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Ballast ruining my team

Hello, 

I'm running in a friendly private league, which we all created new accounts for. I started late and have caught up XP wise, but not HQ wise, my Design is still level 5 compared to everyone else's 7/8. Everyone in this league is in Rookie as we disabled promotion so everyone could fight equally on the same points table. 

I spent two seasons at the back of the grid, dead last etc. This season I finally got a semi-functional car and even scored a few points. However, some daily rewards have put me into Level 9 and I am now the slowest car on the grid overnight. Thanks to ballast, I've gone from lower midfield to even lower in the pace rankings than I was at low level. My facilities can't compete, my car is now the slowest on the grid by half a second and now I'm losing hundreds of thousands a race because the game wants me to achieve unrealistic bonuses.

It now seems impossible to actually play the game with friends because every time I start to catch up, some mechanic steps in to ruin the fun for me. It would be fair if I had Level 9 maxed facilities, but I was behind everyone by a large margin already, and now my season is ruined by a massive performance drop I neither earned nor can control. I have no idea what to do and I've very frustrated. 

The ballast was designed to have fair races where a player level 9 has level 9 facilities. Why do you want to be competitive having a level 5 HQ? It's your fault if you don't develop it. And why are you using a level 7 CD? This makes your research potential the lowest of your league I guess.

Like I said, I joined halfway through the league, so I haven't had time to upgrade my HQ before reaching Level 9, because I earned XP too quickly to upgrade my facilities in time. I'm currently trying to find a new chief designer, as it costs me a lot more to find one than it does to keep the one I have until I find a better one. 

Now you are losing more design points from your CD than a couple from your headquarter.

Probably you are also experiencing a weaker DRS and boost but what matters now is your chief designer. If you have a negative balance, use your tokens to shop game money.

The problem is not earning experience too quickly. From level 11 you will feel like experience is never enough.

Hello Jeb,

Unfortunately I don't there is anything support can do for you.

Imo your options are:

1. Start a new account.

Pros: You'll be faster than your mates due to no ballast.
Cons: You'll be slower than your mates when you get ballasts as they will have higher tech etc.

2. Watch ads to get game cash to quickly level or spend irl cash to buy game cash/tokens to level up.

3. Be patient and level up gradually. You'll catch up in time.