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Reviving 2-car Leagues

This is exactly the issue we're trying to work around. Many managers have done just as you suggest and given up running two cars because of the costs. As a result a great deal of the competitive 2 car leagues have disappeared.

It's easy to manage if you only race a couple of times a week, the daily rewards and Ads allow you to keep your head above water, but daily two car racing has become unmanageable unless you either spend real money or exploit the system and farm game money and parts in a one car league. If you do this you run a real risk of having your account closed down.

Bruno's suggestions make a lot of sense and are very much along the same lines as I was suggesting on the volunteer server not long after the Level 30 update dropped and I was forced to abandon my well established 2 car league because most managers switched format.

As for making management more tricky, I agree. It may be an unpopular opinion but I think one car resource management needs to be made significantly harder to put a stop to the exploit I mention above.

Amelia.

Please can you elaborate? In what way does race length affect parts usage? Are you talking about 25%, 50%, 75% or 100%, or are you talking about relative race length between the different circuits?

I cannot find any evidence to support the statement that PL affects wear.

If reliability does affect wear as you suggest, the difference between 60 and 300 is minimal. Again speaking to others, I can't find any evidence to support this.

It's easy for you to manage parts and other resources such as engines and game cash, because for many years you've been  competing in a league that only races once a week. So you use parts, engines and cash one day every week whilst claiming daily rewards seven days every week.

As a footnote, I'm still gathering data, but early thoughts about the imbalance suggests that two car is quite well balanced at the moment, you really have to think about resource management to break even. Unpopular as this is going to be, IMO one car leagues have it too easy right now and need to be made significantly more difficult.

I'm not sure how making one-car more difficult to manage would affect the long term viability of the game. Currently, one car is so easy that people have built up an enormous stockpile of parts, money and tokens. In pure, hard nosed business terms, if managers who spend nothing decide to abandon the game how does this affect anything? As it stands, the owners have to scale infrastructure etc. to accommodate these players but get nothing in return.

I'm not suggesting you make it so that people are forced to spend real money, but in what is supposed to be a management game, one car racing certainly needs to be made more of a challenge in terms of resource management.

Skid.

I accept the sponsor target bug needs addressing but this doesn't alter the fact that one car leagues are not too challenging in terms of resource management, especially if you sign the right sponsors and are fortunate enough not to have to deal with unrealistic targets.

I also realise it's a really tricky problem that the owners/Devs have created for themselves. There are very many high level teams that have stockpiled an enormous number of parts, tokens and game cash over the years, some from farming before it was clamped down on, others just because historically, resource management has been so easy, especially in one car leagues. Even if the one-car format were to be made more difficult tomorrow, these teams would be unaffected such is the size of their stockpiles. 




I created a new account about 4 weeks ago. I started off by doing Sprint Races then joined a league as soon as I reached L10. I have completed 14 league races in a one-car league and, despite the fact I repair the car and renew engines after every race, I already have a stock of 475 parts. So it is not just for high level accounts where one car resource management is easy.

TBF, I did purchase a special deal a few days ago at a cost of £4.99 but this was simply because I wanted 48 tokens to purchase a T19 driver from my academy and was too impatient to wait.

3 tokens a race in a one car league is more than enough to renew engines every race and still leave plenty to save for other stuff. Not that it's strictly necessary to renew engines in an Elite tier at low level because you're going to finish at the back regardless of whether or not you have a fresh engine.

Up to now I have also had no problem balancing game cash, but this is because I haven't yet been hit with unrealistic sponsor targets.

Double the number of engines doesn't make two car equal with one car.

One car get 10 free issue engines every 20 races, if they choose to change engines every race they require another 10.

Two car get 20 engines every 20 races, if they choose to renew engines in both cars for every race they will use 40 and will therefore require another 20, twice as many as one car.