So, a lot of complaining posts about this and that... whaa whaa. Lets try a different approach and offer up some ideas.

1) "Level Sync" or "Rating Sync". So, when your Chocobo gets higher and higher rating, you very quickly outpace your friends... having to Race in Open is kinda whack, cuz you never know what your gonna get and lower rated birds gonna lose bad usually. So, try a Rating Sync system. It compresses your stats and stuff a bit and restricts your rating to the limits of the Bracket you want to race in.

2) MGP feels a bit unbalanced for winning and cost of food and other items... It feels like you gotta race FOREVER to be able to afford food or any other prizes. ESPECIALLY the Training manuals. Holy crap those are beyond expensive. Common. Balance the costs a bit better compared to the means of winning.

3) Serious item balancing. Ok, Briarthorns is SUPER harsh. O_O That should be balanced. I think Choco Meteor is ok to be super ROUGH, however, I speculate that the system of "whoever is in first is way ahead, spawn meteors" isn't the best way to do that. Should be low chance of getting it any box, regardless of how far ahead 1st is. I've seen a few races were 1st runs ahead, and then there's like 4 meteors on everyones head. O_O Terrifying. Choco Aether... should do more than JUST restore an ability. maybe give it a tiny bit of Stamina boost. Some people like double-passives... or others active ability is garbage... so this makes the entire item entirely useless. I think Sprint, Stamina Tablet, Hero Tonic are fine. As for Bacchus Water and the Slow down one... I think we can do a bit better. The Slow down one is ok, but falls off to quick and feels like it does nothing. As for Bacchus water, i think it's duration should be a little bit short, and instead of "in front", it should be everyone around you. Would be more fun and at least if you're in first, you can potentially mess with someone behind you.

4) So unless I don't know all the details about Cunning, it sure feels like a pretty useless ability to most people. So maybe we can work this up a bit more... make it do more than just "my bird doesn't ride like a retard anymore". An idea, would be that Cunning gives you a small chance at resisting Negative effects and/or bonus of extending/increasing a positive effect. I dunno. it just feels like a useless ability...

5) CROSS SERVER QUEUES! Common! You did it for Duty Finder. <_< Racing with people is way more exciting and fun than just boring ass NPCs.

6) Tournaments? Maybe Cross server, based on win/lose ratio etc. Still an idea to make Choco racing more fun!

7) Allow the ability to feed chocobo coloring food. The fact that color can ONLY be attained by breeding, and that is strictly RNG... is quite annoying. <_<

8) Chocobo and player "racing" outfits. Make some cool official racing outfit type items for both players and chocobo bardings. Can cost some MGP or whatever, something to work towards and pseudo shows you "status" as a l33t racer! lol

Aside from the very obvious "more tracks, and more items" comments I think thats about it. Hope maybe some of these can come true in the future! ^_^