The Safety Rating has been re-worked with the 1.12.12 Update.
First and foremost, what is Safety Rating?
Safety Rating is an indicator of your racecraft and your ability to race fair and clean.
This means, you will be rewarded for driving without making contact and keeping the car within track limits.
Drivers with lower safety ratings are more prone to incidents compared to those with higher safety ratings.
How Safety Rating works:
Your Safety Rating is calculated through the amount of Incident Points you collect during a race. You receive Incident Points for colliding with other cars, driving off the track or other offenses, such as speeding in the Pitlane.
Keeping a low amount of Incident Points is key to a high safety rating, but not the only contributing factor!
If you want a high Safety Rating, we recommend you should always try to finish races. You can always come back from a bad start, and completing the race will limit the point-reduction you get.
What are the major changes?
In our previous system, the Safety Rating was calculated for each individual Race based on the amount of Incident Points you received. This approach often resulted in an unstable rating that didn’t truly reflect your on-track skills.
Here is how we change that:
After each Race, the Incident Points you collected are translated into so-called “Safety Points”. This is based on the percentage of Incident Points you collected to the Incident Point Limit.
The distribution of Safety Points is much more linear than previously, ensuring a more balanced and consistent calculation of your Safety Rating.
These Safety Points are then used to calculate your Safety Rating. Safety Points are averaged over your most recent races (up to 50) to determine your Safety Rating.
For the first 20 races, we implemented a slight variation of this system which allows you to build up your reputation and reach your true safety level faster.
Besides, we’re raising the maximum Safety Rating from 5 to 8, giving you more room to grow.
How do the effects impact the playing experience?
You will begin your racing journey with a Safety Rating of 0.
Over the course of your first 20 races, you will gradually establish a baseline Safety Racing.
During this time you can quickly build up your Safety Rating towards your Racing Standards.
After this Period, your Safety Rating will be updated based on your recent races.
The System recognizes and rewards your improvements as a Driver over longer periods of time.
What will happen to my current Safety Rating?
With all these Changes to the Safety Rating and a new Calculation Method, we will be setting all Safety Ratings back to 0 to give everyone a clean start.
