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Fixed league search filters

I also didn't get any new players in the last three days. Especially for rookies it is strange since they usually fill up very easily. 

League not found or inactive

That's very useful information. At least I know what to do now. Thank you very much for your quick response Jack.

Edit: But how are we supposed to fill our leagues if they stop being shown to people before they are full? For rookie it might not be so much of a problem if there are 14/15 or 16 teams in it, but for pro and elite it is quite essential I think (especially for elite). I know that elites have the advantage of advertising in the forum, something where rookies and pros are less inclined to look for a new league, but we still miss out on the great opportunity of acquiring new mangers via the league selection screen. So we might get stuck in a situation like mine where no new players join the league because it is not shown to them. Which is not so great if you can't fill your elite tier with new players, eypecially since you usually don't have such an high turnover of players like in rookie or even pro. So should one player leave the league is not shown in the league selection screen and I can't fill that spot with another high quality manager. The only way to fill the league is via promotion from pro which would have happened anyways. But I usually can't replace a level 17/18 manager equally with a pro manager who gets promoted to elite regarding quality (level, DP and technology) and/or reputation.

Edit 2: The advice worked. Got a new rookie within 5 minutes of having 3 rookie spots available.

Seriously?! It is hardly a surprise applying filters is buggy:
https://igpmanager.com/forum-thread/19095

So, it not a bug since it not an error in code of service but in config of servers?
Well, I am a software dev myself. I get ur point. As a "customer" I don't care what's the reason and go on calling filters buggy.

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Search does not display correctly. Gives out leagues with a very small number of people and at the same time does not show top leagues. Regardless of the time.

Sorry, just wanted to point out, that this refreshing thing on filters is a known issue.
Have a nice weekend.

Hi Jack
Thanks for looking into these problems I know I sound like a broken record and you say it not meant to work this way but I and it sounds most other managers would really like the filter to show the time you place in to look at. 
For an example at the moment if you place the time as 20:00 you are lucky to get one result showing that time. I understand what you have said about the UI but that does not help the manager who is looking at that time slot to join a league. 

For example If I want to have my league race time at 20:00 then that the results I want to see. To be honest I can decide then if it is a league I want to race in or not but if I got a choice of 6 as it is now (or 10 would be even better) all racing at 20:00 then that is what I want to see. Now if there only 5 leagues with vacancy at 20:00 then it should only show those five leagues.

I have no idea how much work that would be for you to code it like that but I know this would really improve the game experience and if it could be set up like this then most complaints about the search filter will go away. At the moment even if it works the way you say it should at the moment for most of us it is useless. 

I can see a benefit not just for the manager that is already playing the game to make it far easier to find a league at the time they want to race but also the new manager who just joins. I think a small part of the problem why so many rookies go bot so quick is that their league race is way off of the time they can watch the race live. Most brand new managers will give up before they work out how to get to a time they want to live race at. Where an experience manager does know the work around tricks to get to a league that races at the time you want to it is still a pain in the rear. Then you got managers like myself who are league hosts and are pulling their hair out as their league never shows up in the search filter so most don't even know that the league is even out there. 

Like I said Jack I have no idea how much work this would take to get the filter to work the way I think most of us want to show the results for the time we want to race at even if the league only has 6 managers in that level. If you could at least see if that is at all possible it would be great.

I'm experiencing the same thing, with the league I run.

To skip right to the point, I believe the previous direction, where the new players and players looking for new leagues was geared towards the more active and full leagues, was better.

New players and players looking for a more active league, could clearly see which were the active leagues. Better gaming experience for them :)

I believe this issue has arisen and subsequent change, was due to some league hosts not getting any Rookies at all. This situation can happen when you start a new league, or in some cases with ill league host management removing too many Rookies at one time.

Just had a look at the league searches, it appears to be changing, so this entire post maybe completely irrelevant! xD

Edit:
Just had a look at from a Rookie account. 1 active league, another half full league. The rest are sadly close to empty, with the bottom 2 options not having any players at all in all tiers.

https://postimg.cc/2VWj4h0v

Congratulations Jack and to all the family ^_^

Is it your first child Jack, it is really tough when you don't really know what you are doing. Just make sure you get enough sleep. 

Congrats Jack! and yea....
your shoes is one pair I wouldn't want to be in....lol!! Spinning plates is easy, babies, household and work is another. Add us to the equation and boy oh boy!  

Just a suggestion Jack, maybe just give us a rough timeline when this issue will be looked at or running.

I think I know what you mean, but not sure though. 

A league doesn't require neither an educator(what`s an educator?) nor a full-on-know-how player.  
But I agree that search results should go to active leagues. And that`s where the difficult part is, we all have different ideas of an active league is including the devs. Is it;

• leagues with lowest members, therefore needing to be filled up?


• leagues with members in all tiers?


• leagues with the most active players?


• leagues with most cars?


• leagues with most teams?


• or maybe a combo of the above?

For the time being I`m choosing to allow Jack the time to consolidates his priorities and act accordingly.  

My complaint has always been, it's a lot of work to find the length of race you want.



Race distance should be in the filters list, to simplify finding a league. 
Currently you have to view the leagues previous race to find out how many laps it is, and that can't be done if it's the first race of the season when you are joining. 

No matter what you enter/click on/off..... all you get is the same list over and over...  frustrating to say the list.

Jack, how are things at the moment? Leagues die without a filter