Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-210.187.46.158-20160331061207/@comment-26715739-20160331090959

My experience was that free manager would show up approx. 48 hours after last used. ie Not possible to use twice within a 48 hour period.


 * 0900 Day 1 start race using manager
 * 0930 Day 1 finish race using manager and get payout
 * 0930 Day 3 earliest you get a new manager for free (under normal circumstances)

ie So if you regularly set aside a particular time of day to race then the manager will only really be available 2 days in 5 rather than every 2nd day.

It has been a while since I was paying close attention to this but from memory the Engineer was running on the quickest recharge clock (approx. 32 hours); Agent next (approx. 40 hours); manager last (approx 48 hours).

As Rom notes - no one has been able to provide a definitive explanation of how they're generated, but what I've noted above tends to be the maximum wait time. While they definitely generate more often the more you race you need to be racing A LOT to reduce the wait time by very much.

If you knew you weren't intending to use a crew member that just generated for a while (but before the next one would be due) there might be a way to "game" it so that the next one is available "sooner", but you can't (under normal circumstances) do better than about once every 32/40/48 hours (depending on crew member type).

The way I found - that I haven't tried to re-test in a while (and was found quite a while ago so may also have been fixed in the interim) was that you do a cloud save; use the crew member on something; then reload from save. This might trick the game into starting the clock on the new crew member.

ie
 * 0850 day 1 - new free manager
 * 0851 day 1 - cloud save
 * 0900 day 1 - start race using free manager
 * 0901 day 1 - finish race
 * 0902 day 1 - cloud restore (ie back to 0851 day 1)
 * 0900 day 2 - start race using free manager
 * 0901 day 3 - new free manager

If it does still work you still only get a new manager ever 48 hours; but if you didn't want to use it immediately you could even it out a bit.