Is there a formal way to request features/report bugs?

The feature I'd like to request is to have the program show your current time as you clear a gate. At present it shows you your final time when you complete the last lap of your trial but it would be good if it could show your time as you clear every gate, just for a second or two after you pass, then fade out.

I like the effect of hearing the 'ding' sound as you pass and I usually look up to see which second I was on when I hear the 'bing' but having the actual time displayed would be better. If another gate were passed while the previous gate's time was displayed it could either simply replace the previous gates time with the new one, or push the previous time down the screen until it's display time expires. Better yet would be to record the gate time of all the gates passed on the players "Best Race" and display the difference between the current time and that players best time, similar to how regular racing games do with quicker splits displaying the difference in green, slower in red (I'm thinking of Track Mania in particular here).

Better again would be to have the "Best race" quad available as a "shadow car" to pursue – though this will require significantly more data being logged. No need to include collision detection or anything taxing, just a visual aid to judge ones performance off. If this can be done then I think it would be beneficial to provide 'Gold', 'Silver' and 'Bronze' "Shadow Cars" for each map with the main program in order to give players an achievement to chase. Possibly a Bronze paced quad for a single lap race, Silver paced quad for 3 laps and Gold for a full 5 lap race. Personally I really appreciate having goals to aim for in games. While I know most sims go for a more open world/ free play nature if there were some such achievements in Freerider I for one would really appreciate it ;)

And finally, if this data is going to be logged to provide a "Shadow Car" than it would be cool to have a ability to export this data such that others could see (and race against) your hot laps, but that's a bit of an extension.

Anyway, there just my thoughts, but I hope that at least split times at the gates could be implemented as I for one would relay like to have feedback as to how I'm progressing.

All the best,
And I love your work.
Slarti.

Thanks for the suggestions, I will add it to my list and consider it. I think it's a good idea to have goals/achievements.

(In Freerider Recharged there is actually a simple flight recording feature that can sort of be used for ghost racing. I might expand that to a full-fledged ghost racing feature later on).