User blog comment:ShinnyShin/The Problems with the S-Class Tier/@comment-27524282-20160325143843/@comment-27980511-20160325161914

I couldn't agree with you more, Profoundly Quiet! The ranking and match-making system is very much outdated in every sense of the word. I discussed with someone on this Wikia a while ago the idea of either downgrading or selling cars. Especially after you win your rewards from the Car Mastery and all the Seasons, then you get a chance to tweak your car so it can still compete online. I mean, they got one thing right by allowing you to sell your PRO Kit Cards, so why not the same for cars? Or at least have a system where we can trade cars.

Gameloft's current business model is not very user-friendly to those who choose to play it for free, and it goes like this :

- You buy a car - You upgrade said car and complete all Seasons/Car Mastery Challenges - A new one comes along and check-mates it - You then have to burn through all your boosters just to compete with that new one

- Your current car is then nerfed - You buy your next car which, again, will be nerfed in later updates - Rinse, repeat

And your suggestion about matching cars based on Perfect Nitro/Infected speed is pretty neat, and would make for a fairer setup. Right now, racing using your preferred vehicle is risky if it's low-end, you only have the illusion of choice. If you want almost-guaranteed wins, then you have to resort to using OP cars, but they may not necessarily be your favorite cars. A 50 point gap is more realistic for fairer racing, but when you exceed 1595, that's blown out of the water entirely.

Watch this space, my friends, we will be seeing car ratings of 2000+ in the future. The Trion's 1805 is an idea of how that's going right now. It's such an awesome game but it saddens me to see the direction it's being taken to by Gameloft ... there's so much they can do to make it a better and more fun experience, and this is not one of them ...