Racing Discussion

[jammi]

I need to see illegal racing culture with blinged out overdriven engines and LPI spitting donuts as a dude does a backflip before entering the trade-lane.

You want to live your life 0.402336 kilometers at a time?






In all seriousness, I think racing as a concept is always going to be significantly limited until there are some actual game mechanics tied to it. FLHook support for various features is probably the biggest accessibility issue and would ideally provide functionality such as:

- Being able to initiate a race at a particular track with your group, including a specified or default number of laps per track.
- Wager pots, allowing participants to put money into a winnings pool that is awarded to the winner.
- Countdown timer to announce the start (maybe locking cruise engines before that point?)
- Waypoint tracking per race ring (to avoid skips or misses).
- Timers that initiate on race start, and track times on a lap and race basis.
- Top 10 leaderboards for each course for fastest lap record.
- A local winner announcement based on the registered racers and lap specification.

To make the system truly satisfying, you'd likely still need additional mechanics that changes how racing actually feels and handles. That might mean finely tuned racing engines and thrusters, that play with mass, acceleration and possibly even damage over time.

There's also a separate discussion to be had about how to facilitate "cheating", as in the kind of guns-free ratfucking Hovis got up to in Dublin.

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