Giannis Tapeinopoulos medal 5000 7 years 107 days ago
OK. Here's the think. Qualify should be 30 minutes before the race giving you the opportunity to set your strategy after depending on your starting position. It is very difficult for a medium or low level team to set a wining strategy without knowing the starting position.
As for penaltys when you change legues it's stupid. How you expect people moving from inactive to active leagues when they 're going to loose all their progress. I moved from a legue with 4-5 active players,where I was the 1-2 team to a more active league. The result is that I am on the second season without any points. I lost more than 30 millions and that's not going to get better any soon.
If you want active legues as you say you do stop punishing players who want the same think.
Natalia Frey medal 5000 7 years 103 days ago
The 'Punishment' as you call it is there for a reason, it stops managers League hopping so that they can race practically ever hour, which im guessing is what most want to do to build up their driver/teams faster. Why do you think they have those restrictions in place?
Vance Sim medal 5000 7 years 102 days ago (edited 7 years 102 days ago)
The thing about the penalty for switching leagues is it also applies to those who leave their leagues after the end of its current season or join a new league before its first race of the season.
You get the design points penalty whether you league hop or switch leagues with no ulterior motives, which is why you might as well league hop (like I did twice in the middle of the season in order to move to a stronger league each time) since the penalty is the same. So the moment you switch leagues, you effectively lose at least half the season with a 1 dp car even if you switch without looking to get an advantage. Yes, if you join a new league late in the season, it's your risk. But if you join before its first race of the season, you can argue that it would be more fair to start with a car that is not so uncompetitive, based on your car development in your last season in your previous league perhaps.
Also, the game only allows you to have one race per 24 hours, so even if you hop from league to league every hour, you will still only be eligible for one race a day. This is written in the in-game Help & Support page under "1.7: Participation". If this rule weren't in place, people would just have teams with 0 star staff and dirt cheap salary, go to random inactive leagues every hour, and collect millions in sponsor payments and bonuses from each race, becoming quick billionaires.
It's unfortunate that the player cannot actively impact qualifying in this game outside of car design, driver stats (Talent), and starting tyres, though I concede that I don't have much better ideas of how to run qualifying outside of... just live managing it which could be time consuming. Once you enter a highly competitive league where the field is rich in depth, with everyone having 20 Talent drivers and similarly competitive cars, qualifying is largely a lottery, and one that could put you either on the front row or starting 10th-18th on the same supers/soft tyres for example.
Frank Thomas medal 4989 Moderator 7 years 101 days ago
Yes, the penalty for switching leagues is too harsh, at least for leaving after the last race and joining before the first race of a season.
You're aware that the current rule set requires the qualification to be run on the same tyre type as the first stint? That would have to be dropped in order to make any sense because changing the fuel alone doesn't makes much sense. If that rule is dropped it'll kill quite a lot of tactical considerations because everyone would run the qualification on super softs and thus using hards, and to a lesser degree softs, the first stint looses most of the risk but adds some frustration for those on softer tyres now often starting behind those hards and might be stuck behind them for 2 laps until KERS/DRS is unlocked. Adding another 20 minutes time needed to run a race for this doesn't sounds worth it in my eyes. But I already had to leave a great league due to time issues so I'm biased there of course.
Vance Sim medal 5000 7 years 101 days ago (edited 7 years 101 days ago)
Yeah the game balances out tyres you start on by having you qualify on your starting compound as well. Even if you qualify 18th on ss you should still start higher than those on harder tyres if your design is properly competitive, and have to take up the challenge to gain positions on the field. As the tactical aspects of this game stands, having the choice to change starting tyres and fuel after qualy would arguably kill any need for premeditated planning of strategy that this game rewards, with any changes to your strat onwards having to happen in the live viewer.
