Website for Global Rankings

ProblemSolver plays something with the name not containing the word "Zone?"
I'm confused.

I'm still trying to understand how this ranking system works...

Not trying to demean Connavar's great efforts here but... surely if SL just made the Records menu in the game available on a website, and adjusted their ranking system to account for all records rather than just online play time, this site wouldn't be necessary?

I mean... this site relies on people's honesty, as well as their ability to accurately (and regularly) input data. If SL just dumped all of the Records on a website, that updated automatically like it does in the game, surely this would be a much fairer and more accurate system?

Or am I missing something here...

The benefits you get from using this site (for me at least) are:

a.) glitched times and scores are deleted if they are obviously impossible (lap times of 14.xx on venom class, or race times of under a minute).

b.) the wonderful Matrix feature lets you know in a plain, unmistakable way which tracks I need to improve my time on. Just generate a matrix (for either score or rank) and check where you're ranked low or score few points on, and go for that track. It helped me improve a lot in a short amount of time.

c.) You can't use various sorts in the in-game records tables and only a limited amount of filters are available. It takes much longer to get the info for questions like "what rank am I on this and this track among only Goteki 45 pilots?" in-game.

I'm sure SL would also be perfectly capable of removing these glitched times if they decided to host a site like this.

And they'd be able to add all these wonderful filters etc.

My main concern with this site is the reliance on user input. It really makes no sense to me that the official, accurate times are viewable in the game, but we have to make do with an unofficial, (probably) inaccurate, and incomplete set of times outside of the game.

That's the thing that makes this place so great. Everyone here is honest and understands the importance of being honest (Except maybe one person, but that's old history and has been solved since, and wasn't related to Connavar's site.)

Well that's good to hear, but I'd still like to see something official, that doesn't require constant user updates. And considering that feature is essentially already in the game... surely it wouldn't take too much effort to put it on a site...

Has anyone from SL discussed this topic?

How much effort is too much? Too much by whose standards? And who's doing the work? ;)

Well what I mean is... they already have the system up and running within the game. To transfer that data to a site wouldn't take very long. (Certainly a lot faster than manually inputting each time like Connavar's site!)

Ok so it would take a bit of time to get it up to the design quality of SL's products, but once it was up and running, it would require very little maintenance as it updates itself.

Except you would have the asshat Uberlander and his friends including "KingOfAllZones" at the top of the Anulpha Pass Zone leaderboard instead of ProblemSolver, Kingheim and all the others.

Is that really what you want?

Haha. I'd not looked at those before. Well it's quite clear from the number of Perfect Zones that all of those guys have found some kind of cheat. It's something that SL should patch out, and as I say, these kind of obvious errors can (and should) be easily removed from a ranking system.