GPM2, May The Best Manager Win 2 (2001)

Post by **kevinbotz** » 11 May 2014, 18:13

Benetton will attempt to woo the following sponsors:

Elf - 60%
FedEx - 30%
Mobil 1 - 10%

We'll offer HSBC sponsorship slots on areas T, P, Q, N, R.

good_Ralf · Post by **good_Ralf** » 11 May 2014, 18:32

Jaguar

Design Department - 20 Excellent, 15 Very Good
Engineering Heads - 20 Excellent, 15 Very Good
Mechanics - 20 Excellent, 15 Very Good
Commercial Department Heads - 15 Excellent, 10 Very Good

Jaguar will sign HSBC in spots H, K, N & R

Martini - 30%
Mild Seven - 30%
O2 - 20%
Intel - 20%

SuperAguri · Post by **SuperAguri** » 12 May 2014, 00:20

Minardi would like to triple staff in all departments except commercial in which we will double staff.

We will attempt to woo

Compaq, O2, Petronas and intel with 25% each.

We also like to offer HSBC space A.

Post by **Londoner** » 12 May 2014, 17:16

BAR will hire and fire people as such until we have 35 Excellent staff in all departments.

We are also looking to sign the following sponsors:

Martini - 60%
Orange - 25%
Mild Seven - 15%

HSBC will be offered sponsorship on areas H, K, O, S and T

Shadaza · Post by **Shadaza** » 13 May 2014, 15:46

I can reveal that Benetton is the team that won the HSBC sponsorship, taking just over 0.4 million for the season.

The next area is how to improve the car. R&D.

There are 3 ways to improve the car, develop driver aids, manufacture new parts in-house and to trade/steal from other teams.

The first is driver aids.
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For the first year, the only driver aid available is "semi automatic gears". But all of driver aids are re-searchable and should you wish you can even run them on the car (just beware that heavy penalties will be dealt out if the FIA catch you doing this.)
You can research multiple driver aids at once by dividing the time of your staff (i.e 100% focus on semi auto gears or 50% ABS, 50% turbo)

Each driver aid has 10 levels, so a level 1 turbo is much weaker than a level 10 turbo. But I must add that there is a large bug in GPM2 that means that should your EMS (an internal part) not be at a high enough quality you are limited to lower level driver aids. I will now post what level all the teams can run at the moment, this will be the only internal part I will describe in detail about a team.

Williams: Max driver aid level 2
Ferrari: level 1
McLaren: level 3
Sauber: level 5
Jordan: level 2
BAR: level 2
Benetton: level 1
Arrows: level 1
Jaguar: level 1
Prost: level 1
Minardi: level 1
Toyota: level 3

You do not need to worry about managing this as I will not allow a team to overdevelop driver aids but you need to improve the EMS so as to not limit yourself in driver aid development.

The next way to improve the car is inhouse development of parts, this is an expensive and time consuming process but can give you an edge if you have lots of staff.

These are all the parts you can work on in-house manufacturing. The top slider (image 1) determines how much time engineers should spend on developing parts on how much time they should spend on everything else. The bottom slider determines how the time of the engineers working on parts should be divided. E.G 50% on front wing, 50% on Gearbox.

The development cost for each part varies dramatically, the cheapest is stepped bottom (costs £1000 to develop) the most expensive is transmission which costs £158,000.

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The 3rd way to improve the car is to shamelessly steal from other teams, or hop the fence and strike a deal. Either way to do so you must negotiate past security.

(Williams also cost 60k to break into)

The higher the cost also indicates the harder it is to break into a team. Once a team gets broken into, I will tell you what parts that team has better than you and if you are on mibbit chat I will ask which one you want me to take, if not I will just take the one that is most valuable. That is unless you tell me what part you want before breaking in. You may want to list multiple teams you wish to ram raid as there is a high failure rate.

Once inside a team, you have the option to either steal parts or offer deals for parts. Stealing is cheapest but you have a small chance of being caught and bringing the sport into disrepute (even though the game is bugged and will actually PAY you 100k for being caught, but you don't get the part you wanted and lose the chance of stealing until next race) or you can offer a deal, in which case game AI will offer a trade for the part you want, either the plans for a part you have or a cash price.

Because trading offers a net benefit for both teams, I will allow teams the option to cancel their security contract. You can attempt to break into any team, but once a team is broken into, you can not break into any others until after the next race.

Klon · Post by **Klon** » 13 May 2014, 16:47

Alright, let's switch up some times.
The designers will spend 95 % on the new car and 5 % on R&D
The engineers will spend 95 % on the in-house parts and 5 % on R&D
The menchanics will spend 35 % on the current cars and 65 % on R&D

I want to start developing an in-house airbox.

No breaking in now since the Williams deal need to be concluded first.

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 13 May 2014, 18:22

Arrows will put all our staff on a 50/50 ratio between R&D and their other responsibilities.

We'll start researching semi-automatic gears.
We will start manufacturing a stepped bottom.
We will attempt to break into a few teams if necessary to steal their E.M.S system. The teams broken into will be in the following order; McLaren, Benetton, BAR, Sauber. If all those fail we'll take a run at Toyota and nick the best part they've got.

Pointrox · Post by **Pointrox** » 13 May 2014, 18:35

Toyota will start researching Semi Automatic Gears.
Engineers will spend 60% of the time working on in-house parts, starting with the cooling system.
Also, Toyota will try to break into: McLaren, Jaguar and Benetton.

Post by **Londoner** » 13 May 2014, 18:43

Alrighty

The designers will spend 90% of their time on the new car, the remaining 10% on R&D
The engineers will spend 75% of their time on in house parts, the remaining 25% on R&D
The mechanics will spend 50% of their time on the current car, the remaining 50% on R&D

We will also start researching semi-automatic gears, and begin manufacturing a new rear wing.

BAR will attempt to break into the following teams: Jaguar, Jordan and Williams.

Post by **kevinbotz** » 13 May 2014, 18:47

Benetton will task the following personnel according to the information below:

Designers: 95% New Chassis, 5% R&D.
Engineers: 95% In-House Parts, 5% R&D
Mechanics: 50% Current Cars, 50% R&D

Benetton will begin development of the following In-House components:

50% Electrical System
50% Cooling System

We will begin research on Semi-Automatic Gears.

We will attempt to infiltrate the following teams:

Toyota, Arrows, Williams, BAR

Normal32 · Post by **Normal32** » 13 May 2014, 18:50

Prost will hire 5 average mechanics,5 average engineers,5 Average designers and 5 average managers
We will focus on :
Marlboro:70%
West:30%

We will start making the Semi Automatic Gears:
25% Designers
25% Engineers
25% Designers

We will start the devolment of:
Steering System 30%
Front Wing:20%
Rear Wing:20%

We will sneak in Toyota and Arrows

Post by **Ataxia** » 13 May 2014, 19:06

Sauber will do some stuff like this:

Designers: 85 % on new car, 15% on R&D
Engineers: 75 % on in-house parts, 25% on R&D
Mechanics: 55 % on current car, 45 % on R&D

A semi-auto gearbox will be developed.

In terms of parts development, we'll invest our time in the following:

50% Front Wing
50% Air Box

As for subterfuge, we'd like to break into McLaren and Arrows.

Shadaza · Post by **Shadaza** » 13 May 2014, 19:40

Right, Espionage results post 1.

Ferrari manage to deal with Williams in the first of the 2 parts trade. Williams learn that Ferrari have better cooling, transmission, sidepods, airbox, and stepped bottom. Williams trade their steering system for Ferrari's Transmission.

Arrows break into Toyota and learn that Toyota's: EMS, Gearbox, Transmission, Electrical System and Cooling are better internally, their airbox is better externally. Arrows attempt to take the EMS, fail and instead trade their own suspension for Toyota's EMS.

Toyota break into Benetton and find that the sidepods, vanes, front wing, suspension, and brake system are all better. Toyota steal Benetton's front wing.

Minardi attempt to break into Toyota and Prost but fail (Mibbit chat)

BAR break into Jaguar and learn the Airbox, rearwing and vanes are better. They take the airbox.

Benetton break into Toyota and learn that the Transmission, Gearbox, EMS,cooling and airbox are all better, they take the EMS.

Prost break into Toyota and learn that the Transmission, Gearbox, EMS, Cooling, Suspension, Frontwing and Airbox are all better, they take the Transmission.

Sauber break into Arrows to find the Front Wing is better. They try to take it and fail, but manage to swap it for their Gearbox plans.

In other news, here is the weight of each car + engine. The minimum weight is 600kg, but nobody is even close to that.

Williams 679 kg
Ferrari: 645 kg
McLaren: 644 kg
Sauber: 690 kg
Jordan: 664 kg
BAR: 676 kg
Benetton: 647 kg
Arrows: 637 kg
Jaguar: 654 kg
Prost: 686 kg
Minardi: 654 kg
Toyota: 669 kg

Arrows are lightest, Sauber are heaviest. Weight is obviously important, but becomes very important if the car exceeds 100kg over the weight limit, the Sauber is 10kg away from that danger zone.

good_Ralf · Post by **good_Ralf** » 13 May 2014, 19:53

Jaguar

Designers: 85% on the new car, 15% on R&D
Engineers: 70% on in house parts, 30% on R&D
Mechanics: 60% on the current car, 40% on R&D

Jaguar will begin development of the following In-House components:

50% Front wing
50% Rear wing

Jaguar will also research on semi-automatic gears
Jaguar will try to infiltrate Sauber and Williams

Hermann95 · Post by **Hermann95** » 13 May 2014, 20:04

Jordan plans:

Designers: 90% New Chassis, 10% R&D.
Engineers: 90% In-House Parts, 10% R&D
Mechanics: 50% Current Cars, 50% R&D

We would like to start a semi-automatic gearbox project.

For in-house parts we would like to go for a stepped bottom.

We also would like to break into Ferrari, Mclaren, Williams, Sauber, Toyota, Benneton and BAR.

the Masked Lapwing · Post by **the Masked Lapwing** » 13 May 2014, 23:16

McLaren will put:

Designers 80% on new chassis, 20% on R&D
Engineers 85% on in-house parts, 15% on R&D
Mechanics 65% on current cars, 35% on R&D

We will start researching semi-automatic gears
We will begin developing a new cooling system and gearbox (50% each)

Also, McLaren will infiltrate Williams, steal everything that isn't nailed down, and exit their base completely undetected

When that plan fails, we'll try to drop in to Ferrari and BAR (for the tradition

).

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 13 May 2014, 23:50

Williams will leave Designers, Engineers and Mechanics at a 80/20 ratio, and start developing semi-automatic gears and new sidepods.

In terms of pillaging, we'll first break into Sauber to try and take their EMS. Failing that, we'll rob McLaren because screw Lappy, and then BAR for the sake of tradition

Post by **Ataxia** » 14 May 2014, 10:57

Ataxia wrote:
In terms of parts development, we'll invest our time in the following:

50% Front Wing
50% Air Box

This is now going to be changed to: 70% Gearbox, 30% Airbox.

Next chances we get, we're going to try and break into Williams, Jaguar and Jordan.

Pointrox · Post by **Pointrox** » 14 May 2014, 11:03

Toyota would like to spread engineers' allocation a bit more.
Time spent on cooling system will be reduced from 100% to 50%, and the remaining 50% will be divided to develop the suspension and brake system - 25% each.

Shadaza · Post by **Shadaza** » 14 May 2014, 18:08

Jaguar fail to break into Sauber or WIlliams

Jordan break into Toyota and take the front wing, they find the EMS, Gearbox and suspension are all better. As well as the Front wing and airbox.

McLaren fail to break into Williams, Williams fail to break into McLaren.

If there are no objections, then I think I can start the first race tomorrow. When the first race is completed, I can go into detail about the strength and weaknesses of each team. I will post Qualifying in the morning around 7am BST, and start the race around 7pm BST. You have the 12 hour gap between to put forward a pit strategy, if none is given then I will simply go with what the AI give as the suggestion.

Shadaza · Post by **Shadaza** » 15 May 2014, 06:01

Montoya takes surprise pole.

Rookie Juan Pablo Montoya has stunned everybody by taking pole position for the opening round of the 2001 season. He is joined on the front row by Michael Schumacher who managed to eek out all he could from the Ferrari powered Arrows. Fernando Alonso is 3rd in what is a very strange top 3, it will be interesting to see if these 3, 2 rookies and an Arrows, can stay at the front.

Rubens Barrichello is 4th in the Ferrari and will be hoping to move up the field. Kimi Raikkonen at McLaren makes it 3 rookies in the top 5, with another incredible performance whilst just behind him the two Williams come in together 6th and 7th, Villeneuve just edging F1 new-comer but experienced Gil de Ferran.
The Arrows Ferrari is a strong package as Diniz is only 1 tenth behind Jean Alesi, whilst Toyota will be thrilled with a 10th place start for their first ever race.

Outside the top 10, Jordan edge out Sauber and BAR for best of the rest in what looks to be a tight midfield whilst it is clear that Jaguar have some work to do.
The mysterious Asiatech team with Verstappen have managed to beat Panis's Jaguar, both Minardis and the Prost team. Prost bring up the rear with Gaston Mazzacane failing to qualify for the race, a feat Prost will be hoping is a one off.

The race is 58 laps, you can set a strategy of between 1 (for some cars) and 4 stop strategy.
You can either tell me individual laps to pit for each driver or you can tell me if you want a general 2,3,4 stop strategy. You have until 7pm to have a strategy otherwise the default AI choice will be used.

good_Ralf · Post by **good_Ralf** » 15 May 2014, 08:08

Jaguar will run a 2-stop for Ralf Schumacher, on laps 16 and 40, while Panis will be 1-stopping on lap 35.

Pointrox · Post by **Pointrox** » 15 May 2014, 09:36

As I said on mibbit - if it's possible, then Kenny Brack will do the one-stopper on lap 33, and Mika Hakkinen will pit in twice, no laps specified here.
If not, then two-stop strategy applies to both cars.

Klon · Post by **Klon** » 15 May 2014, 10:24

I would like the following two-stop approach:

Rubens Barrichello - Lap 12, Lap 35
Jean Alesi - Lap 16, Lap 37

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 15 May 2014, 10:33

Arrows will stick Michael on a two-stopper and Diniz on a 3 stop.

the Masked Lapwing · Post by **the Masked Lapwing** » 15 May 2014, 10:58

Raikkonen will two-stop, Badoer will do three.

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 15 May 2014, 11:02

Williams will put both our guys on two-stoppers

Hermann95 · Post by **Hermann95** » 15 May 2014, 11:17

Jordan will put both cars on 2 stops

Post by **Londoner** » 15 May 2014, 12:19

Dario will be two-stopping, whilst Frentzen will attempt a one-stopper.

Post by **kevinbotz** » 15 May 2014, 14:53

Both Benettons will be on a two-stop strategy.

SuperAguri · Post by **SuperAguri** » 15 May 2014, 18:27

Minardi

Designers: 75% on the new car, 25% on R&D
Engineers: 60% on in house parts, 40% on R&D
Mechanics: 40% on the current car, 60% on R&D

Minardi will begin development of the following In-House components:

100% EMS

Minardi will also research on advanced suspension
Minarid will try to infiltrate Arrows, Jaguar and Plost

Shadaza · Post by **Shadaza** » 15 May 2014, 19:40

the first race will be delayed until tomorrow.
I had run the race and everything, including live text commentary, but unfortunately.

This happened before I could save.
I do apologise

But the now dubbed race 0, featured Nick Heidfeld taking out both McLarens whilst only 9 drivers made it to the end.

Normal32 · Post by **Normal32** » 15 May 2014, 21:30

Following this race,Prost will steal parts from Arrows,Toyota or Minardi

Also,if in the following races you do nothing,then i will consider swapping around.

SuperAguri · Post by **SuperAguri** » 16 May 2014, 01:10

Normal32 wrote:Following this race,Prost will steal parts from [...]Minardi

All you will find is a note begging for new parts

Shadaza · Post by **Shadaza** » 16 May 2014, 12:13

Montoya wins thrilling Australian Grand Prix.

He may have started from pole but Juan Pablo Montoya did not have it all his own way, he faced tremendous pressure from Michael Schumacher, Kimi Raikkonen and team mate Alonso all race. The 4 of them were quite a ways clear of the rest of the field in what unexpectedly turned into a wet dry race.

The rain started on lap 13, with some cars having already pit for dry tires this would ruin Rubens Barrichello's strategy, the other drivers to stop were 3 stoppers so had more pitstops to recover to the correct tire. In the rain Michael Schumacher was a demon and after the first pitstop window managed to take a 10 second lead over Montoya, but the tables turned when the rain stopped on lap 26 as the rain stopped and the track began to dry it was Montoya who was the faster, on his 4 laps newer tires he managed to overtake Schumacher who's tires had lost their life.

There was little drama after that, though Nick Heidfeld raised a few eyebrows when he tangled with the lapping Williams of Gil de Ferran, but de Ferran managed to get away unscathed, Heidfeld was out on the spot, he wrecked his Sauber chassis too.

Lap 48 is where things happened with a bang, the rain came back at maximum intensity and everyone had already completed their pitstops by this point so on dry tires the field would have to fight to the finish. The stresses on the cars began to show as both Williams cars went out with overheating issues. Michael Schumacher managed again to take the lead as Montoya looked uncertain in the wet, but Arrows joy was short lived as both cars dropped out with overheating issues, Arrows can take heart in the fact they nearly got that first win and will be looking good for more great results this season.

Montoya managed to keep it steady and win as many drivers around him faced trouble, Kimi Raikkonen hassled the leaders at times but never looked to pass them and took a fine 2nd, a rookie 1-2 in the most dreadful conditions, these 2 drivers have a future in F1! More experienced driver Jean Alesi spent his day fighting Williams ahead and Barrichello behind but kept cool and came home 3rd, with Rubens 4th struggling to make ground from the unfortunate weather change.
The Jordan car seems solid but not up to pace with the Benetton-Ferrari-Williams-Arrows-McLaren 5, Jordan were battling Toyota for most the race and had the slightest of edge. The Jordan was a pig to drive in the rain and both spun off, but Button was still classified 5th after his late late spin. Kenny Brack and Toyota will be thrilled to take a point, Brack's pace on his 1 stop strategy was very good even with the wrong tires.

Badoer didn't have the pace of Raikkonen today, but would have been 5th if not for getting caught out by the traffic. Whilst Ralf Schumacher was battling Minardis at the early part of the race, the green machine had much better pace towards the end of the race so there is hope.

Webber was trying his hardest to keep pace with Brack but spun off doing so, Sato was slow all race in the Prost and a long way off the pace, but he kept the car going and was generally decent at getting out of peoples way so not all bad. Hakkinen looked set for a point but spun out the race, he had the pace on his rookie team mate but it was he who made the error of spinning today. BAR were a little disappointing today, both driver having incidents and generally not being all that fast. Williams showed decent pace but didn't threaten the front 4 today, the overheating issue needs to be solved as soon as possible! Diniz wasn't terrible in the Arrows and even briefly held fastest lap, Arrows need to be able to handle the Ferrari power but it was a promising race for the team.

Minardi appear a little better in race mode then what qualifying suggested, they will hope reliability won't prove a problem this year. Rosset was the slowest driver by a mile in the asiatech whilst Verstappen was anonymous before DNFing.

Drivers Championship
1.Montoya, Benetton, 10
2.Raikkonen, McLaren, 6
3.Alesi, Ferrari, 4
4.Barrichello Ferrari, 3
5.Button, Jordan, 2
6.Brack, Toyota 1

Constructors
1.Benetton 10
2.Ferrari 7
3.McLaren 6
4.Jordan 2
5.Toyota 1

Team News.
(I have decided to wait until the end of the season to bill teams for the engines)
To have the car complete in time, you need to average just over 6% completion per race, teams failing to do this will be marked in red.

Williams. £17.986 Million
The new car is 16% complete and Semi Automatic Gears have been completed to level 1 and can be fit for the next race. The Ferrari-Williams trade deal has been completed, with Williams trading their suspension for Ferrari's sidepods

Ferrari. £23,637 Million
The new car is 12% complete and the trade deal with Williams has been completed, with sidepods traded for suspension.

McLaren. £18,682 Million
The new car is 10% complete.

Sauber. £18,077 Million
The new cars is 13% complete, Nick Heidfelds Chassis needed to be replaced (0.25 Million cost)

Jordan. 18.507 Million
The new car is 9% complete.

BAR. £18.458 Million
The new car is 12% complete, Heinz Harold Frentzen's chassis need to be replaced (0.25 million cost)

Benetton. £18.879 Million
The new car is 11% complete.

Arrows. £18.469 million
The car is 9% complete

Jaguar. £23.263 million
The car is 10% complete, O2 wish to sponsor the team (5 slots) note, Minardi also have intrest from O2, so if you both want it, a coin flip will be needed.

Prost. £19.396 million
the car is 3% complete, West wish to sponsor the team (5 slots)

Minardi. £19.047 million
7% of the new car completed, 02 and Petronas wish to sponsor the team. (5 slots each) (so 10) Note, Jag also have 02, so if you both want it there will be a coin flip.

Toyota £23.206 million
11% new car completed. Semi Automatic Gears level 1. Compaq wish to sponsor the team (5 slots)

Post by **kevinbotz** » 16 May 2014, 16:34

Benetton will readjust the workload allocation for our design department to:

85% Design
15% R&D

Pointrox · Post by **Pointrox** » 16 May 2014, 16:49

Compaq sponsorship will be placed on the top kek E spot on our car.
Also, we'd like to research active suspension.

good_Ralf · Post by **good_Ralf** » 16 May 2014, 17:10

Jaguar would like the O2 sponsorship (please

.

Normal32 · Post by **Normal32** » 16 May 2014, 17:51

We most risk a bit more:
5 Good designes,engineers,mechanics and managers

We will offer West:E,A,U,V,D.

Hermann95 · Post by **Hermann95** » 16 May 2014, 20:32

We would like to put our designers and engineers from 90%-10% to 85%-15%.