GPM2, May the best manager win!

[eurobrun]

Can I (Renault) sign Red Bull on as the main sponsor.

Spots E and U on the car. (I will think of other spots when I have more time)

[East Londoner]

Mild Seven will become the new sponsor of BAR, with logos to appear initially on slots F, P and T...

[tristan1117]

Can I put %45 of my guys on Petronas and ask to sign them for D, C and G? Also, can I add 5 staff for each slot except commercial? Thanks.

[Wizzie]

I'm starting to wonder if any of you guys realise that it'll take several races before sponsors even give you half a chance at signing them. And even then, the deals you get are usually crap anyway.

[AdrianSutil]

If I just do nothing about sponsors, will I still sign a few anyway?

[Wizzie]

If I just do nothing about sponsors, will I still sign a few anyway?

No, you'ld be even worse off

Which is why I hired such a large commercial team to start off with.

[AdrianSutil]

Right. Hope this is all ok:

Arrows would like each department to have 10 excellent staff only. So any staff that are very good or below to be sacked immediately.

We would like to spend 50% of our time trying to get Orange to sponsor us using whichever letters it is for the front wing and rear wing. We would like to spend the other 50% of our time trying to get Kingfisher on the letters for engine cover and front of helmet.

Excuse me, total noob here

[Wizzie]

Excuse me, total noob here

It's fine. I just spend most of my time pretending to know stuff anyway

[the Masked Lapwing]

Excuse me, total noob here

It's fine. I just spend most of my time pretending to know stuff anyway

I spend time trying to figure what everyone's talking about, before eventually I'll give up and run Jag into the ground

[Shadaza]

Ok, I am trying to explain clearly. For most areas of the game you decide how much you want to focus your departments time on an area out of 100%

So for those who want new sponsors you have to spend time trying to attract them, the better the sponsor the harder it is to attract them in and the better your commercial department/race results the easier it is to get sponsors. The only sponsor willing to buy a slot right away is lucky strike.





This is the default setting for car development for 2004. R&D represents time focusing on driver aids and upgrades for your current car so you can juggle between the two. If your 2004 car is not finished by the start of the 2004 season you will continue to race your 2003 car (bad!)

[Shadaza]

Can I (Renault) sign Red Bull on as the main sponsor.

Spots E and U on the car. (I will think of other spots when I have more time)

Mild Seven will become the new sponsor of BAR, with logos to appear initially on slots F, P and T...

Can I put %45 of my guys on Petronas and ask to sign them for D, C and G? Also, can I add 5 staff for each slot except commercial? Thanks.

Well I will place your staff on those sponsors in the hope that they will eventually sponsor the team. It is best to aim for 2-4 sponsors and you should use all 100% of your time.
Also Tristan I assume you mean excellent staff.

[Shadaza]

Right. Hope this is all ok:

Arrows would like each department to have 10 excellent staff only. So any staff that are very good or below to be sacked immediately.

We would like to spend 50% of our time trying to get Orange to sponsor us using whichever letters it is for the front wing and rear wing. We would like to spend the other 50% of our time trying to get Kingfisher on the letters for engine cover and front of helmet.

Excuse me, total noob here

No you are doing it right

BTW in terms of finance it is currently this: With the Factory teams having the +5 Million but with the penalty of not being able to change engine suppliers.

Ferrari 20 Million
Renault 20 Million
Jaguar 20 Million
Toyota 20 Million
Minardi-Honda 20 Million
Williams-BMW 19 Million (1 million spent on upgrading factory)
McLaren 15 Million
Sauber 15 Million
BAR 15 Million
Jordan 15 Million
Arrows 15 Million
Ansimov 15 Million

[Stramala]

Parmalat Minardi Honda want 20 Excellent staff, 10 Very Good staff and 5 Good staff in the Design, Engineering and Mechanics departments. Also, 10 Excellent staff in the Commercial department should do nicely.
We also wish to chase the following sponsors;

Red Bull 40%
Dell 25%
European 25%
Lucky Strike 10%

We will take up Lucky Strike sponsorship in zones U, G, R, H and M.

We would like the Design/R&D balance to be shifted to 78/22.

Minardi is also set to construct its own CAD & CAM networks, as well as set up a Testing Rig.

[FMecha]

Sponsors: Panasonic (65%, spots D, T and Q).
Commercial timing: 30% merchandising, 70% sponsors
R&D bias: 70-30 (design, R&D)
Unnamed staff: 10 per each category in all departments, except trainees which are limited to 5)

[Shadaza]

Parmalat Minardi Honda want 20 Excellent staff, 10 Very Good staff and 5 Good staff in the Design, Engineering and Mechanics departments. Also, 10 Excellent staff in the Commercial department should do nicely.
We also wish to chase the following sponsors;

Red Bull 40%
Dell 25%
European 25%
Lucky Strike 10%

We will take up Lucky Strike sponsorship in zones U, G, R, H and M.

We would like the Design/R&D balance to be shifted to 78/22.

Minardi is also set to construct its own CAD & CAM networks, as well as set up a Testing Rig.

Oh I have made a cock up, Lucky Strike did initially want to sponsor all teams however they CAN only sponsor 1, so Williams took it (first come first serve is only fair) so it seems you guys have to compete for sponsorship. I apologise because I am only used to single player games. Everything else is fine.

[Shadaza]

Sponsors: Panasonic (65%, spots D, T and Q).
Commercial timing: 30% merchandising, 70% sponsors
R&D bias: 70-30 (design, R&D)
Unnamed staff: 10 per each category in all departments, except trainees which are limited to 5)

Oh if you actually plan on merchandising then you have a choice of making: caps, flags, t-shirts, polo shirts,picture frames, posters, calendars, photo frames, keyrings and badges. Though I do warn you merchandising isn't very useful.

[Ferrim]

Mmmm... there are 12 teams with 22 sponsor slots, that means 264 potential slots... with 26 sponsors it means only 130 of these slots will be covered.

Merchandising won't bring you lots of money. In fact there are some items which actually will cost you money, but they "rise your profile with potential sponsors".

[Stramala]

Parmalat Minardi Honda want 20 Excellent staff, 10 Very Good staff and 5 Good staff in the Design, Engineering and Mechanics departments. Also, 10 Excellent staff in the Commercial department should do nicely.
We also wish to chase the following sponsors;

Red Bull 40%
Dell 25%
European 25%
Lucky Strike 10%

We will take up Lucky Strike sponsorship in zones U, G, R, H and M.

We would like the Design/R&D balance to be shifted to 78/22.

Minardi is also set to construct its own CAD & CAM networks, as well as set up a Testing Rig.

Oh I have made a cock up, Lucky Strike did initially want to sponsor all teams however they CAN only sponsor 1, so Williams took it (first come first serve is only fair) so it seems you guys have to compete for sponsorship. I apologise because I am only used to single player games. Everything else is fine.

In which case Dell and European time share will be increased to 30% each.

[Shadaza]

Mmmm... there are 12 teams with 22 sponsor slots, that means 264 potential slots... with 26 sponsors it means only 130 of these slots will be covered.

That is a sobering thought. I have a feeling it is going to be very difficult for teams to make money. Dog eat dog, I like that.

Now I need to decide the best way to decide how to reveal to managers their car parts. The only part I want to flat out tell people they have is the EMS (because that is essential for driver aids) the rest they will earn by detective work (i.e spying on a team and seeing what parts they have are better then yours !!!)

Remember a 10+% ems will allow you to only run level 1 (of 10) driver aids whilst a 50+% will allow level 5 ect. The (pointless) minimum weight limit is 600Kg


Williams EMS 25% car weight 652KG
Ferrari EMS 25% 651KG
McLaren EMS 12% 649KG
Renault EMS 62% 646KG (looks like someone lucked in)
BAR EMS 43% 646KG
Sauber EMS 12% 650KG
Jaguar 37% 659KG
Toyota 12% 648KG
Jordan 31% 651KG
Minardi 12% 640KG
Arrows 12% 645KG
Ansimov 18% 654KG

[Stramala]

12%! Smeg. Remind me how to get my EMS up? Just upgrading all of the car components? Or have I forgotten something. I haven't played GPM2 for at least a year so I've forgotten large parts of the game

[Klon]

Renault EMS 62% 646KG (looks like someone lucked in)

Steal it for Ferrari! Now!

Furthermore, the $$$$$ sponsors I want to pursue are Marlboro and Shell.

[Shadaza]

12%! Smeg. Remind me how to get my EMS up? Just upgrading all of the car components? Or have I forgotten something. I haven't played GPM2 for at least a year so I've forgotten large parts of the game

you can either research EMS which will upgrade 1 stage at a time (the next up is 18%) or you can steal off another team.

Renault EMS 62% 646KG (looks like someone lucked in)

Steal it for Ferrari! Now!

You attempt to breach the Renault compound however the security is too tight. -60K

[Klon]

You attempt to breach the Renault compound however the security is too tight. -60K

Write it down to try it after the next race.

[AdrianSutil]

Design/R&D balance to be: 75/25 please

[Stramala]

Minardi will send a spy into the Jaguar compound to try and steal their EMS! If that fails we'll just research it.

[the Masked Lapwing]

Jag would like their design/R&D balance to be 73/27 please.

[Wizzie]

Williams will leave their R&D balance at 80/20 and start the following projects:

Semi-Automatic Gearbox up to level 2
Engine Management System

And being used to single player games as well, I honestly though that sponsors could sponsor more than one team

[eurobrun]

I don't understand this (and I think Kostas should bathplug off and find his own sponsors instead of stealing Red Bull)

[the Masked Lapwing]

I don't understand this (and I think Kostas should bathplug off and find his own sponsors instead of stealing Red Bull)

Neither do I. That's why we need to make stuff up until we figure it out

[Shadaza]

Minardi will send a spy into the Jaguar compound to try and steal their EMS! If that fails we'll just research it.

unfortunately Minardi were unable to breach Jaguar, so I started researching the next stage of EMS. -50K, also to manufacture a better EMS costs 9.8k on facility hire

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Jag would like their design/R&D balance to be 73/27 please.

Williams will leave their R&D balance at 80/20 and start the following projects:

Semi-Automatic Gearbox up to level 2
Engine Management System

And being used to single player games as well, I honestly though that sponsors could sponsor more than one team

Simple enough. Because of the new config the only legal driving aid at the moment is Semi-Automatic Gears so I suggest most teams should begin here.





And these are all the areas you can research to upgrade the car, as you can see time is divided on R&D between manufacturing new parts and investing in driver aids.

[Shadaza]

I don't understand this (and I think Kostas should bathplug off and find his own sponsors instead of stealing Red Bull)

Neither do I. That's why we need to make stuff up until we figure it out

haha, I am trying not to overload you guys with information, to be honest randomly jumping around hoping your decisions are for the best is what GPM2 is all about!

[eurobrun]

Can I buy 20 staff in everything except commercial and have a 70% design focus for the new car.

[Shadaza]

Can I buy 20 staff in everything except commercial and have a 70% design focus for the new car.

Excellent staff I presume, done

[AdrianSutil]

Arrows to use 50% of their design team on a new EMS and 50% on a semi-auto gearbox.

I'm honestly just trying to get the basics done

[Stramala]

Minardi's engineering team will spend 65% of their time working on components and 35% on R&D for semi-auto gears.

[tristan1117]

Sauber will keep the 80/20 split and start work on the semi-auto gear box. We'll also put %85 on EMS and %15 on Suspension.

[Shadaza]

Arrows to use 50% of their design team on a new EMS and 50% on a semi-auto gearbox.

I'm honestly just trying to get the basics done

Actually you can spend "100%" on both, the slider between working in house and R&D is seperate. long story short I allocated 100% of your time on both kay.

[Wizzie]

I don't understand this (and I think Kostas should bathplug off and find his own sponsors instead of stealing Red Bull)

Neither do I. That's why we need to make stuff up until we figure it out

haha, I am trying not to overload you guys with information, to be honest randomly jumping around hoping your decisions are for the best is what GPM2 is all about!

Unlike you however, I want to overload people with information

[Ferrim]

Neither do I. That's why we need to make stuff up until we figure it out

haha, I am trying not to overload you guys with information, to be honest randomly jumping around hoping your decisions are for the best is what GPM2 is all about!

Unlike you however, I want to overload people with information

Just found out there's a braking system called "Caterham" in the game!

[AdrianSutil]

Arrows to use 50% of their design team on a new EMS and 50% on a semi-auto gearbox.

I'm honestly just trying to get the basics done

Actually you can spend "100%" on both, the slider between working in house and R&D is seperate. long story short I allocated 100% of your time on both kay.

Ah ok. Thanks

anyone wanna take bets on their team going bust first? Arrows at 3/1 if anyone wants to bet a buck or two