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Should be great to have an iGP World Championship

Hello,

This game is fun, il like it but i don't understand why we always have to change league if we want to find more competitives players. I mean, there is no real purpose to be 'The champion of my league'. Furthermore, i do not especially want to change league if i have my friends with me to play casual races 'just for fun'.

So, i suggest you to create a real iGP World Championship where we can fight each other for the title that really means something : to be the World iGP Champion.

For exemple, in Hattrick (football manager), every team is involved in a pyramidal system until the last encounter for the title. There is so much to do !

What do you think about it ?

Hey, that sounds like a great idea!

Few questions: First, how can one qualify for the world championship? Is it by winning constructors' championship on elite in one's respective league? Second, why would teams fight head to head when it could be another league consisting of champions?

Yea you're right. It's just an idea to improve. A "Super league" sounds great but it would be cool to let everyone compete at least one time per championship i think.

A poll system (reputation-based?) just as the World Cup in football would be nice.

Once again, it's just an idea to improve if you like it

There are a select number of leagues that are considered the top leagues in the game, for example, with current league hosts included:
- 2 car 50% distance: International GP Championship (league host: Collin Trust), The MJL (Shaun Prior), International F1 league (J B). There are a few more that could be here too: US Grand Prix (Gustavo Heiden), Everyday iGP (Stuart Stapley), Formula LudoClub (aleman gik), but I don't wanna crowd this list too much.

- 2 car 100% distance: The F1 World Championship (Ruben Hfd), British Racing League (Jamie R*, Trinary Murk GP), European Racing League (Rick Donovan*?, RIDON Racing Team)

- 1 car 50% distance: iGP Champions (Tim Dennis)

Some bonus leagues:
- 2 car 100% distance 2X SPEED!!!: Everyone Welcome (Jason Mcrae*, Carpers Racing), Fast and Furious (Jamie R*, Open GSi Racing). This is fun, trust me. :p

- 2 car 50% distance 1.5X SPEED: Adrenaline Bullet (dan ruglio*, Ligier Uruguay). Hey, crazy dan, y no more 2x speed? >:p

- 2 car 100% distance 1.5X SPEED: Champions League (Keithy Zappa)

*=League host has multiple accounts with the same name

You'll find most of the top managers in the HoF to be in some of these "top leagues". It's not just their rep points that make them the best either. Unfortunately due to constraints of time zones, they may not be convenient to players from certain parts of the world.

Still, I think before thinking of an "iGP Super League", the league search function must be greatly improved first, so you can filter leagues better based on average reputation, activity, and so on, similar to what I mentioned on another thread about the league search function.

I understand the contrainsts of time for international gaming in such a competition.

I also know that the spirit of iGP is to attend races an play live against other people but you can maybe create a system only avalaible on international races to avoid the problem of time.

I'm thinking about the gambit system of Final Fantasy 12 if you know what i mean. Players who can't be there because of contrainst of time should be abl e to use a lot of parameters in order to be competitive.

For exemple:

"If Car A is in X position with Y sec behind car B; then use PL 3"

I know that this is not what you want for iGp but it could be a solution for a real world championship.

Now I have been keeping an eye on this because I really want to join such a league, however I found I had to keep on searching the HoF to see in which leagues these drivers are.

I think it would be rather simple, the "Spectate" function has an average reputation for the managers of a specific league. So how about adding a tab in the HoF for leagues based on Reputation. Then you can clearly see the top leagues and see where your current league stands, I think this will push active players either into more active leagues or have leagues be more focused on activity.

If you then want you can add a Reward system for the league leader board if you really want to, but in effect the top league would count as an IGP Championship league basically.

Something like this would be a good start.

Added more leagues to my post on #5. Figured it could help for those looking for the top leagues, which are also highly active (except for rookie probably, but with auto-kick it shouldn't be as bad). I wonder if there should be a dedicated thread on the leagues forum for a list of top leagues, too.

EDIT: Included league hosts too.

Once a environment is created for "friendly races" and by that I mean conditions where teams that are involved in regular league play may use those same teams in alternate friendly races, then the conditions are available for at least unofficial championship events. A tournament style series of races could be organized which would lead to an overall champion. This would not disrupt regular league play but would provide ancillary events that could be entered by invitation or by an informal set of rules such as, for example, entrants must be in the top 50 of the hall of fame.

Friendly races in the social racing area is a great idea.
Where everyone has equal drivers and cars for the top 32 in the hall of fame to go against each other in a 1 car race.

Not counting multiple accounts from the same person though and inactive accounts ofc, that would be a bit unfair.

I do like the idea of a champions league.
Maybe take the top 64 teams in HoF(128 drivers total) and create 4 groups of 32 cars
Each group does a race individually from the others
Then the top 16 drivers from each group go into one of 2 groups(still 32 drivers per league-64 total)
And the best 16 from each group join a final heat
32 of the best drivers from the game battle it out to see who wins!!!
Should be held every Friday-Sunday at a random time (so everyone can do it at some point)

There is no need to put the entire game into one pyramid structure. Perhaps create a IGP World Championship with 5 divisions and 20 managers per division, with a total of 100 players of greater reputation.

It would be a great incentive to continue evolving.

The only way I can think of for this to be intelligently implemented is to have a separate pyramid for each time zone, or one for every 2-3 timezones and hope people have a flexible schedule.

I'd probably create a separate account for ranked play, as I enjoy playing with my current league.

Olympic Cup

Do it so players that want to be in the igp champions league have to apply every season. The races can be different leagues so perhaps 6 divisions of the champions league so there are a few groups in every league then they pyramid up. Players get selected based on Levels and experience points.