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Engine replacements

Whilst on a roll for improvements.....

Changing Engine has no penalties and cooling becomes a redundant stat.

Would it be worth adding a 5 or 10 place grid penalty for changing engines?

I'm speaking as a player, and my vote is no.

Either there should be no penalties for changing engines (means that you don't have to manage and conserve them if you have the tokens to buy extra) or an engine limit has to be placed to allow poorer lower levelled teams to keep up for the whole season. This is something that has been applied in Formula 1, but as people keep repeating this game is not supposed to fully simulate F1.

I'm still undecided about this but it doesn't really matter what I say since I'm going to stop playing iGP competitively...

Grid penalties aren't a good idea for anything either.

As in real life, the drivers are punished for the constructor's choice.

Penalizing points would make more sense, but don't penalize the driver's points.

someone could take advantage of that to change engine every time you put H, so losing 5 or 10 positions would not affect you too much.

I will speak as a player that doesn't want to play a pay-to-win game. Just to make the difference lol

That suggestion is interesting to penalize players who buy engines with tokens...

In real life, don't drivers benefit of a more powerful car by changing their engine ? Or a more reliable car by changing gearbox or whatever ?
Why penalizing points would be more fair ? If you are 10 on the grid, you finish 10 because you are less powerfull than the 9 others, we take you back points because you changed engine ? And what if you are only 10 in the league ? You are penalized because you were hoping to do something else but 10th ? If you take grid penalties, you will start 10 as ever, and finish 10... as ever, and that's all.
You can't compare with real life. In iGP, an engine that is just doing his second race is about 0.5sec slower ! (Maybe when you level up that gap decreases and change engine every race is not useful, I don't know.)
But let's say you are a new player playing against another new player but who buys engine... You will quit the game very soon because losing by so much can be discouraging...

To my mind, you have to penalize players who use paid with tokens engines. Just to be clear with the other players.
10-place penalty and the others know what you are doing... It allows to race fair during the season.
And finally, what's the matter if everyone pays for new engines ? Everyone has 10-place penalty and it's just a normal grid...


Yeah, starting last of 32 with H is almost the same thing than starting 11th on SS, especially in the European GP... (Spoiler alert : No it's not lol)

Grid penalty is ok, but not driver constructor point

Like I said on an other post in the forum I totally agree with you. You can't just give token everytime. But I'm going to develop that point by responding to Frank.

I agree with you, and that's why I think you can't agree with Kevin lol
Fact is, our second sponsor the one that gives tokens should not give 1, 2 or 3 tokens, but 0, 1 or 2. The less tokens are given, the more players will buy them and the more developers will live thanks to the game.

That's exactly what this suggestion is about. If you think you have to change engine every race, above your provided engines by your supplier, you are grid penalized. And then, you will have real strategy by whether you change your engine or not, is it worth to get penalized or keep the same engine ? Strategy.

Yes, this is why you like to play a pay to win game, I guess...
Pay to stay easily in front. No management, no skill, nothing.

I agree with that !

But if you are penalized by 10 places, will you stop buying engines ? Or is it worth the 10-place to change the engine every race ?
And if you want to be competitive, will you really stop buying engines ? Will you take the risk another manager still changes his engine every race ?

And as it has been said, you are given already enough tokens to play comfortably without spending money. So do you really want developpers to earn a living ?