So I'm a little tired of the PP bug ruining the online experience of this game... it happens all the time, I join a room of a certain PP limit, take many cars with good enough tuning (certainly not the best) and my good enough driving skills (certainly not the best), only to find that many or almost all the cars in the room are running much faster than mine. I mean... they go by me in the straights like they have 50pp more, at least!
Its really frustrating, you take time out of your busy day to go there and have some fun on a level playing field, but in fact the playing field is not level at all, it's totally unfair.
I blame it mainly on the PP system bugs, it isn't right, and it ruins the game. Sure, my driving is not very good, but I'm talking straight line performance here.
Interestingly the higher the PP the less it happens... for example at 600pp or 650pp I find that I'm being much slower than the other competing cars (slower in a straight line), but at 700pp or even better at 750pp this effect almost disappears completely (and then I can find myself being slower sometimes but not on the straight lines, it's just my bad driving!).
This goes to show that I'm correctly assuming this is a PP bug issue, because the higher the PP level the lower the margin to actually exploit the bug... there's only so much performance a car can achieve, regardless of how many PP that translates to. So, it's probably easy to get a 600pp rated car to run at real 650pp, but probably not so easy or even impossible to get a 750pp rated car to run at real 800pp, if that car native performance is never going to be more than, say... 760pp, so there is really almost no margin to exploit the bug without going to lower PP rooms.
I also notice this more when I go in the usual rooms, there are some 15 or 20 players that are always in the same 2 or 3 online rooms everyday, almost always 650pp, sometimes 700pp tops. Most of these drivers have very similar performance and they run lap after lap all very close to each other, basically same performance. And they all seem to know each other (maybe in real life) so it makes sense that they are all sharing the same PP exploits and techniques. They certainly drive VERY well, better than me for sure. But again, I'm talking about straight line performance, not really much driving going on!
If I create my own rooms, it's much more balanced, there's always that couple of guys with more performance, but also many others with regular performance similar to mine.
So, there's something going on... it's weird, it's frustrating and really wastes a lot of my time with nonsense racing.
I wish Polyphony would fix it, to make it a fair game and level the track for everyone.
Its really frustrating, you take time out of your busy day to go there and have some fun on a level playing field, but in fact the playing field is not level at all, it's totally unfair.
I blame it mainly on the PP system bugs, it isn't right, and it ruins the game. Sure, my driving is not very good, but I'm talking straight line performance here.
Interestingly the higher the PP the less it happens... for example at 600pp or 650pp I find that I'm being much slower than the other competing cars (slower in a straight line), but at 700pp or even better at 750pp this effect almost disappears completely (and then I can find myself being slower sometimes but not on the straight lines, it's just my bad driving!).
This goes to show that I'm correctly assuming this is a PP bug issue, because the higher the PP level the lower the margin to actually exploit the bug... there's only so much performance a car can achieve, regardless of how many PP that translates to. So, it's probably easy to get a 600pp rated car to run at real 650pp, but probably not so easy or even impossible to get a 750pp rated car to run at real 800pp, if that car native performance is never going to be more than, say... 760pp, so there is really almost no margin to exploit the bug without going to lower PP rooms.
I also notice this more when I go in the usual rooms, there are some 15 or 20 players that are always in the same 2 or 3 online rooms everyday, almost always 650pp, sometimes 700pp tops. Most of these drivers have very similar performance and they run lap after lap all very close to each other, basically same performance. And they all seem to know each other (maybe in real life) so it makes sense that they are all sharing the same PP exploits and techniques. They certainly drive VERY well, better than me for sure. But again, I'm talking about straight line performance, not really much driving going on!
If I create my own rooms, it's much more balanced, there's always that couple of guys with more performance, but also many others with regular performance similar to mine.
So, there's something going on... it's weird, it's frustrating and really wastes a lot of my time with nonsense racing.
I wish Polyphony would fix it, to make it a fair game and level the track for everyone.
I bet 1/2 the people just follow some tuber who post vids of the must use car of the week etc or the secret tuning option YOU must do argghaaaa 
.Crew2 was mental for it silly things like which rock to smash into so your car reset miles up the road i called it sad and was told to stfu its part of the game deal with it hehe
