All Vendetta players eventually come to the same conclusion that I have come to.
....
ready?
Vendetta is code for "Race like a Fiend"

Therefore I suggest that the Devs stop playing around with the "economy".
Stop making super uber ships like the prom.
Don't worry about flares being uber, everyone uses them anyway so its fair.
Stop trying to balance things all together.

Lets focus on the more important things....
Like oh say for instance..... erm idk.... RACING!
We DEFinately need some new race tracks.
Once I found out it only takes a few hours to make one I was floored at how little we have.

Suggestion #1
Nation Specific Race tracks

Suggestion #2
Nation Specific LOCATIONS for race tracks

Suggestion #3
Fix the timer bug
Fix the check point bug
Fix the transparent wall bug

Suggestion #4
Make new badge for top 10 position on ANY track.
This will allow practically ANYONE to get a racing badge with a little effort and lessons from the BOX!

Reward for being #1 spot and holding it is plus 5% thrust.
(yea yea that's rather bias but it'd still be a cool idea if I wasn't so freakin Uber myself)

Suggestion #5
Dual tracks OR double the size of the track enabling competition.
Along with this:
/Race duel "BoxCarRacer" countdown 10
/Race bet "BoxCarRacer" 50000
*Obviously you can't bet on yourself*
Only viable if 2 players are racing and any bystander can bet on a race IF they are in the sector.

Please suggest more commands.

Suggestion #6
More interesting tracks!!!
OBSTACLE COURSES!
I WANT SPIKES COMING OUT OF NOWHERE!
FLAMES!
L MINES! (as in you have to shoot the mine before you can continue)
More options in routes that are perfectly equal in length but still different.
20 degree turns.
Off shoots that require a certain ship to fit into the cookie cutter shape of the track.
Laser beams (much like spy movies) that move randomly and cut up your ship.
Speeds boosts
Little things that slow you down.
Loose Debri (that damages)
Small Gravity wells that pull your ship towards spikes!
Gravity wells that you can use to slingshot your ship and increase speed if done properly!
Oh man, oh man I'm so psyched.

Suggestion #7
Corporate sponsored races
Ex:
Orion versus Corvus
Each faction sponsors a racer.
Obviously for this to happen each faction would need a similar racing ship.
So its just a cool suggestion and probably won't happen.

[Valuable Links]
1.) http://www.vo-wiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Race_tracks&lemming_vikidb69_session=4dd72f5dabada74ed28296c6b8761bbc
2.) http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/racestats_raw

Anyone else/!?!?!??!

Let's just get rid of the tracks altogether, because I can't get higher than 125th even on the easy one... ;)

WIll Roberts,
http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/7/11700

yeah Venditty kong racing! what an unique idea

You're asking alot. But I agree with you if there was more content to racing I'd make the effort to try and get above #20 or so. But seeing as how the rest of the game needs content aswell I'm not sure if racing will get much of a priority over other things.

You know 20° is like...nothing

Sounds very cool. I hope the devs can get around to this sooner (tm) than later (tm).

Maybe when Ray finishes the UI overhaul he will have time to make race track building tools.

When Ray, et. al. finish the UI then I think they'll need a rest(tm) and a beer(tm).

But I'd love to see cool racetracks and stuff. And sponsorships, MORE sponsorships! :)

well, can we see l-mines in a track for testing...and a modded bot that lays prox mines? it will ooooooooooonlllllllly take a hour! ;)

YERRRRR!!!

t("t)

Hehe a bot that flies the tracks with conc mines would be hilarious, but if they do that, better make the walls of the track not damage you so much, it's be hilarious to be shot back all the way out the entrance by a conc mine.

Making the tracks wider and larger by alot would help. For actualy races rather than time trials.

Suggestion #8
Racing Missions

This goes along with corporate sponsored races and racers.
Basically you get a mission from Serco, Orion, Itani, etc.
There are various levels of missions:

Place in the top 5 positions for Orion
Choose your category.

Speed Demon
First place gets 5000 Combat Piloting XP
And free Rev C's from any Orion station (orion sponsored)
Badge of a Speed Demon.....

Expert
Second place gets 4000 Combat Piloting XP
And 15 free Serco Vulture Guardians (serco sponsored)
Badge of an expert!

Advanced
Third place gets 3000 Combat Piloting XP
10 free Corvus Vulturious's (corvus sponsored)
Badge of a ..... something advanced.

Novice
Fourth place gets 2000 Combat Piloting XP
5 free IBG's :P (Itani Sponsored)
Badge of a n00b.

Slow Poke
Fifth place gets 1000 Combat Piloting XP
1 free ec-88
And so on and so fourth.
Badge of a turtle.

Of course its impossible to get first place with anything besides and IBG so all those different factions would have to have different times to beat for every single unique ship that they sponsor. I could make up a list of mandatory times to beat if it was needed.

I'm not suggesting this so that I have free IBG's.
I just want more players to race.
There's just no incentive as of yet.

Also there should be a way to see who the racer was sponsored by in the racing times. Unless he is a freelancer.