Why isn’t there a progress bar for sportsmanship rating?
- Thread starter GEO_2009
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- Jackson Heights, NY
- jamesman22
- jagenigma
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/your-dr-sr-progress-tracker-provided-by-kudosprime.372590/
this should help you out. i know its not in the game by default, but it is definitely a helpful too.
this should help you out. i know its not in the game by default, but it is definitely a helpful too.
- 88
- GEO_2009
Yeah I have seen that, also reckon that if you are a member of GTPlanet you try your best to be a clean driver anyway. Think it would be more benificial for the newer users or more casual user to help them try and raise their ratings, at the moment it’s hard to tell how close you are to moving up and why, I have had many clean races recently and still only a B rating with no idea how close I am to an A.
- 6,764
- Ontario
- SvennoJ
- SvenZ
You can sort of tell by who you are matched with. If you get close to the next level you should see more people of that level in the room that are at the lower end. If you want your SR to go up, just do the 10 lap races while staying on the road. 2 is enough for most levels.
- 80
- United Kingdom
I think if it was a bar then it might encourage some folks to just view it as a meter which shows them how much awful driving they can get away with.
- 399
- Worcestershire
- F41-UK
This. In the first beta, it was a number and showed you the points being added and removed with each sector, but people were getting really hung up on it. Even now, it's a real focus for lots of people, where what PD wanted, I believe, was a near invisible system which just got on with its job of pairing up like-minded and similarly skilled players. If they can sort out the rogue penalty system, it's probably not far off that. For it to work, you just need to do what you do, race how you race, and not worry too much about what your SR and DR figures actually are.
- 4,502
- Australia
It would be nice. Especially when there are subcategories of each class which determine who your opponents are.
- 399
- Worcestershire
- F41-UK
There aren't really subcategories and even the main classes are arbitrary. It's a big sliding scale from terrible to awesome and the system does its best to pair you with a similar rating. That's why you get a mix if you're near a boundary or if there isn't a big pool of players online. PD just want you to drive as well and as clean as you can, then you'll be paired with more awesome players and less terrible ones. The reason they removed the numbers during the beta was because it was encouraging people to do something other than that.
- 2,677
- UK
- Outspacer
TBH I don't see that it makes any difference, there's still lots of feedback coming from the game about SR: orange/green markers during races, and red/white/blue SR letter at the end. It's quite transparent really, even without the numbers. And IMO that's as it should be, encouragement to race well.
The other thing they changed at the same time was to not show an orange -SR when going a little off track, and reduced that to simply being not a +SR sector. (Then later they added the cursed time penalties). I think that was in response to complaints as well, it made SR easier to gain.
I think SR moves quickly enough that it doesn't really matter - just a couple of clean 10 lap races is enough to go up a whole grade.
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