Racing Matchmaking

I know most things in this game are a grind and that's the unique beauty of Torn, but I think some things are unnecessarily long, boring and could do with a few tweaks. Flying for one but there's already quite a few threads about that, but I haven't seen one about racing so here's my thoughts.

Racing points can be extremely tough and long to grind if mistakes are made. Yes there are guides to help but, in my opinion, they're not perfect. A lot of people will make mistakes along the way and get stuck at some point to get more racing points.

1) Racing point reset.
- If you're able to reset merits for points in the points building, why not give the same option for Racing Points?

2) Racing matchmaking
- So when you join an official race, you can select which maps you want to race on and select one of your cars per map. Once selected, you'll then be placed in a queue until Torn can find enough drivers matching your criteria. It will try to find racers with similar racing skill/points first then expand if not enough racers are found.

For example, I could choose the following:
Mudpit - Cosworth
Speedway - Lexus
Meltdown - Honda NSX

Torn would then look for racers with similar matchmaking preferences and skill/points level and then place me in a race.

This would probably be difficult to implement but I just think the current racing format could do with some improvements.

Thank you for your time and please leave feedback if you have other ideas too :)

1. I'm not against the idea of resetting racing points, but it's only use is for those people that f**ked up and don't have enough points saved once they get to class A. Like, there would be no reason for me, or any established racer to ever reset points. So, you're talking about adding something that will be useful the first few months of racing, then will never be useful again. When you consider many people spend years to a decade or more playing this game, then having something only useful for the first few months seems like sort of a waste.

I screwed my points up too. Spent a month or two working in a mechanics shop, and now years later, that time period was an extremely small part of the overall experience.

2. So basically, you just want to combine custom and official races. I can't really say I'm on board with this one.

1) I see where you're coming from and have to agree.

2) I guess this would also be targeted more at fresh Class A racers. For example, myself. All I have is a fully upgraded Cosworth and a semi-upgraded Lexus (Yes I know I made a mistake, I probably should not have fully upgraded my Cosworth and I should have prioritised Honda NSX over Lexus).

Now I'm just spending and wasting my days, joining official races, seeing I don't have a suitable car for the map and up against people with ridiculous racing skill and fully upgrades cars... My RS is 8 and there was someone with RS 80!!

I'm currently in a Mechanics shop to get back on track with racing progression but I just see it as a bit unnecessary that you can be railroaded to work in a Mechanics shop in order to get back on track

Nah, in my opinion a cosworth is a good starting car. It does decent on every dirt track and is the best for mudpit. That was my first fully upgraded car too. I would withdraw from any track that wasn't a dirt track and just take the 15 minute hit, then sign up for the next race.

I think you're actually pointing to a larger problem. Perhaps the solution is not a points reset (which is admittedly of limited use), but the fact that people can get "stuck" with no good ways out the problem we need to fix.