So winning a race where the competition is of a much lower skill and speed level does that give you the same sense of accomplishment and satisfaction as say winning a race against equal or faster competition?
Would you actually not have a better racing experience racing for 11th place among people of an equal skill level than winning against someone much slower?
I just do not understand how beating slower, lower ranked players can be fulfilling. May as well be racing the AI.
Yes, of course. Those races against D/S and C/S are a waste of time and potential major DR killers in case you get punted off the track. In that sense there is still some excitement :/
Racing for 11th in a tight battle is much more fun. Racing for 11th in a room where the top simply disappears in the distance and only 4 people make it to the finish before the timer runs out in a daily race, nope not fun either.
Racing a tight battle in the top 5, now that's fun. Also not qualifying and gaining 10, 15 positions, lot of fun. Starting 11th, ending 11th in a slowly expanding parade, not fun.
it's kinda random what you get, however racing 'normally' the slowly expanding parade happens far too often in the sprint races in A/S. A lot of times its merely a showcase for your qualifying time. The former two versions are more easily gained at DR below where the game thinks you need to be. Obviously to do the classic GT style racing, start last, overtake lots, you need to be better than most of the field. Yet also the tight battles in the top happen more often if you qualify at the top with other 'sandbaggers'. Great racing without accidents to dodge.
I did most of my racing without qualifying which kept me around mid B. Then I spend some effort on qualifying a couple days and shot up to DR.A. That kinda made me wonder about how useless DR is. I wasn't suddenly a better racer, I simply started in a different spot, ahead of the mess, where it's very easy to maintain position. Then in A/S it evened out again and now I was starting in the back with qualifying, extra work, more boring races as now I was experiencing the expanding parade form of sprint races.
So I did a full reset of my DR, still getting matched with S/S, I lowered my SR as well. Finished up the 91 trophy while suddenly getting awesome tight battles for first place with B/B racers, while I'm D/B, C/B and the top all have DR.A level qualifying times. Weird way to find clean tight battles, yet that's apparently what was needed to get matchmaking to work.
After the 91 wins I went back to 'normal' racing, now gravitating to daily C as the sprint races are either pretty boring at A/S or very destructive with GR.1. The wins I get now are far less enjoyable as the ones at the lower levels as I only get a shot at winning when the game puts me in the rabbit position in a weak room, or when the S/S drivers in front of me take each other out. I can't pass people that lap 3 sec faster than me, yet the game always matches me with them. I get my pleasure from reaching the finish before the timer runs out
I have finished 1077 sport races, won about 107, shopped around all levels, each have their good, bad and boring races. I sure wouldn't have stuck around this long simply staying in the same spot.
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Not working atm, update I guess.
Btw racing against the AI can be more exciting than A/S races. Clean win N200 against N1000 on Magiorre or a clean win with N400 Porsche in the Porsche endurance. Much better than a 3 lap parade.
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