User blog comment:JustToothpick/Best Multiplayer Cars for Each Brackets/@comment-29379702-20161014134605/@comment-30074072-20161024164109

@Hooked on Racing, I second your thoughts. Something has changed with player rating system and awarding of rating points has definintey changed, even though the car-ranking-matching has not changed.

I'm driving against lower rated players 90% of the time (mostly driving camaro at 1450 0500/5050). Just like you @Hooked on Racing, I win probably 80% of my races, but gains are a measly 7 points or less, and the odd loss can cost me 27+ rating points. So frustrating. I'm struggling to get+stay beyond the early 1400's in rating as well.

The car-ranking-matching is off sometimes, but there were always flukes before as well.

I've tried (only a few times) testing the situation by driving my Trion @1761 double/tripple boosted, and when I win (very infrequently), I win bigger. When I come in in the middle of highly rated players, I often gain a few rating points or loose only a few. But if I come in near the bottom of the pile, I again loose big, but I think not as big as when playing player rated well below me. I'm not willing to risk the test enough to know how big I would loose on average -- a few big losses have been enough to keep the Trion in the garage until more fiV8-s emerge.

SO... is it that good drivers are driving max-pro-ed top cars in MP almost exclusively these days, whereas in the old days they were driving everything? (with the exception of Cobra drivers it seems) I hardly ever am battling another camaro -- aren't there a lot of good drivers driving cameros any more? The new Merc is beating me a lot these days, as well as cobras.

Or? Are the servers matching differently? Is car-rank-1450 and below somehow jinxed? Should I consider bumping my camaro to 0502-0505/5050? Or hope for the BMW to return? Or consider paying out for Corvette C3 when it comes and set it up in the 1550 range?

MP used to be the real fun of the game, and with your help @JustToothpick, I finally have a few cars MP-tuned, and it's super... but not getting anywhere in MP is, well, annoying! My goal was to break into the Pro 1600+ league before this first month was over, but at this rate there is just no way. Is the only way a max-pro BMW or Trion or Devel these days?