Using the dedicated server tool, I've noticed something called 'matchmaker' and also a 'ranking' option. Does anyone know when these features will be introduced and what form they will take? It all sounds very exciting and perhaps might be able to offer some competition to Iracing which I believe the sim community desperately needs.
iRacing works so well because it is a solid service with lots of thought behind it (and a business model behind it to compensate the expenses). Reiza could easily replicate the core parts of iRacing (simracingsystem.com already does that in a very basic form) and implementing this in the game would IMO blow iRacing out of the water. Have a ranking system, some sort of basic safety rating (just 0x, 2x, 4x for car to car contacts), official seasons (hosted on official servers - 4 classes for the start, weekly track rotation) and with all the great content + offline racing it would be the absolute perfect package.
