So, no-one has heard of black flags..? OK.
The problem with AC's vote system is, it has to be unanimous before
anything can be done. No real race series makes ALL the drivers agree before anything is done. It is done by a handful of stewards, none of whom are even in the car. All of whom get a good review of the incident.
Obviously, in a game, that can't be done. In a casual room (not an organized league, where you can permanently kick a member before the next race and the room's password changed with only the room's admin's say so, no vote required), getting a unanimous kick vote from people who may not have even seen the incident is unlikely at best.
The way it actually works in GT is, the host gets kick privileges. No need to rely on room consensus. This is the only sensible way it works. I realize some find it very difficult to accept that a game they like playing has faults, but the lack of a way to get disruptive elements from a room other than unanimous consensus is ridiculous.
IRL, there is a racing license (which can be revoked), there are black flags, there are race suspensions, there are countless ways in which real racing, even if just for safety's sake, can rid themselves of irresponsible drivers. A game without this ability cannot call itself a sim of the sport. And sorry, but racing is FAR more than just 'driving'.
Perhaps it's just me, but I figure a game that puts cars (mostly race cars) onto a race track is a 'racing' game. This isn't an open world casual 'driving' game. You aren't driving around a city, hitting pedestrians. You aren't exploring an open world looking for powerups. You are on a race track, with other competitors, trying to get around a certain number of laps faster than anyone else. Is it just me, or does that sound an
awful lot like racing?!
And please, do we really need Maldonado as an example? Follow that logic, and look at how many F1 drivers HAVE had suspensions, or lost their drive through stupidity. Every form of racing has the ability to rid itself of the dangerous and disruptive.
What Kunos have made is a soccer game, where the referee cannot do anything about a player that picks up the ball and runs it into the net and claims a goal. Unless every last player on the field agrees with him. And what we have on this thread is players that, realizing that the referee cannot give a red card to that player, have decided to call the soccer game a 'ball game' rather than face the truth.
