14-01-2026, 10:17 PM
In general, I'm open to the concept of allowing a player to have two ranked accounts, but right now there is no good way to police that. It just works on the honor system when it comes to respecting any claimed restriction, and it will also distort rankings somewhat.
Two things that could help I think:
- Saving the results (and best, recordings) of ranked races to make it much easier to check for any kind of rating manipulation.
- Give a way for the player to declare the secondary account, and handle it so that it doesn't take places away from others. It's not fun if 20 accounts in the top 100 are alt-accounts from players ranked higher up.
However, there is still be a concern that, since this is not a player's main account, they may be more casual about just doing random things that make their results much more unpredictable... If a player is consistently doing the same kind of things on a given account (like using touchscreen controls or a no-drifting challenge) it doesn't matter, but if the player switches between playing at his top level and those things, it messes up the ratings of other players too.
Two things that could help I think:
- Saving the results (and best, recordings) of ranked races to make it much easier to check for any kind of rating manipulation.
- Give a way for the player to declare the secondary account, and handle it so that it doesn't take places away from others. It's not fun if 20 accounts in the top 100 are alt-accounts from players ranked higher up.
However, there is still be a concern that, since this is not a player's main account, they may be more casual about just doing random things that make their results much more unpredictable... If a player is consistently doing the same kind of things on a given account (like using touchscreen controls or a no-drifting challenge) it doesn't matter, but if the player switches between playing at his top level and those things, it messes up the ratings of other players too.