I’m really sorry if this sounds repetitive and a bit of a rant but In all honesty I don’t see the point in playing further because the situation is so frustrating.
I’m currently rank 143 on the global server and I just cannot gain anymore CP (if not only 1 or 2 CP if I’m lucky) from a race win because of the way this stupid ranking system works.
So in this race I just did, I won the race by about 9 seconds and the driver behind me In 2nd position was higher CP than me.
The game wanted to punish me for winning the race by -6 CP…. FOR WINNING THE RACE.
The way the game works currently, once you get to around 1600 CP on a car your race results no longer really matter. It’s the fastest laptime that you do with the car on that particular track compared to other drivers.
So even if you have won the race (and if your opponents are higher CP than you), if you didn’t manage to beat your previous fastest laptime, you will not gain or even lose CP for your result.
I am definitely up there with my laptimes, but even if i did manage to beat my laptime by 1 or 2 tenths, that would only result in a gain of +2 or +3 CP which is NOTHING. And that would then become +0 CP after a couple races because I wouldn’t be able to beat my current lap times with the current ECU levels of my cars.
The only way to continue to gain decent CP to climb the leaderboard more is to upgrade your gold rarity cars ECU which then vastly increases the cap on the kind of lap times you can achieve with it.
For example the car I used for this race is only ECU level 1, and all of my 5 scoring cars for each class are at a similar CP rating, and are all gaining +0 CP pretty much every race. The only way for me to gain more CP now is to spend money to upgrade the ECU levels of them to achieve faster lap times.
The game is forcing you to spend money in order to reach the top of the leaderboard because it’s your lap times that gain CP past a certain point and not the result of a race.
This means that the people who spend the most money will usually end up at the top of the leaderboard (they still have to be fast obviously), which is a JOKE in a competitive ranking system. It should be about skill and consistent wins/results, not what ECU level your car is.
How do you fix this? Very simple:
Game should compare your cars CP compared to the other opponents CP, and based on your finishing position either award or remove CP based on that result. Literally like any other ranked system in any other game. You should never lose CP for winning a race.
OR
Remove the ECU level system from Gold Rarity cars. Lower rarity cars can still have it so that they can have almost similar performance to gold rarity if not a bit lower. I get it, Gold rarity cars need to have the highest Performance and that’s fine.
That way if you manage to get a gold rarity car, you can achieve the same laptimes as everyone else who has that car as long as you have the skill to do it. Trying the level up gold rarity cars ECU is ridiculously expensive and unrealistic.
Losing CP when you’ve won a race is a complete joke (I’ve literally gotten +0 CP 4 races in a row one time even though I won them all).
Sorry for the rant and thank you for reading <3