Friends System (Display Names, Garage Viewing, Friend Races, Betting)

[fierce prism]

Shout out to @solid ingot , @upbeat spindle , and @languid iris
I want to put forward a friends system where we could set display names for our profiles and still have the underlying TopDrives#####, though it would be kind of annoying to keep those users. When you add friends, you could be able to view your friend's garage and even be able to leave comments about tune suggestions or what to keep or get rid of. You could also be able to create PvP races with your friends where the match creator can choose the requirements that include mostly everything in the filters menu in the garage, and also choose the tracks out of a list of tracks, and also place an amount of money to bet on the race, your friend cannot see how much you are betting. Then, your friend can view the challenge and accept or reject the challenge, with the challenge screen showing the trackset and the hand you made for the challenge. After the friend accepts the challenge, they create their hand and place a bet, and then they watch the match. Once the match finishes, the winner receives the cash from the bets, and the challenge is saved to a file that can be accessed in the settings which can let you rewatch the match, which would be good if you aren't online for the match. When you do get back online and the challenge has ended, a little screen can pop up on the home screen saying "You won the friends race" and it says to collect your rewards. Also, there could be a reward track similar to the Daily Rewards track that could give you rewards based on how many races you win against friends. And if Hutch is feeling like people might grind it too fast, they could put a limit on how much rewards you can claim in a day, and the rewards that you have enough wins for but can't claim bc of the daily limit (if that gets implemented), you can claim those rewards the next day. The rest of the ideas that I have I will post in the comments, so I highly suggest pinning this post.

[ivory loom]

I think that link to google account let you change the username and i'm sure that link to facebook let you change the username.
Friends comments need a lot of space in server or wherever is stored, just tune advice is much smaller memory demanding, but at the end not even necessary, as everything spins around top drives socials. Keep and especially get rid are definitely unwanted advice on my side.
I'd just begin with friends and garage overview. I'd restrain to add labor to devs as there are other flaws that should be addressed first. Like clubs.

[fierce prism]

The interesting part is that Facebook has a friends list, and some of your friends on facebook might also play top drives, so why isn't that even a feature. And how is clubs broken?

[coarse shore]

👆

[normal sail]

I’m gonna bet on 40778

[ivory loom]

Gladly club is not broken. Still stuff can be fixed. Like +0 participation when tie. Considering how fast they have fixed same issue in events after minimum ticket. Other stuffs can be improved, old clunky system can be reviewed. Plenty of ideas here, debatable relevant from dev point of view though.
Or why event reward board won't refresh if i gain more star than remaining cards.
That cross my mind now, but there might be more.
I think one message through facebook is fine, one message through game requires work and memory allocated 🤔
I'm not disregarding your idea, i'd just one step at the time.

[turbid frost]

the betting system would be broken as people would use dummy or secondary accounts just to farm their main ones. Aside from this, the rest of suggestions sound super interesting and is something I've been dreaming of for a while

[coarse shore]

I thought about this, and I think the best way to prevent this is to use IP addresses to shut down alt accounts that are being used to farm mains. And then anyone who abuses it or gets around the IP tracking can get their account removed