Money From Results, Points & Achievements

I've been racing here for about a a week now, but have been a long time gamer. I've played several different formula 1 management based games and the live race display here has got to be the best I've ever come across, and I was absolutely pumped after acoring my first championship point in my second race. I do hope there's more where that came from. I believe there's always an opportunity not to develop ones self in any way possible, and thisgame stands as no exception - so I wanted to make a suggestion.

 In iGP, I've found that the money you obtain only comes from achieving one goal (mine is currently to finish each race) to which you get a small increase in your total income, around $1M, and then from sponsors and I'm guessing eventually merchandise, which all may well even out the expenditure of driver, staff, parts, and other expentidures, however I don't see it as being overly realistic. 

In formula 1, just competing in a race will bring a team a sum of money, and the higher in the order you qualify & finish, the higher amount of prize money you receive. The same can be said about GP2, Formula 3, Formula Renault, and the rest of the feeder categories, with the main exception being it costs less money to manufacture the limited cars / hire the staff, and consequently the average prize money is significantly lower as well. 

If a method inspired by the one mentioned above is implemented here, we'd see a great emphasis on planning to limit the cost of the car and we'd work relentlessly on expanding the income from sponsors and the speed of the driver so we can achieve the results needed. If implemented, from the profit / expenditure would be changed to fit the prize money in. 

I haven't been too direct as it can be considered a work in progress as a suggestion and by no means a way of letting frustration show, or an order of any kind. 

Thoughts?

This and other similar suggestions have been discussed and are still open to discussion.
The devs are certainly looking to do something more advanced with the winnings etc but I think, not just now - once other things get dealt with first.
The points raised still need to be discussed though so thanks for keeping the topic alive.

Hi Jake, 

Thanks for the feedback. I did a bit of a search of the forum (without a search feature...which was hell painful! lol) and found it had been suggested several times before this. If the admins/mods feel this thread doesn't contribute much I don't mind if it's shut down. My apologies. 

I'm sure it's a very tough feature to implement and we'll have to see if and how it's done in the distant future, but until then I'll subscribe and watch these awesome live races with my group rivals! :)

Any discussion anywhere is always good and glad to hear you are enjoying the live racing - it is pretty awesome but then I am very biased having been with it for quite a while now.  Its good too when player feel that they have a personal interest in the game (like me) - that it is 'their' game and want it to succeed.  I'm sure it makes all the hard work worthwhile for the devs.

Just FYI, there is a search function:
http://igpmanager.com/play/?url=igp-search
Accessible from the iGP drowpdown menu.

Okay thanks, didn't notice that earlier. Thought it was some kind of google add-in :)