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Transfer Market

The transfer market is totally ridiculous. This is a racing game, about setting the best strategy and managing your cars to league and sprint wins. Basic admin tasks like signing drivers, staff and sponsors should be the work of a moment, but we are forced into the ridiculous system where buying new drivers is a once per hour opportunity vs every single player on the game. The current system of atrophy has increased the requirement for buying drivers more often, but the opportunity to buy them has decreased massively. The prices are driven up a stupid amount by people who spam 10+ bids in a row to try and force other players to withdraw from the auction. Maybe the system would work if markets were limited to just your own league or your own level or if we never had atrophy, but as the game is, it does not work and is not fun at all. It is the single worst thing that has ever been done to iGP Manager and makes basic admin a more stressful and harder fight than actual racing. If your concern is making money from people being forced to buy tokens to compete with the stupid prices the game has now then fine, but I am going to quit the game unless this farce is resolved. If you care in the slightest about fair play then this is a totally indefensible system. It is an admin task, just like signing sponsors which takes no time at all. Let's fix it for drivers and staff too and go back to short auctions and end this rubbish so we can go racing and actually have fun on this game.

I quite agree. It is the biggest problem with the game now, the lack of refreshes make the market stagnant and there are whole hours where nothing worth buying comes up, meaning that you have to go back at the end of the next hour and prices are higher.

I find myself in the same boat as you regarding continuing with the game. It is a shame, because my league has been going eight years and collectively we have spent hundreds of pounds on the game - if not more. However, the current state of the market and the prices mean we cannot compete in auctions whilst waiting once a week; the number of tokens we get per month is twelve vs ninety-three for people who race every day. I don't think it is a viable solution to scale bids to number of races so I don't suggest that, I find the only sensible thing to be to return to the very good auction system we had previous - quick refreshes so admin tasks are not a chore and racing is the main focus.

I have been a vocal complainant about the market for a while, as have many others. It seems to be the most common complaint I read when I go onto the forum since the amendments to atrophy. Jack listened and (for my money) resolved atrophy, I hope he can do the same on this.