F1-manager.RU on-line game rules GAME PURPOSE Purpose of this game is gaining as many points as possible during season. REGISTRATION If You have not registered in Game yet go this way. Comment: during registration only russian and latin alphabets letters, numerals, point, dash and underline symbols are valid in all columns (except e-mail). Every columns (except e-mail) maximum length is at most 20 symbols. You must be attentive while registering because following login and password changes are forbidden. BOXES At this page a player has possibility of creating his own team of typical elements, team modification and moving off. Basic definitions Loan – conditional amount of money entered in player’s account by virtual sponsor before each real race. Loan rate equals 150mln.$ at present; Account – accessible for player at current moment conditional sum of money. Current status of account is showed at “current account” boxes screen part. Player can spend money being on his account for components buying before next GP or reserve it partly or completely for funds accumulation; Credit – conditional extra amount of money given by sponsor at player’s request. Player can obtain credit during team composition preparing before any GP except last GP in season. Credit value has been limited to 75mln.$. Money amount equaled sum of taken credit +100% will be subtructed from player’s account before next race; Funds accumulation – 80% of remaining funds being at player’s account by the first real qualification starting are carried to next race. Availability of such game feature like funds accumulation partially equalize win chances among players gambled on every GP and players compeled to miss one or more races in season because of various reasons. So accessible by next race player’s total sum of money is calculated by formula: 0.8·cur.account +150 and showed at “next GP account” boxes screen part; Comment: in «F1-manager.RU» game all sums of money operated by player are showed at mln.$ and rounded till the nearest integer. Team composition – aggregate of sets prepared for race; Set – collection of components. Only complete sets consisted of every game components take into account during score calculation. Quantity of sets for player’s access equals to one, two or three by player’s request; Component – conditional element of each F1 team partition on constituents. At the present four elements separately detailed for player’s set making up for taking part in race: 1. pilot; 2. suspension; 3. engine; 4. tyres; Number of equal components for team composition making is showed in "Boxes" tables using white type and blue background. This number conforms real number elements in real race. Component cost – conditional cost to be paid from account to add component into set. Component cost is changed from race to race according to results showed by real pilot and his team; Cost overrun – warning is showed when player tries to save team composition with exceeding its total cost over current account. Player must correct team compostion or else it will be disqualified (i.e. this composition will not be considered during score calculation); Disqualification – clearing of score quantity which was obtained by whole or part player’s team. Disqualification may take place in such cases: 1. cost overrun. So a black flag is showed in player’s team boxes near sets after race. Cost of these sets is returned to the player and 80% of sum of money on account is transformed to the next GP; 2. incomplete set (i.e. set not having all components). So a black flag is showed near incomplete set in player’s team boxes after race. Cost of these sets is returned to the player and 80% of sum of money on account is transformed to the next GP; 3. Disqualification by administrators. This situation may be because of site breaking try, site behavior rules violation etc. So cost of player’s team compositions may be returned to player’s account within the limits of 0 to 100% according to violation heaviness degree. Final amount of money return is determined by administrators. Disqualification by administrators may be take place both before race and after race even after final srore calculation on season completion. Team composition making, changing and breaking up A player chooses in “Pilots”, “Suspensions”, “Engines” and “Tyres” tables necessary components during teamcomposition making up (changing) for obtaining maximum score amount which will be calculated after race by pressing in corresponding cells. Having appeared dot showes his choice. During team composition preparing a player must control his selection by verifying his choice with account (cost overrun is forbidden), pictures with components names situated in bottom of page and with tables. A red flag is replaced by a green one after complete set preparing; If a player wants to clear his having partly or completely done team composition he must press “Break up” button situated on the right of needless set. So all components cost is returned to the player without negative profit; Calculator (inaccessible now) – function for helping to know how many scores could obtain player in choosen race with having created team composition. Team composition preparation period Player can create his team composition only for ahead race. The beginning of this period is next Monday (~3:00 p.m.) after last race and its finishing is the moment of the first real qualification starting. Traffic lights and time interval before the first real qualification starting are showed on page top as information about availability of team compositionpossibility. So five (5), four (4), three (3), two (2) and one (1) signals are lighting while more than three (3) days, less than three (3) days, less than one (1) day, less than six (6) hours and less than one (1) hour are remaining before deadline. Green signals are lighting and a sign ”race is in progress” is replacing tables in team boxes during race, scores and new components costs calculation. Score calculation Score calculations for components in created sets are computed according to real race and qualification results separately. Then total score is cumputed by summing these outcomes. So only components being in final qualification (race) report are considered. Table with accordance between components qualification (race) results and prize scores is showed here: Score table Score adding sequence: In the beginning scores are given for pilot, suspension, engine and tyres of the first set. Then scores are given for components of the second and the third sets. If a player chose two (three) identical engines or two (three) identical suspension or two (three) identical tyres score calculation takes place at first for the best component place. Then the best place of residuary places is considered etc. Enclosure 1 Example of score calculation for race score calculation for qualifying is the same but above proper places and scores amount are considered there. Example of chosen set for GP Monaco’2005 Component Pilot Suspension Engine Tyres Set 1 T. Monteiro Jordan Renault Michelin 2 C. Albers Minardi Cosworth Bridgestone 3 P. Friesacher Minardi Cosworth M. Michelin   Real results (GP Monaco’2005) Place Pilot Team Tyres 1. K. Raikkonen McLaren M 2. N. Heidfeld Williams M 3. M. Webber Williams M 4. F. Alonso Renault M 5. J-P. Montoya McLaren M 6. R. Schumacher Toyota M 7. M. Schumacher Ferrari B 8. R. Barrichello Ferrari B 9. F. Massa Sauber M 10. J. Trulli Toyota M 11. J. Villeneuve Sauber M 12. G. Fisichella Renault M 13. T. Monteiro Jordan B 14. C. Albers Minardi B Score calculation: Set N1: pilot: T. Monteiro – 13-th place – 6 points; suspension: Jordan – 13-th place (the best) (T. Monteiro) – 0 points; engine: Renault – 4-th place (the best) (F. Alonso) – 13 points; tyres: Michelin – 1-st place (the best) (K. Raikkonen) – 10 points. Set N2: pilot: C. Albers – 14-th place – 5 points; suspension: Minardi – 14–th place (the best) (C. Albers) – 0 points; engine: Cosworth – cars with such engine are absent in final report – 0 points; tyres: Bridgestone – 7-th place (the best) (M. Schumacher) – 2 points. Set N3: pilot: P. Friesacher – this pilot is absent in final report – 0 points; suspension: Minardi – the best place of this suspension (14-th, C. Albers) has already been considered during score calculation for second set. Another car with such suspension is absent in final report – 0 points; engine: Cosworth M. – 14-th place (the best) (C. Albers) – 2 points; tyres: Michelin – the best place of this tyres (1-st, K. Raikkonen) has already been considered during score calculation for first set. The next best place of this tyres is 2-nd (N. Heidfeld) – 8 points. Total: 46 points. Enclosure 2 Rules of behavior at site and punishments 1. Obscene language is forbidden. You must replace part of symbols in such words by @#$%&< etc if You can’t communicate by another way; 2. Everyone can’t affront another visitors; 3. Everyone can’t outrage another visitors national, religious etc feelings; 4. Porno and brutality resources references publication and their advertising are forbidden; 5. Player can obtain warning, his team disqualifying for one or more races etc even total remove his registration data and results from site because of rules nonobservance; 6. Administration has the right to add new rules points and punish players even after adding new rules points (when exceptional cases). Addition: site behavior rules issue will be refreshed and replenished routinely. Don’t forget to examine it from time to time in order to modification. Remember that administrators are humans, not robots, and they have their own opinion concerning each situation. In short - don’t ask for trouble! Problems solutions If You have questions concerned with site working, suggestions and wishes you can send they to e-mail indicated in "Contacts". It is desirable to observe accordance between main point of Your letter and work direction of project author you write. You can write to admin@f1-manager.ru.