online racing penalties

[SKITTZZZ]

Online racing on gt6 allows you to set penalties which is great, but when i get an 8sec ramming penalty after being hit from behind while I'm on the brakes or a shortcut penalty while losing control and spinning off into the grass that doesn't seem right. Can the penalty aspect be reworked to avoid situations like this?

 

[FS7]

First thing PD needs to do is to allow players to enable/disable corner cutting penalties & collision penalties separately in all game modes. Then they need to improve the penalty system.

 

[TRLWNC7396]

Here's another slider for you...

 

[Johnnypenso]

First thing PD needs to do is to allow players to enable/disable corner cutting penalties & collision penalties separately in all game modes. Then they need to improve the penalty system.

It would be great if they could improve the penalty system but there are other systems that help with good, clean racing. A safety rating like in iRacing on PC and a simpler system in Grid Autosport would be a welcome addition. GAS doesn't assign blame for contact, nor can you prevent dirty drivers from entering an open lobby, but it does at least tell you what each driver's rating is, with 5 levels of cleanliness. At first I thought it was a waste of time but in a couple of days I realized having a white [the top] rating was important to me. I had slipped to yellow after a number of incidents that I was involved in but could have avoided with smarter driving.

After that I was more cautious in the first few corners and that helped. I was also super aware of who were around me on the grid and during the race at all times. A few times I had poorly rated drivers making a move on me on a long straight and instead of throwing up a light block I let them have the inside. I didn't challenge on the outside but made them think I was, I actually braked a little early and watched them miss the apex and neatly slide off the track and into the gravel.

A driver rating, even a very simple one like in GAS, tells you what kind of driver you are up against and how important clean racing is to them. In the short run you don't have much control over your rating but in the long run you do and I think it would be invaluable for the GT series and improve online racing dramatically.

 

[TRLWNC7396]

Awesome idea. Hope we can get something like that!

 

[Lawndart]

This seems more like addressing a feature that isn't working as good as it could. I might add something like this to the bug thread.

But it's a great point that would really benefit from improved code logic.