World Rally Manufacturer Manager - Season One (2017)

[Andy 'Mars Bar' Graham]

NORWAY PREPARATION

So Rally Norway is nearly upon us, so there's a couple of things you need to do before we can begin

Testing

You need to send me your testing plan by following this template. You only have two thousand (2000) kilometers to testing to use (costing £400 per KM)
Driver:
No of KM Snow Performance Testing:
No of KM Tarmac Performance Testing:
No of KM Gravel Performance Testing:
No of KM Aero Testing:
No of KM Durability Testing:

Tyre Strategies

So to add something to the game, tyre strategies now exist You will be supplied with six sets of snow tyres for this weekend. Firstly, you need to decide when to make the tyre changes

You can only put a fresh set of tyres on at a Service Point, which will happen after every two stages (apart from day 1).

What you need to send me is the following;
Stage for Tyre Set 2:
Stage for Tyre Set 3:
Stage for Tyre Set 4:
Stage for Tyre Set 5:
Stage for Tyre Set 6:

You can also message is there are any stages where you want to carry a set of fresh tyres or used tyres around. This will compromise performance but will mean if you suffer a puncture on stage, you can change the tyres on stages and lose less time (unless the puncture occurs near the end of the stage)

Please message me if you have any questions about this


@Benutzername @rubaru @Jimlaad43 @Millsy24 @Omer Said @The_Laskinator
@airutonpurosuto8912 @Milos @Dan Timmins @Márk Lintner @TTupsi @Slyfrequency @Dovi design

 

[Andy 'Mars Bar' Graham]

We had already figured out the teams we supply, hadnt we?

The drivers in bold aren't running with a team, but are entering the rally. You can offer them to drive your car at the events, and like with Privateer teams, they will give you some money back and pay you for the cars

 

[rubaru]

Tyres stuff getting too complex for me.

 

[The_Laskinator]

Tyres stuff getting too complex for me.

I agree, this game was at a nice level without tyres, not needed imo

 

[Jimlaad43]

Don't bother with the tyres thing, it's already complicated enough as it is

 

[Omer Said]

In my opinion, tyre feature is good for the game. Otherwise we have not much strategy-making during the rallies.

 

[Slyfrequency]

I like the idea, gives us some interaction in the actual rallies, as other than testing there isn't much for us to do now.

 

[Andy 'Mars Bar' Graham]

The tyre stuff I probably made sound more complicated than it actually is. It's pretty much you giving me five stages where you want to make a pit stop if you go the easiest route, and the only complicated bit is probably choosing if you want to carry a set of tyres on stages, which is not compulsory. Right now, it's something easy to implement and gives you more to do than testing

 

[Andy 'Mars Bar' Graham]

If you find this too complicated, would it be better if you were put on a default strategy?

 

[Milos]

If you find this too complicated, would it be better if you were put on a default strategy?

Nah

 

[Andy 'Mars Bar' Graham]

Nah

Any reason why? I mean there could be a default strategy each round and you can choose to stick with or change it

 

[Milos]

Well the default will surely be worse than anything a player builds himself, and with a majority who won't bother doing these strategies, it will give a few players an advantage which might ruin the competition. Take formula manager and %1 fuel as an example.

 

[Andy 'Mars Bar' Graham]

There probably is not much of an ultimate strategy, or one that is mile better.

Over the course of a day of eight stages, then there shouldn't be loads of differences between using a set of tyres for six stages and then another for two stages rather than having 2 sets for four stages. Maybe at some rallies the default will be faster and others it won't be faster

 

[rubaru]

Tyre selections in Forum or PM?

 

[Slyfrequency]

Tyre selections in Forum or PM?

PM

 

[Andy 'Mars Bar' Graham]

Just a reminder, the deadline for this is Friday 12:00PM UK Time. If you don't message me your testing plan or tyre strategy, then you won't have any testing done and you'll be put onto the default strategy Also remember there are privateer drivers available to sell cars to if you want as well

@Benutzername @rubaru @Jimlaad43 @Millsy24 @Omer Said @The_Laskinator
@airutonpurosuto8912 @Milos @Dan Timmins @Márk Lintner @TTupsi @Slyfrequency @Dovi design

(I know some of you have already done everything)

 

[Benutzername]

your tags dont seem to work btw
I always only get the alerts of a new post in the thread

 

[Andy 'Mars Bar' Graham]

your tags dont seem to work btw
I always only get the alerts of a new post in the thread

Weird. Maybe I should just send these reminders to you through your conversation then rather than here

 

[rubaru]

I'll get my tyre strategy to you some time this evening. And you already have my testing program.

 

[kedy89]

Just a reminder, the deadline for this is Friday 12:00PM UK Time. If you don't message me your testing plan or tyre strategy, then you won't have any testing done and you'll be put onto the default strategy Also remember there are privateer drivers available to sell cars to if you want as well

@Benutzername @rubaru @Jimlaad43 @Millsy24 @Omer Said @The_Laskinator
@airutonpurosuto8912 @Milos @Dan Timmins @Márk Lintner @TTupsi @Slyfrequency @Dovi design

(I know some of you have already done everything)

Tag limit for regular users is 3 or 5. Tagging more than that results in none of them working, as far as I know.