Problem WE NEED ADMINS IN THIS GAME .....A.S.A.P !!!!

What if open servers are preferred and your system will filter the wrong people?
You are talking about a system of which noone knows how it will affect the game.
Why don't you tell us if we will have a chat, a voting system and admin rights on OUR servers, or not?

 

I am aware of that.
You are considering to make it an option?
Are you telling me it could be forced upon us if this consideration is abandoned?
...and what about my second question?
Are you dodging?

 

Instead of constantly complaining about something that doesn't even exist yet, why don't you wait and see what it is like, when it is published?!
Chat - I would not want to see any resources wasted on an ingame chat, when virtually every club and league uses Discord or TeamSpeak anyway. When we host public races, we have a FB chat running in parallel for votings - even that works fine. Spare the resources and give my a saftey car instead

iRacing shows that a ranking system can provide some really great racing. There is a lot I did not like at iRacing, but the way matching people were grouped for the races was something I really enjoyed. If it works there, why should it not work for Raceroom as well? Let's give it a chance and at least try it.

What I agree though - even on password protected servers, there might be people showing up that you do not want to have on the races for whatever reason. A possibility to temporarily/permantly block them would be nice indeed. Reasons could be as simple as not having paid a starting fee, swearing over voice chat or whatever, things that will not affect the players rating.

 

Thank you J-F
It took a whole lot of writing to get an answer.
Will there be a chat then, too?
I don't need an ETA, just a yes or no.

 

Yeah i know, it is a lot of work to keep public servers online and threat the community in a fair way, but i have already done that in the past with other games.
Sure, the admin tools would not solve all problems, but they would be a step in the right direction.

@Georg Ortner
Why are you thinking about developing such a complicated system like a reputation or performance filter? I saw way bigger developers than S3 failing big with such systems, because of their complexicity.
Why don't you instead just develop some really basic admin tools for your voluntary admins out there, like me? Not only kick/ban, but also some real basic stuff, like a Welcome Message where i can tell every joining player who he has to talk to if there are problems with the server. Or some free text columns in the server browser, where i can write things like "hosted by ABC, if you encounter any problems with the server please contact me at blabla". (why can't i post links? -_- )

You know, working in the IT-Business and having my own infrastructure, i have hardware-servers that are powerfull enough to host like 20-30 R3E-Servers, Teamspeak for them and whatever you want. I would even do that for free, the servers are running and bored anyway. But it's realy hard to do when you don't have any tools =/

 

Add penalty weight?! That's very welcome

 

A chat would be unnoticable in it's consumption of resources

 

I was refering to development resources

 

Now there's no more question if I will stay with the game.
Take your time and do it as usual.
Awesome

 

All my fuzz was about the 'if' not the 'when'.

 

I know that I'm like a few months late on this issue as far as response and or suggestions go,... but, I think there is a saying,... "it's never too late" here on earth.

Ok! I play a number of Games and Sims, and one of which has impressed, me a lot, though it has happened to me, is how the game Planetside 2 deals with penalizing players that shoot their own teammates. You get warned, and after so many times, you get your weapon auto locked on you, for a fair amount of time. I believe the Devs realize, that,... because you can have 1000s of players in the same server at the same time, in the same instance, that team shooting, isn't really done with an on-purpose intent,... for the most part. Anyone that has ever played, or still play, Planetside 2, know what I'm saying here.

If there can be a system in R3E, that works similar to what's in Planetside 2 (kind of an admin on auto pilot). This can benefit as well as work alongside the rating system. Though you have a rating system that "weed out" certain types of racers from certain other types of racers, into competitive groups, the thought, leaves us of how those racers (trying to make it to a higher rating) on the lower end still may/will, have to deal with racers that simply don't care, but to play pinball, or spin the car. Sure admin tool, are wonderful, but as someone did mention,... could be biased, very much so. So, an auto pilot admin tool, that you turn on, or off, and can be set to allow up to so many infractions, or type of infractions, that also, send info/report to the rating system, will eliminate, the biased attitude. Everyone abides by the same rules. No favoritism!

PS. Almost forgot,... not to the leave out the ways of possibly contacting admins, to make amends.