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VIP Jack Basford CEO & CTO medal 5531
63 days ago Translate
Classic mode has just received a series of fixes and improvements to bring it closer to the 2019 feel of iGP Manager. Most importantly, cars will not race wheel-to-wheel as they were doing in the past 48 hours.
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Rubinho Ramengo medal 5821
63 days ago Translate
Hello, I don't know what IGP was like in 2019. Apart from the elimination of W2W visual effect, what other changes have been made to the current game engine? Are the dirty air effect and tyre management the same as today?
I get the impression that the dirty air effect is not present in W2W, is that correct?
Thanks 
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VIP Jack Basford CEO & CTO medal 5531
62 days ago
Rubinho
Hello, I don't know what IGP was like in 2019. Apart from the elimination of W2W visual effect, what other changes have been made to the current game engine? Are the dirty air effect and tyre management the same as today?
I get the impression that the dirty air effect is not present in W2W, is that correct?
Thanks 

Dirty air, slipsteam and even boost were returned to the specific settings they had around March 2019. That's why the boost has a little "jolt" and isn't so smooth as the current game (which has smoothing).

The impact of dirty air is mostly negligible in the current w2w simulation but it is still present. In early testing I was told repeatedly that it was too hard to overtake in W2W compared to pre-w2w (they got used to driving through each other) so I leaned into making overtaking on the easy side to make racing better, so you don't get stuck behind other cars as much.
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Aldo Bertorelli medal 5332
61 days ago

Jack
Dirty air, slipsteam and even boost were returned to the specific settings they had around March 2019. That's why the boost has a little "jolt" and isn't so smooth as the current game (which has smoothing).

The impact of dirty air is mostly negligible in the current w2w simulation but it is still present. In early testing I was told repeatedly that it was too hard to overtake in W2W compared to pre-w2w (they got used to driving through each other) so I leaned into making overtaking on the easy side to make racing better, so you don't get stuck behind other cars as much.



When did you apply this change? A few days ago I was racing in Australia and it was a mess, saying the least. Especially with new tires, I noticed that my drivers got stuck behind each other when passing with drs, even though the track was empty (it was just my 2 drivers on the straight).
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VIP Jack Basford CEO & CTO medal 5531
61 days ago

Aldo
When did you apply this change? A few days ago I was racing in Australia and it was a mess, saying the least. Especially with new tires, I noticed that my drivers got stuck behind each other when passing with drs, even though the track was empty (it was just my 2 drivers on the straight).

I think we're describing separate issues, that's about lane changing logic, which could be improved in some cases. I've seen a few DRS overtakes blocked too. I take it from your post that it's still viewed as a common issue?
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Aldo Bertorelli medal 5332
59 days ago

Jack
I think we're describing separate issues, that's about lane changing logic, which could be improved in some cases. I've seen a few DRS overtakes blocked too. I take it from your post that it's still viewed as a common issue?



Yes, also others in my league have experienced this. It happens of other circuits too
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Ruymán Atique teimporta medal 5363
57 days ago Translate

Jack
I think we're describing separate issues, that's about lane changing logic, which could be improved in some cases. I've seen a few DRS overtakes blocked too. I take it from your post that it's still viewed as a common issue?



Yes it is still ongoing Jack. Very upsetting
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Frank Thomas Moderator medal 5195
56 days ago
Upgrading HQ is vital to DRS and Boost strength. You probably haven't cought up your Technology after the level 40 update caused your team making a level jump due to the collected XP being freed, while the one of the level 27 is on par with team level and got full 5 stars.
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Giuliano Maietta medal 5758
55 days ago Translate
So tell me if I understood correctly? The Level on iGP is practically useless? There's the free market and you can get a driver at 100% even at level 1. In fact, paradoxically, leveling up penalizes you as the star value decreases. Right?
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Frank Thomas Moderator medal 5195
55 days ago
Not useless, but the system shifted from pace towards unlocking new parts of the game, with opportunities and challenges, and slowly altering the team, from mostly depending on others (chassis and engines customer, research) towards mostly self defining (manufacturing, HQ DP).
The old system couldn't go on, it got just way too long to become competitive, and changing it back to a sensible amount of time would've made levels pointless, as it'd be storming through them just for the level system and anything connected to it ending up to be of no more use and ignored forever after.
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Giuliano Maietta medal 5696
55 days ago Translate
And I agree. Do you want to encourage new players to play and be competitive right away with higher-level managers? That's fine! I agree. The best one wins, not the one with the highest level.
But then why are the waiting times for facility upgrades shorter at lower levels (3-5 days), while at higher levels the wait is 1 week?
This way, lower-level players are more competitive because they have all 5-star headquarters (in addition to having more power research), while higher-level players have almost all 3.5-4-star headquarters.
Wouldn't it be better to have fixed times for everyone like 3 years ago?
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Frank Thomas Moderator medal 5195
55 days ago (Last edited by Frank Thomas 55 days ago)
The time frame between level ups is also longer for higher levels, that's supposed to equal things out. However the accumulated XP for those having reached the pre-update cap of 30 already quite a while ago caused many teams to jump several levels and put them in this unfavourable spot of being severely behind with being several levels down on all buildings at once, hence the offer after the update from Jack to reset the level back to 30 for those teams.

If the level progress system, or connected things like HQ build times, are in need to be rebalanced is even more open to debate than usual.

Even more so for research, as especially teams close to and just at level 30 are somewhat at the bottom in terms of car competitiveness, as they're approching, or just reached, the lowest research, while not (yet) got chassis manufacturing going to unlock the research bonus there, then also only approaching 75% of HQ DPs, the engine is probably not completely developed and those just below are still bound by forced engine weakness. Engine customers might have max bonus, but remain weakness locked and in need to start from scratch if they want to change that soon.
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Artneo De Castro medal 5360
2 days ago
what happened to the rookie pro and elite tier system?
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VIP Jack Basford CEO & CTO medal 5531
1 day ago

Artneo
what happened to the rookie pro and elite tier system?

They were phased out because it fragmented the community. We've moved towards a more centralised single-tier system with ranks. More information was published in this blog.


Essentially it was becoming near impossible for people to populate their leagues under the old system. There were too many leagues and too many tiers. That level of fragmentation over time into thousands of leagues, split into three tiers, and it was really hard to populate, especially the pro tier.

The new system is not perfect but it's evolving all the time and is focused on maintaining populated active leagues across the game. I realise some people may miss the experience of promotion and relegation and there may be ways we can introduce some aspects of this in future, perhaps into events or tournaments.
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