encourage drivers to stay in a race.

We have to come up with a system to encourage drivers who enter the race to want to stay and finish.

Too many times, we start with 10+ cars and end up with just four by the end.

Drivers who do this. Please consider the etiquette of the race.

A system that give you a percentage for races entered vs finished. Maybe labelled "race etiquette."

This will help when we create private lobbies. We can set the percentage as to what drivers are allowed to enter a race.

But that it should not affect new racer.
IE a new driver would be 0 for 0 his race Etiquette percentage by default would be 100% percent.

Also how about unlockable vehicles for races finished online.
This would increase online races and encourage drivers to finish.

For example if I have a 100 finished races and my Etiquette percentage is above 60% I would be able to unlock a vehicle of my choice.

Anyway this is just an idea. What do you guys think?

What are your thoughts/ or ideas.
Their are always problems with new ideas. So please leave you inputs.

Drivers who leave a race.
Use this time to learn the track. Better your time. Without hindering the quality of the race.

 

I think since the single-player aspect does not have a vehicle unlock system then that would not be a good approach to reward online play. I agree some sort of reward related to a driver rating would be beneficial though. Something like additional liveries for example would be good. Plenty of us like collecting gun camo in Battlefield for example.

 

Thats a great idea, maybe some rim or paint options to pick from, to name a few.

 

I'm facing exactly the same behavior. Starting a race with 16 opponents and terminate with half or less than half of them. Most of them left the race after a big crash at first corners. From my point of view, this should be prevent first of all. People that act as "crazy" drivers or simply drive in an unfair mode, should be marked somehow in a negative way. In addition about the Etiquette, for my point of view statistics related to number of race joined and left should be added and prevent access to online race for those people which have an high percentage of "abbandoned race". This percentage can descrease after specific time interval (for example every day or every week) in order to permit people to rejoin online race.

This maybe can encourage drivers to stay in the race and play in a fair way.

 

I have found that the lack of track change/rotation is one of the biggest causes of player attrition in the lobbies - if you are going to leave the lobby anyway, why not leave when/if, stress on the when, u get hit.... ? I do agree that etiquette should be linked with some sort of player level but at present the format of MP is largely to blame and would corrupt the true statistics - and what about disconns.....?

 

I think it would be slot harder to penalize, " crazy drivers" their are too many factors that can cause an accident. Lag, lack of knowing the track, or just a mistake. By doing the percentage state over time you will know who the good driver are. And limit the crazy drivers of entering a room.

I do agree though that over time the stat percentage will go down. So maybe a 20% increase every week to give people a chance to get back in a private lobby with set percentage.

Keep in mind, the private lobby rating would be set by the host. From no percentage required to 70% host choice.
And public libraries would range as well.

But like I said before we need to have some sort incentive to encourage drivers to finish.

Livery option is a great idea.
Rims package,
Paint chips. Lol

 

You talk about private lobbies as if it's definite we will get them. Do you know something I don't? (We are investigating the options - something like that was the last I heard...)

 

Lol, it's only a matter of time before they do, else it will get old quickly. The main reason servers are empty is because lack thereof.

 

Hey guys,

I own a PS4 too, but play AC on PC.
It´s the exact same behavior we see on PC public servers, and it´s been so on any sim I can remember. What happens is, that those who want to learn and get better, they will stay. The rest will drop out anytime things doesn´t go their way, and sadly for this kind of game, this is the majority of the gamers out there.
Is there any other racinggame on PS4 that has better etiquette among players? I think no, but I don´t know for sure. What sometimes works is when games has matchmaking, which usually fails anyway in most competitive online games that I know of. So it´s really down to getting used to how public servers just...are.
I hope consoles gets private lobbies, maybe even a ranking/grade system like we have as a mod on pc.
I don´t know how PS4 lobbies work in AC, but if possible, the best way would be starting to add good drivers you find as friends, then invite them anytime you´re online and hope they join.

cheers

 

Lol, it's only a matter of time before they do, else it will get old quickly. The main reason servers are empty is because lack thereof.
Going to be a bit longer then .... (patch released on PS4)

 

Patchvwas just released? Really? Lol.

 

Wow at a whopping 2+ gb