Details of F1 Changes

Hello managers, this time I have detailed information about the changes we plan to do in Formula 1 and in the game. Some of them are already implemented, some are planned, and some are for discussion because we would like to know some feedbac from you before we will implement that to the game. Read full information in this article!

Here are already confirmed changes:

1. Minimum team value was set to 5000 coins, which represents the value of right to own the team. This is already implemented, and you can see new team value for weaker teams already. Also the infuence of low team rating was changed.

2. Driver contracts for next season can be cancelled before series finalization, but only if driver asks commissioner for this or driver is retired. If this happens commissioner will consider if team was doing everything he promissed to driver prior to contract signing. If not then contract can be cancelled (also if driver retires). In that case team sponsor contracts for next season will be cancelled and signing bonus will be deducted from team account. Team will be able to sign another sponsor contract for next season after that. Commissioner will decide when sponsors will be cancelled to avoid financial troubles for the team. This was already used this season and will be used in similar cases in the future too.

3. If team does not have signed 2 drivers for next season, team is disqualified from the game. New team will be created and shares will be sold in auction. If team signs unknown and weak driver just to have things running and not loose it, we will put a lot of effort to identify possible multiplaying which would be considered as cheating in this case. Team manager will be punished and team will be disqualified from game too.

4. We noticed that some teams decided to save money for the future by downgrading facilities to the bottom and plan to save money for the future. We don`t think this strategy is right. Therefore if team downgrades facilities then:
- team image wll be lowered by 70 points (other teams will have 5 points more to their team image - so the verage of all team images stays at 1000)
- currently signed sponsors - season sponsors for this season weekly payments, short term sponsors weekly payments and next season sponsor weekly payments will be reduced by 5%
- we will lower refund for downgrade facilities from 60% to 50%
- 1 downgrade per season will be without penalty (not one downgrade for each facility)
- this will start in season 19

5. New qualification format will be used next season. 10 drivers will be eliminated after first attempt, another 10 drivers after second attempt and only 10 drivers will fight for pole position in last attempt. Starting order on places 21-30 will be decided based on results of first attempts, positions 11-20 will be decided in 2nd attempts, and 1-10 in 3rd attempts.

6. We will reduce number of tyres driver can use during one formula 1 weekend to 4 softs, 4 hards, 5 intermediates and 5 wets. This would make the game more similar to real F1. Combining with new qualification top 10 drivers might use 3 different soft tyre compounds for qualification only so they will have only 1 unused soft tyre set for race. Also using too much hard tyres in testing would be disadvantage. This would create more excitement for managers, will bring some advantage to lower ranked drivers from qualification. And more strategical decissions - concerning race/qualification preparation... Also it would increase driver technical skills importance. Altough on the other side top 10 drivers will have more limited strategical options for race.

These changes are proposed but we need yoru feedback do do best decission:

7. Because of the current situation we are thinking about changes in issue shares system, at least for teams who possibly intentionally have bad results to be able to get more money from issueng shares. We now have 3 different proposals to solve the issue:
- shares sold through auction cannot be purchased by current team owner (we will also disable possibility to purchase shares by teamowner from user who got the shares in auction)
- minimum accepted bid on auction will be the the current value of team shares
- maximum amount of shares issued by team will be decreased if team do not pass conditions
The conditions can be that a team MUST have more than 50% of qualification times better than 107% of the winning time, and these conditons can be trigger for any of proposed thoughts.
Currently we are not sure yet how to solve this and we would like to hear your feedback. Of course such change will not come earlier than next season.

8. MRC will decide to limit using wrong tyre compounds in testing due to safety reasons - not just for F1 but also for other car types - we will start testing this in private cars as soon as possible. Currently using wrong tyres for testing causes bad feedback. New F1 rules for tyres might force teams to use wrong tyre compounds anyway to save some tyres for races. This will limit such options.
We are not sure if this is neccessary, so we would like to know your feedback. Of course this would be also implemented to all car types not just F1.

9. Revolutionary parts
Every team will be able to start special development project for a revolutionary part (something like real F1 double diffuser, F-duct, S-duct, W-duct, engine mapping). This will be different than normal development project. Because this requires revolutionary idea, the result of this will be that team developed something or nothing and just wasted money and resources for this project.
Based on the effort (money and designers quality) put into this, there will be a formula which will decide the probability of the positive result... It will be between 1% - 25% probability that project was successfull... So not many teams will be able to develop its own revolutionary part...
Also based on the effort there will be estimation of the potential of the new part (using the part will add some extra points to car attributes), and current the quality of currently developed part. Team will be able to start projects to upgrade this part.
Other teams will be able to copy this of course and they will be able to start project to build the part after first team used it for the first time in the race/qualification/testing. This will be cheaper than what it cost to the first team because they don`t have to invest resources to invent something new. Altough they will have disadvantage on the track during first few weeks when they don`t have the part.
Part can be used for season when it was used for the first time, and then for full next season. after that FIA(MRC) will make this part illegal.
Only one revolutionary part can be used at the same time.
This will shuffle the team strengths a bit, but only for some shorter time. Teams which takes risk can gain teporary advantage.