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iGP Manager 3D - Bugs mega thread

I have some good news, we've been working hard on a version of the app to improve car behaviours on 2x and it looks very promising. It should be with you next week. In the meantime we still recommend racing on 1.5x or 1x.

Re: tyre feedback - once we're a few patches in we're going to do a massive revision to tyres. That is long overdue. It will be a total change so that all tyre compounds can work on all tracks. We already started building it prior to 3D launch, but there wasn't time to include it.


Last night Microsoft Azure had an outage for around an hour, pretty much exactly as you made this post. That was nice timing, while many are still looking for problems to pin on us. In reality that had nothing to do with us and was completely out of our control. Sorry for any inconvenience that caused you or your league. In the words of Microsoft Azure themselves:

A lot of off-topic posts that were not bug reports were made yesterday, but they were well written and mostly respectful so I don't mind responding. I'll just write a general broad overview of where things are going to clear this up.


Nothing is being phased out. 2D will always will be in iGP Manager and it will always be the best mode for management. The long-term goal is to always offer a 2D mode and to integrate 2D in to the heart of 3D. It's not going anywhere and never was.

Reasoning by analogy is very limiting in terms of trying to imagine the future, I am seeing a lot of that and thinking too small about where we're heading. We're rebuilding what a game can be in this genre from the ground up, and that has to be done step by step when it's a live service. Sometimes those steps will seem out of sequence from the outside looking in, sometimes they won't seem to make sense, and you're not going to be able to connect the dots looking forwards and reasoning by analogy of what has come before.

Ironically, those most critical of the update are the ones who should be most excited about what it means is next. All of that energy they saw go in to 3D is about to go in to gameplay. I don't say any of this for anyone that is leaving to change their mind, those minds are clearly already made up. I say it for the people who are staying so that they can separate gossip/fiction from reality.

JNS 886 - In summary, it seems I offended you with the statement that critics are reasoning by analogy and how that results in small thinking about what each move means. Your post was fundamentally a perfect example of reasoning by analogy though ("you're trying to be like F1 manager" etc.). Anyway, I really appreciate your support but please try to keep it civil. I know you come here to voice an opinion because you like the game enough to do so. We are listening to everyone.

As for what is going on in the wider the community, it's much bigger than a league. Quiet players are happy players. The ones that are enjoying it are way more than those who aren't assume, because they can only see their own league and those who agree with them in the forum (people come to forums to complain, for the most part - you don't come here when things are going well). It gives a very skewed perception of what is actually going on. Here's some data: since we offered the choice between 2D and 3D among the existing community the selection has been approximately 75% 3D. For each person that has left because of 3D around 3 new people have joined because of 3D. All of these people are the community too.