The MK8 Method

Recently Nintendo has come up with a way to (sort of) revitalize mario kart 8 deluxe. They decided to increase all speeds by 0.6%, this small change means a massive upheaval in records across the board. 

Do you think Torn City would benefit from something similar?

         I imagine when the leaderboard starts slowing down it WOULD be effective in increasing the amount of records, but would it be fair to all the people who set records before? 

What other things in Torn besides racing would benefit from an extremely minor buff?

But why?

well because it would increase the upper limit, and by doing so it would increase the chances for newer players. 

But I'm not trying to argue one side or the other I want a genuine discussion on this

Records were made to be broken. 

I think maintaining previous records in a type of legacy scoreboard can preserve the effort of veterans and the change can be given its own scoreboard.

If someone’s score would have made the old leaderboard after calculating the change, than can add to old leaderboard so there can still be the aspect of beating age old scores while also having a second scoreboard for pussies, I mean hard working Torn citizens, who can’t hope to beat old records. 

oh shit kinda like how flying has sped up by 4.369440681658745716857146576234376% after the latest CONTENT UPDATE 

EXACTLY LIKE THAT (not really lol)

This was done by Torn for driver skill gain, flying time, and even stat gains. Next up, hunting skill - giving devs another year of update content. 

These are some of the most intense content increases in Torn's history. 

Imagine if they gave work stats a 0.6% boost. Like whaaaat? There's no way they don't already have that on Ched's vision board. 

racing already had an extremely major buff and I will be able to reach 100 skill within a couple of years now just grinding the docks. you can do it super fast in a mechanic job. no more buffs needed for racing. please. as it is soon there will be a ton of people at 100 skill and the tournaments will be a total crap shoot. All the work that the racing legends put in in the past 20 years to put themselves ahead of the competition has already been erased basically. Dont take away their lap records too. ToxicMonkeyMXC worked so hard to get those records and I am sure the others up there did too. 

Torn's HoF records are a fair index of comparable effort (modified individually by efficiency).

The HoF would have to be reset entirely to maintain fair comparisons, as all prior measures would be non-comparable without going through the effort of normalising for whatever growth exponent Torn implemented. Just not worth it at all.

The racing buff we had only happened because Racing became a skill value utilised in other areas of Torn, and the climb to level 100 was nearly completely unachievable

I don't even know the point of the racing function I used to use it