Regarding the above post it still may be ok to have say an ABN server to allow new people in just best not to mix them with C or D which are already graded as not very good in traffic. Also ABC but anyone wanting the best chance of reasonable pickup server racing should just try get into AB only servers. There are so many MR ABCN servers around and these simply don't use MR for its main purpose which IMHO filtering the server to keep only the better drivers in a server. Lower rated guys should see AB servers as a goal to get into and so improve their driving but if most servers are ABCN there isn't much incentive to grade up and its also not much better driving standards then a server not running MR filtering at all.
Even AB isn't perfect and with no ping limits possible in AC there isn't much we can do about the Euro invasions, which in most cases the guys aren't a problem to me if they have solid connections at up to 350. But have 2 350 ping guys racing each other can never be good. Racing people with sub 250 pings generally is not much different then racing locals, AB you will come across some poor racers too but unlike the more open servers these are much rarer and in ABC or softer access servers if you have a clean race with many casuals in its some kind of miracle.
It just seems that in general most dont understand the benefit of the system, many seem worried when they drop a grade, or arent A grade. Yet they never tend to look out for AB only servers so it should have no impact on them joining the servers they usually join.
Having servers running the plugin is great to help grade everyone in them, but in the end if after grading them most server identifying the good and bad drivers in traffic 99% of servers running the system then allow nearly everyone back in there. I dont care what grade someone is, I simply would rather avoid those that have been identified as not very good. Its not about how fast or slow they are but more how likely they are to hit everyone around them. Those with worse grades can lift their driving standards and then also move to the cleaner servers but after quite a while running this system its apparent no matter how good it is most people don't use it to improve their MP pickup server experience making it lots of wasted effort.
Last edited: Apr 14, 2017