Really bored of people ruining online racing

That won't happen...at least not officially xD

 

LFS had a league, where you weren't able to drive fast cars without a sufficient number of points. You had to drive a lot, or at least have a lot of top 5-10 finishes online if you wanted to drive the gt class cars. I think it wouldn't be a bad idea to implement something like this to AC..

 

Is their a way to report these bad apples somehow? Other than voting to kick them out of the room? I started going online to race recently, getting bored of driving by myself or with A.I. and it's total chaos. We had one troll last night ramming everyone in the race for a good hour or 2 and we couldn't kick him for some reason. Until he finally left. It was ruining everyone's racing and just about every other race when you pass someone and come to a corner they purposely ram you off the track. So other than trying to get them kicked, is there a way to report them? Or do we just have to suck it up? I know there's going to be trolls, but I love this sim. A lot and this is just killin it for me. Sorry if I posted this in the wrong section in advance I'm not sure where this would go.

 

The truth is: You can't race on public servers

Just search a racing community (for example look at my signature ).

 

Of course you can race on public servers. We just have to make every effort to boot the idiots, and then get the necessary updates from Kunos to make sure that they stay booted!

 

I've tried several leagues and found it utterly boring because they always want you to use Teamspeak and rarely do you get to drive your favourite car/track combo !

I recently had an awesome race at a public server where all the participants actually behaved and I must say it was one of the most intense close and nerve wrecking experience of my life !

However something must be done about the voting system and I would suggest that if you are wrecking a race and voted off the race that should mean at least a month suspension from online racing.

 

Exactly !

I have had several incredible races on public servers but more than often there are idiots that have absolutely zero interests in racing that will do anything to sabotage a race !

It MUST cost to be a wrecker and time is a good thing to punish them with.
1st time / 1 month suspension
2nd time / 2 month suspension

etc etc !

It must also be easier to boot the wreckers in the first place.

Voting does not work very well ATM.

 

????

Seems like most players unlike myself cant access the Y and N buttons during a race !

I personally have them mapped to my wheel !

I've seen it many times on online racing where people repeatedly want to kick a wrecker but absolutely nothing happens !

It shouldn't have to be the majority that decides if a wrecker is banned.

If 2 to 3 players are affected by a wrecker that should be enough due to it's tendency to affect the other players sooner than later !

If a player wreck others on purpose they shouldn't be allowed on any server for at least a month per incident !
If they keep wrecking they will eventually be banned permanently from all servers.

Real race rules are tough and Sim racing should also reflect that.

 

Hopefully Kunos are looking into this issue and hopefully will solve this super annoying problem.

I like the solution Rockstar Games came up with in GTA5 where they redirected all the cheaters to a certain cheat server where all the cheaters only could play with other cheaters

Imagine all AC wreckers only get to play with other wreckers
That'll teach them a thing or two

 

On a side note.....is there a way to see chat messages when I am on the track?

 

I'm sorry to quote/bump myself but as there seems to be now a little more debate apart from the "join a league" mantra I would like it if somebody could answer the questions above. As players' self regulation (voting) is usually not working I think it's basic to have some way of reporting trolls. That would probably require:

a) Everyone that sets up a public server should be reachable somehow (no need to be dedicated or present, just some way of contact). I'm thankful for public forums (specially the ones like AC#8 that have an "original" car/track combo) but every promoter, even not for profit ones, have some kind of responsibility.

b) Every participant in a mp race should be held accountable for his actions. In race names should be traceable to an specific steam account (maintaining privacy and anonymity of course). I guess it's like that in many games.

Trolling (deliberate wreckers) is by far the biggest problem in MP and need to be tackled before everything else (bad, overaggressive driving, even cheating...) because it's what really makes you feel you are losing your very valuable time in AC (in my case just a few hours a week).

PS. I've been banned myself (for life?) from two servers (once because of sudden rise of ping; once in a recent experiment of an authoritarian server). I was not trolling but I'm OK with it, I hate to bother other people.

 

Today I had it from both worlds (the good and the bad). Firstly was on Minolins server (tnx for it Minolin) with a guy who was almost a second faster than me, but he has give me a chance to learn from him (few races he was behind me pushing me trying to force me in to mistake, than the opposite - great fun), Then the bad on a server with Gt3 and Gt2 on Nur. (with Admin who tried to make things right-tnx to him), every race the people from the back of the grid just stormed in the pack in front, on quali was almost impossible to make a fast lap because everybody was defending their line like its the end of the world and so on.

But I managed to get a few fellow racers witch were respectable and raced clean.
Thats how it is for now, for sure its really difficult for admins on public servers to watch and control 24 people from witch 1/3 is making sh... with the tools available to them for now.
For sure the best races I had for now was with slower cars that are easier to control for the masses (Would love some X-bow races on short tracks with respectable racers).

 

I think I was on that server when you were there, Slavc. I managed to avoid being hit by anyone in the two races I took part in, and even slowed down to let the guy I was racing get past me again after he was taken out by a guy that we were lapping. Unfortunately, my consistency deserted me in the second race (probably due to a developing headache), so I decided to call it a night!

 

Is it just me, or is AC online a bit boring at the moment? I am even finding it difficult to find a GT2/GT3 server that is full, and even then a handful of them have not been updated, which means that nobody can drive the Mercedes SLS! What the hell is that all about?? The Freude am Fahren server is not available at the moment for my road car fix, and trying to find any other road car servers that are occupied is hopeless.

Maybe it's just me, but it's seriously denting my enthusiasm.

 

I actually had a fantastic Spa race the other night on the ALOOG server with +20 participants !
Real close racing with players who actually respected each other !

Unfortunately every race isn't as good !

Kunos must make it easier to kick/ban wreckers fast!

 

I was hoping that ALOOG would have switched that Spa server to something other than GT2 cars by now, but I guess it's just too popular?

 

aloog has 5 other servers running different combos