No, it goes down if you place poorly. It's just very hard to see when you're high up...
Basically DR is a score out of 1000. To advance to D from E needs quite a small total - I think it's less than 10pt. To get up to C is a little larger, but I don't think it exceeds 100pt. The B boundary is higher and somewhere around 250pt. A is a massive leap - at least 550pt, maybe more.
If you're mid-B, you're at around 400pt. If you lose 5pt because you finished 19th in a race*, it goes down to 395pt. Your DR bar is a 75 pixel-wide box, and the loss of 5pt from a range of 250-550pt is a little over a pixel. That's not very visible.
If you're a low-D, on the other hand, you're sitting at around 30pt. Losing 5pt because you finished 19th in a race* you lose 4 pixels. You're going to notice that.
And I did. Here is the before image, for a race I deliberately finished last (12th) in:
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And here is the after:
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Over the course of the evening, I did manage to get it down to zero, but still holding a D-rank. I tried quitting out of races to lower it too, but I think that the only way to get it back into E is to be disqualified from races due to penalty accumulation. I've got quite good at that - corner cutting hairpins at max chat and smashing into the wall can give you 30-60 seconds of penalties, although precise disqualification conditions vary.
I don't know the precise values; also it may scale
Hello Famine,
thanks for your Explanation and a big thank you to your effort by losing races on purposes. Hats off!
I'm aware of this situation that there have to be a scoring system working in the Background and that you can't regognize any progress or regression on such a small box on the screen, especially not when you are on a higher rank at DR.
But I still think that this is the problem by this ranking system that bad Drivers like me, which can't compete against other Drivers on the same high rank for DR are able to still collecting Points for their DR even with resulting on a lower place after each race.
In future, everyone can have a DR at "B", "A" or even a "S", it will just take more time for them to acchive this.
And with this problem, there is one side-effect, where you can compare this problem together with the "SR" rating:
- As I'm now back at DR = B and SR = S - I raced today both races again from the Nations and Manufactures Cup
- On Dragon Trail, I qualified at 16th place and I had similar times with those qualified on 13th place until 20th place (only 1 second of gap in total)
- But the gap between the 13th and the 12th place was more than 2 seconds
- My humble self drove as clean as always but I saw the others from place 13th to place 20th that they were to slow to compete too
- So what did they do? They rammed the faster ones, and not only on the first Corner at the beginning of the race, but during the whole race.
- Those were also on a "B" rank at DR.
- Yes those got probably penalized and they got a red "S" and even a red "A" for one driver but hey, they rammed faster Drivers, using shortcuts and other things because they realized that they are too slow too for this DR rank to compete against the faster drivers
I can't imagine that PD wanted such unbalanced races but they don't know yet how to fix this. I can't speech for other Drivers but I think if they would be on a lower rank, they wouldn't use such "desperate techniques" like ramming since they can race on a similar type of Speed with a easier competition (but yes I know there are also another reasons why People ramming another Drivers).
And with such desperated Drivers and race results, I hope people understand why Drivers like me gets frustated after each race, when you can't compete against another clean racers because you are on a wrong rank where People are ramming you in their frustation of being to slow for this competition.
At least, People can't drive dirty and ending a race on a higher place due to the 10 seconds Penalty, so they DR shouldn't raise up but this Topic can be discussed on another threads in this forum.
Thank you again for your help.
Regards
Roxanne