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Server 5 MR [AB]

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We have recently installed a new safety rating system on our public servers. Minorating is hosted on a central server where other server hosts/communities also connect to. At the time of writing there are a total of 85 servers connected and over 6000 players registered. These numbers are rising every day.
You don't have to do anything to register as a player other than join a server connected to Minorating.

Here is an overview of what Minorating is:

Project

Minorating (MR) is a plugin for Assetto Corsa designed to help make public servers a better environment to race in. The plugin runs server-side so there is no need for clients to download or run 3rd party software.
It works in a similar way to iRacing's iRating system where contacts with other cars per distance traveled are used to calculate your rating. Think of it as an automatic, central whitelist with different levels of clean racing skills.
Its primary use will be to prevent 'undesirables' from entering public servers to cause havoc amongst people who want to race fairly with each other. It can easily distinguish between someone who is careless and continuously hitting other drivers, and those who are just unlucky and get hit by the careless. Of course you still need to do your part and avoid collisions where possible.


Grades

Initially everyone will start with grade N. This doesn't mean you are a noob, it just means you haven't completed enough kilometers (40) on a server connected to MR to be graded yet.

The goal really is to stay within the A and B grades, where C isn't that bad either. This is easily achievable simply by racing normally without an excessive number of contacts with others on track. If you happen to get taken out in a turn 1 wreck, don't worry, just rejoin the track as safely as possible without hitting anyone else and continue on with your race. The person who caused the wreck is the one who needs to worry. If you do happen to cause the wreck, well just make sure you don't do it too often because MR can calculate who caused it and will adjust your score to suit. If it happens too often you will be graded a wrecker (W) and denied access to most other servers connected to MR.

MR also detects if you are racing in close proximity (Attack) with others on track (within 20 meters) and as long as no contact is made your graded score gets better quicker. Usually you should be able to race and fight as normal, and the system will work out for you - if you're a clean gentleman of course.

The grades are:

A - Outstanding
B - Clean
C - Rookie or Trying
D - Not clean
W - Deliberate Wrecker beyond doubt
N - New, unrated


Do I have to be afraid?

If you are a wrecker who has your fun playing destruction derby without any proper racing alongside others - yes, indeed.
Otherwise: No. In fact I promise you the system won't hurt you if you drive your race and respect other people. Incidents and race accidents will occur, and that's not a problem.

I also do not plan to publish driver lists with grade/ratings. The whole system isn't meant to be a badge. As long as you are within the top 80%, you'll be fine.


How does the scoring work?

It's pretty simple, at least if we don't go into the details too much. You have a collision with another car - both of you will get Contact Points for that. Think of them as "repair cost" - this is pretty much the real life equivalent.
Then the system will note your distance driven, including the distance to the next car. This results in an average "km driven per contact" formula.

The grades are made of "km driven per contact", but with a slightly different view. Where you can achieve grade C by driving alone and just not screwing up, you'll need good and clean fights in order to achieve grade A.


Performance Rating

Minorating.com also offers you a performance rating. It will track your wins and losses, so driving and fighting in Assetto Corsa will be more meaningful to you.
It is completely independent to the safety rating (grades, blocking, etc), although you need a grade A or B to participate.

Under the hood the rating is ELO-based system, just like Chess or many competitive online games. As a bonus - and to keep things fair and fun - it's also capable of respecting multiclass races.


How does it work?

Once you reach the B grade, you're considered as clean enough to automatically participate. When a race session ends, Minorating groups the drivers by their class (this is currently = car model) and builds a leaderboard. Then, for every leaderboard, each A or B grade driver will have a calculation against everybody in front of him (as a loss) and everybody behind him (as a win). The sum of your win & loss points are added to your current rating.


How will ALOOG use Minorating?

We eventually (date to be confirmed) intend to deny access to our most popular public servers to everyone except A & B, thus we should see a marked improvement in driving standards. Please note this is not a magic wand which will clean up our servers over night. It will take time and it relies on you to make it work.

We will provide a 'Training Server' open to everyone to allow them to improve their grade, which we envisage will be used mainly by the remaining groups (C, D, W & N) but not limited to these groups. Your grade will improve quicker with more people on track i.e. Driving on an empty track will improve your score but not as quickly as racing alongside other players. So if you find yourself with a grade which denies access to some servers you can use this server to improve it and perhaps invite some friends to help you achieve it quicker.
Please be aware that this server will be admin'd at random intervals and anyone caught deliberately trying to cause collisions on this server will be permanently blacklisted with no chance of being unbanned. We will pass this information on to other communities which means you will be blacklisted from their servers too.
MR also provides us with the ability to auto kick/ban players who cause mass contacts (deliberate wrecking) and/or x number of contacts per session. Initially we will not use this feature, but if we conclude that our servers are being abused or if people are trying to abuse the MR rating system, it will be enabled.

You can see your grade at any time by visiting www.minorating.com or when in game type into chat "/minorating" or simply "/mr" (without quotation marks). We (server admins/managers) do not have the ability to change your grade so please do not ask us to. Only you can improve your grade by driving safely.

This will not relinquish the task of our server admins and they will still be present on our servers to kick/ban individuals who are not driving safely or fairly.

For more information visit www.minorating.com

CAR : BMW M235i Racing
Practice : 20:00
Qualifying : 20:30
Race : 21:00



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