Dog races?
Note: This is not based off any real-life racing events. Thus, it should not imply any assumptions based on real-life racing events.Since speed and drive are nearly useless at the moment, why not make a trial like competition just for them? :3
Dog races would be races in wich dogs compete. The speed stat of your dog effects its maximum speed, and its drive effects how long your dog can maintain its maximum speed. If a dogs drive is way to low, it may not even finish the race.
When a user holds a dog race, he or she can decide the number of entrants, the number of winning places, and the length of the race track. The length of the race track effects the outcome of the race.
dogs with high speed but low drive are more likely to win short races, while dogs with high drive and low speed are more likely to win longer races.
Maybe, if the programmer(s) wanted to do a little extra, users with a perk could arrange race series, where winning dogs from a set of races can move on to the next race in the sequence to race against each other, with the prizes being higher. These race series could contain up to 5 tiers of races, with a maximum number of 10 entry level races, or so.
Edit: Perhaps implement a feature where non-competing users can bet on the outcome of races? :D the payout rate could be decided by the dog's previous win/loss ratio, compared to the ratios of the competing dogs.
Support/ideas?
Jackdaw gave me some very good ideas. Perhps users creating races could also choose the difficulty of the terrain in a race, which would effect how much TP effects the outcome of the race. Also, perhaps the races pay in points, not alacrity cash, and there could be a shop to spend them at, with items that you can't obtain elsewhere on the site.
If a point shop is implemented, I would like to see full range of prices on items, from things that can be baught after one race, to legendarily hard to obtain items, so prohibitively expensive, that it might take an entire team of dogs their entire life times of active racing, to save up for some items.
Another idea: Team races, where teams of dogs compete, rather than individuals. The player or players creating a team would have to consider the stats of all the dogs in their team. if more than one user's dogs are in a team, the entry fee and prizes are divided up between the users, based on whose dogs are contributing how much to the team.
Edit again: If you REALLY want to see this implemented, advertise for this forum post, to draw in more supporters. ;3