Way to drive competition on custom tracks and keep old tracks alive?
There's a lot of great tracks on track central. A lot go unnoticed or are forgotten about shortly due to the vast quantities of tracks. It's not an entirely bad thing as it makes way for newer tracks, but how could older tracks be kept alive rather than dying out after a few weeks?
Here's my idea. For every custom track that you're currently in first on, you receive a special medal, or a trophy, or something. These could be totaled up on your profile and other players could see a list of every custom track where you control the special medal/trophy/whatever. From there, they can also download and play any track on that list. A new leaderboard could also be added to rank everyone on how many of these awards they currently have. If someone beats your score on a track, you lose the award for that track and now the other player possesses it. There could be notifications to inform you of when you've lost control of a track so that you can try to take it back. Or maybe you'd go to the profile of the player who stole the track from you and steal a different one from their list.
Pretty simple really. Maybe it could go even further than just who can horde the most of these awards by giving rewards for taking them in the way of exp, maybe new outfits unlocking after collecting so many, something like that. I'm not good at coming up with rewards. Still, with proper incentive, I think this could help drive competition on custom tracks, allow players another way to discover new tracks (even if they were made months ago), help keep bringing traffic to older tracks while also retaining traffic to newer tracks, and maybe just get players to interact with each other's content and each other a little more.
I know that this may be a little farfetched for Fusion since it's already released, but just throwing it out there anyways. Any thoughts?