I always thought "why are there no races? This is the perfect game for it" it could be just a mini gamer, or even another completely different profession. Now with the release of oddyssey and the availability of landing into planets they're missing a perfect opportunity to add this:
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZaNivsyqVc
Pod racing!
They would have to manually generate those tracks on hand, but honestly it would take very little time and it could add a lot of hours of fun. Even more if in a future they add different vehicles and the possibility to improve, change them, you could race for reputation, to bid or anything else. If they want you woudn't even need to land on a planet, you could do it like frontline, you speak to a NPC and bam, you're racing already. It doesn't even need to be podracing, they could do this in the space in the asteroid belts ¿Is there a reason why they didn't do it? It would be perfect!
Pod racing!
They would have to manually generate those tracks on hand, but honestly it would take very little time and it could add a lot of hours of fun. Even more if in a future they add different vehicles and the possibility to improve, change them, you could race for reputation, to bid or anything else. If they want you woudn't even need to land on a planet, you could do it like frontline, you speak to a NPC and bam, you're racing already. It doesn't even need to be podracing, they could do this in the space in the asteroid belts ¿Is there a reason why they didn't do it? It would be perfect!