Incentives for racing against other players

[Torvald]

It's been a long time now since chocobo racing has come out, and Lord of Vermillion and Triple Triad have cross server functionality now and it would sure be nice if chocobo racing would too, but before that.

Isn't it about time we got some incentives to make chocobo racing a more social activity? I have raced against 2 other people in the last two weeks while getting my challenge log done, and having them in the race really made it a lot more fun. Unfortunately one of us would always be getting lower mgp in the race, as opposed to when we are racing alone when we get a lot higher percentage of wins for mgp and also for the challenge log. So I often get competitors who quickly leave after one race, or wait before registering for the next race so that they don't end up in the same race with me again.

This design that rewards players for playing separately needs some attention.

At lower ranks, you do get an exp bonus for being in the same race as another player, but it does nothing for chocobos at max rank, which is where a lot of us are now. So please to SE, give us some sort of incentive for racing our chocobos together, so we don't feel compelled to race apart.