It’s also wrong to believe that becoming level 20 will make a difference. It won’t as 80% of this game is about what you do away from the track and sadly 80% of the player base don’t understand this.
Levels matter. If a level 18 wins against a level 20 then level 20 player did many mistakes.
Of course levels matter, and why shouldn't they. But so does understanding the game, I've seen many lower levels beat level 20s.
People who have reached level 20 or even level 30 in the future have also gone through all the other levels, so why should they suddenly be penalised when they have gone through exactly the same. You can't expect a new driver to get into a race car and automatically be competitive and win.
If players are racing just to win all the time then they are in for a shock. There are many managers at level 20 that never win but will keep playing because they enjoy it, those are the players the game needs, ones that will continue racing win or lose.
If Lower levels are losing interest because they're not winning, they need to wake up, even at level 20 they could still lose. Too many of these lower level teams are in leagues full of bots or inactive players, they win race after race in rookie, then in pro using completely wrong strategies etc. Suddenly in elite they are against real competition and come no where, they're still using the wrong strategies from before because they haven't learnt anything along the way.
Elite should be seen as a classroom where lower levels race and learn from the higher levels. When I first entered elite I joined 10k rep league to learn from them, I knew I'd never win but it helped me in the long run.
You can't have 30 different tiers so all racing are the same level, you can't have lower levels being as fast as higher levels. So the only way is to play and level up until you finally reach the end goal.
Sure, but remember that the first players of this game didn't experience all of this because they were playing against players having the same level.
Do you understand that this game has been going for over 10 years? Most of the managers who were here at the very start are long gone. Not all obviously, but to say that none of the level 20’s around today didn’t go through the same grind as you is simply not true.