Ok Pete here the obvious scenario for you.
Youve worked all race and your down to the last 3 laps your in a pack of 3 and you go off track and get dropped off the pace.
The two guys in front bump draft away from you and your isolated on your own with no hope in hell of catching them...you quite happy to languish in third knowing that on flat ground you may be the faster kart and you may also be the better driver in all 3 of you,but your doomed to third placce cos you will not catch them.
That could happen 10 laps out and youd know then that unless there was a disaster up front,you got no chance of catching them and that goes for all the stragglers in the race.Lets say even thats this scenario happened to you two races on the trot,youd be well p issed off I know that as much
If thats the scenario and your happy with that,then youve made the case even more for the fact that boost should be on to keep all those behind interested.
Personally my view is that its a cheat and there should be a patch to outlaw it that if you bump the kart in front more than 3 times in a minute you get a 10 second time penalty.
The skill is slip streaming to gain distance not bumping your m8 around the track.
No im not moaning,im pointing out the right way to drive the kart and the fairest way for all concerned.
You try bumping your m8 around the track in a proper kart centre,youd be out the door with no refund.
As far as I see it its a cheap way to gain advantage in a race and it sux and i think if you take 2 secs to think on that youd agree.
This is why the league should have had a list of basic rules...not a whole booklet of them,just two or three main ones that people are clear about.
On the subject of the boost feature,then if ram boosting is made legal as you want it to be then boost should be on during the races IMO.
Look at keeping people interested in the race if they know they got a chance of catching up with the pace or an opponent so they too can ram boost back into contention.
Youve seen that it does help the less skilled drivers to catch up and makes for blanket finishes in short races,but i dont think that it would make a major difference in long races.
I feel you got to even things up one way and another...ram boosting in so in game boost feature is in then........think on it for a while cos it works for all and makes it fairer to the back markers