extra spy % on my cd strength, i only get the negative spy on my cd weakness but i never get extra for strength, say im 20 dp's behind in accelleration and 20 behind in braking and my cd strength is acceleration and braking is just normal one, so my maximum 'Research Power' when spying on 2 parts is x23%, i should get more from acceleration right for having that as strength but i still only get 5% on both (talking about last season not this one and using it as example)
but for sure when i spy on my weakness i get much less than a normal part but the strength doesn't work for me when spying and hasn't not for many seasons, infact i can't remember if it ever worked or not...

im curious if anyone actually has proof that you get bigger bang for your buck on spying a strength?

Ok Blunion I will rephrase it lol

The lower the mangers level the higher their research power is

Enzo area of strength always gives bigger gains than the area of weakness

Well it never worked for over the months, I tested it out 2 seasons ago when my car got reset to 1% in each part and got the same amount of points on everything except my weakness which I got about half, and several other times so dunno what's going on there. Can't dig out my mails as deleted, no way I can practice it this season now.

get them up to same level 60-65 and just work on everything else. Once someone has 100% in one of them, research that part only same 40% of 40-35 should gain more in the strength than the weakness.

cant do that, my strength going to be my highest part or close to highest part most of season :p

62 points clear at the top I think you be safe enough ;)

System gives out false details too I noticed.

Toymotor was nowhere near the best team they started the season well below Rednote lol

just observed my 4.5 star and 5 star both are showing 58% gain in research.
so shall we conclude its same 4.5 or 5 star .., or does it gives output differently

For me it was 1% of a difference because I had CD 5 star & TD 4.5
Next Level up I had two 4.5 staff members and it was 2% lower than have 2 5star Staff members
Level after that I had 4.5 CD & 5 star TD and it was the same as have two 5 star staff members

Just play by ear, and hope for best. If you cant get 5 star then get 4.5 with 20 experience.

So that is the difference my 4.5 star is 20 Exp and the 5 star is only 12 and hence the spying is same for both,
Thanks James

Hi
it was last race for my CD and was of 4.5 star, but I got the low spying research points as system assigned a new cd of 1 star, whereas during race itself a new CD bid was completed, so I don't understand why the new CD assigned with one star and over that the research point was not awarded as per the either my new CD or old CD, Instead its been given as per the auto Assigned CD
below is the gain what I got.


edit;- it should had been at the red arrow marked as per 48%