Something about R&D is fundamentally broken this year. AI teams are often maxing out the development on their cars after only 2/3 seasons. Additionally, regulation changes no longer provide a necessa...
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I haven't personally gotten to this stage yet, but seeing many comments and videos noting that the R&D changes don't have much of an affect, and AI teams just continue with their development without issue. Seeing the YouTube videos of simulated seasons shows all the teams maxxed out by season 3 with little variety.
On another note, why is there a cap on each teams development? The game in MyTeam should allow all teams to reach max potential which should be the same - effectively 'equal performance' - over time if they put all rescourse and money into R&D. This would give much more mixed grid and results orders, as once all teams reach their current max potential the order never changes and a Sauber will always be worse than a Red Bull etc. The MyTeam car seems badly affected this year and doesn't have as much max potential as before. I noticed the 'Chassis' section of the pie only reaches halfway and was never like this before.