Season 36 News, Changes and Deadlines

Season 36 is less than a week away and here are the changes coming as well as the Season Series Deadlines!

So let's get into it. First, gameplay changes, second the season series deadlines and finally the calendar changes.

SEASON 36 CHANGES

1. When starting a new driver, managers have a number of points to distribute. Before, a manager could get one attribute to 100 and spend the rest on other attributes. This has been changed and now you can only give points to a single attribute to a maximum of 98 upon starting.
Now, this doesn't change anything else, managers will still be able to max all their driver's attributes to 100, but a new driver won't be able to start with an attribute at 100.

2. Training speed for all types of training is decreased by 2%. That means if there's an estimated training progress of 30% it will be changed to 29.4% (rounded to 29% but decimals are important during real training). This works with the change above. It's a first step in an attempt to make driver training and driver skills limit more interesting for the future.

3. There will be changes to tyre wear. All these changes should bring more reality to the game and also improve possibility to use tyres from qualification in races.

-QUALIFICATION: First and last lap (times not used) will cause wear with tyre aggresivity 1, last lap will go with 1/2 wear (compared to aggresivity 1).

-RACE: During safety car, tyre aggresivity will be modified to 1. Additionally reduced by 1/2 if time is decreased due to going slowly (first driver or guys behind him).

-EVERY SEASON (FORMULA 1 ONLY): Tyres wear will have same BASE attributes as now, but season after season there will be slight modification to durability for each tyre type. That means that soft tyres will last one way in one season, then slightly different in next season and so on.

4. Tyre behaviour will be slightly modified. In general, tyre performance will be the same as it is now when tyres are 100, 70 or 30, but performance at 85 will be slightly better than it is now and performance at 55 will be slightly worse than it is now. Between condition 20 and 30, performance has a steep drop. From 20 to 0 it will be bad... Change will not be drastic, but skilled managers might be able to find little advantage.

5. We will introduce a new hidden parameter for all cars - CAR SOPHISTICATION. This parameter will determine how difficult is it to understand the car's behaviour and a high value will make it more difficult to reach the perfect setup. This parameter will be first used in F1, and we will use it later in other series. Nations Cup is a strong candidate too.

6. Tyre aggression and other parameters will be used during testing too. Low aggression will not give as many setup advices during testing.

7. Car difficulty calculation will be also modified. That will have a slight influence on the number of errors on track. High maximum speed would increase probability of error independently of other parameters, but acceleration and braking would only add extra error probability if car has low handling.

8. We will copy current real Formula 1 DRS sections to our tracks for next season. In addition to that we will also add DRS sections to tracks used for Nations Cup. It is possible that we will enable DRS for Nations Cup races too in season 37 to prevent boring races with little overtaking.

9. Team rating of 500 will be introduced for F1 teams. Change will not be quick but the rating of weak teams should grow for a few weeks until 500 is reached. Although racing with bad car might be penalized in a different way on sponsor payments more effectively. This will of course affect other teams too. As you know average rating of teams is the same and equals 1000. Therefore if minimum is set, rating of other teams would be lowered little bit… But keep in mind, that even Williams in real F1 do have lots of prestige and is somehow attractive to sponsors.

SEASON SERIES DEADLINES

Day 72
- F1

Day 73
- Indy
- NASC Gold Cup
- DTWS
- World TCS
- TCS Europe
- Formula E
- Formula 2 World
- Moto 1

Day 74
- Indy Junior
- V8 Supercars
- World GT
- 911 Supercup
- Superb Formula
- Moto 2

Day 75
- F3 World
- Moto 3
- Moto E
- NASC Silver Cup

Day 76
- F3 Continentals
- F3 Regionals
- TCS Regionals

Day 77
- All remaining series not already mentioned

As is always the case, if you have not applied for any of the above Season Series for Season 36, then your driver will automatically be entered into the Rookie Series.

CALENDAR CHANGES

Indy:
-Calendar is amended to 2020 real one with Richmond replacing Pocono.

NASC Silver and NASC Truck:
-Both series will have stage points and playoffs. NASC Silver also gets Indianapolis GP in place of Indianapolis Oval.

Formula E:
-Excel and Seoul replace Zürich and Hong Kong.

Moto1, Moto2, Moto3 and MotoE:
-Calendar is amended to 2020 real one with the addition of the Finnish GP.

F3 British:
-Silverstone National comes in place of Silverstone 2010.

And that is all!