The grids are already random. With the same qualifying time I've started in the front, middle, and back. I just want there to be a method behind the procedure.
No, they're not random, the matching making might be inconsistent but that doesn't make it random. I don't know about you but every lobby I've been in people have been put on the grid based on their qualifying time, which is far from random.
I shouldnt start ahead of faster people just because I want a better chance at winning?
No, that's not how racing works.
Theres always someone faster then you. If you start up front its not because you had a brilliant qualifying time, but because you were fortunate enough to be the fastest of the group you were matched with. Nothing more or less then that. Your 1:30.0 lap might give you pole position in one group, or make you start 24th in another.
The point is if you're the fastest in that lobby you're the fastest in that lobby and should start first, that's the whole point of qualifying. Yes the matchmaking should try and be as consistent and competitive as possible, but it makes no sense to just put people in a random order, that just makes an inconsistencies in the matchmaking worse.
As I mentioned earlier, I was being regularly placed midpack with my qualifying time, so I improved it for the next race and all it did was make me start at the back of a much faster group of drivers.
Without knowing the ins and outs of how the match making system, neither you or I can explain why that happens, it's safe to say it's not random because there is undoubtedly some match making criteria. It could just be that other people also went faster between races and your new fastest time still wasn't good enough to stop you moving down overall. It could be that your DR increased enough that you were put in with higher ranked drivers than the race before. Or maybe it varies the ranks of the people you're put in with to get more data points and properly rank you, which is common thing to do in all games with a match making system.
I could go on, but basically, the match making system is probably very complicated, so it's pretty stupid to automatically assume perceived randomness is due to the system being random.
As I said, match a group of drivers up who are within a second or so, and line them up based on how well they've done that day, number of passes completed, percentage of races finished, SR rating performance, etc.
But why introduce all these arbitrary factors for deciding the grid order? I don't see how this helps in any way compared to simply making the grid based on qualifying times, all you're doing is making it needlessly complicated and removing an objective measure of drivers speeds in a certain lobby, and replacing it with a set of subjective ones.
As it stands theres this maddening scenario where you start in the top 4 one race and have a chance at winning, whereas the very next race you might start last and have no chance. It just doesnt feel fair. People should be given more ways to control their destiny, which is why I feel starting position should be determined by more then the luck of the draw.
As I've already said, without knowing the ins and outs of the system you can't just put the results of the match making down to random chance or luck. And ironically, to somehow solve this apparent random luck of the draw system, you want to
randomise the grid some more. Can you not see how bad an idea that is? It makes no sense whatsoever.
and about online, all I would care about is at least gaining some positions and maintain clean driving, for that I'm still gonna need lots of practice cause clean driving isn't that easy with a controller but it's doable as long as you have good control over the thumbstick and keep focusing, sitting back and relaxing isn't an option during races.
