I was wondering about if people thought it would be fun to have racing rings. Basically, you could drop them into space and it would track which users went through them in a set order. They would last 2 hours and disappear.

I was thinking this would be fun to track races made by players through the galaxy. They would get waypoints by going through the rings in order.

We could set them as only purchasable by PCC contributors or designated race coordinators by admins.

I was just thinking it would be fun to make impromptu race tracks through the sectors with a huge amount of asteroids or giant galactic races.

We used to have a race, I believe observers usually just camped WHs. We do have some race tracks though.

This already exists for the single-player demo thingy.

(1) Racing is heaps of fun
(2) It's even more fun when others are involved
(3) Custom-placed rings sound amazing (not regarding technical difficulties)
(4) Numbered lists are cool again
(5) Imagine two rings at opposite ends of a roid field and 4-20 pilots racing through there, maybe even spanning multiple sectors or a bit of a Deneb run with more of a piloting challenge...
(6) There is no rule 6
(7) +1 to OP
(8) No poofters

Probably need to show up on radar, with the next ring in the sequence showing up a different color from the others both on-screen and in the radar (possibly also change the color of rings you already used to a third color/shade).

And of course, do it right and make the colors customizable, even if only via the lua api, so that people can adjust things to fit their particular needs.

+1

/me is having an X-Wing training level flashback...

We wouldn't want space to get littered with them, but they could be a lot of fun, say single sector with a time limit. They could be precursors to player placeable nav beacons...