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Mechanical failures

I'm for it as long as Connor said it's down to poor management of the player not random.

Sounds like a lot of coding for the Devs which at the end of the day will have no effect. We already have mechanical failures if you don't repair your car for a few races. If reliability affected cars then all of the top managers would switch their gameplay to remove the risk. As a result it would do nothing to help the lower level teams and there would still be no breakdowns.
I'd prefer the devs to focus their efforts on sorting many of the other bugs that gamers have been reporting for months. E.g. random tyres when weather changes, auto KERS when you're disconnected, uneccesary pit stops for Fuel when you have enough to finish the race, HOF, errors in race viewer, broken promote/relegate design levelling etc.......
When all these have been fixed maybe we can talk about the "nice to haves". 
So in a nutshell, mechanical failures, no thank you.

I second the motion!

 

I will exaggerate, for this is the best way to explain fatal flaws.
So....
If tied to reliability, i assume the first few races will be full of "mechanical failures" as all reliabilty is below 50. Maybe we can have races were noone will finish, where as, at the end of the season, there should be no more failures (except from inactive accounts) due to upgraded reliability-levels...

Hence, it should not be tied to reliability...

@Gerard
As I said in a previous thread, if you tie an increased risk of mechanical failures to low reliability the following will happen:

• There will be many more failures in the early races of the season because of design reset between seasons.


• Rookie and Pro will suffer more than elite because their design is lower.


• It will further penalise people moving league because their design is reset when they move.


• The top managers will reduce the risk of failures by putting a lot of design into Reliability. L20 get 20 DP per race to assign wherever they wish, further handicapping lower level teams who have fewer points to assign.

All this will come at the cost of some serious programming by the small team of developers. I don't think it is a good idea at all to divert the efforts of the Devs to introduce something that would ruin the game of the newer, lower level teams and make the senior high level teams even more dominant.

That's all I'm going to say on the issue because you clearly think this is a good idea. BTW, I just want to make it clear that people reading this should not assume that because you're a Forum Moderator that this is an "Official iGP poll. I don't believe the iGP developers are seriously looking at mechanical breakdowns at the moment.

@Gert
Thank you for clarifying that. Much appreciated.

The original post was without the poll. He only put a poll there because i said "put a vote".

I thought it be nice to see how many people ..........

could be a great opportunity to make reliability and cooling and important factor, so we would have to Focus our Research on more factors.
You would have then a payoff between pace and reliability at the begin of the Season.

for example if you have both at 100 Points there is no Chance for a defect and with every 10 Points less the probability of a defect increases by 1-2 percent. So you have at a Level of 0: 20-40 % Chance of a defect

Tyre puncture will be a good improvement. And when it happens, it should cost +1 fixing part after race. Thanks. ^_^

I have seen a few times tyres being punctured during races.  Same concept as running out of fuel.

As for reliability, I have been a victim to this as well, stretching to save parts at the end of the season.  Retiring in Abu Dhabi on lap 53 out of 55 was heartbreaking, but in the end, this was my decision to make so I only have myself to blame.  There is no need for random failures.  In a competitive multiplayer environment, this is just a no go.  This will kill off a lot of interest from managers, doesn't matter if you are seasoned or a rookie manager.  How would you like it when you are heading for your first ever win as a rookie manager after a hard fought race only to let a 'random' mechanical failure prevent you from doing it with a handful of laps to go?  These kind of things are useful in single player managers like Grand Prix Manager 2, Grand Prix World, Motorsport Manager etc when there is only AI involved.     

I think there is some relation beetween "High temperature in live race", "Tyre Durability", "percentage of Tyre used in live race", "Car's reliability point", "Driver's Driving Style", "Driver's Attacking point", "Driver's Focus point", "Driver's Experience point" and "Driver's Composure point". So, do not take too much risk while your driver's skill/mental ratio and your car are not good enough. This will push the manager to think back to develop more durable car and better mental driver. Not only to developin the car's and driver's performance.

That was just what i though. I think it will make the game a little harder. But, anyway thankyou Mike. Have a great race.

Think the mechanical failures should be based on the average reliability in the league

Richard,

I'm sorry.  This is just complete utter nonsense.  Reliability based on external factors on what other people are doing, not based under your own control?  'They' may as well design and do my car development every season as well?  We may as well turn this game into a 'spec' series where all the cars are equal.  Again, I'm sorry, but when I start reading about yellow flags, crashes, collisions, drivers dying, random failures and I don't know what other rubbish, it gets my back up.    If you guys really want this in a multiplayer environment, I suggest you go play BATRACER.  They have all that.