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Design points and new leauge

It seems to me that design points when joining new league needs looking at.

its very hard now to join a good league or any league without getting punished.

if you happen to join an elite league with only 3 races left of the season u lose all design points and end up with something stupid like 50 design points which isn't enough to compete for points to stay in elite so u get relegated to pro which isn't right IMHO.

Then when u start your pro season u still have low design points which u cant compete with that season.

next season u have the correct design points to get promoted.

So when u are in back in elite u still have good points but not enough as the other managers so another season to rebuild design points.

So my point is when u join a league with little races to go before end of season it takes around 4 seasons to get back to the point u was in before u joined that league.

Which is way to long to be competitive again.

I agree the penalty on design points is either too harsh or broken.

There is a way to bypass that penalty in Elite, but only if you want to race in a 2/3/4 team division. Then, you can rebuild design points and not get relegated at the same time. You will be a backmarker, but by the time enough players promote to Pro to enable relegation, your car will be good enough to win Elite championships or somewhere close to that area. It's less convenient in the first few seasons, but you'll prefer the end result as I think it is currently probably the best way to rebuild your team after design penalties. It could also be the only way to avoid relegation with design points being reset (barring inactive leagues).

In my opinion half a season is more than enough time for a decent elite team to get out of the relegation zone. If you are joining right at the end of the season, then you are already making a mistake because you are giving yourself no time to actually get more points than your competitors. Furthermore, in the most active leagues many, many teams get points so it would be harder to pass them with just 3 rounds...

Maybe the DP system needs help but It would not be fair if a decent team could come in from no where and steal points from the midfield or even get someone relegated in the last race of the season. We can't just pump a team with dp and forget about the managers who were there all season long.

Doing that would promote league jumping and clearly , because of the 10% cut from your money if you leave a league, this game is against that.

I agree with you if managers are going to jump ship to a new league then be smart about it join the new league when the new season starts rather than when it's about to end.

Furthermore if a manager wants to jump ship then they should be penalised it's only fair.

If you leave a league at the end of a season and join a new league (or return to same league) at the beginning of a season, then you shouldn't be penalised, unless it's done to excess.

The league I am in runs races every day, with a 2 day break at the season end. I recently decided to drop out of the league as I had a lot of things going on and couldn't manage to play the game properly for a couple of weeks. Rather than staying in the league and letting the game play it's defaults (which would be potentially beneficial for me in gaining tokens), I decided my best option would be to stand aside and let someone who is active fill my place. Jumping mid season, should incur penalties, but, changing leagues at the end of a championship should not.