James Greer medal 5000 4 years 261 days ago
Limiting number of staff to 3 of everything and changing the transfer page to load 25 of each type would do nicely the way the old game was, a full page of what you're looking for instead of a mixture. If the game limited managers level to 19 there be lots of options out there, level 19 manager can hire level 18,19 & 20 staff all 5 stars
Vance Sim medal 5000 4 years 260 days ago
Hi
I remember on the old iGP, which wasn't mobile-friendly btw, there were pages of staff to choose from and also the ability to sort staff on the market based on stats and even nationality (forgot if this was a subscribers-only feature). This allowed players both convenience and a greater sense of choice. Is bringing back these sorts of features being considered?
Other games have staff that have contracts based on real time, as opposed to iGP where contracts are on a number of league races attended basis. Lots of inactive accounts aren't in leagues and thus staff could remain in them forever, ageless people yay. For those who want staff freed from inactive accounts, changing staff contracts to real time (i.e contract expires in 30 days unless renewed) could free up a lot of staff from inactive accounts (If this happens I'll log on every month for a quick race or two and to clean my garage and give my staff food and drinks though. Mwahaha suckers. Okay bad joke, you suckers are awesome)
I also agree it's sensible to put a limit on number of each staff you could have. Never thought it was a good idea to have players be able to have 10+ CDs or 10+ drivers at the same time in one team.
Only thing is with how simple account creation is now (you can put in fake email and yay, new iGP account), most players have multiple accounts, can place staff in any of them, and switch staff between their different teams easily especially when the staff is still "off-market". Some players even have 10+ accounts; that doesn't mean they are all hoarders though, most aren't. At most they just have a bunch of CDs they can switch around between teams that they race in multiple leagues, but it does open the door for hoarding especially if they're not racing the 10+ or 20+ CDs they have in all their accounts. This is why I believe if the account creation process doesn't change (and it hasn't for years) I believe rather than just introducing a staff slot limit, which is a good idea btw, more measures should be considered in the spirit of... fairness? reason? reducing player salt, that's more like it.
On topic of hoarders, I don't think individual hoarders were ever the biggest problem when it came to staff nonavailability, but I understand how players could see it as unfair, or too big of an edge to more committed players. Like many things on iGP I believe most of the issue stems from the current system and functionality. But opinion over.
Bye. Have fun!