iGP Manager : Motorsport's Manager Game

"Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)" (6speedhaven)
08/06/2015 at 13:30 • Filed to: igpmanager, blunion05

Join over 30 other Opponauts on iGP Manager today to manage your own F1 style team! We are in the off-season with our 10th season’s first race launching tonight! We are now racing on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday each week. Click through to find out more.

League Structure:

Each season in the Oppositelock league lasts for six weeks. There are three races per week and 17 races per season.

Teams are single driver only.

Race times are geared for the convenience of U.S. Opponauts. Races take place at 10:00PM Eastern/7:00PM Pacific (2:00AM GMT) on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

Race length is set at 50% of the full race distance, averaging a race time of 45 minutes. The longest race of the season is Monaco, which takes 1 hour to complete.

There are three tiers. Rookie, Pro, and Elite. All players start in the Rookie tier. The top 4 scoring teams in Rookie and Pro advance to the next tier at the end of each season. Rookie feeds into Pro, and Pro feeds into Elite. This allows new players to learn the game and then take their experience to help them fight their way to the Pro and Elite tier.

Joining the Oppositelock league is simple. Click !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! to create your account and your team. When you are able to search for leagues to join, click !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . You’ll be prompted for a password. The password is ‘oppo’.

Note : Your name and team name must be the same or similar to your Oppo name .

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask — just post your questions in the Oppositelock league! iGP Manager is a free game that offers additional features with the purchase of a subscription (pay-to-play).

When you create your account, you are automatically contracted to staff with random amounts of experience. Your team is also contracted to suppliers and sponsors who will provide you stable, conservative performance levels with room for mistakes and a steady flow of cash. Your bank account starts with $50 million and your employed staff and suppliers are paid per race.

On the Staff page under the ‘Team’ tab, you will see staff positions for a Driver, Chief Designer, Commercial Manager, Technical Director and Doctor.

Facilities

Every racing team needs to have facilities. As you level up in the game, certain facilities became available to you or become more expandable.

Manufacturing new components for your cars costs money, and you can determine the quality of those components. There is no need to be on anything less than the highest quality of manufacturing.

Your office size determines how many employees you are able to hire.

The simulator simply generates better default set ups for your car.

Available after level 3, the Gym enables you to train your driver’s physical attributes. Without the gym, physical training for your driver is not possible. You will also be able to develop a Research arm for your team to research and develop new projects.

Available after level 8, you can purchase a test rig and wind tunnel to quicker advance your component’s designs performance points.

Before each race, you are able to train two areas of your team: Your driver and your staff. It is your decision to see where to improve your driver and which area of your staff to train.

Your design staff help advance the performance of your car. You can determine how much emphasis they should have on focusing on improving your car for the current season and the next season. The more developed your components are for the current season (the second column saying ‘Model & Performance’), the more designers it will take to deliver the soonest possible design date, which is always two days at the earliest.

Your maximum performance, which is how far your components can be developed to, will also be determined by how well you have trained your design staff and what the level of your chief designer is.

You can also spy on one team’s component per race, with the results of spying showing up on the design page after a race. In order to clone another team’s component, you need to research Reverse Engineering in the Research facility.

Before each race, preparation is essential. Your technical director suggests what your fuel consumption will likely be at its worst. The more experienced your technical director, the more precise his prediction will be. The technical director also suggests what number of pit stops is ideal for the race. Here you can view information about the track and live weather, which can be useful to know before performing test runs. Your technical staff also helps to refit worn out components on your car:

In the assembly tab you replace components that are worn out from a race or outdated if your design staff have produced a better performing component. The maximum number of motors a one driver team can have is 10 and is supplied 10 motors per 20 races.

The technical director also arranges your race strategy for you automatically. This can be altered if necessary (which you most likely will need to). Here the driver can perform 5 test runs and give you feedback to help set up the car for the race. Test runs completed in the same weather conditions that the race will have will produce the best possible set up. If you adjust your race strategy, you will need to decide what tyres to qualify on, as those same compounds will be the same tyres you have to perform your first stint on.

Ten minutes before a race, is the qualifier. It happens on its own with no way to watch it until the results are posted, at which point you can begin to live manage your race. You have 10 free trials of the live 2D viewer (above photo) where along with your own cars’ tyres and components, you can observe other drivers’ tyre temperatures and component degradation levels. The trial lasts for 28 days. If you don’t use them up after 28 days, they disappear.

The wrench and screw at the bottom right access your race strategy and can be adjusted. The bottom left area is where you can view your driver’s push level and consumption of fuel and tyres per lap, as well as health percentage lost (fatigue) per lap. Push level does not determine how well your driver overtakes. Push level allows you to instruct your driver to how hard they should push the car. Pushing too low can lead to cold tyres and slow laps and pushing too hard can lead to overheating tyres, slow laps, and excessive fuel and tyre consumption, as well as an unexpected or early pit stop.

After each race, whether or not you were able to live manage the race, you can see the results and data for your driver after the race.

Hopefully this helps! Everything else you see in the game, I’m sure you will figure out on your own!

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As time goes on, the bottom of this post will be updated with tips, tricks, and advice that must be followed to combat some of the games downfalls.

Do not use the hard tyres. The hard compound in the game is currently only useful in extremely hot weather (above 32 or 34 celsius).

DISCUSSION (60)

Firewrx234 > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
09/10/2014 at 14:34

Great write up Blunion!

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > Firewrx234
09/10/2014 at 14:41

Haha, thanks. I've even tagged it for future reference in case it ever needs to be updated for another season or can be linked for newcomers commenting on the race result threads.

I used the site's media photos which made it easier. hehe

claramag, Mustaco Master > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
09/13/2014 at 20:34

Some clara-ification (ha!) on design. You can only design a new particular part once every 48 hrs. Assign as many designers as it takes for a tomorrow turnaround, usually completes 0700 CST. Then reassign those same designers to another part

Like this, assign 30 designers to the front wing so you'll get a new one monday morning. Then take those 30, assign them to rear wing, you'll get that tues morning. Swap em back to front wing, new model Wed morn. It's probably the most efficient design technique, but keep in mind the more developed the part, the more designers it takes for a tomorrow turnaround

Tohru > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
10/15/2014 at 21:05

I think I'm in this but I'm not sure how this works.

So is this like "B" mode of Gran Turismo? Like, you have to be online when the race is happening?

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > Tohru
10/15/2014 at 22:03

B Mode, indeed! Being present for the race is not a requirement, however live-management of the race is essential to being successful for the championship or reward objectives (which you will find out about when you do live manage a race).

Tohru > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
10/15/2014 at 22:13

Neat. I'll give it a go.

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > Tohru
10/15/2014 at 22:49

Good luck! There is a guide and rules under the iGP tab on the website. Please check out the article linked at the end of this as well! Any other questions, just ask away here or in the league!

Haimatox > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
10/18/2014 at 12:44

Just out of curiosity, how much time must be devoted to this in order to be somewhat successful?

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > Haimatox
10/18/2014 at 13:03

The first time you make an account will require around 1 hour to familiarize with the aspects of the game that are mentioned in here. After you've taken care of setting up your team's contracts, assigning designers to develop components, all that's left is to try to be present to live manage the races. They are on average 48 minutes long. Majority of success comes from live-managing a race but over-managing can be bad. The league runs 3 races per week (Tues-Fri-Sat). As a beginner, success doesn't come until the second season if you screw up your first season, which is common.

If you can't live-manage races it's okay, but it stunts what you learn about what works and what doesn't in managing your team (such as you might feel your driver is total crap and need one who is better in a different aspect of performance). As long as you log in once a day to check on your team's race results if you missed a race, replace worn out components (so that your car doesn't miss a race!), and continue checking your design development and improving your team (all of which only take 5 minutes a day) you can keep up until you can live manage a race.

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
10/31/2014 at 10:40

The password isn't working. Is it still Oppo?

edit - NM, I figured it out. All lower case.

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
12/05/2014 at 19:29

just joined as Sampson Flynn Racing,,, prolly gonna fuck this season up but hey its for fun.

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
01/05/2015 at 10:24

I'm pretty happy, first season doing it, missed the first race and cracked the top ten 3 times.

Redbulldidlo > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
01/05/2015 at 10:35

For some reason leagues aren't popping up for me.

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > Redbulldidlo
01/05/2015 at 14:14

Did you click the direct link to the Oppositelock league provided in this thread?

Redbulldidlo > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
01/05/2015 at 14:51

I didn't, no. In all honesty, being afraid of people I wasn't actually going to join the oppo league

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > Redbulldidlo
01/05/2015 at 19:29

don't be scared, you should really join us, and play for as long as you enjoy the game. Ask questions if you need help or advice!!

aberson Bresident of the FullyAssed Committe > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
02/24/2015 at 18:31

i'll end up rejoining this over the summer

had great fun last summer

(even though i was in the back of the grid the entire time)

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > aberson Bresident of the FullyAssed Committe
02/24/2015 at 18:33

Seems like you've changed your username here since then - who were you playing as?

aberson Bresident of the FullyAssed Committe > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
02/24/2015 at 18:39

this is my team Martin Sydnors redsnails

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > aberson Bresident of the FullyAssed Committe
02/24/2015 at 18:52

Ah, okay. Well, I look forward to seeing you again soon!

Kailand09 > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
02/24/2015 at 19:56

How long do races last? I work early AM, so I'm thinking the start times are too late for me. I'm interested though.

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > Kailand09
02/24/2015 at 21:01

An average of 45 minutes, with the outlier being Monaco, at an hour. It's the only race that surpasses 50 minutes. The shortest is Italy, at around 40 minutes. We do 50% distances.

Kailand09 > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
02/24/2015 at 21:03

hmm. Wish I had more notice, it encroaches on when i need to sleep. Gotta weigh it out :(

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > Kailand09
02/24/2015 at 21:07

We race on Tuesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, and there are times when some of the guys are absent, but still manage to keep their team going without live management. Although without live management it is very tough to win!

Kailand09 > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
02/24/2015 at 21:37

Bummer :( that makes it more difficult. I may have to pass so as not to waste others' time missing races.

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > Kailand09
02/24/2015 at 23:32

That's alright. Perhaps at some point we might become more time compatible!

Phyrxes once again has a wagon! > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
03/31/2015 at 12:02

When you start out you will be in the rookie league, after each season the top four teams are promoted to the next tier.

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
04/22/2015 at 12:56

(article linked at the end is no longer linked, as it was incorporated into this post in a later edit)

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
04/27/2015 at 16:50

How time intensive is this? I’m interested but if it is going to require more than an hour per day, I can’t expense the time.

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
04/27/2015 at 18:31

The first time will be half an hour to one hour at most. The next few days afterwards you might still spend more than 10 minutes per day and after that, 5-10 minutes per day. Everybody that currently plays the game actively is generally signing in once per day for maybe 5 minutes on average, checking on the design team, adjusting designers on components that need to be improved to make their car better and faster and log out. On race nights, half of the active guys are live managing, and each race is on average 45 minutes long. Live managing your team during a race isn’t required, which is great if are not going to be available at the time of the race. Live managing will make it easier to win and more fun too!

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
04/28/2015 at 00:34

I may look at doing this tomorrow.

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
04/28/2015 at 09:58

Kinja'd!!!

Okay, I’m in now, I just kind of set everything up for next season and auto-sign/renewed whatever my defaults were.

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
04/28/2015 at 12:41

Great! You’re off to a good start. Remember to train your driver before the next race! and from then on you will train the driver once after each race.

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
04/28/2015 at 12:54

I was pretty sure that I did his training already...

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
04/28/2015 at 13:06

Just wanted to make sure. Training makes big improvements.

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
04/28/2015 at 13:20

Training done, and so have my test laps. also bio added

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
04/28/2015 at 16:01

Good stuff! I apologize if you’re spending more time on this at the beginning phase than you have intended to.

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
04/28/2015 at 16:04

Actually not really at all. Just a little lost, hoping that I am actually putting a team on the grid and not pulling a USF1 2015 edition.

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
04/28/2015 at 17:36

hahahahaha

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
04/29/2015 at 09:27

Points finish in my first race!! Mostly because of the crazy amount of DNFs.

\notbottom

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
04/29/2015 at 11:52

Yeah, our Rookie tier slowly became the more inactive tier overtime since everybody who was active was moving on up into the Pro and Elite slots. So it’ll be quite a while before you get to race live with a race full of other active managers. :/

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
04/29/2015 at 11:54

boooo, lol just kidding. I’m making way on my car and staff so hopefully I will do well.

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
05/18/2015 at 10:39

TheTeamWithSauce is looking to crush the rookie league under their saucey feet this season! 2 wins in their first ever season and 3 podiums? Awwwww yeah!

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
05/18/2015 at 11:17

Kinja'd!!!

I started halfway through the season and brought home more points than Caterham + HRT + Marussia + Manor + Sauber (2014) combined!!!!

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
05/18/2015 at 16:52

That’s awesome!!! Good start there!

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
05/18/2015 at 16:54

Lol, I was giving that line to you in the same vein as “Satisfactory” says the Bucksnort Tennessee Times, to help you advertise.

Spmething that sucks, I can’t get a new driver that I want right now because I didn’t have a very competitive season having only raced 8 of 17 races. Also, are you going to add COTA, Sochi, and any other new tracks this season?

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
05/18/2015 at 17:37

Well, due to the budget of the game’s creator itself, tracks like that aren’t available right now - we’re running on the 2009 schedule, I think. No league host currently has the option to run a different set of tracks than these. We’ll probably get them at some point in the future, however.

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
05/18/2015 at 17:41

Cool, hopefully I will still be in it. I made a big gamble on development and have got to get some serious points this season in order to make it to the next one.

trmoore09 > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
05/18/2015 at 17:44

Unfortunately, the tracks are controlled by iGP and aren’t changing. Not for now at least. They don’t claim to be an “F1 Simulator”, so they don’t keep up with track/schedule changes.

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > trmoore09
05/18/2015 at 17:46

Cool, cool Blunion schooled me up on it.

Herr Quattro - Has a 4-Motion > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
06/13/2015 at 17:45

Man I wish I could play during those times... It's just to late....

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > Herr Quattro - Has a 4-Motion
06/13/2015 at 18:07

That’s understandable.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
06/13/2015 at 19:16

Hi can I join?

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
06/13/2015 at 19:33

sorry we don’t allow people who like Chrysler or german products

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
06/27/2015 at 18:18

Hey, I did a big boo-boo and forgot to change the season break, I posted on the forums and was able to switch the season’s first race to June 30. Go and enjoy your dinner party!!! I’m sorry if you blew your test runs.

Grindintosecond > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
08/12/2015 at 11:31

I hope I didn’t miss something in there, but do i have to actually be present (logged on) for the race? actively managing or is it set up to have your ducks ready for the race and then you can watch or not and the results are in later? Work is everywhere and all over me at differnet times...

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > Grindintosecond
08/12/2015 at 20:49

You can set-up for the race before hand and not be present for the actual racing when it kicks off.

If you would like to see yourself succeed and win against the other managers/teams, it’s important to live manage the races as often as possible.

Generally when you live manage you get to learn from your mistakes! And you improve by trying different things and strategies in future races. Eventually you get the hang of what works and what doesn’t.

However, as long as you just stay active and don’t let the team go inactive by forgetting to perform set-ups and replace components on the race car, that’s perfectly fine.

philipilihp > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
08/13/2015 at 13:20

Did Blunion actually get banned for this post or is that just a funny username? I was thinking of re-sharing it for the new season to get some more people into the Oppo 1 or 2 car leagues, but I’d like to know before I get banned! LOL

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > philipilihp
08/13/2015 at 16:02

It’s very convincing since I don’t post or comment anymore, but that is actually my username. I changed it to that after the long usernames returned. I am not banned and there are no changes to the usernames of people who are banned. LOL

philipilihp > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
08/13/2015 at 16:08

LOL Just checking! I was going to re-share your post to recruit for the 2-car league.