ok i was rank like 552 then i go on three days later i was 595. i decided i needed to get back up so i did the midnight club tournament for the first time. i got 52 faults and got a gold metal. i went back on the leaderboards and i was still 595!!!!!!
Nope, too many faults. Score would calculate as 0 (sorry!!)
There are some other threads that give the exact formulas to calculate your global score. Even a spreadsheet that you can download to do it for you. This is a summary.
Each track can contribute up to 200,000 points to your global score:
1. A "base score" is calculated from your time, compared to Silver/Gold/Platinum times (200,000 would be a zero time, this is obviously unachievable)
2. This "base score" is multiplied by a (very substantial) penalty for your Faults
Race tracks: (penalty is 0.1x)
0 faults: max 200,000 points (whatever your time calculation was)
1 fault: max of 20,000
2 faults: max of 2,000
3 faults: max of 200
4 faults: max of 20
5 faults: max of 2
6+ faults: 0 score, doesn't add to global score at all
Tournaments are a bit more forgiving, penalty is only 0.75x:
0 faults: 200,000 max
1 fault: 150,000 max
2 faults: 112,500 max
...
10 faults: 11,262 max
...
20 faults: 634 max
30 faults: 35 max
40 faults: 2 max
45+ faults: 0 score
Bottom line: work to reduce your faults first, then work on improving your times!
Very depressing that my (hard-earned) 11-fault Inferno II doesn't contribute to my global score at all!!!
If its any consolation, 52 faults is a lot better than my Midnight Club run!!
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I know what you mean, I managed infernoII in 2 faults today beating my previous 4, and got a quicker time, but still didn't move on the leaderboard.
I find tho, as you go up in the rankings, the scores become a lot more spread out than they are in the 10000+
Just work on one track at a time. If you get all platinums in race and gold or plat for everything else, you are guaranteed to be in the top 1000
oh ffs. all that time i spent on midnight club got me the grand total of 2 points - they really should have different scoring systems for each tourney because 42 faults and 14 mins is a damn good time for midnight club, even if i say so myself. its way better than say 1 fault on the proving grounds tourney, but you get loads of points for that, and none for a good run on the extreme tourney.
end of rant
The global score calculations are rounded up, so the minimum you can get is 1 point, not 0 points.
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check out the bottom of the leaderboards on Midnight Club. it's well funny.
i think bottom is around 1100 faults and 1hr and 40mins!!!
fair play for perserverance though
when i looked (only a short time after the DLC was released) there was someone with 1700 faults, and a time over 2 hours.
whoever that was, as the guy above me said, well done for persevering (sp?), because most people would have given up by then
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Nope. The way they do things is perfect. It's pretty much the only system in which calculation is always the same for each track or tournament, that no matter what your skill level, there is always a way to substantially increase your score. Right now, the Midnight Club is not what you should be focusing on. Focus on something with 1-5 faults and try to 0 fault it. That's what will increase your score. The Midnight Club is pretty much the only thing (outside of skill games) that can substantially separate the top 50 players in the world. Once you have 0 faults on everything else, The Midnight Club is the only thing left to prove yourself on. They don't let you get points on it yet because it just isn't in your skill range yet of you deserving points, according to the system that is in place. You did improve quite a lot, but the system still does not allow you to be rewarded because there is still so much more improvement that is needed for something that is this difficult.Originally Posted by Reaper392
Hopefully that helps you understand it a little better? I understand your frustration with the whole working super hard on something and then not getting rewarded for it, but you have to understand the the system has to be competitive for all players, regardless of skill level.
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I agree Mike, the midnight club should be what seperates the good from the great. This system does that pretty well.
YEA! i got a point!Originally Posted by Jorma
