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Do not get me wrong. I really like this game. It feels amazing to drive, it is challenging and rewarding. However unless Codemasters change ranked lobbies significantly I cannot see anyone playing this in a long run. Why are penalties set to Regular? Qualy is not about being the fastest, but cutting the most. Then the notorious ranking ELO system. I was in gold 1 and the game only found me silver lobbies. If I won I got 3-10 points. If I finished worse than 3rd I lost 30 points. If someone took me out or I made a mistake I lost about 80 points. How is this fair? So if Vettel crashed in Germany they should have put him in Formula 3? Then the penalty system. If someone brake checks me or send me flying to a wall, why am I getting penalized for that? People can send it down from 200 meters and you get a penalty, plus your rating gets worse as you finish somewhere near the bottom. 

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKy8yvnlNAw

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The moment I read about the new fangled ranking system, I knew from experience with the previous CM F1 games that the penalty system would never be robust enough to handle an ELO system.

The unfortunate reality is that these types of drivers and incidents have been part and parcel of F1 online multiplayer for as long as I can remember, and the lack of decent fault recognition in the code has been a thorn in many peoples sides for a long while.

Ive been avoiding the online portion of this game in the hope that time will rectify these issues, but I think that CM either can’t or won’t implement a better system of their own volition and the only work around will be to either join a league or just wait till the worst rammers move on to something else.

Still having a lot of fun in the offline modes for now, so I think I’ll just leave the online till later when things clean up a bit.

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Hopefully, they will do something about it, so that people can enjoy the game in a cleaner environment. League racing is great, but I do not want to have one clean race per week only. A couple of suggestions:
  • Set corner cutting to strict from Silver 2.
  • Separate lobbies for Bronze 1 up to Silver 1.
  • Separate lobbies for Silver 2 up to Silver 3.
  • Separate lobbies for Gold 1 up to Gold 3.
  • Either turn off damage or make it simulation damage.
  • Have a system that knows what an adequate speed is for specific corners. If I should be taking a corner around 120 kph and somebody goes there around 200 kph he probably has something else in his mind.  
  • Implement a system that can detect who is ahead before a turn / apex. If someone is 2m ahead, he should not be penalized when a rammer hit his inside or back. 
  • Implement stricter penalties when a hit results in someone being taken out. 
  • If they can get to a level, where GTS is after the last update it would be decent. 

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Shockingly I was able to see this coming.

Knew it was coming when I was getting time penalties for being crashed into like this in last year's game. The problem is they don't know how to properly assign fault in their game code.

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JiggaF1 said:
Do not get me wrong. I really like this game. It feels amazing to drive, it is challenging and rewarding. However unless Codemasters change ranked lobbies significantly I cannot see anyone playing this in a long run. Why are penalties set to Regular? Qualy is not about being the fastest, but cutting the most. Then the notorious ranking ELO system. I was in gold 1 and the game only found me silver lobbies. If I won I got 3-10 points. If I finished worse than 3rd I lost 30 points. If someone took me out or I made a mistake I lost about 80 points. How is this fair? So if Vettel crashed in Germany they should have put him in Formula 3? Then the penalty system. If someone brake checks me or send me flying to a wall, why am I getting penalized for that? People can send it down from 200 meters and you get a penalty, plus your rating gets worse as you finish somewhere near the bottom. 

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKy8yvnlNAw
@faya @hoo do codies even recognise this as a problem? How do you feel about it? How about some communication guys,how about u try a new approach of actually engaging with your community? 

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