Pitwall is a free online F1 management game.
After signing up you have the chance to either create a new team and start up from the lowest division, or you can join a team who are without a team manager. It's your choice!
As a team manager you should: develop your car, sign up top class drivers, get the best staff, get the best out of sponsorship deals by negotiating and build up a world class team. Because of Pitwalls advanced race engine, you can follow the race live every Sunday! This means that you could change your tactics in the middle of the race, change your driver orders, change your pit strategy, and much more.! If you can't be online during the races, then you can always set up a tactics so that you aren't disadvantaged.
Perhaps in a few seasons your team could be the team to beat.
Pitwall is an online F1 manager which is constantly being developed. Don't hesitate to sign up for an account. After all: it's free!
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De-queuing sponsors
The issue with sponsors not getting dequeued properly should have been fixed for all future dequeue processes. I have also dequeued all the sponsors who were in the queue while there was an open spot. Please give feedback in this topic if you still have problems.
Sponsorship happiness change
As was announced earlier, I have made changes to the sponsorship happiness formula. It used to be so that certain teams had a lot of commercials, and a superb commercial director and because of that were able to set their commercial level to something below 10%. That gave them the option to focus completely on designers and mechanics.
I have made changes to the formula so that things like that shouldn't be possible anymore. The commercial level plays a much bigger role in it, and you'll always have to invest some time in that department, otherwise the happiness of your sponsors drops.
I will be monitoring the average happiness level, but I'm confident that this change is for the better, it's much more fair after all.
- Discuss about this in the forum
Merchandise payout moved to hourupdate
As it seems that the merchandising money payout was used as an exploit for earning more money by some, I have decided to move the merchandise money payout from the dayupdate to the hourupdate.
The changes have taken place immediately, and the first 17 merchandise updates (which are 24 times smaller than the dayupdate of course) have caught up.
New sponsors system launched
As was previously announced, a new update for the sponsorship system has been developed (news posts: proposal & beta site implementation), and it has finally been released on the main site.
Based on the feedback that was given after the previous sponsor update I made the following changes:
* It's now possible to negotiate before the contract with the current sponsor runs out (within 14 days).
* Negotiating is now linked to your sponsorship happiness. It is also now instant. Which means that you'll see and know how far you can go and you won't have to wait anymore. There is also a little bit of random involved in the process, to make a good decision value in case teams have the same happiness.
* At the end of the negotiation round, the sponsor will chose who he wants to go for to sign the deal with. That means that you won't be able to click accept anymore, the sponsor will take care of this.
* If a deal is agreed but the team doesn't have a free sponsor slot, then the deal will be queued and unlocked when a slot opens up.
This implementation required all old system negotiations to be removed! So you'll have to re-negotiate with the sponsor.
I'm also going to tweak the sponsorship happiness feature, so that it will become harder to keep the sponsorship happiness high, as I feel that it's too easy to do so right now.
- Discuss about this in the forum
Sponsor happiness bug
A critical sponsorship happiness bug has been fixed which allowed some teams to get higher ratings than they should've had. This has been fixed immediately as it wasn't designed on this purpose.
More changes will be coming up soon. Season 21 won't see anything ground breaking new, but I will making small tweaks which should make the game better. Changes will be about things like the sponsorship happiness; it should be much harder to keep the sponsorship happiness high if a team isn't racing, etc.
> Last 20 newsitems: (show all)
· De-queuing sponsors, 02 February 2010 19:09
· Sponsorship happiness change, 02 February 2010 19:06
· Merchandise payout moved to hourupdate, 26 January 2010 17:57
· New sponsors system launched, 25 January 2010 13:12
· Sponsor happiness bug, 22 January 2010 17:20
· Driver sale problem, 19 January 2010 11:28
· Season 21 division update, 18 January 2010 14:07
· No earlier update, 17 January 2010 23:50
· Division 1 race 2 hours earlier, 16 January 2010 18:07
· Inactivity mails, 29 December 2009 15:31
· Beta site, 28 December 2009 18:58
· Car liveries, 25 December 2009 15:07
· Missing hourupdate, 20 December 2009 20:08
· Testing problem, 16 December 2009 10:52
· Sponsor update on the beta server, 15 December 2009 01:10
· Country flags for teams, 11 December 2009 18:03
· Inactivity mail, 05 December 2009 11:11
· Sponsors contract length increase, 02 December 2009 10:03
· Sponsor changes, 25 November 2009 11:13
· Sponsor expiration bug fixed, 22 November 2009 14:02
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Latest press release
Race1
08 February 2010 · MLHR Thunderbolt: Nearly a perfect start for MLHR Thunderbolt in division 1. After his first race evr in division 1 Teammanager Bolt said: "A dream come true. Both drivers in the points is more than expected."
Without little spins from both drivers we could have reached even a podium place. Also our pitstops are still too slow for this division. If we can hold the development pace from the other teams we should avoid the relegation.
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Jezchat Williams takes the lead
07 February 2010 · Jezchat Williams: Today at Lander Raceway Chandler Mendoza took Jezchat Williams' first ever division 2 win, second driver Séverin Impetraz managed to get in third place which puts Williams in the lead for the championship.
Team owner Willem van Mierlo was totaly overwhelmed, "we were pretty fast in testing last weeks, but taking this result was more then I ever dared to hope for. Of course I know Chandler is very fast but we know our car is not the best so I can't help thinking that it's been a fluke, but a welcome one if it is.
Now all we can do is trying to keep up this performance in order to stay on top, which will not be very easy I guess if at all possible".
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Good start
08 February 2010 · F1 RACECATS: F1 RACECATS is very pleased with the results of the first race this season. Both drivers scored points. With a better strategy Wayne Kondylis could have fight for 4th place. The team failed to call him in during the safety car period. So his pitstop was one lap too late for a better result. Nevertheless Wayne had a fantastic race and fighted himself through the field to score at least one point.
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First race report, Youth.
02 February 2010 · BRT International: BRT International's First race has been completed and no reliability problems have cropped up, Darran Cahill and Joost Zwane finished a combative 2nd and 6th places, Equaling 560,000 in cash, even before the main season has begun.
Darran Cahill beaming with confidence during the press conference, "What a race!" after taking a drink of water he continued, "that was some race, led the first few laps then got overtaken after a small error, from there things didnt really progress any better then 2nd, spent all the first part trying to keep up with Cookson and away from the rest of the field, the team did an ok job in the pit phase but somehow ended up behind Vaaderpall and Cookson, i have to admit i found that confusing and annoying to say the least, still, i tried to keep up, later after the second stop i think Cookson pitted shortly after his second stop. In any event, 2nd is a good position to try challenge for the title this season. no doubt about it though, it's going to be tough challenge."
Joose was a little less optimistic but still sure of better things to come, "i couldn't understand how i ended up soo far off the pace, i qualified well but spent most of the race fighting other drivers at the back of the grid. lucky though i got a break in luck otherwise i would of ended up outside the points for sure!"
Finally the team manager has come out and sat on the pitwall for the first quarter before heading to the operations center of the team to get a better idea of what the problem could be to why Cahill didn't take victory, a team engineer said, "Our boss has got alot on his mind at this point, but he can't be too disappointed with 2nd and 6th!".
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