besides that I prefer to remove morale, motivation - positive events for staff are missing - my chief mechanics does great work but is only affected by a "bad" team fit - drop -4 - soon I will have to send him on garden leave though I don't want to
so some positive events could keep something like balance like we have with drivers
The whole team balance thing doesn't work, its too much. It's hard enough getting good staff; to have to then worry about balancing their team fit and getting the right people is beyond the needs of the game.
You struggle to get a pool of 2 or 3 superb staff right now; to have to factor in bad team fit is not sensible given there are so few to choose from. If there were 20+ staff of the same value, then sure, we can start being picky and choosy.
Having just seen how bad it is for new or lower teams, the sponsor pool should be filled with top level sponsors at all times. It should not be a race of who has the best head and number of commercials at the early season scramble.
If a 3.5m sponsor gets signed, an equal value should be added to the pool all season long.
That way it's down to who you invest with and not when.
Disagree- to many superb sponsors just would increase the financial race for decent staff and drivers. new teams can run on much less financial input - less staff cause it takes ages to build a better hq (same with point system - it takes ages to get the points to buy a better hq)
-less costs on hq maintanence -less costs on staff (5 max) -less costs on drivers - you can let apes win races in an empty div 3 -less costs on research/dev/prod. - cause the hq is very limiting...
so basically you can run a div3 team with 3 millions/week and still make decent money (fans)
But on the other side, having so few decent sponsors means its simply a race to get them, and these sorts of races can only be won by the teams that have the following:
- Good commercial heads.
- Free commercial staff to throw at negociations.
- Be in a very high division.
So it becomes an elitist club; once you are up, you are open to a pool that allows you to quite easily float there.
I couldn't believe how easy big money brands were to sign when I hit Div 1. I said this before I got there; and I am saying it now I am here.
or do you bring this up cause you lost all your sponsors at a bad time in the season? at the moment you do not have many decent sponsors for a div 1 team on the market - especially with the ones you lost not available. and you are very late for next season contracts, most of them are already done...
the development/production system could/should be much easier. one way would be to integrate is as continuous integration where the manager defines the focus and quality of the parts and assigns staff and does not have to care about single pieces - e.g. the manager defines he wants a light weight car and all parts are set according to this focus - designers work on those parts until they are finished and they are produced afterward. once finished the manager can assign those parts to the cars - all steps in between are done automatically - no further actions needed - the time needed how long a complete car is build depends on number of staff assigned - quality of staff.
when you set a focus to an aspect of the car this will get better faster, other aspects will start weaker and get better, but much slower
something else which might be to much for new manager is that we do not have any useful indication if a person has some kind of talent (which does not take ages to find out) - finding decent staff/drivers take far to long (several seasons when you have bad luck - still have to let a moron drive in my 2nd car cause of lack of a useful driver. I know that I appreciated that, but I am wrong. especially with this team fit/synergy/morale/motivation variables it is almost a full time job to find a balanced team - that is definitively to much for a game - reduce that parts to a level a real time game can handle. we do not run 7 races a week as other games, and the learning curve is to extreme for new players - in my 2ct this are the main reason why many new managers (who are not bots) leave very quickly
I brought it up again now having lost all my sponsors, so yes, and now see it first hand the eyes of being there as opposed to theorising all before.
My points are still the same as before this happened; during; and will be after. So the timing is irrelevant; the stance is unchanged as it was seasons ago.
no you are not - you have a high end div 1 team with much more expenses as a new div 3 team - you pay much more for head quarter maintenance, staff, dev/production than any new team (except those who hire very expensive staff/drivers and mess up with hq instantly after signing)
with a new team you have minimal maintenance costs, min dev costs (max 5 projects)
and can have min personal costs
roughly speaking you can run a NEW div 3 team 7-10 millions/week cheaper
timing is kind of relevant cause the good s10 and s11 sponsors signed or are about to sign - s12 deals will start negotiations next week AND div 3 teams do not have access to real good sponsors anyways - but they are, and I repeat myself, not in your position
edit: when you look at the teams whos managers resigned - most of them are very rich - which contradicts your message
#92 by Dan Mills Having just seen how bad it is for new or lower teams, the sponsor pool should be filled with top level sponsors at all times. It should not be a race of who has the best head and number of commercials at the early season scramble.
If a 3.5m sponsor gets signed, an equal value should be added to the pool all season long.
That way it's down to who you invest with and not when.
Then what is the point in having negotiating sponsors as a feature in the game. If there is always sponsors of similar value on the market then you might as well give every team the same income on sponsors and do away with the whole thing. As Phil says, the lower the division you are in, the more financial gain you will get as you don't have the same expenditures.
The lower teams shouldn't expect to get all the top sponsors/staff/drivers (they don't need them), it's something you should get when you build your team up and reach the top where those people/companies want to be.
