Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-31526827-20180404001717

Ooooh! I am so angry right now. And, yes, I'm just going to lay the blame flatly at the feet of FM and their horrible programming and lack of interest in bug fixes. Short of issues to adjust for OS changes, they don't really do bug fixes. Their last "sound upgrade" was a downgrade according to most.

So, why am I angry? I was playing OMP just now and I got disconnected by the server (who knows why, my connection is working and has been working just fine and both routers and my upstream provider records show absolutely no hiccups between me and Level 3).

I'd been playing all day. My one day off and a day without interruptions. No backlog of work or unusual phone calls, no GF (she's in FL) to need time; just me, my AppleTV, some Red Bull to drink and a bunch of people to defeat in real time. Real people, not bots.

I made it to 1404 - if you play OMP you kow what an achievement that is. I think I was in 4th or 5th place. Easily in the money and I wasn't done. I was still kicking ass. A string of good luck combined with a lot of practice and just a good relaxed vibe, feelin' good, driveing well... ahhh...

Then - Disconnected - in a race with 7 others, including two guys down around a rating of 500. Reconnected and ... I dropped 381 points! Put me from Rank 4th (100 GC) to approx 300th (10,000 R$). Angry as I am, the next race is already starting, can't abort quick enough. I'm in 3rd position; guy in 1st musta seen my 1xxx rating so executes rapid backup/brake/backup/brake on me -- Megane lugs slowly forward and WHAM!! PIT manuever from behind and I'm spun no only off course by backwards. So, of course, I finished in 5th outta 8th. Dropping me by a further 133 points.


 * The Scoring system in OMP sucks monkeyballz!

As with EVERYTHING else in RR3 it is designed to insult and harm the player. Nothing in RR3 actually rewards (appropriately) the player, it either WAY under rewards or flat out harms you.

My rating in RR3 OMP tends to go something like this:

500, 585, 600, 675, 730, 787, 810, 830, 850, 860, 870, 880, 900, 910, 905, 700, 600, 660, 710, 600, 590, 580, 680, 700, 720, 730, 740, 750, 780, 790, 800, 810, 820, 830, 840, 850, 860, 890, 900, 930, 920, 960, 990, 1001, 700

But when you hit 1100 it goes more like: 1100, 1101, 1101, 1101, 11113, 1114, 1114, 1114, 1114, 987, 1001...

At 1400 it's like:

1400, 1400, 1400, 1400, 1401, 1401, 1401, 1410, 1410, 1410, 1410, 1410, 1410, 1410, 1410, 1290, 950

I beat 7 other players by a full minute: I get 35 points.

I come in 2nd by .1 seconds to someone with the same rating as me and I lose 35 points - Losing to someone with a rating 50 below me and I lose 50. Lose to 100+ below? Lose 50-100 points.

When you are a rank 1000 it's a frickin' challenge and a half.

When you are at 1400? You quite simply cannot lose. Ever. and you will have MANY races where you will win NO points but the guys in 2nd and 3rd will earn 40, 50, 80. I played a string of 9 games in a row, winning each one, and gaining exactly 2 points. Then came in 2nd once and lost about 145.

I can deal with the cheates. Stats cheaters you just get burned once then learn their name and avoid racing against them. I have a way around the crashers and rammers. And I'm a steady class B, often Class A racer in WTTT so I have some skill and I choose my car(s) carefully, changing as necessary. I do not cheat but I do take advantage of ONE "feature" I discovered and one "glitch" that was shared with me.

I PREFER to race OMP - WTTT contains cheaters too and they are all stats cheaters so it's quite frustrating but at least I get 100 or 300 GC every week so it's OK. The regular races hold no challenge to me any more. I do the events that gain me a "free" (lol) car but that's it. I am a car racer and not a tractor driver so I don't farm. I use AppleTV so I cannot view ads, reduced repair or upgrade times or gain GC in any way other than winning these events. OMP lets me play against another human brain and it's challenging. Cheaters are the greatest challenge but they are just another challenge. YES I'll bitch about them like everyone else but they are there at this time so I just work around them.

However, the scoring system is just dispecible and can be changed to something that makes more sense and rewards good drivers without destroying them in one swoop.

EA/FM - Please PLEASE replace/fix the scoring system in OMP. p.s., I re-extend my offfer to once and for all fix ALL stats cheating in your game for free. I'll write, debug and test the code myself. Shouldn't take more than a day. It's VERY simple and 100% effective with no false positives. If you don't fix this I'll just take it that you accept cheating and, therefore, support it. 