Heres a couple of ideas that I think would be cool to see for racing, ways to improve it and what not, get more people intirested in it.
#1 Maybe 1 or 2 educations that help your racing skill, like the drivers license could help ya understand a small bit maybe you get an extra 1% RS from it. Or some of the mathematics ones help you see better racing lines, which lets you push the car a little harder into the corners maybe this lets you have a small percentage of acceleration for all vehicles. Or a more wild version of this idea, a whole new section of educations all about learning specific cars and what their capable of some your able to push that specific car or class harder than the others, so you gain a larger of acceleration, top speed, etc. Some of those would probably be hard to code, but they'd be pretty cool.
# 2 Kind of like how the attachments work for guns, but it'd be nice if you could take parts off of your car and they go into a separate inventory type thing like gun attachments have, except they can only go back onto that same type of car, like parts taken off of an NSX can only be put onto another NSX, or maybe certain cars are put into groups and only cars within the same groups can share parts (not sure how this would work), but figured I'd throw it out there. Obviously some upgrades shouldn't be able to be shared such as the weight reduction, or the polishes... etc.
# 3 The ability to click or tap on peoples name from the people you race against, in official races and custom races, and it take you to their profile. I recruit employees from people I race against, and it gets time consuming having to search their name. Simple idea but an idea
# 4 Drugs having an affect during races, let's say you smoked some cannabis before the race starts maybe your a bit slower on the start but you drive alot safer, cause your going slower. Or maybe your still under the affect of Xanax so you get off the line faster but you have a higher chance to crash. Somthing like that, some drugs have diffrent affects some have no affects.
# 5 Now this one's more of just something funny that i think would be cool, and would have potential to bring alot of racers together. A faction branch dedicated to racing, some raise the % of RS gained, some lower the chance of crashing, I couldn't think of much for this, but it's not a super serious idea, if any of you can think of somthing to go with this let me know.
# 6 Letting people in class A pick their color scheme or maybe once they get to 10 RS they can pick their color scheme. I know a few of the dedicated racers I've talked to mentioned they'd like to see a diffrent color ever now and then.
# 7 The ability to bet on someone to win in official and custom races, but the bet only goes through if there's atleast 2 diffrent players that have been betted on, so if everyone bets on the same person they just get their money back st the end of the race.
# 8 For official races when the maimum of 6 people join, the wait time should set its self to 10 - 30 minutes, that way we spend more time racing than waiting. For custom races the one who set up the race could be able to just start the race as they see fit regardless of the wait timer
# 9 This one will probally be less liked by most, but I think crashing cars should be more significant no matter what car or how rare it is it has a chance to total meaning if you have a 15 mil dollar car lets say it takes 8 mil to repair it but you lose ALL upgrades, and their unlisted and returned to your inventory, and marked as totalled, which could lead into more aspects that could be cool, like mechanic shops are the only place to repair totaled cars, or they can be placed in the junk yard which would give a reason to where the cars in the junkyard come from for the mechanic shop perk, and the discount parts perks counts toward fixing totalled cars, but the refurbish perk doesn't protect against losing your parts when you total a car.
# 10 The safety upgrades make it less likely for you to crash/total your car (as i mentioned in #9), this would give people incentive to want to spend points on the safety upgrades.
This is all I could think of at the moment, i know there's some balancing issues, so these will deffinately have to be thought over more, I've got a couple of ideas for other topics, but this is all I can think of for racing. Let me know what a think!
#1 Maybe 1 or 2 educations that help your racing skill, like the drivers license could help ya understand a small bit maybe you get an extra 1% RS from it. Or some of the mathematics ones help you see better racing lines, which lets you push the car a little harder into the corners maybe this lets you have a small percentage of acceleration for all vehicles. Or a more wild version of this idea, a whole new section of educations all about learning specific cars and what their capable of some your able to push that specific car or class harder than the others, so you gain a larger of acceleration, top speed, etc. Some of those would probably be hard to code, but they'd be pretty cool.
# 2 Kind of like how the attachments work for guns, but it'd be nice if you could take parts off of your car and they go into a separate inventory type thing like gun attachments have, except they can only go back onto that same type of car, like parts taken off of an NSX can only be put onto another NSX, or maybe certain cars are put into groups and only cars within the same groups can share parts (not sure how this would work), but figured I'd throw it out there. Obviously some upgrades shouldn't be able to be shared such as the weight reduction, or the polishes... etc.
# 3 The ability to click or tap on peoples name from the people you race against, in official races and custom races, and it take you to their profile. I recruit employees from people I race against, and it gets time consuming having to search their name. Simple idea but an idea
# 4 Drugs having an affect during races, let's say you smoked some cannabis before the race starts maybe your a bit slower on the start but you drive alot safer, cause your going slower. Or maybe your still under the affect of Xanax so you get off the line faster but you have a higher chance to crash. Somthing like that, some drugs have diffrent affects some have no affects.
# 5 Now this one's more of just something funny that i think would be cool, and would have potential to bring alot of racers together. A faction branch dedicated to racing, some raise the % of RS gained, some lower the chance of crashing, I couldn't think of much for this, but it's not a super serious idea, if any of you can think of somthing to go with this let me know.
# 6 Letting people in class A pick their color scheme or maybe once they get to 10 RS they can pick their color scheme. I know a few of the dedicated racers I've talked to mentioned they'd like to see a diffrent color ever now and then.
# 7 The ability to bet on someone to win in official and custom races, but the bet only goes through if there's atleast 2 diffrent players that have been betted on, so if everyone bets on the same person they just get their money back st the end of the race.
# 8 For official races when the maimum of 6 people join, the wait time should set its self to 10 - 30 minutes, that way we spend more time racing than waiting. For custom races the one who set up the race could be able to just start the race as they see fit regardless of the wait timer
# 9 This one will probally be less liked by most, but I think crashing cars should be more significant no matter what car or how rare it is it has a chance to total meaning if you have a 15 mil dollar car lets say it takes 8 mil to repair it but you lose ALL upgrades, and their unlisted and returned to your inventory, and marked as totalled, which could lead into more aspects that could be cool, like mechanic shops are the only place to repair totaled cars, or they can be placed in the junk yard which would give a reason to where the cars in the junkyard come from for the mechanic shop perk, and the discount parts perks counts toward fixing totalled cars, but the refurbish perk doesn't protect against losing your parts when you total a car.
# 10 The safety upgrades make it less likely for you to crash/total your car (as i mentioned in #9), this would give people incentive to want to spend points on the safety upgrades.
This is all I could think of at the moment, i know there's some balancing issues, so these will deffinately have to be thought over more, I've got a couple of ideas for other topics, but this is all I can think of for racing. Let me know what a think!