Few ideas here, just hang in there 
Just a thought and it's not really gonna happen I know but I think this would solve lot of problems. I think the races are going to a point that most of players are doing poor or stupid choices in every race because they just need those DR points no matter what. Or just thinking about SR points. Is this what we really want to think about here and ponder over and over again against the same issues and nothing really changes? You don't see real racing drivers with DR points, you just know them by name. "Oh geez that guy is here in the same lobby, he's crazy fast. I need to focus now" Would that be enough? We don't need DR points to see if someone is fast or whatever. Everybody in their thoughts know who they need to beat. Just a simple stat page for each driver is enough as it's in real life but even that doesn't matter, only that how fast you're at the moment. And yeah we need a system that groups similarly skilled players together but what about a qualifying?
Just a simple qualifying as it's now (free time to do it as long as you want) and it takes in to account lets say.. your 3 fastest laps average or 5 fastest laps and it takes out fastest and slowest time or something similar maybe even more laps. In matching room we could see the fastest lap also for anyone interested. This way we can make sure who are the fastest and the most consistent (DR rating doesn't do that + there's the glitch which nobody has cared to fix in over 3 months time). And yeah of course we could use SR rating in matching, a little tuned one
It would not be a fluke if someone gets 3-5 fast laps together. If someone needs 5 laps to do that or 100 laps it's okay. Someone needing 100 laps to qualify well, at least knows where the track is going and might be just slow a learner but he's getting faster.. right? This way we could guarantee that all have had to complete few laps before entering a race and would help slower races to be more clean also. Also we could see surprising names sometimes because someone might have been practising a lot on certain track/car gategory and now he could race with really fast guys he couldn't normally. And here's the point, if we don't have DR points, "slower or lower rated" racers wouldn't need to think of any DR ratings or whatever when racing, just focus on being clean and fast because there's nothing else to pursue here. If you crash out or hit someone that's just racing, no harm done. Let's try again. If we could get this "gaming" attitude out here when there's something else to pursue than the race itself it would get much better and cleaner. Also get rid of trophy hunting which doesn't ancourage any clean driving whatsoever.
Just keep everything very simple regarding racing and all is well, no need for silly systems. Let's face it, in recent days there's been much arguing about new SR system. "My DR Has plummeted" or my SR has plummeted or that guy hit me or that moron did that or whatever, "I get a stupid penalty" etc. etc. Just remove this useless **** within the game and everything is fixed If you can't lose DR points there's nothing to cry about, right? After SR drop you can get it back easily when you don't need to worry about DR points.. In general we are vain regarding accomplishments and in racing particular people are prone to show others that, "hey, I'm fast, now clap for me". If there's a constant pressure of DR points at stake like your honour is literally at stake, that affects greatly the racing attitude and makes everything worse. Less achievements please. Also the matchmaking gets wrecked when DR is affected rapidly and that takes away the good battles for sure. So many people saying they won't race anymore in dailies or FIA because SR system also broken for some? I just personally think the SR is not the root problem here, I think it's just in testing phase at the moment, PD throwing it out to people trying to enjoy game that is just not ready. would be nice sometimes to remove something rather than add more systems and parameters everywhere.
Less is more more or less.
Would you consider removing DR after my thoughts?
Just a thought and it's not really gonna happen I know but I think this would solve lot of problems. I think the races are going to a point that most of players are doing poor or stupid choices in every race because they just need those DR points no matter what. Or just thinking about SR points. Is this what we really want to think about here and ponder over and over again against the same issues and nothing really changes? You don't see real racing drivers with DR points, you just know them by name. "Oh geez that guy is here in the same lobby, he's crazy fast. I need to focus now" Would that be enough? We don't need DR points to see if someone is fast or whatever. Everybody in their thoughts know who they need to beat. Just a simple stat page for each driver is enough as it's in real life but even that doesn't matter, only that how fast you're at the moment. And yeah we need a system that groups similarly skilled players together but what about a qualifying?
Just a simple qualifying as it's now (free time to do it as long as you want) and it takes in to account lets say.. your 3 fastest laps average or 5 fastest laps and it takes out fastest and slowest time or something similar maybe even more laps. In matching room we could see the fastest lap also for anyone interested. This way we can make sure who are the fastest and the most consistent (DR rating doesn't do that + there's the glitch which nobody has cared to fix in over 3 months time). And yeah of course we could use SR rating in matching, a little tuned one
It would not be a fluke if someone gets 3-5 fast laps together. If someone needs 5 laps to do that or 100 laps it's okay. Someone needing 100 laps to qualify well, at least knows where the track is going and might be just slow a learner but he's getting faster.. right? This way we could guarantee that all have had to complete few laps before entering a race and would help slower races to be more clean also. Also we could see surprising names sometimes because someone might have been practising a lot on certain track/car gategory and now he could race with really fast guys he couldn't normally. And here's the point, if we don't have DR points, "slower or lower rated" racers wouldn't need to think of any DR ratings or whatever when racing, just focus on being clean and fast because there's nothing else to pursue here. If you crash out or hit someone that's just racing, no harm done. Let's try again. If we could get this "gaming" attitude out here when there's something else to pursue than the race itself it would get much better and cleaner. Also get rid of trophy hunting which doesn't ancourage any clean driving whatsoever.
Just keep everything very simple regarding racing and all is well, no need for silly systems. Let's face it, in recent days there's been much arguing about new SR system. "My DR Has plummeted" or my SR has plummeted or that guy hit me or that moron did that or whatever, "I get a stupid penalty" etc. etc. Just remove this useless **** within the game and everything is fixed
If you can't lose DR points there's nothing to cry about, right? After SR drop you can get it back easily when you don't need to worry about DR points.. In general we are vain regarding accomplishments and in racing particular people are prone to show others that, "hey, I'm fast, now clap for me". If there's a constant pressure of DR points at stake like your honour is literally at stake, that affects greatly the racing attitude and makes everything worse. Less achievements please. Also the matchmaking gets wrecked when DR is affected rapidly and that takes away the good battles for sure. So many people saying they won't race anymore in dailies or FIA because SR system also broken for some? I just personally think the SR is not the root problem here, I think it's just in testing phase at the moment, PD throwing it out to people trying to enjoy game that is just not ready. would be nice sometimes to remove something rather than add more systems and parameters everywhere.Less is more more or less.
Would you consider removing DR after my thoughts?
