They really need to make it so your individual effort affects your ranking. I’m sick and tired of coming 1st or 2nd personally but my team losing and going down hundreds of points. That is just inherently unfair.
And then you can win a round, but only go up by a small number of points? So losing gets you hammered but winning gets you little sometimes. I assume this is due to the rankings of the players you beat. But so much of it is due to luck. I’ve won hundreds of points when I’ve personally done badly, so I haven’t deserved them. And often vice versa. I don’t think I’ve managed better than rank 15 or 16 yet. You keep getting knocked back due to bad teams and bad luck. I’m not the best player but I can certainly hold my own and I usually perform well. My rank doesn’t reflect this. This will naturally disincentivise people to keep playing and demoralise people that they aren’t getting properly rewarded, and are getting excessively harshly punished.
tl;dr - the idea of a ranking system is great, I fully endorse it. But your system needs serious tweaking.
Rank 15 is a good rank, though. I do reasonably well on the rivals leaderboards, e.g. just tried one for the first time today and got world #28 out of 7245, and I’m rank 14. When I race against people of a similar rank, they all seem of a similar standard to me. So rank 15 seems to be top 0.5% sort of level. You look at someone like Grandma Driving who got world #1 on the Kraken rivals recently, and he was rank 4 last time I saw his rank in a video. He’s significantly faster than me, so him being rank 4 vs my rank 14 seems reasonable to me.
I’ve played for hours over the last few days and been stuck yo-yo’ing between ranks 18 and 20.
I don’t think the rank in this mode means much at all. Far too much of it is down to luck. There will be much worse players than me with better ranks and vice versa.
I really hope they sort this out in a coming update.
how to fix ranked
remove freeroam
remove cross country
turn off collisions
remove walls
remove teams
make a point system championship
first place gets 12 points? then it goes down
when the championship the top 6 players with most points should gain while the rest lose
also before you release this patch make sure you also reset everyone’s rank to 0 so that players actually gotta earn their ranks
if there is no collisions or walls there is literally no way to cheat/grief
you guys cant handle reports or ban the people abusing walls or ramming
cheaters/griefers never get banned even if you only play to ruin everyone else time
its far more likely that the actual clean good player gets banned rather then a actual griefer/cheater
the griefers/cheaters are literally baiting reactions and they know they wont ever get banned for their unsportly behavior
so what ends up happening is that the fair hardcore players ends up getting ban cause pming the cheaters
meanwhile they guys literally doing everything they can to ruin the game still has no way of getting banned cause you simply don’t ban for griefers or ramming every turn or wall riding
this is so easily prevented by simply making it impossible to cheat by turning off collisions and removing the walls
ranked does not actually display skill its just random since its team based and people having the abillity to cheat
also why dont you guys display lap times???
imagine having a ranked online racing game that does not even display lap times???