Ha, well that's quite possible. Certainly there are already comments on here from a few that any less punitive system is 'a bad thing'.
PD is stuck between a rock and a hard place ... without a paddle. The paddle they need is a properly working SR system - not one that gives massive -SR willy nilly, or even one that tries to determine fault - just one that doesn't give high SR players as much +SR, so we don't get so many bunched up at SR 99. Then the matchmaking might actually work to give us clean races at SR 99 ish... and other types of races at other SR levels.
Yeah it's very difficult to get a one size fits all system right with something so subjective.
I can agree that slamming on the brakes is not a good solution... and it does not it mimic real racing.
We will have to agree, to disagree, that allowing folks to take each other out is a better solution.
I think, possibly, a fair solution would be to serve the time penalties in the pits (on the races that require pit stops) and/or carry the penalty to the race finish would be better than the brake slamming or opponent ramming.
Well they should still get a penalty for properly taking you out. Yeah serving penalties in the pits or just taking it to the end would be a nice change I think.
Well I did the two races. Not going to upload a full race but here's the interesting bits.
I'll quickly go through the clips.
0:00 unavoidable racing incident (at least for me), 3 second penalty - that's the only one I got.
0:12 bumped from behind but no penalty.
(skip to) 0:37 same again.
0:45 one that I wouldn't have really complained about getting a penalty, but you can see how much better it is that the game didn't give one. I lost time, the other guy didn't lose much and stayed ahead. Surely that's a good outcome and better than us both getting 3s pens or driving in fear for all 30 laps?
0:53 not sure if there was any contact but if there was more evidence of improvement.
1:00 same again.
1:22 - 2:41 first part of good battle without fear.
2:43 - I hit the inside wall and the guy behind cannot avoid me. Ship happens I guess, no penalty given to either
2:55 don't really know the penalty situation after that, but you can see at 3:05 the guy who made the crap move is behind the guy who was hit so either it did give one appropriately or at least the victim didn't lose out aside from a bit of time.
3:11 onwards the rest of my fearless battle sped up for your quick enjoyment.
6:16 same as 0:53 and 1:00.
It's early days but it's improved from what I saw. I absolutely loved racing without that constant irritant and fear of penalties. It was so much more fun and natural. I would rather be pushed off in 1/6 races than live in fear any day. It's like being freed from some draconian law that made sure nothing can ever go wrong but in reality made every waking second bad. I saw only one piece of really bad driving all evening and you've got to accept that sometimes and I only got one penalty that was unjustified. I do think OTT cut penalties still exist though - I got 5.5s for centimetres during Nurburgring qualifying and I saw someone else get one as well.
You can see at the end of the manufacturers race there's penalties but not every single person like under the previous system and there wasn't people all over the road going slowly. So hopefully they've struck a nice balance. They were there but they didn't ruin either of my good races
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