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Design Points

Hi Stefan.

Please can you provide me with a little more information because I don't understand whether you're reporting your design is 50 points too low or another manager is 50 points too high.

• I see your CD is 5 star, did you use the same CD all season or did you use another?


• How many total design points (excluding suppliers) did your car have after the reset? For a 15 race season with a 5 star CD it should be 240.


• Where are the 50 points difference from the other manager? Are they spread equally across all design attributes or is it a single attribute?


• I also don't understand how you have quantified the shortfall using an iPhone because the values aren't visible nor is the team that has the highest design. Did you get this information using a web browser?

Thanks

Hi Stefan.

OK... With a 5 star CD you receive 16dp per race which is banked towards the starting design for next season (strength 3dp, weakness 1 dp and the remaining six attributes 2dp).

So in a 22 race season with a 5 star CD every race you should expect to have a total of 22 x 16 = 352 points (before applying supplier modifiers)

You lost your previous CD so I assume the game replaced him/her with a default 0.5 star CD. How many races before you replaced the default CD with another 5 star?

This is most likely the reason for your poor starting design. I tested a 15 race season with various CDs, the results are in the table below. As you can see I didn't bother going below 3.5 star but even with a mid-range CD the reduction in next season design is significant.



15 race season with 5 star = 240 dp
15 race season with 3.5 star = 183 dp (57 dp deficit)

Edit. BTW, for future reference you could have fixed this by joining another league during your season break and re-joining your league.