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I don't believe so. It would make everything much simpler, IMO.
I've been brainstorming about Akamataa's last post. Imagine a system like this:
In your garage you'd have a checkbox for each car saying "This car is eligible for URL", and the conditions for this checkbox to be unlocked is to have made at least three circuit/sprint races with a car from the same class. You can select any amount of cars you want, except zero, or else you'll have no car to enter a URL, duh.
You then leave, driving any car, and go to an URL event spotlight to enter a lobby, and, that's it. You wait for a bit and the match maker selects the car and the opponents for you, and you race with the players the closest possible to your skills that were available in lobby at that moment driving cars with specs the closest to yours.
How would this work?
Well, upon entering the lobby, the matchmaker checks for the classes of the cars you have eligible to enter, lets imagine it's a E and a C class.
Then, the matchmaker will check for the circuit and sprint races you've most raced on for each class and will check for your personal top times of those tracks. For that, lets imagine: Class E: 1:58, 2:17, 1:26, and, Class C: 1:24, 1:28, 1:44.
Next, it would gather the global top times of those same tracks and class of cars. Those, for example, being: Class E: 1:46, 2:06, 1:22, and, Class C: 1:21, 1:18, 1:37.
Next, it would divide those global top times by the player's personal top times to get a value in between 0 and 1, similar to a percentage. That'd be: E: 0,90; 0,92; 0,95; and C: 0,96; 0,89; 0,93. (values are rounded just for the sake of the example)
Next, it would average those values per class, that being E=(0,9+0,92+0,95)/3=0,92 and C=(0,96+0,89+0,93)/3=0,93. That value would be the "skill level" of that player per class, where the matchmaker would base itself to select the players for a race.
The matchmaker would come out with these values for all players in the lobby and would simply check what players had the closest values across all classes that had cars available to them.
All the 0,8x players would be put against other 0,8x players, the 0.9s with 0,9s, all 5 by 5, or more if enough players.
That match maker would have to be timed or something so it lets the lobby fill with a good enough variety of players, or else the first 5 to enter would be put together as they came, so, it would only check for the amount of players to enter race each 2 minutes or around that to see who has the closest skill levels, but if there's not many players, after that set time it would let the closest 5 players enter the race even if the skill gap is big. That's a necessity when there aren't many people playing the game. It's simply, after X amount of time, the players whose the skill value's difference is the least enter the race.
Now, a system like this would make cars with not maxed setups redundant, and I don't want that, so, certain predetermined setups would be classified as a class lower, for example, a 2/1/1 Sultan would be racing together with maxed class C cars. This would mean a rule like "Class B car with score under 350 is classified as Class C" for car selection purposes. (The times to take the skill value from are still from class B times, thus them being in the format of a percentage.)
Later on, after a determined amount of races in URL with each class of car, lets say 10 per class, the personal top times are taken from URL top times instead of circuit/sprint times, to make things more accurate from that point on.
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Okay, now I'm tired and I kinda lost track of the whole thought process... Tell me what you think of this and tomorrow I'll think about it again some more. I need to sleep.
I've been brainstorming about Akamataa's last post. Imagine a system like this:
In your garage you'd have a checkbox for each car saying "This car is eligible for URL", and the conditions for this checkbox to be unlocked is to have made at least three circuit/sprint races with a car from the same class. You can select any amount of cars you want, except zero, or else you'll have no car to enter a URL, duh.
You then leave, driving any car, and go to an URL event spotlight to enter a lobby, and, that's it. You wait for a bit and the match maker selects the car and the opponents for you, and you race with the players the closest possible to your skills that were available in lobby at that moment driving cars with specs the closest to yours.
How would this work?
Well, upon entering the lobby, the matchmaker checks for the classes of the cars you have eligible to enter, lets imagine it's a E and a C class.
Then, the matchmaker will check for the circuit and sprint races you've most raced on for each class and will check for your personal top times of those tracks. For that, lets imagine: Class E: 1:58, 2:17, 1:26, and, Class C: 1:24, 1:28, 1:44.
Next, it would gather the global top times of those same tracks and class of cars. Those, for example, being: Class E: 1:46, 2:06, 1:22, and, Class C: 1:21, 1:18, 1:37.
Next, it would divide those global top times by the player's personal top times to get a value in between 0 and 1, similar to a percentage. That'd be: E: 0,90; 0,92; 0,95; and C: 0,96; 0,89; 0,93. (values are rounded just for the sake of the example)
Next, it would average those values per class, that being E=(0,9+0,92+0,95)/3=0,92 and C=(0,96+0,89+0,93)/3=0,93. That value would be the "skill level" of that player per class, where the matchmaker would base itself to select the players for a race.
The matchmaker would come out with these values for all players in the lobby and would simply check what players had the closest values across all classes that had cars available to them.
All the 0,8x players would be put against other 0,8x players, the 0.9s with 0,9s, all 5 by 5, or more if enough players.
That match maker would have to be timed or something so it lets the lobby fill with a good enough variety of players, or else the first 5 to enter would be put together as they came, so, it would only check for the amount of players to enter race each 2 minutes or around that to see who has the closest skill levels, but if there's not many players, after that set time it would let the closest 5 players enter the race even if the skill gap is big. That's a necessity when there aren't many people playing the game. It's simply, after X amount of time, the players whose the skill value's difference is the least enter the race.
Now, a system like this would make cars with not maxed setups redundant, and I don't want that, so, certain predetermined setups would be classified as a class lower, for example, a 2/1/1 Sultan would be racing together with maxed class C cars. This would mean a rule like "Class B car with score under 350 is classified as Class C" for car selection purposes. (The times to take the skill value from are still from class B times, thus them being in the format of a percentage.)
Later on, after a determined amount of races in URL with each class of car, lets say 10 per class, the personal top times are taken from URL top times instead of circuit/sprint times, to make things more accurate from that point on.
...
Okay, now I'm tired and I kinda lost track of the whole thought process... Tell me what you think of this and tomorrow I'll think about it again some more. I need to sleep.
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