Need For Speed :: San Andreas

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As most people around rarely choose to find a quick race and if someone does, he'll ended up an empty lobby. So tweaks here:


Merge them in the same section, don't mix it yet. 

As simply "Race" button, there'll be two tabs: RANDOM LOBBY (as now QR) and CUSTOM LOBBY. Players can view all available lobbies here (Custom Lobbies doesn't need changes for now).

System WILL auto-match when there's random lobby with similar rank (Toggleable. If turned off, player stays at lobby list). 

If there's no available match for that rank, player can choose to join BUT needs permission from lobby host (probably the first guy who enters/creates the lobby).

In case there's actually no lobby, player can pick any empty lobby to join (which probably shows which next race will be).

System may supports up to 4 empty lobbies (excluding all lobby which have first player entered in the first place).

Here's most of it, any more suggestions I might add here. Feel free to give opinions.
I feel like this would make quick races too complex for any player to bother with them and also too similiar to custom races. Boost rewards of quick races, make circuit, street-x and drift races longer and boom, quick races are suddenly playable.
Actually what it shows is just another tab as from Custom Race screen. Kinda. If it's too complex players can still use auto-join, classic style.
I disagree a bit...during the day (200+ players) I can't find any difficult to find races in Quick Race, mostly because there's a lot of newbies that wants to get
queued with performance evened cars...
There will never be any merged custom and quick race and possibility to see next map in quick race.