Forum topic: Wishlist

#9 by Dan Mills
Auto-release landlocked Drivers/Staff

Is this still a thing? Frank set all staff allowed to leave immediately if a team isout of competition. Do you know how this is with future staff? Still limbo?
I put it in the list though, until we know its working.

#6 by Adam Eggbeer

Development can stall meaning no progress on some parts. The time remaining on both the overview and the development pages stay the same fpr days and then suddenly get longer. The percentage on the part does not increase either.

#7 by Lukas Fenninger

Is that with dev of parts or research for future seasons?

The actual development of parts, not research or test bed or loopholes.

#6 by Adam Eggbeer

Putting in less fuel should result in much shorter stops but doesn't at the moment. Team mates can also pit at the same time which shouldn't happen.

#7 by Lukas Fenninger

About pitting the same time we can argue. Right now we do have some mechanics for car 1 and some for car 2. There are racing series out there with two pit spaces, so that should work. But in F1 they dont, so maybe for PW we could get rid of that too. Would be also interesting to have to spread out strategy.

PW1 always stopped this from happening by making the car stopping second having to wait longer. Considering this is a Grand Prix game, it should follow those rules. You could argue needing only one set of mechanics for each race and they service both cars like they do normally.

#9 by Dan Mills

Auto-release landlocked Drivers/Staff

#10 by Lukas Fenninger

Is this still a thing? Frank set all staff allowed to leave immediately if a team isout of competition. Do you know how this is with future staff? Still limbo?
I put it in the list though, until we know its working.

Future staff would be done when they actually join the team. Can't rally set them to be available to leave immediately when they are with their another team. Tbh, if the min number of races feature worked in the contracts, then this is no longer an issue and it stops teams from hoarding.

Teams that pulled back but still have an owner still hold their team drivers and staff contracts at the current time of writing, so no, this isn't fixed.

The landlocking occurs when a driver is signed for, say, 5 seasons, and the team goes managerless or pulls back, say, 2 years into the deal rendering them in limbo until that contrat expires.

#12 by Dan Mills
Teams that pulled back but still have an owner still hold their team drivers and staff contracts at the current time of writing, so no, this isn't fixed.

#13 by Dan Mills
The landlocking occurs when a driver is signed for, say, 5 seasons, and the team goes managerless or pulls back, say, 2 years into the deal rendering them in limbo until that contrat expires.

All teams that have left competition have their driver and staff available to leave immediately. I've only looked at about 50 people but haven't had anything go against this but several that agree to it:

https://pitwall.org/person.php?id=135688
https://pitwall.org/person.php?id=62160
https://pitwall.org/person.php?id=40986
https://pitwall.org/person.php?id=34875
https://pitwall.org/person.php?id=3342
https://pitwall.org/person.php?id=5372

but then the bug prevents them leaving anyway!

frank is working on a new racescript currently so that 'should' sort the overtaking race issue.......

I agree with production it now takes too longer to be able to catch up with other teams if you are slightly behind at start of season. Last season it took me three days to build a chassis - now it takes 5!

#15 by Daniel Stevens
but then the bug prevents them leaving anyway!

Only some. That bug is a wider issue than the one that keeps drivers/staff in teams that are not in a division as that area has been fixed and this can affect teams that have allowed drivers/staff to move even when the team is still active.

#15 by Daniel Stevens
frank is working on a new racescript currently so that 'should' sort the overtaking race issue.......

I know he is but it doesn't hurt to reiterate the issue so it gets fixed.

Adam - Brilliant comment. Couldnt agree more! This has been one of my major issues from the start. Its a racing game with very little racing in it!
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"Racing

No overtaking in the race unless a car makes a mistake or is 1.5s faster than the car in front. The value should be reduced to half a second or so but it's still not a guaranteed overtake. More overtaking needed when cars are less than that advantage as well as drivers can sometimes do the perfect manoeuvre or divebomb but at the moment we don't see any of this leading to trains forming."

# the min race clause in the contracts needs to be fixed

# the max race missed clause in sponsor negotiation needs to be fixed

# persons with a long term contract and a leave immediate clause do not want to start negotiations - see https://pitwall.org/person.php?id=119613

I'd like to see less of staff wanting a new contract a week after signing a new deal. This is stupid.

Also, what is with the impossible 'wants a S16 contract' when the options only go up to S14 and they are already signed to, say, S13. This is a one way ticket to morale doom and looking WAY too far ahead.