Giving up on Chocobo Racing

[Elemenz]

I'm giving up too.
Pushed my first bird to 40 last week just to see how the breeding works.
Made a 5-2-2-3-2 which is slightly better than his dad 2-2-2-2-2, with whom I had like a 20% win rate.
This new bird is stuck at rank 30 now, I spammed all the gil feed possible into endurance/speed and CAN. NOT. WIN.

Not just that I can't win on him, I come dead last 9/10 times, with everyone having 10-20% stamina left over when I'm already at 0%.
All against bots might I add. So I fed him everything I can, all the time capped training.
They never break or slow down, and I can't catch them, can't beat their stamina or endurance.
Absolutely ridiculous. It's almost a forced p2win, because apparently g1 feed is useless, and players are forced to buy the expensive g2-g3 MGP feed.

These insane bot stats aside, the actual racing has barely any skill requirement.
You are constantly, instantly lathered, all the time.
What is the point in breaking if it does nothing?

A better design would have been this:
Balance the stamina bar. No need to hold W down first of all, it's stupid.
Just tap W or S once. Shift gears up and down.
You go slow green-yellow-orange-red.
Respectfully increased speed and stamina drain.

You also generate stamina all the time.
So a good gameplay race would be like managing your "fuel bar"
by knowing when to slow down or go hard.

The current system sucks so much.
You're ALWAYS being lathered drained dead snailing instantly.
No room for any skillful decisions, no stamina bar management at all.
You just glue a brick on W and pray the bots have lower stats than you.

Redesign time.
Also, increase the turning angle, remove the random turning "like a leaf in the wind",
and make walls slow you down 5-10% on contact if you want to make racing GOOD.

[dreamfisher]

You just glue a brick on W and pray the bots have lower stats than you.

Please know that you shouldn't be accelerating through the entire race! It's an inefficient use of stamina.
"Lathered" means you have accelerated to a point where you are rapidly burning through your stamina.
This minigame is very much about stamina management, and if you accelerate the entire time, you will lose every race.

[Fyrebrand]

I spammed all the gil feed possible into endurance/speed

Why???? There are other stats for a reason. They are important too!