Well the only problem i see with hidden skills is the salary for each driver. Actually, wages are calculated with the overall speed setting. If you know the salary of a Driver, then you'll know his overall speed and his ranking compared to other drivers. BUT Overall Speed is a result of a formula which involves the only two real ratings drivers have :
Driving Skills
Aggression
Overall Speed his mostly the Driving Skills plus a bonus for Agression if it is high or a penalty if is is low. So it should be fine to only know wages don't you think ?
Sorry
@Milos but i did not understand what you said about "other scenarios". What were you meaning ?
@kedy89
My ideas for teams is that we pick real ones. But we're only "Team Directors or managers", we are NOT the owners. If someone pick Williams, he will never be Frank Williams. He'll stay only the director of racing for some years, maybe decades, but he can be fired and he can trade his seat with someone else one the grid.
Through the seasons some teams will never disappear (Ferrari McLaren Williams) but some of them can. So what i'd like to do when the time will come is to propose to the Team Managers several possibilities :
- If the results are bad, let the team die and be the new manager of a fresh new team. Picked from the ones that should have come to F1 in those years. For example Renault around mid 70's, Toleman early 80's etc.. He can also decide to create his own team, with the name he wants, in a way like Ross Brawn did in 2009.
Another Manager can interfere in the procedure and say No, i'd like to keep this big name in F1. So he could leave his seat and buy the "name of the team" to be its new owner (new owner means that he couldn't be fired). With a new logo, a new name etc... Then the original manager of the finally not-dying team could decide to get his seat. Another player can also signup into the game and we'll add a team to the grid. We'll find an agreement
- But if the results are good, just continue to manage his team with a possible new name. For example, March Engineering died a first time in 1982. The team manager decides to keep March in F1 with a new alternative name : March Racing Team MRT and maybe a new logo etc.. I think it should be great to keep all the historical british teams to make them stay but this is only my opinion. You'll choose ! The other possibility is that you, manager, buy the team to create your own new brand like Mercedes did with Brawn for 2010 : a winning team that disappears to create a new winning team (means that you won't loose your upgrades and stats).
And for calendar, in my opinion it should be 12 races in 1971 and 1972 then 16 races from 1973. Then it won't change. Why ? Because it is a way to compare stats through years. How much podiums, how much victories etc.. it depends on how much races we have each year. Here we have a fixed amount of races. So we could compare late 00's driver with early 80's ones. It is because i'd like to introduce a Hall Of Fame for Formula 1 based on drivers statistics.
I'd also like that we all elect each season the "Rookie of the Year Trophy" which will give a Bonus stat for the young driver who won it. So with a bonus of 3 points more or less, Riccardo Patrese could someday fight for the title
You see the idea ?
I've also said earlier that driver stats should change and evolve in line with the results. At the end of each season, for each team, the driver who got the more points will have a driving skills bonus until the age of 30. And the driver that were below his partner will have a driving skills penalty, regardless his age.