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[VOTE] Proposed change to Push Levels + Tyres + Fuel

Managers,
We’re running a simple vote on tyre temperature behavior.

For a long time, I've wanted to change this system to work the same way as it does in most other games - neutral push = neutral temps, high push = high temps and so on. By orienting the push levels around each compound in this way, it would not only give you more control over each compound, it would eliminate the classic "winter season" and "summer season" in iGP where we end up rebalancing tyres or trying to fight the weather with push levels. It would make racing consistent year round. This is fundamentally about control and approachability.

My personal view is the "base game" should be friendly, approachable, and fun for the widest range of people. We can implement any amount of depth and simulation on top as a league boost, even beyond the current system, but the base game currently alienates people with often unnecessary and unexplained complexity. To help grow the community as a whole, it could benefit from being easier to understand for new users especially. My personal vote is to move us toward a system like option 1 as a baseline, as it will give you more control. Tyre compounds will still perform differently on each circuit and there will still be plenty of strategic variability.

Option 1: Make push levels directly control tyre temps (more approachable)

• Neutral push = keeps tyres in a stable operating window


• High push = warms tyres up


• Low push = cools tyres down


• More intuitive, more consistent control, and closer to what most racing strategy games do.

Option 2: Keep the current dynamic model (as-is)

• Tyre temps behave according to the full simulator model.


• More depth/realism, but harder to predict and manage consistently.


• Tyres can more easily drift outside the ideal range if not consistently managed.

Comment if you can:

• Do you play on Mobile or desktop?


• Do you want more control/clarity during races or more harsh/hardcore realism?

EDIT: Someone raised the point that this could impact fuel use per-tyre, so as part of this change neutral push would have the same impact on fuel across tyres. I would ensure that was implemented as part of the change. Higher push would be more fuel consumption and lower push less fuel consumption, as it is now, but the impact would be consistent across all tyres. Weather would still have an impact so a wet track = lower fuel consumption overall.

There are many updates in development right now which will begin shifting the whole gameplay experience. More information will be published next week.

There is a fundamental change in direction underneath all these updates. We're bringing leagues back to the surface, restoring controls and depth to gameplay, a totally new ranking system and more, all while making a more understandable experience for new users at the same time. The shift in league boosts is toward gameplay features and away from league controls, restoring schedule and rules controls to the default tier. We will be layering in more depth with each update.

I am working flat out to ensure we get these updates right. They are very different to everything we've done for the last few years. We're bringing iGP back to what it should be and the main focus of these updates is restoring the "feel" and depth to gameplay that make the experience fun. That is also why I'm opening polls like this one, because I'm trying to address this at every level of the game, to create a fully coherent, more enjoyable experience overall.

My take on this is it still wouldn't mean tyres give the same performance / speed, only that you can control each tyre rather than it going "outside of control". There will still be an optimal tyre for speed and one for stint length, and actually it might open more possibilities. With an option for 5 tyres everywhere would it reduce strategy or increase it? I think that's open for debate.


EDIT: Another benefit of this change that hasn't been mentioned - back markers wouldn't be so slow.