Street Racing Revival

After the server wipe, racing has been going through a lot of unnecessary drama and other things both OOC and IC which as ultimately led to the racing scene dying with only 1 or 2 sponsored races happening per day and no other races being hosted whatsoever outside of the sponsored races. I for one have attempted to host many races that have been open / buy in races and have had no one joining the races both before wipe and now after the wipe. I believe that the racing app and the racing scene as a whole needs a revamp to making racing more enjoyable and bring in more people into a scene that is extremely small for a server as big as echo is.

• Sponsors and Sponsored Races

  • This whole sponsored race system with the sponsors and everything seems really cool if you look at it at face value, but there are a LOT of flaws to it. These races are there for people to gain SVC for completely free and is the only type of races you will ever get 6+ people to come out to. I feel like the sponsored race and sponsored system should get looked at and/or removed and replaced with regular races giving svc if they are open races and have more than 6 people in the race. I believe there should be a password system for private races and all private races should have 0 SVC gain to avoid people "farming SVC". Personally, I think buy in races for those open races should be the normal thing to happen, replicating the "VIP Race" system that has been put in place when Mountain Dragon hosts.

• Lap Record Leaderboard

  • Racing is a competition. Having a lap record leaderboard implemented into the racing app would be really cool to see to see who holds the fastest time on each race track.

• Buy Ins

  • Implementing a buy in tab into the race hosting menu would also be beneficial for the suggestion of every race being how the VIP Races work now, with a buy in put down in the menu it allows for SVC gain if there is that said buy in and enough people in the race. Not necessarily the most important thing, but is a nice things to have.

• Phasing

  • 60 second phasing is really good for races under 20 people. However once that number goes over 20 people like it was seeming to do in the sponsored races before wipe, 60 seconds does not seem to do a whole lot. I believe having an option to do 90 seconds of phasing would be the best balance of phasing at the start of races and getting spread out for the rest of it. 60-90 seconds should be more than enough.

The rest of the ideas that I have had are not that important to me to put into this thread as this thread has mainly been made to put the spotlight on the issues that I have noticed and the things that I think can help fix them. A lot of things can come from racing once it is big enough such as crew battles and racing tournaments but as of now, I feel as if we need to grow the scene back up again in order to get to these points.