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It's not an exploit, it's the game's mechanic!








An academy driver is one that is on your Young Driver Academy building on the HQ, which haven't been promoted yet. So, you can't neither train them, use on races and QR nor know what are their initial stats.


A reserve driver it's a promoted young driver available to you at any time ?

No it can't be a game mechanic cause Jack himself said in a post above that he will do an update in the future and they are working on tools to investigate things like the tall issue.


So those 192cm drivers are an undocumented aspect of the game that gives an advantage over other users = exploit

I ask Jack to solve this exploit as soon as possible, but in the meantime with this academy update they should eliminate all the sitting drivers in the academies as a partial fix

Why did you spent so many many tokens in the academy in the first place?


You can find a talent 20 driver with very few tokens so if you gamble hundreds or maybe thousands of tokens just to find a >190cm driver it's the proof that users that knows this issue were trying to take an un fair advantage over users that didn't know that... So this is clearly an exploit...

Jack this is going to show all the players how is igp behaviour... If you are going to change this game in a e-sport direction i expect you to give a sample to how to mantain a fair play in the game 

This particular issue is actually not an exploit, but an old game mechanic that has been in existence for nearly 5 years.

Let me explain. Taller drivers as you know, prefer a lower ride height set up. This leads to a correlation whereby on a large percentage of the circuits in iGP Manager, the lower ride height(s) will have a very small, fractional time advantage.

This was never an issue for a long period of time, as the taller drivers and lower ride heights, would make more driving mistakes, rendering the fractional potential gains, simply not worth risking for (a mistake would cost a lot more time, and positions in qualifying, than the gain)

However, since the April 10th 2020 game update, whereby all qualifying errors were eliminated, taller drivers and lower ride heights have a natural advantage in qualifying.

Many players since that update, will have spotted this phenomenon, and have scouted/hired drivers accordingly. Even yourself Alfa Romeo, you have a 189 cm driver so would have known of this trend.

This phenomenon does though need to be addressed. 192cm sportsmen in reality would never fit in a formula racing car, never mind be by the default fastest.

A small parabolic performance curve coupled with small (hidden) elements of RNG may be a solution, for an accurate reality to simulation correlation. Very short drivers in reality, have minor vision problems in relation to the position of the front of the car (even with a higher seat position), whereas taller drivers tend to weigh more, and therefore have less moveable ballast options available. It is not a coincidence that a large majority of the heights of F1 champions are within a 172cm - 178cm range (31 out of the last 40 drivers world championships)

Look at my opponents drivers, my 189cm is one of the shortest, it's a very competitive league where every things count (marginal gain if you know what i mean) ... We don't agree about exploit /game mechanic, but we agree that this phenomenon does need to be addressed...
As a partial fix of the problem (if this doesn't need too many time of coding) devs could modify the maximum height of all the drivers to let's say 180cm?
Then when they will have all the tools they are developing they will totally fix the issue as better as they can...

Unless they code using the worst possible practices, the height exploit/bug (or whatever is) can be easily fixed by commenting or editing few lines of code. They only have to change the qualify logic which is located server side only. Instead of considering the height they can generate a random number when generating a qualify lap.

It's not height or a number, it's the fact the taller the driver, the lower the ride height and concequently, the faster the lap. IRL lower height would need softer suspension but as, in iGP, there are 3 fixed settings so this doesn't balance.

A very tall driver cannot drive under the ground.

By the way I understand your point but I think that talent is enough as non-trainable ability. The height should not be a parameter for driver's performance.

Maybe a more complex setup system would fix it.

This thread is gone lightyears offtopic ?