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Will the early beta release be for everybody?

Can the set up of the car be kept with the 1-100 values? If they stay numerical (which I hope they do), there ought to be a way to make the selection simpler, like scrolling through number values. An example of how it would function below, when one sets an alarm on iPhones you can scroll through for the right time, or on an Android, you can put the numerical value in directly.



I'm not sure how push levels will work in the beta and new format, however, if they still function the same way as they do now, can the fuel per lap prediction from the Technical Director output the amount of fuel that would be consumed in each push level mode?

For example: P1 will be the lowest push level, and P5 the highest.
P1: 3.2 litres per lap
P2: 3.3 litres per lap
P3: 3.3 litres per lap
P4: 3.4 litres per lap
P5: 3.5 litres per lap

If I understand your example correctly from a following post,

what if instead this was the input and output, using your example, 

E.g.
(input) Push level for stint: P3 (3.3 litres per lap)
(input) Fuel for stint: 27 litres
(output) Estimated distance: 8.18 laps

To explain the above example, if my push level were to be P3 (3.3 litres per lap) for the stint, the Technical director's prediction on inputting 27 litres of fuel would be 8.18 laps.

Lastly, I hope you noticed something in the example above I just made: Push levels per stint, a suggestion made previously in another thread or two. This will be very important for players who may be unable to live manage a race. Please have something like that too! I have several managers in my league who could desperately use this feature. Would mean the world for those guys, as well as the many other managers who play this game and can't live manage.

Will it be an open beta or will you be looking for volunteers initially?





For the setup, maybe it's worth considering having an option to create an "almost ideal" setup with one click for a few reward points?

Edit: I missed the blog post, thanks for pointing it out

If you read the blog post from September, reward points will become tokens, and you can use tokens to purchase an ideal setup. I hope that means it's not the most dialed in set up however. Almost ideal is pretty much the same thing as ideal.

I have a problem with Blunions fuel per push level example :D
It is far from fair & is nothing like the way it is now.
In Australia Push Level 1 on SS & Push Level 3 on M are both same fuel usage 3.9L per lap this is fair because SS is 2times faster than M.
SS 8Laps 31.2L They can do 9Laps but hit the cliff in sector 3
M 13Laps 50.7L They can do 14laps but the extra fuel for longer stints is far to much of a punishment.
& Blunion wants to punish me even more by increasing the fuel per lap for using PL3 CHEERS I thought I was slow enough doing the longer stint and on slower tyres. lol

Edit - Point out the reason Pirelli changed Australia to S & M was because the offset between SS & M that was to great. Bridgestone started the SS & M allocation in 2007 and was used ever since up until this year.

If rolling out beta at end of November 2015 it would be sensible to hold off full release till November 2016 to get push levels and tyre temps sorted out. The push levels in winter time are higher than push levels summer time so locking them in like before is just crazy cause in the summer time hard tyres over heat at push level 3 but in winter they can be used in push level 5. I have done enough shouting about hard tyres over heating on push 3 at Spain and if weather temp is high they over heat on push 2 grrrrrrrrrr

Oh aye maybe should delete this. that's likely only reason I won championships was cause others rolling around on PL1 SS & I was on PL5 H lol

Yes sure!! same fuel for all push levels & all compound looks sweet :)
after all longer stints on harder slower tyres is enough of a slow down without having to add more fuel.

Fuel consumption at other courses would still vary in a range of .3 litres per lap though.

Don't matter if it's 6.3 per lap. Long as it's the same fuel level for all 6 tyres even if you are on push 4 with H :)

Well James, you're going to have to deal with extra fuel if you run harder compounds in lower temps! 

But, but works both ways. The hotter the tyre gets the more fuel it uses. That's why you can run on PL5 with hard then drop it to PL1 to start cooling them down again all in the same lap & it's using the same fuel as SS very little ;)


That's why I said before turn current H into SS & make new S, M & H tyres. That's what we need some fun different strategies with the tyre temps some might slowly over heat the tyres push gently for 5-6laps & others like me spend every lap managing the tyres push hard on the longest two straights & back off rest of the lap getting ready to push again.

So will the game come in a app, or is it browserwise in the mobile?

I think they said somewhere that at first it will be browserwise on mobile, but then later on it will become an app...

The new app should be good fun.

It will be handy, sit in McRonaldos or King Burgers using their free wifi while having your Crack-coke. Even Johnnie Jogger can use the app while out getting some h2o2. Though there should be a warning attached to it, iGP Manager App may cause you to throw da fone. :D

I hope you can provide an update before the end of next week, Jack, with an anticipated launch date for the website, that is hopefully the same week or the week after the update.

Nice...

That sounds great. I understand with all the feedback we've provided there'll be more work needed to finalize everything. Once the new format is launched for everybody to see we will have some new feedback then! :P