Banned from playing
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This is not me,although it has happened to me in this title.
Basically a racing game containing quite a complex ratings system, I will say from the start I detest ratings systems, they make you drive in an unrealistic way to achieve whatever you might want to, for instance slowing on the green flag, deliberately qualifying slowly or startingt from the pit to fake the numbers.
Basically in this title you have two systems, a safety and a driver rating, one is based on crashing, clean laps, etc etc the other largely on results and they are both very different in how they are calculated, despite looking identical at first glace.
A system has been introduced that automatically bans a player if his safety ratings gets too low, basically a threshold is reached over a period of time and you are prevented from playing the game for 24 hours. This can be for a drip of offences or in certain cases a large incident say at a race start when several infractions can be had, say multiple contacts, off tracks etc etc.
Now I think this is getting silly preventing people from playing, a lot of people seem to agree with it, or are fine with it, but if you are learning, you are going to make mistakes, crash a bit and banning them seems a little OTT.
Basically a racing game containing quite a complex ratings system, I will say from the start I detest ratings systems, they make you drive in an unrealistic way to achieve whatever you might want to, for instance slowing on the green flag, deliberately qualifying slowly or startingt from the pit to fake the numbers.
Basically in this title you have two systems, a safety and a driver rating, one is based on crashing, clean laps, etc etc the other largely on results and they are both very different in how they are calculated, despite looking identical at first glace.
A system has been introduced that automatically bans a player if his safety ratings gets too low, basically a threshold is reached over a period of time and you are prevented from playing the game for 24 hours. This can be for a drip of offences or in certain cases a large incident say at a race start when several infractions can be had, say multiple contacts, off tracks etc etc.
Now I think this is getting silly preventing people from playing, a lot of people seem to agree with it, or are fine with it, but if you are learning, you are going to make mistakes, crash a bit and banning them seems a little OTT.
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Not sure why the disguise around naming the game: iRacing
its the most realistic multiplayer simulator and its very first line if you google it is: iRacing is a subscription-based online racing simulator. while its still a game some do take it more/less seriously than others and complaining about doing things that replicate things in real life seems an odd one.
The safety rating system isnt perfect as its a no blame system. If you hit someone. You get a 4x and they get a 4x and vice versa. get 17x in a race and off to the pits you go.
Overtime your safety rating goes up and down and if you cross thresholds you get promoted/demoted license classes. Pretty easy to do as long as your not smashing into everything every race
You need certain licenses to get into the more serious series where people spend alot of time practicing for what could be the 1 or 2 30/60 minute races they get time for per week. So excluding people who cant get passed the first corner without doing their best max verstappen impression is the only way others can enjoy things.
I have never seen anyone "banned" for safety rating on its own. at worst they end up back at D class racing mx5's until they can prove they have learnt to race.
the only time people get actual ban's from iRacing races themselves for a time period is if someone has manually reported them for intentional wrecking, tantrums, trolling etc rather than mistakes/racing accidents. these are manually reviewed by iRacing via the replay which is submitted with the report and normally first time is a warning to behave and following
So suspect your story is missing that part out. I doubt it was "I got crashed into and got banned" scenario. If you dont like being forced into things you dont want to do, A simulator may not be the best and forza etc may be better
its the most realistic multiplayer simulator and its very first line if you google it is: iRacing is a subscription-based online racing simulator. while its still a game some do take it more/less seriously than others and complaining about doing things that replicate things in real life seems an odd one.
The safety rating system isnt perfect as its a no blame system. If you hit someone. You get a 4x and they get a 4x and vice versa. get 17x in a race and off to the pits you go.
Overtime your safety rating goes up and down and if you cross thresholds you get promoted/demoted license classes. Pretty easy to do as long as your not smashing into everything every race
You need certain licenses to get into the more serious series where people spend alot of time practicing for what could be the 1 or 2 30/60 minute races they get time for per week. So excluding people who cant get passed the first corner without doing their best max verstappen impression is the only way others can enjoy things.
I have never seen anyone "banned" for safety rating on its own. at worst they end up back at D class racing mx5's until they can prove they have learnt to race.
the only time people get actual ban's from iRacing races themselves for a time period is if someone has manually reported them for intentional wrecking, tantrums, trolling etc rather than mistakes/racing accidents. these are manually reviewed by iRacing via the replay which is submitted with the report and normally first time is a warning to behave and following
So suspect your story is missing that part out. I doubt it was "I got crashed into and got banned" scenario. If you dont like being forced into things you dont want to do, A simulator may not be the best and forza etc may be better
The game is not Iracing.
But this is about actually being prevented from playing the game , for a period. Not dumped in with novices, literally prevented from playing on ANY ranked servers. And this is not always a result of collisions, it might be just learning, finding limits, off tracks, spins and yes some body contact that pushes a rating past a point but not wrecking deliberately, just learning or finding your ,limits
You can still practice,but you can not register for races
And honestly it was not me, I gave up playing this game months ago. Not for this reason
But this is about actually being prevented from playing the game , for a period. Not dumped in with novices, literally prevented from playing on ANY ranked servers. And this is not always a result of collisions, it might be just learning, finding limits, off tracks, spins and yes some body contact that pushes a rating past a point but not wrecking deliberately, just learning or finding your ,limits
You can still practice,but you can not register for races
And honestly it was not me, I gave up playing this game months ago. Not for this reason
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