Affiliate Drivers

[MUKAGUTTA9022]

Hi,

I need some support with affiliate drivers. My understanding thus far is that the only way to get them to develop and improve is by using them in Practice 1.

Are there any opportunities to give them opportunities to race? Or must they need to be signed as an actual driver for this?

Thank you.

[Vesa59]

Racing simulator increases their skills too.

[MUKAGUTTA9022]

Postat inițial de Vesa59:

Racing simulator increases their skills too.

Thank you, does this happen automatically, or do they need to be assigned?

[Vesa59]

Automatically. Better simulators benefit more.

[Goul]

they also gain XP by getting a Contract in F3 and F2 through the simulated Races there.

[Alexey Kiselev]

Tell me, what is the point of having these affiliated pilots in your team? Will it be easier to sign a contract with them and take the pilot's place when they are pumped?

[alexbox]

Postat inițial de Alexey Kiselev:

Tell me, what is the point of having these affiliated pilots in your team? Will it be easier to sign a contract with them and take the pilot's place when they are pumped?

The point is long term preparing a driver for your team and saving lot of money that is needed elsewhere. You also can influence what to train, not to forget that little feature too.

It may also payback to hire also 1 or 2 cheap affilate drivers that increase your sponsor rating. (For this they should already have a high marketibility over 70)

[MUKAGUTTA9022]

Thank you for your help all.

Just one more question, How do I get my affiliate drivers into a racing series? I am currently at McLaren but Bustamante is not driving as far as I am aware. Thinking of doing a Williams Road To Glory soon and want to get good young drivers in quickly, but I am assuming they develop faster with an F2 or F3 drive (which they also need to compete in F1?), so how do I get them one?

Thank you

[Goul]

you cannot control or influence it. The Code chooses drivers each year for F2 and F3, i guess both have an Age range and get the best drivers in that age range. A driver that is 23 years old is to old for F3 and if that driver isnt good enough for F2, will get no contract.

[Uncensored]

As I hired Mike Schumacher, 25 and rated 75 or 76 to be my reserve and work on my car development in the background together with Vandoorne, a 34 year mediocre veteran also rated 75 something weird happend. My Simulator is level 4 and both have been making T1 in rotation with my two young drivers. I´ve seen that both Schumacher and Vandoorne have been happy to make T1. And then Schumacher lost his skills hard by 2 points in every aspect, and then three months later again. Instead older Vandoorne won 1 point in driving curves.

How random is this decline in skills? Could I have avoided it somehow?
What I did with Schumacher is changing car settings not 2 but 3 times in a session, because he´s so good at analyszing the setup. This often resulted in a not complete last car setup leaving him with 4/5 analyses. Could this impact on his "happiness" and skill decrease?

[Goul]

Postat inițial de Uncensored:

As I hired Mike Schumacher, 25 and rated 75 or 76 to be my reserve and work on my car development in the background together with Vandoorne, a 34 year mediocre veteran also rated 75 something weird happend. My Simulator is level 4 and both have been making T1 in rotation with my two young drivers. I´ve seen that both Schumacher and Vandoorne have been happy to make T1. And then Schumacher lost his skills hard by 2 points in every aspect, and then three months later again. Instead older Vandoorne won 1 point in driving curves.

How random is this decline in skills? Could I have avoided it somehow?
What I did with Schumacher is changing car settings not 2 but 3 times in a session, because he´s so good at analyszing the setup. This often resulted in a not complete last car setup leaving him with 4/5 analyses. Could this impact on his "happiness" and skill decrease?

Changing settings does not affect skill gain or loss.
There is an internal setting you cannot see for driver improvement. The already existing, not auto generated drivers have it set by the devs.
1 driver can stop developing early, another could rise untill late age. There is no way to check it.

In the driver screen where you can set how the driver should develop, there should be a readout that tells you, high, med, low etc and that gives you a hint.

[Uncensored]

Postat inițial de Goul:

In the driver screen where you can set how the driver should develop, there should be a readout that tells you, high, med, low etc and that gives you a hint.

Thank you. Been scouting this aspect but the timings of random changes were really surprising. One of my talents is Dunne (F3) has been scouted and chosen for his very high development and I already can see first results. Wouldn´t expect Schumacher to decline hard at 25 though, compared to 31 year old Vandoorne. Wow, planned to build him up back to Car 2.