Forum topic: Research level

but surely matt it would have been better to do new S3 parts so you can at least develop them for s4?

I'm not criticising just putting it out there because i feel in the same boat.

I'm kind of stuck between thinking should i use the rest of this parts potential at this level for s3 or should i save it and use it for s4

Depends what your outlook for the season is Luke. If you take me for example I have almost no chance of finishing in the points so its a no brainer, focus on next season.

My chassis development is frustrating the hell out of me now. Been developing it for a week and a half and it hasn't moved from starting up project. This is not normal.

Jason I had something similar at the start of the year but mine was a lot longer than 1.5 weeks. Send frank a support ticket. Having said that it can take a fair amount of time to move through the stages depending on how many staff you have allocated

And also the skill of the designer, how many junior designers, numbers and what your teams specialist two skills are.

Does the research level drop when you design a new part based on a current one or only when it's a brand new part?

Think i have pretty much got my head around this finally...

i got a bit annoyed earlier. I'm researching my chassis but then it is listing it as the latest design too. I started some new parts then realised they were listed with no chassis allocated, because it has selected the research chassis (i forget to make sure i changed it). I cancelled them and started them again allocated to my LB02/B chassis but that made my research drop on all of them.

I think its a lot simpler than people are thinking.

The way I am interpreting it, say you are asked the make the best cake you can for a bake off. You have good knowledge, you pour all into it. Then when the cake is done, you show it off. It gets rated.

Then you are asked to make the next cake for the competition. But you used all your knowledge on the last one, and need to learn more to make it better, to be one up from before.

If you make that cake right after the last, you haven't had any time to learn new skills. You will make a cake the same, if not worse because you are, say, tired or out of fresh ideas to improve.

So take a week off. Learn to bake better. The rating and skill level goes up naturally in time, right? Or, read baking books, aka invest in purpose research to up the knowledge.

If you are already clever (ie good designer) then learning new baking skills comes naturally and in a week or so you will be refreshed and back to good levels.

If you arent so shit hot (ie bad designer) then sitting at home and hoping your skill goes back up will happen slowwwwly. Or not at all. Your punk ass needs to read books pronto to improve those skills, aka using those designers to learn about that part and research it.

I could be wrong, but since I have had ZERO research men on the ground, I believe I might be at least partly right as my levels are dropping as parts are designed, but go up again by themselves. My fuel tank went down to unsure this time last week. Now it's very good doing shit all to it.

My ratings from 28 July to 18 August below. Most (but not all) parts have had new versions based on old, only one has had a brand new part designed.

All parts have been researched at some point, on average I've been researching 5-6 parts at a time.

Not sure how this drop compares with others? (my designer is rated higher than all of my current research ratings).

I had similar drops, 2 or 3 at worse levels down per part.

Each developed part caused a drop. Then worked its way back up in due course.

I always have 4 or 5 parts developing at once, and those redeveloped again and again have stayed low for longer.

Those with one or two designs only have gone up faster as the research isn't as exhausted.

My gearbox had 5 or 6 designs and was the slowest to climb back, it is still at unsure.