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Re: Report system needed


@Trekari wrote:

F1 online play has been trash for years, but this response just doesn't cut it.

Nobody should have to go to a website out of the game and fill out forms to deal with the rampant deliberate ramming and unsporting conduct present in F1 open lobbies. If the game can generally get penalties right in offline play, there isn't a good reason that such dirty drivers can't be disqualified and removed from online sessions automatically.

I get the feeling that you don't have any personal knowledge of how bad it really is. Go spend some time in the subreddit and observe the absolute deluge of posts showing people deliberately ramming, driving backwards, torpedoing, brake-checking, etc.


What you on about? I made the post because I have experienced the dirty drivers and seen other people’s clips

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  • Trekari's avatar
    Trekari
    Rising Hotshot
    4 years ago

    @Cpayne32 

    @SomaticCoast375 

    Did neither of you bother to actually read what I wrote? The context clues were obvious as to what I was referring to.

    Go back and read what I wrote again and then facepalm yourselves for getting the comprehension completely and utterly wrong.

    "Nobody should have to go to a website out of the game and fill out forms to deal with the rampant deliberate ramming and unsporting conduct present in F1 open lobbies."

    Who said to use a website to report dirty drivers? The EA rep. What does "...rampant, deliberate ramming...present in F1 open lobbies mean?" What did I say about going to reddit and observing the multitude of posts showing dirty drivers?

    You two need to actually read what someone writes next time. My god. There's no excuse for getting my point of view completely backwards.

  • Cpayne32's avatar
    Cpayne32
    Hero+
    4 years ago

    @Trekari You have to report bugs on a form so why is reporting a bug in the game any different to reporting a dirty driver on a online form

  • Trekari's avatar
    Trekari
    Rising Hotshot
    4 years ago

    1) It wasn't banter. Neither of you bothered to read my comment correctly, and your responses leave no room for doubting that.

    2) Because the best way to deal with toxic behavior in-game is to provide a feature which can quickly and easily be accessed IN GAME to report them.

    You'd know this if you ever bothered to even look at the requested information on their 'web report' nonsense. It shouldn't take more than 5-10 seconds and 5-6 button presses to report someone in-game. Making it tedious and external means precisely ONE thing:

    People won't report dirty drivers nearly as often as they are actually encountered.

  • SteveJackson's avatar
    SteveJackson
    Hero (Retired)
    4 years ago

    Top and bottom of it is, collision detection as far as penalties go is pretty abysmal.

    Anyone hitting a car in the rear should be at fault, unless the car in front has deliberately slowed.

    I would suggest any driver causing damage should be forced to play in an unranked short session with collisions off for a minimum of four lobbies. The access to ranked or lobbies with damage on would be restricted, therefore diminishing the appeal of ramming.

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