Space Racing

[Monk]

I can imagine that there would be a ton of collision related explosions in races due to the low hull and crappy shield. Light fighters cannot afford to run into ANYTHING otherwise they will find themselves at no shields and 1/4 hull. A compensation for this would be to give them a good supply of bots/bats.

Racing should be dangerous...skill should be paramount...no mucking around with safety nets like b/bs

eh, i'd prefer the obstacles to be kept on the track, and extremely difficult to avoid.

Back when I played Battlefield 1942, we ran a stunt server with several custom made maps designed for high risk fighter plane racing. Had to do things like fly through spiralling tunnels barely larger than your wingspan, dive through bridge cables, squeeze through factory smokestacks, and land on a strip barely longer than your plane.

I'm thinking that if we added race courses with tunnels, obstacles, minefield mazes, sun coronas, atmospheres, etc. then we'd have enough danger on the track so that only the best pilots get through.

The point is to create a race where speed isnt the most deciding factor, but high-accuracy flying skills are.

/signed

The racing should be difficult and the noobs should be blowed up when they run into too many obstacles...I want this to be a purely skill based adventure