[Reebar]

I know what you mean about the live chat. But i cant think of any other ways of encouraging players to interact more with each other. The best part of the game for me when i use to play was chatting/playing with other players from around the world, loved the 15 man crew and having 8-10 players racing at once like a team of crew model hunting mad men. The crew chat use to be while funny to read at times, really good craic. We done most of our chatting through the crew chat at the time but you don't have that anymore either, it makes sense not to have it now because crews are so small and not enough players atm.

I can only imagine the live chat is an absolute pain to monitor and control because of the reasons you said but at the same time i think it will spark a bit of atmosphere into the game, i would definitely use it. You can only warn players not to abuse and if they do ban them from the live chat ONLY.

The ideas of bot racers is brilliant, i think you should get on that straight away. However

"I'm also thinking about getting rid of the PVP part too and only having a tournament style, round robin or random match-up for the PVP side of it"

I'm not sure what you mean by PVP, i assume you mean player v player haha. Anyways i am not sure how i feel about a tournament style game and im not sure what you mean when you say "round robin or random match-up for the PVP side of it" id need you to explain more before i can give an opinion. Also im not sure about taking import models and cruising away, that would be a massive change. Too much change is never good. People are afraid of change haha

I think you should for now roll with setting up bot racers for us, and allow us to get out of our cars. Maybe reconsider live chat. Just be firm and fair, they abuse they lose. Simples. Don't punish us all Haha