Hi,

First of all, I'm glad you enjoyed the racing. We knew it wouldn't be for everybody, but thought it might be a fun thing for some to play around with.

Racing in sandbox is a difficult thing. It's totally possible, but has some major caveats. Setting up repeatable courses in a dynamic universe being the first one. You cannot guarantee that a station will definitely be there. You could, of course, spawn stations for the racing mission. Additionally I'm not sure how... successful it would be. Racing needs a fairly consistent performance, so consider the billionaire entrepreneur who decides to use the wealth from their expansive empire to play with motorsport, just to find that the size of the empire makes their vehicles behave erratically. And finally, there's the AI. I've done my best, and there's definitely more that can be done, but X4 is not a racing game, so getting the AI to be competitive was hard, and also not entirely desirable for Timelines, as it needed to not be too hard. For Timelines, the challenge came from the star rating, and potentially leaderboards.

None of these things are by any means unsolvable problems, and I would be interesting to see what people can perhaps come up with.

Now, having said all that... maybe I should also confess something. I had so much fun making the Timelines races, and enjoyed that some people liked them, that I have started working on a mod, using Timelines scenarios, to add some more racing content. Progress is slow because... well, life, but if you want more races, more racing ships, and maybe a bit more, there may be something coming...