Talk:Audi R8 e-tron Special Edition/@comment-32840250-20180718070114/@comment-27403942-20180723121127

Easy answer from China: GL's connections (inferior servers!) suck. Chinese connections suck. Together they synergistically quintuple suck.

My ARSE is tuned 1232 - a bit higher than was necessary to win it. I should always be high Pro or Champion, but no - I keep "losing" races, which means I rarely get rewards and lose points - a lot of points. "Lose" means I don't really lose, because I never get to race. I try to connect, then GL says I'm not connected to the internet (I check - occasionally they're right, but usually I can connect to a VPN and watch YouTube, so GL is full of crap - I am definitely connected, it's GL's crappy servers at fault.

Because I keep "losing" I'm stuck in Challenger or low Pro, which isn't fun for me, and isn't fun for the noobs I'm beating. I occasionally lose to other ARSE's with higher rankings/boosts, but that doesn't happen often, even though I try to go for the 100% bonus to face stronger opponents. I faced one Elite (2000+ rating to my 1500+ - more than 500 points difference!), and while I wasn't quite at his skill level, I was fairly close. The only times I've actually lost my string (4th or lower) was when racing three ARSEs with higher rankings/boosts.

TL;dr - I'd love to have better competition, but GL needs to drastically improve its servers or stop punishing players with connection problems.