Minorating.com (drivers thread)

I don't see any reason to adjust ratings to allow for more contacts in some servers then others, people simply choose where they want to race and it should be the same for all. Last thing we need is more crappy drivers getting into AB then already do because they get away with more crap on another server, you can still easily race in most servers with minimal contact but if its not possible at all as people will just rear end you at every opportunity and you decide to stay then its nobody's fault but yours.

 

It's not about allowing more contacts but weighting them depending of the race / session in total. This also includes a total calculation after a session, so there's no pre-race guarantee for a free gang-bang on server x.

Maybe there are some statistical tendencies regarding a crash ratio per server, but generelly speaking you don't know much about your opponents' behaviour until the session is over (sometimes T1 is enough tho ) – this is where I'm pointing at.

 

I think I need to use a cape while browsing this forum now. Have never been called a hero before.

 

Also, this opens other opportunities.
1. With a whole session taken into consideration, the distribution of contacts comes into account. Example: A player who has 12 car to car contacts within seconds is more likely to be a participant or victim of a pileup, whereas another player with 1 contact (with changing opponents) every minute or such is more likely a wrecker deliberately crashing into others.
2. A possible after-race recalculation of the CP that occured during the race should reward players that race till the end instead of crashing and quitting (with their full CP amount).

 

There already is a system in MR that takes note of mass accidents I think and wont count multiple cp in a very short period, choosing servers by MR limits is a pretty good indicator of the expected driving standards inside. After all that is the main and only real purpose of rating drivers or the system itself, its not there to boost ego's of someone saying they are A grade. It gives people an option to chose servers where only better drivers are allowed in and not have to race with those already identified by MR as being pretty poor in traffic. You can still chose to join any server but by seeing grade limits and especially if a server is busy it will give a good idea of what is to be expected.

If someone is A or B grade and then choses to join any rating allowed MR servers they are getting zero benefit from the system, nobody in that server cares that someone is A grade or D grade. The server auth limits simply indicate how good or bad people need to be in traffic to get in. People then join those servers because they are busy and want to find ways to avoid having crashes counting towards their rating with all those that MR has already identified as poor in traffic. These guys are free to join the server but if you choose one they cant get into then they are no longer a problem and you get a benefit of a better MR.

If you find it very easy to stay A grade then why would you want to race with people that cant even get into C grade and then why would you be surprised if in a server that allows all but W grade will have people that cant make it around t1. Sure AB also isn't a guarantee and mostly as I think B is too soft and we aren't allowed A only servers, if AB is the best we can get and still at times isn't great why would people with the higher rating want to use an MR server allowing everyone.

 

Seems I got a bit distracted by the whole session idea, so I forgot a solution is already there.
Sorry, guys!

 

One 'Bundesverdienstkreuz' for Minolin.

Really amazing what you achieved with MR and now this. Thank you so much for this.

 

Trying to realize what is this new thing. Any info?

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Will we get CP for cutting after race? I can't recall if the get CP for crash after race still happens...

 

Two days ago I still got CP after finish.

 

I remember Minolin said it was in the new MR plugin so server would need to be running something after 2.2 which I dont thinky others are yet beyond Minolins test server.

 

Minolin, does MR track steam account or AC profile?
So, when I have a guest driving my rig, can I login with another AC profile, so he doesn't screw up my rating?

 

Steam GUID.

 

Is MR a bit slow today?
Was on Berniyh's Nords Trackday server, and my Heliocorsa showed no colours, only white bars.
The MR profile was updated though.

 

The colors do show up for me.

Have to say though that I'm surprised by how many N drivers do join the server.

btw, would it be possible for stracker to log the MR grade for each driver (or rather the MR grade of the driver when he was last seen on the server)?
Does it have access to that info?