SA block

[proebali?]

I can't understand why my sa rating is blocked, I just bought the game, before that I played on a free weekend

[Ziltoid TV]

These things unlock the more you do in the game.
"You unlock SA (safety rating) when you reach 50CC, or Car Control."

[rob_every05]

Once you get it you will wish you had not got it, it is massively not fit for purpose.

[Ziltoid TV]

Originally posted by rob_every05:

Once you get it you will wish you had not got it, it is massively not fit for purpose.

Give it up ffs, it is not unfit for purpose. Stop retaliatory ramming then it wont drop as much it works fairly well for many 1000's of players and if it was unfit there would be a lot more than you saying this but is there? No.

[rob_every05]

Yes there are plenty if you look.

The system is garbage, it ONLY rewards you driving very close to other cars, not driving well, quickly or cleanly.

It massively penalizes you for a tiny touch or someone elses cretinous driving, and does not reward you in any way whatsoever AT ALL unless you sit up someones arse for about 2 hours, then you might, JUST MIGHT get a point. One, JUST ONE infraction and even in a race when you score 70 trust you will not gain a point, it is garbage, pure garbage.

Someone drives in to me on purpose they get taken to the wall, it is that simple, I accept that, but for hour after hour, race after race of clean driving, you get nothing, unless you sit right up close to a car.

THAT'S NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE end of story.

[d-^^eathstare>]

having a safety rating of 95... just saying... all the other things you mentions are part of other rating categories

[rob_every05]

After the free weekend mine has dropped from 94 to 87. And the vast majority of those dropped points are people hitting me.

Or actually too people just clipping each other in close passes etc, something that also both cars should not be penlised for, you can literally only graze a car without losing SA

[grizta30]

Originally posted by rob_every05:

I don't care about SA

[rob_every05]

Idiotic editing, you should work for The Sun. How stupid

[grizta30]

Did you or did you not say that? yet you constantly post whining about it, everybody knows that your obsessed with it, except you it seems.

[r33fermadness]

The rating system in this game is the best I know about. Gives you something to strive for.

I wonder, what would make it better?

Edit: FYI, my SA is 91 now and dips to the 80s. Usually because of my own errors.

[Porkhammer]

I noticed that the longer you go without incident with maxed out SA, the harder it is to lose, and even if you do lose some, it is very quick to get back.

So definitely working as intended. I like the system.

[rob_every05]

I merely point out the downfalls with it and frustrations, it does not work well if you race a certain way, the fact that just racing really does not allow it to improve is a fault, it should go up slightly more just being allowed to race cleanly.

The fact that the only REAL way you get to improve is closely following another car is not a great action, it should be mixed with time in the game racing clean laps, not cuttting (i am aware there are other areas that cover this)

And it should be able to be recouped quicker, it is very easy to lose SA though others fault but if you are unlucky it can take days to recoup even 1 point. That is not fit for purpose in my eyes.

[rob_every05]

Sat behind a guy for 15 minutes in a GT4 race, within .5 for most of it.

Gained 20 trust

You tell me this is not flawed beyond belief

[grizta30]

Originally posted by rob_every05:

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And it should be able to be recouped quicker, it is very easy to lose SA though others fault but if you are unlucky it can take days to recoup even 1 point. That is not fit for purpose in my eyes.

As we have already established in not just others fault is it? you lose your temper at anyone who slights you and you go for petty "revenge" THAT'S why it takes YOU so long to build it back up.
Come across your type on open servers all the time, in my experience more often than not the contact is the revenge punters own fault but they refuse to ever accept fault/

[rob_every05]

I am happy to accept the penalties for taking people out if they do it to me, but you get little or no reward for anything SA wise.

I might do this once a week, that is hardly every time anyone slights me, and there is nothing petty about taking some tosser out of they do it to you, it is pure equality!

My issue is not with that, it is with the absence of any real other method of improving SA in the game other than sitting right behind people for lap after lap, not even a couple, literally the entireity of a 20 minute race will get you 1 bloody SA point, that is plainly not a great system, when in the same race you can lose 7 or 8 from people hitting you, despite waiting at the start, being careful at the first turn and the next few, yet STILL people hit you.

Unless of course you spend every single race waiting for people to crash, never ever going for a gap unless they spin out etc etc. Meantime the leaders are 30 seconds away! That is not the way ANYOEN in real life races, this is supposed to be a simulation after all.