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Promotion & Relegation rules relaxed throughout September

Thats brilliant Jack. Thanks.

Is it possible to increase the amount of positions to promote/relegate? For example, in my season we are going to promote with only two ppl to elite. It is going to be a boring season. And if is always two people only, then it will be boring 3,4 seasons.

If you create a new league you can get 4 to promote into Elite. But it has to be a season that ends before September is over.

Having only two people promote up into an empty Elite tier seems like a problem in general, to be honest.
I'm building my league from the ground up, and it's taken seven seasons to even unlock promotion for the following reasons.
-Two of the promoted Rookies from season 1 had already effectively dropped to inactive status by the end of the season, the low standards for first season point gain allowing them to remain in the top four. The other (aside from myself) immediately left the league upon promoting into Pro, likely because there was no immediate prospect of further promotion.
-Since then, approximately half of all players promoted through my Rookie league have either immediately left upon promotion, gone inactive when they don't make scoring positions, or outright left for greener pastures when they start losing to next season's Rookies.

I've finally reached 8+ active players (up to 10 thanks to players attempting to find alternatives to their now-empty dead leagues) and I'm facing the prospect of spending next season in Elite with only one other team for competition and having the empty space tank my Rep score for two or three seasons, assuming I retain enough Pro league players to keep promotion active.

On another note, I feel like the issue this thread is actually about is being handled wrong.
Throughout my time actively managing a league (anyone who's been inactive for more than half of their time in the league, or just inactive for 10 days in a row without notice gets the boot) I've noticed that in the beginning people were effectively being promoted through Rookie just for being active, and without sufficient knowledge or experience to compete at a higher standard.

Any player who was going to be promoted on the backs of inactive players in dead leagues should not be handed a promotion like this. It's not "unfair" that they suddenly weren't going to get a promotion, because they shouldn't have been getting a promotion from a dead league in the first place. The number of active players in these leagues did not change when the autokick took place, aside from those who left because there were no longer enough active players to allow promotion.

I cringe when I see Elite leagues full of half-trained 1-talent Default British drivers just left as they are after being purchased through the transfer market.

[EDIT]:
After reading the blog post I'm aware that the -aim- of this is to allow players access to already established Elite leagues.
However if the autokick script remains active this will not be a temporary problem, as there's no guarantee that both players promoted through Rookie each season will remain active and in the league afterward. (See above, regarding players leaving because they're not earning points.)
It's easy to pull in 1-4 players per day in Rookie, but getting 2 more Pro slots filled takes 18 days. If Elite continues to take as many as Rookie shuffles in, still-populating Elite leagues -will- have their supply cut off by the autokicker or just players leaving.

I can propose a solution to this one.
If an Elite league contains players, but Pro contains less than 8, promote just the champion from Pro, allowing it to have a net gain while still bringing progress into Elite.
Maybe even promote three from Rookie if Elite exists and Pro is undersized.

I' m on the same side of Thomas.

I'm the host of a small league, and we were just in 3 players for the last Pro season. Soon the actual season will end and we will be promoted again as Elite drivers.... And we will be alone again doing very boring solo racing for most of the time...
And also the few rookies promoted will be in our same situation as Pro.

So I really think that the host should have the power at least to stop promotions every time that he thinks it's needed, just for the single class, cause if I stop all the promotions we'll be forever alone...

The host can stop promotions, but your league's problem is that you can't stop promotion into Elite without -also- stopping promotion into Pro.
This is just screwing your league over in a different way.

Yep... I re-read my comment and I was editing right in the moment you were posting trying to make it more clear...

Thats it... I really don't know how to act to save my league...

I hope something is worked out. Looking at your league and doing some quick math your Elite league will be stuck at 3 teams for at least FOUR seasons with the current promotion rules.
Unless you let your Pro league be stuck at 3 for another season and give up the three second-season promotion slots from Rookie.

I've got it! All three Pro players leave the league before the end of the season, then rejoin next season and just deal with the league change penalties...

We experience the same problem. I like the sollution aswell. Let me stop de promotion by button for only 1 league.

Hi.

What do you think about creating Bots Team able to use strategies just like a real player to help empty leagues ? These Bots will just wait for a real player to become manager of the team.

So; my idea is to use Bots team as a vessel for the players to come in order to help people who are struggling with empty leagues.

But i know that it is not an optimal solution ...

Its a shame. Our league is broken now.

The only two teams we have in profesional go to elite to play again face to face.

New 2 teams promoted from rookie to profesional will not have the opportunity to be promoted directly in a lot of seasons because new season finish day 2 of october :( so they need wait a lot for new teams come from rookie. I take a look and cant change schedule of the season to make it ends before 1 october now.

There is some way for descend to professional these 2 teams that were recently promoted to elite?

Thanks Jack. It is right move. Unfortunately timing was unlucky for people in World Racing Championship, because season has ended yesterday so managers weren’t promoted. That’s life.

I’m reading the topic and I feel that’s the problem without optimal solution. Leagues are different, hosts are different, players are different and everybody operate in their own way. It is difficult to make everybody happy. Maybe you should think about leagues revolution and creating general league system like in football managers (managerzone, hattrick). I know that would destroy one of the most important advantages of iGP - league freedom, but maybe that’s a solution for promotion and relegation.

Same for our league. We are going tot play 1vs1 for 3 upcoming seasons in elite...

It's been unrelaxed again? league page no longer shows 2 moving up from pro to elite.

:D just read edit at top now.

What should I need to be promoted to PRO? I am the only one active as rookie, all other teams but one have been deactivated.