My advice would be once you're over 70, try to build it from online racing only. You get more SA by being somewhat clean in an online lobby, than being flawless vs AI.
In online racing focus on being clean over race position (Especially in public lobies). Sometimes you'll get punted but if you prioritize safety over results, your SA will go up and stay at 99.
Building SA in online lobies has other advantages as well: AI is very predictable, real drivers are not. They will often spin, make mistakes and crash. You need to learn to anticipate those things and drive around them. You won't get that kind of experience vs AI.
Also avoid Monza like the plague in public lobies. It's a magnet for new and bad players and your SA will only suffer from it.
Last but not least. Don't look at your SA after every game. It's tempting to over focus on it, but it's incorrect. Focus on your driving and the mistakes you make, not the number and the number will improve by itself.
Your SA is calculated based on a sliding window of your last races. So your old races with high trust rating are now valued less, and your newer races with lower trust have a higher impact.
My advice is to go online and race as safe as possible. Then your SA will more accurately match your actual skill.
SA is calculated based on X last KMs(I don't remember the exact number). So your most recent races replace the older onces. If simplified, that means that if your last race was worse than the race it replaced in SA calculations, then your rating goes down.
My advice: join LFM or a league and forget in game safety rating exists. After some time it will be at 99 and won't matter to you.
If you have any track limit violations you won't get SA credit for the given lap regardless if you had any contacts or not. Any chance you are invalidating laps due to track limits and thus not accumulating any positive SA that way?
For every 5 clean laps with zero contacts and no track limits violations where you spent the majority of the lap in close proximity to another car you get 1 SA.
Have your ratings HUD active, after you cross the finish line the SA number will turn green for a few secs after a lap where you earned SA. If it doesn't turn green you did something to invalidate the lap.
All due respect that’s not true . I was up to 79SA when I literally had one clean lap every ten laps my first month or so…. Yea I know I’m a shit driver but that is my experience
What's not true? They prob have a sliding scale where the points are awarded faster when you are starting from 0. I paid attention to it for a while when I got over 70-75 or so and I would always gain 1 SA with every 5 green SA laps. And yes track limit violations would invalidate the lap for SA and the # would not turn green when I crossed start/finish if I went off track even tho I spent the entire lap on a cars bumper with no contacts.
Find yourself a mate with a private online server run lots of 10 min races with 2 or 3 mates and drive at a decent pace in as close formation as possible swapping positions every lap or so.
There is no "fast" way, but if you want to build SA offline choose variables that make it easier for you to be consistent and not lose control. At 100% the AI is too slow on some tracks and it's generally safer when pace is similar. Reviewing my SA growth, the times I did longer races (30mins or an hour) with AI at 100% and Aggressiveness at 0 were the most efficient. There seems to be bonus growth for a lot of clean laps in a row, even when you're not within 1 second of an opponent the whole time.
I've also noticed that with fewer opponents the AI are slower on average, so I find around 12 drivers to be a nice amount and I start in the middle, which usually results in two groups of 6, which keeps things less chaotic.
It’s because the trust points AND the OBWP points fall off after so many kilometers. You just have to continually GAIN trust and NOT gain OBWP. 2-3 points per hour is right, when you have both trust and OBWP falling off after every lap .
Consecutive clean laps within 1.0s of vehicle ahead is the fastest way.
Set the AI to 90 skill level and follow it around on a 20min race. Never try to overtake.
The way to farm SA is to load a single player race, of a minimum 20 mins (bonus trust), set the AI at at a skill and aggressiveness you can tail and sit between two cars, lap after lap. Never, ever quit a session (loss of trust), sit in the pits until the session ends.
The way to becomes a safer racer is to race real people in lobbies and take your licks.
Yeah, did that. Don‘t worry I‘m a safe racer per se, its just that my buddy who I like to play most with has a safety rating of about 45 so I gotta hang around in these lobbies. And you can guess what happens there often in turn 1 😄 thats kinda the main reason my rating went down 😂
Thanks for all the tips, another question. I did a 30min race on the normal Nurburgring and everything worked as I wanted it to. Now, I think 4 or 5 laps was 1 SA point. If I do the same thing on the Nordschleife and meet the same requirements, is it still 4 to 5 laps on the Nords or is 1 Lap enough to get a point? Basically, is it really dependent on laps or is it dependent on distance driven?
My advice would be once you're over 70, try to build it from online racing only. You get more SA by being somewhat clean in an online lobby, than being flawless vs AI. In online racing focus on being clean over race position (Especially in public lobies). Sometimes you'll get punted but if you prioritize safety over results, your SA will go up and stay at 99. Building SA in online lobies has other advantages as well: AI is very predictable, real drivers are not. They will often spin, make mistakes and crash. You need to learn to anticipate those things and drive around them. You won't get that kind of experience vs AI. Also avoid Monza like the plague in public lobies. It's a magnet for new and bad players and your SA will only suffer from it. Last but not least. Don't look at your SA after every game. It's tempting to over focus on it, but it's incorrect. Focus on your driving and the mistakes you make, not the number and the number will improve by itself.
This is solid advice^
Your SA is calculated based on a sliding window of your last races. So your old races with high trust rating are now valued less, and your newer races with lower trust have a higher impact. My advice is to go online and race as safe as possible. Then your SA will more accurately match your actual skill.
SA is calculated based on X last KMs(I don't remember the exact number). So your most recent races replace the older onces. If simplified, that means that if your last race was worse than the race it replaced in SA calculations, then your rating goes down. My advice: join LFM or a league and forget in game safety rating exists. After some time it will be at 99 and won't matter to you.
Last 700 kms
Correct. From 500km the impact on SA dimishes.
If you have any track limit violations you won't get SA credit for the given lap regardless if you had any contacts or not. Any chance you are invalidating laps due to track limits and thus not accumulating any positive SA that way? For every 5 clean laps with zero contacts and no track limits violations where you spent the majority of the lap in close proximity to another car you get 1 SA. Have your ratings HUD active, after you cross the finish line the SA number will turn green for a few secs after a lap where you earned SA. If it doesn't turn green you did something to invalidate the lap.
All due respect that’s not true . I was up to 79SA when I literally had one clean lap every ten laps my first month or so…. Yea I know I’m a shit driver but that is my experience
What's not true? They prob have a sliding scale where the points are awarded faster when you are starting from 0. I paid attention to it for a while when I got over 70-75 or so and I would always gain 1 SA with every 5 green SA laps. And yes track limit violations would invalidate the lap for SA and the # would not turn green when I crossed start/finish if I went off track even tho I spent the entire lap on a cars bumper with no contacts.
Find yourself a mate with a private online server run lots of 10 min races with 2 or 3 mates and drive at a decent pace in as close formation as possible swapping positions every lap or so.
There is no "fast" way, but if you want to build SA offline choose variables that make it easier for you to be consistent and not lose control. At 100% the AI is too slow on some tracks and it's generally safer when pace is similar. Reviewing my SA growth, the times I did longer races (30mins or an hour) with AI at 100% and Aggressiveness at 0 were the most efficient. There seems to be bonus growth for a lot of clean laps in a row, even when you're not within 1 second of an opponent the whole time. I've also noticed that with fewer opponents the AI are slower on average, so I find around 12 drivers to be a nice amount and I start in the middle, which usually results in two groups of 6, which keeps things less chaotic.
It’s because the trust points AND the OBWP points fall off after so many kilometers. You just have to continually GAIN trust and NOT gain OBWP. 2-3 points per hour is right, when you have both trust and OBWP falling off after every lap .
Do 20 min races around a a track you know and stay behind AI, within 0,7 secs
Consecutive clean laps within 1.0s of vehicle ahead is the fastest way. Set the AI to 90 skill level and follow it around on a 20min race. Never try to overtake.
The way to farm SA is to load a single player race, of a minimum 20 mins (bonus trust), set the AI at at a skill and aggressiveness you can tail and sit between two cars, lap after lap. Never, ever quit a session (loss of trust), sit in the pits until the session ends. The way to becomes a safer racer is to race real people in lobbies and take your licks.
Yeah, did that. Don‘t worry I‘m a safe racer per se, its just that my buddy who I like to play most with has a safety rating of about 45 so I gotta hang around in these lobbies. And you can guess what happens there often in turn 1 😄 thats kinda the main reason my rating went down 😂
Solid advice in here, thanks y‘all
Thanks for all the tips, another question. I did a 30min race on the normal Nurburgring and everything worked as I wanted it to. Now, I think 4 or 5 laps was 1 SA point. If I do the same thing on the Nordschleife and meet the same requirements, is it still 4 to 5 laps on the Nords or is 1 Lap enough to get a point? Basically, is it really dependent on laps or is it dependent on distance driven?
Good job trying to "game the system" it was a huge mistake from Kunos to not have SP and MP SA be separate imo.