Facilities and Staff at Season Reset.

Staff & Facilities Guide

THERE ARE STAFF AND FACILITIES?

Yes there are actually, came as quite a shock to myself as well. Here is about the point you need to start looking into improving them. Of vital importance is the Alloy and Chemical Lab, as mentioned previously, as well as the Commercial Facilities. Though in absolute fairness, to promote from Master, those are the only two facilities you really need. However once you reach Elite, you'll be in for a rude awakening. That is, if you weren't already anticipating one.

Once again, as mention previously, the Alloy and Chemical Lab will reduce the wear rate of your car parts. While the Commercial Facilities will improve your sponsor progress. As your flow of income, and just money in general, is of vital importance in this game, both of these need to be as high as possible.

Concerning the rest of the facilities, apart from the Pit Stop Training Centre, they will all improve your testing conversion rates. That is, conversion from testing car character points, to actual car character points that improve your car. If you're planning on doing a lot of testing, and you should be, these will be quite helpful in that regard. However, once again, not quite as important as the Alloy and Chemical Lab and the Commercial Facilities.

THE STAFF THEMSELVES

Of the staff skills, the three above the line, being experience, motivation and technical skill, are improved through testing and race results. Motivation is based both, on results (in that, a good result will result in a gain, however a poor one won't necessarily result in a loss) and testing. While experience and technical skill are based only on testing.

With regards to experience, the more you test, the more it increases, however it is a long and slow process. In the case of technical skill, the same is true, the more you test, the more you gain. However, testing with the "setup tuning" priority will increase technical skill at a faster rate.

The three staff skills below the line, being stress handling, concentration and efficiency, can only be improved through staff training. Though the amount you gain through training is dependant on "your maximum level of staff training." That is, the higher this figure is above the staff skill your training, the more you'll gain. With that in mind, you ideally should be looking at keeping this level 15 points above your staff skills when you train them. Otherwise you're just wasting money.

What these three skills do however, is:

Stress Handling: Improves pit times for unscheduled pit stops, that is, weather changes and technical problems.
Concentration: Improves consistency in pit times.
Efficiency: Improve the general speed of your pit times.

When training Staff, if the 'Maximum training level of your Staff' is :

1-5 units higher: +1 from training
6-14 units higher: +2 from training
15+ units higher: +3 from training

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The som of all the skills (Staff skills + Facility levels) divided by 13 = Staff overall
But the sum of all the Facility levels divided by 7 = maximum training level

If your training level value goes below your Staff skills value, you will loss skills.
so you need to keep them above that value. In case of rookies, above 10.

When you upgrade Facility levels, always upgrade with 20, because this is cheaper.

what do you need to be above training level 10:
4 Skills on 20

My choice: Windtunnel, pitstop, chemical, commercial (= 80 / 7 = 11.42)