Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-3157402-20190708095319

Apologies if this has been mentioned already, but I honestly don't know how to search the forum, as Fandom's site search on top of the page doesn't seem to include the forum at all. Anyway, back to the subject:

Has anyone else noticed that ever since the "new" OMP has been introduced there seems to be an automatic time deduction of the player's time of about half a second after every single race? At first it only caught my attention that whenever I was about 50m or less in front of the car behind me at the finish line, I was ranked a place lower than I should have been, i. e. I was ranked second if I had won, third if I had in fact achieved second place and so on. My first thought was that this would be a compensation for the car's starting position, possibly just counting the time between crossing the start and finish line, but that's not it either, as it even happens when you start from the very last place. Also the time deduction in fact happens 100% of the time, because even if I'm more than about 50m in front of the car behind me (and therefore I'm NOT ranked a place lower), the final scoreboard most of the time (i. e. when the car behind didn't make a driving error right before the finish line) is much closer to mine, sometimes as low as one hundreth of a second, which would mean the car would have to be driving faster than 18.000 km/h (equaling 50m in 1/100s)

So, what gives? If that's happening to everyone, that would mean that the final standing (including the scoreboard showing the points awarded) had to differ for every player, which should be easily recognizable if several players of the same racing team drive against each other who are taking screenshots to boast about their ranking. It would also be another example of EA's attitude rather to punish everyone than to create the slightest opportunity for anyone but EA to profit from that situation (whatever that opportunity could be).

On the other hand, if it DOESN't happen to everyone, my best guess would be that the player's lag/ping (meaning the connection delay to the game servers) is deducted from the final race time, which would place every player from outside the US at a disadvantage (again).

Any other rational explanation would be welcome. 