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Several managers have reported drivers showing up with two active contracts at the same time. The cause has not been identified yet.

**Am I affected?**
Check your driver overview. If the same driver appears with two contracts, you are.

**What to do**
Open a help desk ticket and include:
- Team name
- Name and ID of the driver (the number at the end of the driver's profile URL, e.g. pitwall.org/person.php?id=**251403**)
- Both contract details (length, salary) if visible

Please don't try to fix it yourself by firing or renegotiating the driver.

**What happens next**
An admin will cancel one of the two contracts manually. If you have a preference which one should stay, say so in the ticket. Without a preference, the admin decides.

The cancellation has been tested on a junior driver without side effects. If you notice anything unusual afterwards, add it to your ticket.

Until the underlying issue is found, this manual process is the only fix available. If you notice the same issue with staff contracts, report it the same way.

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Fans & merchandise balance changes
We have made a set of balance changes to the fans and merchandise system. The goal of these changes is to keep fans valuable, while reducing the effect where already-popular teams could generate very large amounts of easy income and pull further ahead financially.

The main changes are:
* Merchandise income from fans has been reduced significantly.
* Large fanbases now have diminishing returns when generating merchandise income.
* Gaining new fans is now easier for small teams and harder for teams that already have a very large fanbase.
* Merchandise pricing has been rebalanced.
* Expensive merchandise now has a stronger downside on both weekly sales and fan growth.
* Cheaper merchandise is now more clearly focused on growing your fanbase over time.

This means that teams with millions of fans will still benefit from their popularity, but the advantage should no longer scale as aggressively as before. At the same time, smaller teams should still be able to grow their fanbase naturally, especially when making fan-friendly choices.

These changes are part of a broader effort to improve long-term game balance and reduce runaway financial advantages.

Division clean-up
The last few seasons we've had teams who had to queue to join division 3 until the running season ended because there were no more free spots. Therefore I've removed all teams from division 2 and division 3 who are inactive and who have less than 2 drivers. All remaining teams who were active in division 3 have been moved up to division 2. If you are a manager of a -now- division 2 team and would've preferred to stay in division 3, then please open a helpdesk ticket.

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