Increasing safety rating

[Biscuit]

Every time I get into a server that does not have safety requirement, I get bumped at least twice by some cretin, sometimes on purpose. I just started the game, my SA is 20 something and BWP is 23. The safety rating shows 18. How is this calculated?
This problem of blind fools crashing into me happens even on good connection, like 150ms. I am playing on a controller but these people are worse than me. It's like they never heard of single player mode. What's the fastest way to boost my safety so I can get into decent servers?
Also need someone to tell me what the abbreviations SA and BWP stand for. I know clean driving near others takes SA higher and crashes give you BWP.

[Christina]

SA = SAfety Rating
OBWP = Online Behavioural Warning Points

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For SA farming I can recommend finding a slow but consistent player on a server and drive closely behind him without contacts. Give everyone else the position without a fight to reduce the chance of losing SA points. On servers with a high rating, such people are easier to find and farm much easier. With this method, you can kill half of all other players in one race. And then restore all points in 1-3 "safe" races. Yes, I know, it's stupid.

The calculation of SA rating is extremely not obvious and incomprehensible. I suggest you just don't think about it.

[Biscuit]

Ok thnx

[cidered74]

OBWP = Online Behavioural Warning Points. You rack them up when you're involved in an accident regardless of whose fault it is, so don't put yourself in dangerous positions.
Trust = points awarded when you race close to other cars without contact, particularly along side. Sometimes you also get bonus trust for finishing races, but not always.
SA = Safety rating and is the overall rating based on ratio of Trust to OBWP

You can also farm SA against the AI in SP mode if you enable it in the options, although I believe it's on by default? So another option for farming is to do short-ish SP races, starting from the back of the grid. Choose some nice wide tracks (e.g. Silverstone/Spa/Monza) that you like and set the AI skill to a level where they are a little slower than you and just race clean and close to them. This method is slower to farm than in MP but less risky and you get decent practice in too. You can speed it up by artificially hanging around the slower opposition, passing them and allowing them back past etc, instead of trying finish as high as possible, but it's less fun. Still an option if your only goal is to get to high SA for MP online.

I only did one MP race in public server and found similar sh*t show experience to you, so I've now got my SA up to 80 purely in SP, enough to play on the CP servers (SA >= 78) which hopefully have a better standard of driving! Did take a fair few SP races to get there though!

Hope that helps. Good luck!

[Biscuit]

Originally posted by cidered74:

OBWP = Online Behavioural Warning Points. You rack them up when you're involved in an accident regardless of whose fault it is, so don't put yourself in dangerous positions.
Trust = points awarded when you race close to other cars without contact, particularly along side. Sometimes you also get bonus trust for finishing races, but not always.
SA = Safety rating and is the overall rating based on ratio of Trust to OBWP

You can also farm SA against the AI in SP mode if you enable it in the options, although I believe it's on by default? So another option for farming is to do short-ish SP races, starting from the back of the grid. Choose some nice wide tracks (e.g. Silverstone/Spa/Monza) that you like and set the AI skill to a level where they are a little slower than you and just race clean and close to them. This method is slower to farm than in MP but less risky and you get decent practice in too. You can speed it up by artificially hanging around the slower opposition, passing them and allowing them back past etc, instead of trying finish as high as possible, but it's less fun. Still an option if your only goal is to get to high SA for MP online.

I only did one MP race in public server and found similar sh*t show experience to you, so I've now got my SA up to 80 purely in SP, enough to play on the CP servers (SA >= 78) which hopefully have a better standard of driving! Did take a fair few SP races to get there though!

Hope that helps. Good luck!

oh nice!

[rola]

You can grind SA against AI. Reduced rate (50%) and you get less and less SA the less aggressive and fast the AI is.

[yassen.petrov.rl]

You can also get SA against AI in practice sessions for a race weekend, custom or regular, so if you practice a track or fiddling with setups, you can do it in race weekend instead on your own. This is probably the slowest way, but you can still get some while prepping for the real run.

[Biscuit]

Originally posted by yassen.petrov.rl:

You can also get SA against AI in practice sessions for a race weekend, custom or regular, so if you practice a track or fiddling with setups, you can do it in race weekend instead on your own. This is probably the slowest way, but you can still get some while prepping for the real run.

what's a race weekend? is it in championship or career mode?

[yassen.petrov.rl]

Neither :) In the Single Player menu you can choose it under Game Mode. "Custom Race Weekend" gives you most options for session duration and weather. Good thing is that all stat benefits that you gain (or lose) will remain even if you quit before running the race.
It also is a good way to test AI difficulty, because it will show you the lap times of the AI opponents.

[Biscuit]

Originally posted by yassen.petrov.rl:

Neither :) In the Single Player menu you can choose it under Game Mode. "Custom Race Weekend" gives you most options for session duration and weather. Good thing is that all stat benefits that you gain (or lose) will remain even if you quit before running the race.
It also is a good way to test AI difficulty, because it will show you the lap times of the AI opponents.

oh i see...that was helpful

[bazjen2]

It is not that hard.I have never gone farming in SP,only done online racing and been on 99 for months.

[miggsie]

1 online race has been enough to convince me to rent iracing. No chance of getting a higher safety racing when 10 people behind me smash into everyone at t1.
I thought the codemasters F1 game had a bad penalty system, but it's light years ahead of ACC.

[The Evil Cat]

Originally posted by miggsie:

1 online race has been enough to convince me to rent iracing. No chance of getting a higher safety racing when 10 people behind me smash into everyone at t1.
I thought the codemasters F1 game had a bad penalty system, but it's light years ahead of ACC.

As if iRacing was any better, low rated public lobbies are the same everywhere.

[miggsie]

Originally posted by Mr. Python:

Originally posted by miggsie:

1 online race has been enough to convince me to rent iracing. No chance of getting a higher safety racing when 10 people behind me smash into everyone at t1.
I thought the codemasters F1 game had a bad penalty system, but it's light years ahead of ACC.

As if iRacing was any better, low rated public lobbies are the same everywhere.

so I'll get penalised because some idiot doesn't brake and just drives into me at a hairpin at 150? That isn't what I've heard

[The Evil Cat]

Originally posted by miggsie:

Originally posted by Mr. Python:

As if iRacing was any better, low rated public lobbies are the same everywhere.

so I'll get penalised because some idiot doesn't brake and just drives into me at a hairpin at 150? That isn't what I've heard

From what you heard ? Didn't you "rent" iRacing yet and saw for yourself ?
You get penalized for any contact / off-track infractions, your fault or not just like in ACC, the person who told you otherwise has been lying to you.

[Biscuit]

xD