F1 23 Ranked Multiplayer - Itemised Feedback

I really agree with all of your points, even though I reached the Elite division in Season 1, I have now stopped playing Ranked because it takes way too long to find a full lobby as you soon as you reach Gold 2/3. I think many people feel the same, I feel like the playerbase for Ranked has already declined significantly in the last few weeks.

A suggestion I would add is to reintroduce 5 lap races for Ranked, maybe alongside 25% races, so you can choose whether you want to drive a longer or shorter race. The 5 lap race would obviously reward you less points but this way, a DNF might be less costly and you can drive more races to make up for it.

Uhm more and better matchmaking between assist and non assist players. I got overtaken on imola over grass! He gets 5 second penalty, but since they can brake and accelerate on curbs as if they are flat, the off track punishment is non existent for them in case of losibg control, I don’t really feel it’s a FAIR competition. That’s why i don’t do ranked anymore. No point in racing with 1 hand tied behind my back. Especially since they have zero disadvantage in point count compared to the non assist players. Unranked at least you can find lobbies with High assist filter. Not that that gives certainly non assist lobbies since having everything to full, but pointless stuff like drs/ers/pit assist off makes it a lobby “worthy” of making it a high restriction lobby, which of course is a joke.

For me point 4 is the most frustrating. Dirty Drivers get away with almost no consequences.

I'm also fed up with help players who do anything. And for me, the most painful thing is pit assistance. For example, I just had an extremely frustrating race at Silverstone. I start 10th, I move up to 4th place and as I enter the pits, some * with pit assist activated comes at full speed without bothering to brake when he sees me slowing down before the limit line pit speed. So he destroyed my car and threw me into the car in front of me which also had to retire... It's not possible. So I went back to the menu and there I noticed that I had lost 50 points. This is not normal and very frustrating. And the fact of returning to the menu following retirement also makes us lose points on the license and that is not normal either because we are obliged to remain spectators of the race if we do not want to lose points, and it's very long and useless. This is rubbish.

Yea I'm pretty sure the ranked system is actually worse at separating skill levels than it was in F1 22 for the following reasons:

1. The way in which you gain ranks favours time played rather than actual performance and you are put in fresh lobbies when you enter your first race. This means you can enter a race towards the end of the week and only need to do a quarter of the races someone who started at the beginning of the week would need to do. Equally, someone who puts in a lot of time and comes 7th every race could beat someone on points who puts in less time but finishes first each race. So it's not truly a skill representation of progression.
2. The first lap ghost car system in safety rating B is actually a hinderence to good racing mainly because the cars aren't visibally ghosted all the time, meaning people don't know when the ghosting ends or whether the ghosting is on at all until they have made contact with someone to find out. If you're going to have a first lap ghost system then the cars should be visually ghosted the entire first lap so people know when the ghosting ends. This is particularly an issue when safety rating lobbies are merged because of a lack of players. ( I also think this first lap ghosting is bugged and does not turn off in normal multiplayer lobbies at the moment. This is a separate bug)
3.  It is possible to gain safety rating vs AI or in single player and this carries over to your multiplayer races. So everyone, even those who don't normally perform clean laps in multiplayer can easily hold and maintain A saftey rating. The safety rating needs to be much more penalising so that players are appropriately put in lobbies of equal driving capability, or lack thereof. Getting brake checked or rammed off the road by A safety rating players is all too common in ranked multiplayer and this shouldn't be the case. The top safety ratings should end up with clean drivers if the system was working well.

I cannot stand the point deduction system with ranked online. I’m on the verge of never playing again because of the amount of work it takes to get these points and how quickly they can go away. I am in division Silver 1, was on my way to Gold 1 I had 93 points. After one race it dropped me down to 53… it took SEVERAL races to get to 93 , mostly podiums may I add! I had to quit this specific race because someone crashed me out and I had damage to my rear wing making it almsot impossible to drive so I decided to retire. Why do I get penalized so heavily for * holes in this game!!!

It's crazy how many post there are asking for the same changes to be made to Ranked Lobbies and they have done zero of them. Heck, they won't even respond to the post. I was on the cusp of gold this past week, I only get may 6 to 10 races in a week so if I want to rank up I can't leave a lobby when I'm taken out. So instead of playing the game I'm just sitting there for 15 to 20 minutes. Nothing has been done to improve matchmaking and its so easy to get and keep an A rating it renders it useless.  And for the love of racing please stop asking me if I want to join a lobby at a lower rating...why would anyone want to race below A?

Anywho, I'm not buying 24 if Ranked isn't revamped since it's the mode I play 99% of the time. It's the best chance, which is pretty sad, at getting in a multiplayer for those of us that can't grind endlessly. 

Sadly, I know this reply is a waste because they literally don't care.

Honestly, EA could care less about what we think because everyone is still gonna buy the game. EA is known for just copying and pasting the same sports games year after year because they have a monopoly on these certain sports games. They know they don't have to improve anything because there's no competition (mainly speaking for all console players). We're stuck with what we got unfortunately. EA hasn't cared about its consumers for some time now and there's 0 indication that it will change. Then when they discontinue series or sports series they balme it on the fact that  noone wants to play because its not popular, but the truth is Noone wants to play because they put the same stuff out year after year with no improvement. There's a reason EA is known as one of if not the worst gaming company out there. 0 care for the games or their player base.