Oceania manufacturers final.

[RINGO2287R]

Did you notice that in the manufacture finals for Asia/oceania the only drivers competing were from Japan?

I’m am not racist at all. I’ll just say that before any one gets any ideas. I’m just pointing out something that is an issues in the Asia/Oceania lobbies, and especially when it comes to the manufacture series.

The server that host the manufacturers series for Asia/Oceania is located in Japan.
These are incredibly fast drivers in all countries in the Asia/Oceania region, however as it stands other do not have a chance vs the Japanese in this region.

I’m not sure if everyone is aware of the test on car performance with a slow connection but the results show that tyre wear is significantly increased on a slow connection. Also it was noted that all inputs have a significant delay. This issue causes problems not just in the manufactures series in this region but also all daily races in the lead up to the Qualifying events.

There is a large number of driver from Japan that hold an A+ driver ranking so with this being the case other player in the region that hold an A+ driver rating 90% of the time are connected to a host in Japan. And as stated previously are immediately at disadvantage because of the previously stated facts. This is not a fair situation for players in these other countries and it is little to no wonder the manufacturers finals were a Japanese dominated event.

On top of this problem I will also again bring up and highlight the issue with this game not having some type of reporting system for drivers, this is now more then ever a system that I believe has to be implemented in the game due to it popularity and the recent developments in relation to cheating that we saw.

In the lead up to the Qualifiers for manufacturers series I witnessed divers in the top split lobbies of this region what appeared to me as deliberately joining races and purposefully brake checking the entire lobby causing the following car to receive at penalty and driving players off the track when they made a clean attempt to pass. Now this could just be a dirty driver and a one off day. However what I noticed was this player is only active on the days leading up to the series. This was not just one player (although I believe it was). There was multiple drivers from the same country and other countries in this region doing the exact same thing. Not just coincidentally similar tactics but EXACTLY the same tactic. These “drivers” also suspiciously were all using the same car and had a Qualifying time within the .100s of each other. So I strongly believe this driver was one and the same person with multiple accounts in this region and were deliberately doing this to lower other drivers DR ratings before Qualifying races, whether this player does this for fun? I doubt it. This appeared to be a tactic used to give his main account or his friends accounts a stronger chance of making the finals. (Yes this driver was from Japan)

For this reason and many more this game must have a reporting system implemented. If not a permanent system at leased a reporting system implemented during the weeks of Qualifying leading up to an event.

 

[Famine]

The server that host the manufacturers series for Asia/Oceania is located in Japan.

There are two - although it's not clear how they are used - with one in Tokyo and the other in Sydney.

While... a lot of the rest of your post is about the report feature, or lack thereof, it's simply the case that there's a significantly larger player pool in Asia than in Oceania. We have seen non-Japanese Asian players qualify before, and we have seen Oceania players qualify before. This year it wasn't the case (and I think that may also be a first).

Edit: Quick check...
2025 - None
2024 - Guy Barbara (Mercedes-AMG)
2023 - Guy Barbara (Renault)
2022 - Matthew McEwen (Honda)
2021 - Adam Wilk (Aston Martin), Andrew Lee (Hyundai)
2020 - Emily Jones (Audi), Adam Wilk (Ford), Dan Holland (Lamborghini), Jay Wong (Mazda), Cody Latkovski (Mercedes), Matt Simmons (Porsche), Simon Bishop (Toyota)
2019 - Hayden Hunter (Audi), Matthew McEwen (Chevrolet), Adam Wilk (Ford), Conor Healy (Hyundai), Kenny Conomos (Jaguar), Cody Latkovski (Mercedes), Matt Simmons (Porsche)
2018 - None

So it's actually a second, after the first season. Weirdly, two seasons had one team with no Asia/Oceania representative at all, although I don't recall why.

 

[RINGO2287R]

And? What’s your point?

Do you honestly think that based on the larger number of players in Japan that hold an A+ rating that these Qualifying races are held on the Sydney server with probably only one or two drivers from that region holding an A+ rating competing? The chances of that are extremely small.

There has only been a small handful of drivers from the Oceania region that have made it to finals and this was back in 2019/20. Since then the game’s driver calibre has significantly increased and lap times are a lot faster. When we talk racing we’re talking hundredth of a second. So in regard’s to this with the effects of a slower connection on vehicle performance connectivity to the servers matters a lot.

Put it this way I just did the race at Catalunya. The difference between 1st and 16th was less than 0.500 I started in 5th and by the end of the race finished in 11th. This was a Full Japanese lobby everyone on 4bars myself on 3 at the start dropping to a 1 mid race. When I watched the replay back the other drivers in the Porsche had tyre wear down just above a quarter on the left front. I however had over half. I was dropping in pace continuously and this was not just due to tyre wear the car was dull and very unresponsive. Including the sound that was muffled for the first 3laps. It was a real struggle in the end. This is because of the effects of connection. ( just for an understanding I have probably one of the best possible connections Available in this country) but download speed and upload speed mean nothing in relation to how fast your pinging the server or host. If the average ping is 10-50 connected to servers throughout the country I can only guess that the ping to Japan is well above 200ms.

This is an extreme case based on p2p connection, but the point is it’s still an issue in the server connected races. Add to that the disgusting driving seen more and more at the higher levels and we have a massive issue.

 

[Zero2Oblivion]

Had me in the first half, lost me in the second.

As The Right Honorable Famine pointed out - we've seen players qualify from across the region, including Australia. As to why this year's qualifiers were more Japanese-centric, any reasons given would be speculation, as without actually checking every racers connection (latency/ping) during qualifying, we don't know if server location was the influencing factor. For all we know it could just be that this year the fastest qualifiers in the region really were the ones that qualified.

 

[Famine]

And? What’s your point?

That one of your fundamental premises is incorrect, that another is confirmation bias, and that really this looks like a complaint about the lack of a reporting system (which, while valid, has been done before) dressed up as a neat example of "I'm not racist, but...".

What's yours?

 

[RINGO2287R]

nothing I have said is wrong and these are observations based on countless years of playing this game. If your job is to shoot down opinions and provide no talking points in relation to the subject and or solutions. and end with a vague it is what it is reasoning, and attack me for my opinion and accuse me of complaining when I was merely highlighting an issues that I have noticed. Maybe the internets toxic forum scene, of immediately seeking to discredit someone’s option is rubbing off and you might need to look at stepping back from it.

 

[Famine]

nothing I have said is wrong

The server that host the manufacturers series for Asia/Oceania is located in Japan.

This is literally wrong, and the repudiation of it was the first sentence in my two-sentence post you obviously didn't bother reading before "what's your point"ing it...

There are two - although it's not clear how they are used - with one in Tokyo and the other in Sydney.

As for toxicity, you've immediately dropped into abuse after being corrected, and your last (deleted) rant thread about the penalty system contained the phrase "the Japanese are the absolute worst for abusing it". Turns out the "I'm not racist, but..." trope is well-founded, and there's no shock this thread is going the same way.

Please grow up before your next effort.

Edit: Lol, there's always a toddler tantrum DM.