Bah to each their own!
I think the race idea would have rocked myself, I love those kind of events, I sorta miss FFXI because of their chocobo raising and now racing, but meh that game is just too much anyway.. You have to feed your choco every RL life day or it either gets sick or hates you... >.<
But anyway, I played around with the ring a bit too and it's a lot of fun but I haven't come up with any ideas yet, I probably need to learn a lot more about the game before I do. I could see how players events would much more interesting with ring scenarios though and hope I can attend one someday!