I've been playing the game for almost a year now and think it's great. I applaud the talented guys and gals who made it.
There's always niggles and countless things I could suggest to make it better for me ('me' being the operative word there), but there's one thing that comes up time and time again. In fact, one of the first threads I read on here was about the very same subject. I've never posted a comment, let alone began a thread, so what's my beef?
Well, if you haven't guessed already, it's the omnipresent Hard/Hard strategy. Yes I know it's summer now, but it was like this during the winter and pretty much since I started last summer. And I have also read the thread where the makers have stated that they want it to be really difficult to choose between the different tyre strategies. Right now it's not difficult to choose between the tyres, one just selects 1 stop H/H.
I've used this H/H strategy to great effect coming up through the ranks (in a 50% race length league), so there is still a fondness to use this strategy. However, a number of managers in my league are beginning to come up with ideas of how to negate the advantage (or tedium) of the H/H strategy.
So what's the idea?
At the moment, the only credible thing to do is force a two tyre strategy. I've heard that other leagues have implemented this rule. The big problem with this is policing it and non attending managers who have their push level set. At the moment, this is just an idea that is being floated, so I will update with any interesting developments.
In the meantime.
I would like to appeal to the makers to somehow fix this. I've heard that the tyre strategies vary depending on the length of the race, so baring that in mind, here are my two suggestions for solving the issue (in order of preference).
1. Equalise tyre strategies to work on all race lengths, so as to not advantage a particular strategy for the vast majority of races.
2. Give League Hosts an option to force teams to use two tyre compounds during the race.
I realise it's a free game, so maybe it's a matter of finding a work-around.
I'm interested to know what you guys think, so feel free to take part in my poll.
Also, any other work-around suggestions welcome.
Thanks for reading my rant.
Alexi