Minorating.com (drivers thread)

I reached grade C by driving the tourist ring with a friend for a few laps. I was off the track a lot due to not knowing it very well but we had no contact. I've had no time to join other races after that though except for one empty race on a SweGubs Spa server where I managed to stay on track the whole time
I'll try to race clean and make space for faster drivers so being C doesn't mean I'm a dive bomber. Just a beginner in online racing.
Thanks Minolin for building this system to control the chaos

 

BTW, there are quite a few servers around that advertise themselves as supporting MR, but in reality, they aren't (anymore).
I suspect that has to do with either the admins messing up or it's some older, unsupported version of the plugin.

I've just been on one ("HGs-Gaming S1", because I wanted to drive the 911 GT1 around Tourist), which was advertised as ABCN, but the session doesn't show up in my profile.

(I know that ALOOG-6 has the GT1 and Tourist as well, but 96% fixed grip just sucks.)

 

I was going to mention this as well... I usually pay attention to the MR welcome message when I log in... if I don't see that, then I usually bail.

 

An advice : if you can't find an AB server, it's better to enter a non MR server.

Actually the minute I wrote this, i realised that this is maybe the only downside of MR.
C grades might be in trouble upgrading.
A friend of mine in our local league ( which is AB ) , had much trouble upgrading. I actually joined with him an empty server in order to help him.

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care to elaborate why fixed grip on tourist "just sucks"? i think im gonna set it so the grip goes down with more laps (old idea, stefano confirmed possible) ;-p

 

Not fixed grip in general, but 96% grip is waaaaaaay too low.

It's ok for the Nords Cup event, but if I want to do some hot laps and especially some setup work, I want to have 98% grip at least, better 100%.
So usually I look around until I find a server with the car/track combo that has 100% or I do it offline.

 

So got myself a C rating.... have subsequently done one race on a ABCDN svr where I sat at the back, missing the 1st corner carnage...giving a wide birth to anyone coming up behind me then successfully managing to to miss them as the spun off the track when in front...even the guy doing doughnuts couldn't tag me....

Think I ended up 5th of 14 and a clean race in the bag....how many more of these do I need to endure before I get a B rating?

 

Depends. Just watch your MR profile to have a look when the high CP sessions will be dropped. That's likely when you're going to be B again.
Keep in mind though that you need some attack range as well. Oh and that driving cleaner (than before) while in B grade (which you hopefully will achieve soon), will provide some cushion against high CP sessions.

 

The content I have has nothing to do with it and never did.

Why people can't just look and see that all the N servers have ZERO players on them except for one is beyond me. That's the only issue there is. That being the case, the entire "N" rating is pretty much useless. Everybody should just start at C. Then set up servers for CD and BC but not ABC or BCD. That way, in the end, when you get into an AB race you're pretty much assured to have weeded out the wreckers and poor drivers. Why have ABCN Servers at all? It defeats the entire purpose of a rating system to provide clean racing.

The way it is now you're advancing everybody to C anyway no matter how poorly they drive as an N. What's the point?

By starting everybody at C and making BC and CD servers out of all those N servers, you'd probably be able to populate quite a few more servers and actually shut down a couple completely and save some money as they never had anybody racing on them anyway.

 

Hi! Can someone please tell me where to look for my MR stats? I see you talk about CP points. But I only know that Im A or B, coz entering the server tells me. I did not find it on the website. Thanks.

 

Explained here
https://www.assettocorsa.net/forum/i...com-drivers-thread.25732/page-112#post-726452

Why can we only see that we are a or b and not more specific ingame?

 

What's the big deal with that? Is it forbidden to drive on an empty server?

I just did this morning and within 10min, 2 other people joined.

Really, you should select servers by the car/track combo you want to drive.
Might be, that this is only available on an empty server, then so be it. It's even an advantage at the beginning, because that'll give you C rating for sure (and not D).
Yes, you can't reach B grade without others joining, but why on earth would that be important within the first 40km?

You're making this a much bigger issue than it really is.

 

Words fail me. I give up. I have seriously never come across this kind of obtuseness in my entire life.

 

You give up but many people tried to help you including the developer of the rating system. You seem to be as obtuse as you call the ones trying to help you.
It may not be white/black situation, thats why people tried to help, also you should also try to understand that one should prove himself before being given a rating, and to be C as many said you only need to drive alone.
Then you can go to other servers and try to get a better rating.

 

Just some backround information.

Minolin developed the whole rating thing on his own.
Server hosts download the MR-plugin and install it on their server (s), they choose who is allowed to enter.
Minolin said repeatedly, that he regrets giving options like abcdn.
There are 4000 servers running MR atm. Changing the plugin would (most likely) force all those admins to reinstall.
Minolin is very careful when it comes to private data, so he doesnt store informations like who is the host/driver.
There is no way, other than in this thread to ask hosts to change to a better fitting grade restriction, many hosts rent their servers with pre installed MR, many of those dont read this thread.
Minolin showed great skills when he introduced MR, he could have easily fractioned the players in a way that MR would not have been able to succeed like it did.
He also managed to find a relatively fair way of rating within the limitations the game has.
(For example collision speed is very inconsistent, sometimes in a believable range, sometimes way off.)
I used to be admin in AC years ago, when multiplayer finally got added to early access.
Back then you where spectating the whole time and where busy kicking the bad apples + writing them on a blacklist,
or your guests had no chance for a clean race. As admin you never got to race.
MR made the online experience so much better, we would never have thought that you could change the behaviour of individuals
that much. Nowadays some even respect blue flags, yeah!

We certainly can't tell drivers which server to join or how to drive or to read the rules.
The only thing we as drivers can do to improve the online experience is to educate those that at least try to race fair about the rules/ettiquette in racing and to set a good example.

 

Obtuseness. In your entire life? Well if you put it like this, the best advice is to go play other games where there are less obtuse people. Bye.

 

@Parminio, I just need to know: what do you think will happen if you join and empty server?

 

Maybe all the blame can't be put on all the other drivers on the server...
at least when judging by the show of character in this thread.

 

Sorry, but I'm really speechless …