In general i understand your thought process and agree that a matchmaking system that rates a 1400/90 driver and an 1800/70 driver as equal is not exactly intuitive and probably not ideal either. Im still somewhat undecided tho whether splitting by rating only would make for an overall better experience. In your particular case i think the main issue is just that unfortunately there arent enough players for you to find many drivers with a similar pace, regardless of the exact splitting mechanism. Assuming everybodys rating is fairly accurate and players of all ratings are equally likely to sign up for a given race then in a race with 50 signups theres probably only a single person who is slower than you. So even with splits that are purely based on rating youd be at the back and probably only fighting a couple others. But of course if as you say you arent even put into the bottom split then youre even less likely to find a group to battle with. Perhaps the ranking formula could be tweaked so that reputation still is a factor but doesnt have as big of an impact
First, great job on the UI for the multiplayer. Easier to use and visually great looking. Second, can you please make the headers static (like a frozen header row in excel) so the headers don't disappear while scrolling. Third, I REALLY look forward to having an in-game warning letting me know 1-2 minutes in advance when it's time to quit my "time improvement" session to join the real race without missing it each time.
Correct, although this warning needs to be nothing more than a small message popping up in the HUD, so it doesn't distract you too much from driving. When the training server of the event starts, you can still finish your lap (except on Nordschleife maybe ) and then join the server, no need to rush.
Well, Dave here has some very good points. The main issue for me is that you have to race against folks (with the exception of Freebie schedules) with low rep/rating, even complete noobs or those dudes who don't give a shit on fairness and decent racecraft. To restrict certain online racing sessions via rep/rat levels like before would be the best solution. Cause atm one might get the impression it's all about new customers (teased via super-duper "Multiplayer Packs") no matter what but let me say so : There are a lot of idiots who might become customers but not every customer is an idiot and the latter will drop out sooner or later. Please do something about it. I also would like to see those longer sessions with pitstops again btw.