If a Safety Rating were to be implemented, I would hope to have a rule allowing 2 wheels off, just as IRL. Time lost and unsettling the car should be punishment enough. Also, if an off is due to avoiding a wreck, that should be taken into account.
but how should an automatic system know if it is because of dodging a wreck... or avoiding a crash or so... in reallife you have the officials that review and judge such situtations... but an automatic system can't do that I think... maybe it could when getting more complicated like.. spin in front .. car moving towards you and so on... but that would also then open for more bugs and shortcuts etc...
I think a safety rating feature is quite usefull...
(I know we are not here to discuss if the sr in iracing is good or bad etc.. but I need kind of explain what I think about it to get to the next step)
even if I read some people who don't like it how it is made in iracing... I think it is quite good for an automatic system...
even I thought at the beginning it is abit unfair that you get punished for people driving into you.. and maybe it is... but.. the funny thing is... the more experienced I got there... the less people run into me (ofcourse rookie series is still quite differend but even there I am involved in less "not my fault crashes" then in the beginning)
and for the argument that people became too cautios because of sr... I don't think so.. maybe in the beginning with not so experienced drivers (but that is exactly the strong point of it that unexperienced drivers driver more carerfully)... but with experienced drivers I got some very very tight and tough battles there... and the nice thing you can drive then very tight and tough with them because you somewhat feel or know they are aware of whats happening.. because otherwise they would drive more carefull... ofcourse there are always exceptions.. but after some time you can judge quite good if you can race somebody tight and tough... or if you better stay a bit more away and just wait till the other one sort himself out...
also the punishment isn't that hard as some may think... even if you get an 4x as an A driver in a rockie series... you still gain sr afterwards if you finish the race and don't have more "big" incidents... and if you get multiple 4x for example.. you should start to think about it...
so as an "unexperienced driver" (did simracing for a very long time before but not in an enviroment like that) I wasn't a fan of the safety rating by my self... but the more exprienced I got the more I understood it and even quite like it... because the sr system trained me to be more aware of everything around... yes that meant at sometime to be a bit more carefull... but after more time know... I would say I became even more aggressive but also alot more clean... you just start to learn to know when is the time to drive hard and aggressive and when you maybe better shouldn't
sorry that this got so long.. I just needed to exlpain what I think about it... hope this won't end in an iracing sr discussion because this is not the point but... I needed to explain that to say...
an Iracing like SR system would be quite usefull if it is implementable... ofcourse it don't need to be a 1 to 1 copy of that system.. it can maybe finetuned or altered or what ever....but the iSR system is a quite good basic to use in my opinion... ofcourse only for the long term usage because it need maybe 1-2 years to mirror and to teach how to drive clean but tight and at points aggressive at the same time... but well every rating system is made for long term usage.
ofcourse I see the downside for the beginners and so... it can get quite frustrating at times... but that is then also a question at which group such thing is aiming... if it is aiming for people who do want to use it long time then they also want and will let the beginners time behind and get more experienced....
and I think that is also what this is aiming at... because it isn't an implementation in the gamecore.. so the just want to drive for fun from time to time (the more casual ones if you want to say so) can still just jump into servers and so without such system
however long post... I hope not too much discussion feeding... just wanted to say.. I would like to see a SR system