Then you'd have aliens on alt accounts blazing through lower DR races and people at DR B to D would sometimes be outscoring those at A+ just because they were able to benefit from an alien on a low-ranked alt account setting the fastest total time for that slot.
Also, I like to know what points I'm going to be fighting for before the race begins. I don't want it to be a surprise at the end of the race.
Maybe I misunderstand you, but I was suggesting points on the basis of each individual player his own total time. Between all players in all races of the day. Kind of like the Kudosprime leaderboard. But then as a result of all players after all races are done.
If an alien would go through the trouble of creating an alt or even five, blazing through C lobbies, how exactly would that help other drivers in that race?
If your suggesting they can keep up in his slipstream... that's just not realistic, as I can't even keep up with someone who is out of my league by .500 sec right now. And I'm not talking alien.
Now. A point can be made about all aliens all creating 5 acounts and thus holding places 1 through 1000, but that has more to do with being able to enforce a rule (one account per player) and setting up the neccessary infrastructure to actually do that. Reporting for example.
In this suggestion I have not touched upon qualifying. And how that could help prevent what you describe. In that context I suggest a pre-race flying lap (one lap) that sets your time. Matchmaking would be done for all slots based on the times people made during their one shots.
Now if I follow you train of thought all aliens (being smart aliens) would simply qualify poorly in the hopes of racing poor guys like me. This could be true, but then that would mean the actual fast guys would meet each other in their comkon slow room. No win there.
And don't forget I could do the same. Where does it end. There is no way of calculating. But then there is an easy solution for this as well. How about making qualifying time a part of either the total time (for scoring purposes) or add points for that as well.
It's true, you don't know for how many points you'd be fighting. That can be inconvenient. But in my view your focus should be on just achieving the best result in that race.
I've had that mindset too: hey I just scored 30 points for 4th in this race, should I go again? I might lose them? Until I realised after a couple of races just how silly that is when don't even race 99,9% of the people in that list.
Don't get me wrong, I know how many points I have, I watch the leaderboard, make sure I do 4 races in Nations even though only 2 really interest me, and all that. Because that is the system and I work within it.
By the end of the day it's like
@OJBrit said a few posts back when he discribed how his heart started racing when he noticed I was in the race. I had the exact same feeling and THAT's what really counts. People race people they know. It makes racing interesting.
All those aliens you describe taking shortcuts... what do you think will happen when that tight knit group of aliens meet in Tokyo? "You here Tidg? Remind me again when I raced you?"
Believe me, that group is so small, they know who's who and what's what.
Nobody wants to be THAT guy in the post race bar/lobby who is ignored by all others.
The world of golf provides excellent examples with its handicap system and what happens to your reputation when you try to manipulate it. Again: people play people and groups have self regulating ways of doing thing.
Racing at its fundament is time. Every and all scoring should reflect that as best it can. I think there is something worth concidering here.
Cheers
Seth
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