Nitro is something that boosts your acceleration speed. Some real expensive cars have nitro in real life.
Also, I want to start my car manually just ecause I want to have more control while driving. Oh and just for fun, we should be able to stop the engines completely.

Nitro, or speed boost, will probably not be in cars; as you earn credits, you can buy that from the garage. But then again, I guess the name of the temporary speed up could be called nitro, and only work on higher ranking cars... man. Your suggestions make this game sound promising. And expect that the engine will stop completely when reparing a flat tire.

XD that would be funny. Imagine if I added that, and you still had to avoid obstacles? I could just imagine this going on:
--skit of a 7 player race, with a battle between 1 and 2
Player2: is behind player 1, getting ready to blow him up.
Player2: activates his voice function:"Get out of my way, you stupid scum, or I'll blow you up!"
Player1: is distracted and fails to spot the obstacle that will make him crash. he crashes
Player1:uses his voice function:"Hold off on blowing me up, just let me recover from this crash and start moving again."
Player2:is overly confident, and guns the gas and goes in front of player 1.
Player1:speeds up, positioning himself right behind player 2.
Player2:swerves to avoid an obstacle
Player1:turns with him, unnoticed.
Player2: slows down a bit, realising that he can't find player 1.
Player1:seeing his chance, blasts Player 2 into ablivian!
player2:is a fireball on the road.
Player1:is only 100 squares from the finish line so he speeds up, nitro in his tank, through the fire!
Nitro:exploads because of that fire and
player1: is put right back at position 0, where Players 3, 4, 5,, 6, and 7 are far, far ahead!

Hi Steve, no no, not like that. I meant that could happen with projectiles. Maybe some higher level cars can throw smart projectiles, which follow you where ever you go, but if you turn some where from normal projectiles they shouldn't hit you. Maybe some armor upgrades in that mode would be cool.

Hi, I never thought you'd take my ideas seriously. Thank you, I hope this game can come out.

@burak of course I'm gonna take your suggestions seriously. I'm a developer, of course.
As for that last suggestion, I've made it to where if you're not holding in the up arrow key, you're slowing down already, so unless you slow down and just keep tapping the arrow to try and maintain a constant speed I don't know how it would work.

@Steve, coding a game because you want to make something good and enjoy making it is the best reason, and likely will result in something well designed and worth playing for everyone.

What you say about the cops reminds me of an awsome old amiga game called road rash. You played a biker racing against other bikers, however this wasn't exactly the formula one.

Firstly you could punch and kick your opponents off their bikes. Kicking knocked them streight off, but slowed your speed down while it took three punches to knock someone off. If you were knocked off your bike, you had to go and pick it up again (and obviusly you walked far slower than your bike).

If the cops turned up, they'd hall you in if you were speeding and end the race so you had to be careful, you also got some cops who would try to smack you off your bike with their night sticks and if they got you off they'd haul you in.
You could also get hit by oncoming traffic and knocked off your bike as well.

One thing I particularly liked is that all the other bikers in the race and the cops had personalities, and you'd always see in your rear view mirror the name of who was approaching or who you were coming up to, and after the race everyone had quotes, my favourite was the one who said "I'm going to be cleaning my bike with your face!" 

Apart from all this it was a normal racing game, accept that having a motorbike you obviously had a lot more room on the road to play with. You could buy better parts for your bike with the money you got racing,a nd eventually better bikes as well.

All in all the game was a lot of fun, I enjoye the beatemup aspects rather more than the racing, indeed i never used to bother about winning races I'd just see how many other bikers I could brutalize .

Btw, I'm not suggesting you build a game like this, just sharing experiences sinse Burak's comment about the cops reminded me of Road rash, plus this was an example of a racing game I did! have fun with despite my usual preferences.

Yep danny, I know there were various roadrash games for other consoles as well that added some extra stuff like extra weapons and tracks to race on around the world, I just remember playing it  on the amigar originally.

Actually an audio  version wouldn't be that hard, considering that you had to be beside your opponent in  order to punch and kick them, and it'd be easy enough to indicate the presence of police, other rashers etc.

As with most racing games, the hard part would likely still be the bike handling.

@Steve, you could also do the thing just by switching properties and a bulian, sinse really in terms of handling or controls there wasn't much difference being off your bike as opposed to just being on it, it's just that (as you'd expect), your speed was a tiny, tiny fraction of what you'd get on the bike.

The bit that would be hard is that Roadrash didn't really work the way most racing games do in terms of the size of the road vs your bike, sinse the road had a lot more surface area to play with meaning that things like taking curves weren't so bad, the tough bit was being slapped around by the cops or other bikers, or being hit by oncoming traffic sinse yes of course for some reason the bike races always happened on roads where cars were going the opposite direction .

You also as I said had to balance using punches vs kicks on other bikers, and getting slapped around sinse you could be smacked into the side of the road or into the path of an oncoming vehicle.
The game was a lot of fun though. One thing I particularly remember is that you had a health meater. If you got knocked off your bike too many times and it hit zero an ambulance would pull up and the race would be over, ---- the funny part though is that you'd get a little sequence where the ambulance doors opened, the paramedics dashed out with a stretcher, and proceeded to lift your bike onto the stretcher and rive off with it leaving your body lying on the road .

BAttle racing in cars, or at least a couple of ways to trip up your opponent wouldn't be a bad thing though, look at Super Mario cart and how you could do things like chuck cooper shells or drop banana skins on the track to send the other drivers into a spin.

@Steve, the spinning out in Mario cart was more a way to stop your car. When you hit  an enemy like a thwomp, or got smacked with a cooper shell or banana skin you'd go into a spin, stop, and your speed would go to zero and you'd have to start accellerating again.
The other thing I always thought was cool was falling to your doom. Many tracks were above some sort of hazard. Ghost valley was above a big black abyss, cooper beach was on water, Bowser's castle was the track ran through lava etc.
Occasionally there would be jumps you'd need to make, little sections where you'd have to drive over the jump to bounce a pit, there would also be ocasional pits in the center of the track (especially in the ghost valley) that you had to avoid.
If you fell into the abyss/lava/deep water, you'd have lakitu, the man who flue around on a cloud and dropped spinies from the original Mario game turn up with a fishing rod to pull you to safety, but obviously it took time.
In particular I remember the last track in the game, Rainbow road, where the entire track was over an abyss with no sides at all, and where all the corners were absolute right angles so you had to stop dead before turning or go for an unexpected flight .

I also remember an amiga game called  super cars. That was similarly a battle racing game but your car could have two weapons attached, like missiles at the front, homing missiles or the ability to drop mines. Your car had armor and depending upon the percentage of the armor you had, the more speed you'd lose when you got hit with a weapon or crashed, to the point that if you had no armour left you'd crash and go up in a fireball.

What was particularly cool is that in between races there were little dialogue sequences where you'd get two other drivers asking you questions and if you hit the wrong answer you'd lose money.

So, battle racing sounds fun, and the more by way of weapons, hazards or other goodies you can add the better.

Hmm. I wonder if I'll have to end up putting jumping into the game after all? But if I do that, you should expect that I'll be putting in-air powerups and things you can drive on, though. lol. May as well.

  but as I said in This blog post, I still haven't yet coded opponents, and my goal is to get them fully functional with the items already present before I begin to advance further. This game is sure to take a long time, but I will release playable demos before the actual thing is complete. I'll be adding all of your suggestions to a directory of some sort so I always have access to them if or when this thread dies.
And thanks, Vlad for the offer. Since I'm not close to multiplayer just yet, I don't need that now, but thanks for offering your hosting. I checked out your site and it looks promising

Thanks.
As for testing, anyone can be a tester if they visit the game's page of my website, when I release alphas and such. But I will not be doing one of those beta team dropbox folders, as I don't know and trust enough people to feel secure that:
1. drama and fights won't break out in my folder.
2. Files will be deleted, shared, or otherwise negatively motified.
3. my source won't be stolen.
  I literally only know one person, who's name I will not say, who I know beyond the slightest shadow of a doubt I can trust with such a thing, and he's also the only one who's got to test the game on multiple occasions already.

Vlad I won't add you on skype because I literally know nothing about you save that you're vlad and from Romania, and I'm not 100% sure about the latter.