13 SC. Thilo to try and contextualize the use of 'potato' in a joking situation, but it will sound just like a half-baked scietific argument at the beginning of the transmission.
In 99.99% of the cases, yes. Car/Helmet skins can be uploaded to LFSW in upto 1024/512 pixels, respectively, and are then compressed to 512/256. There is an option under the Misc menu in the Options that allows you to select whether you'd like to download the skins in their original or reduced sizes, or if at all, but to download the skins in their original sizes, you need to add credits to your LFSW account. £1 would entitle you to 2,000 downloads of 1024px car skins, for instance, but I don't think anyone uses it these days. In fact, you can find many skins in much higher quality (usually 2048px) on the forums and team sites, for free.
Don't interfer with my helpful answers, Silver. :P
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Reason : Don't interfer with my helpful answers, Silver - you're a mod already, shoo.
They go into a different folder, but are not compressed as such, they are merely downloaded at lower resolutions (512px), while still keeping the original names and .jpg extension, so, in practice, you could transfer all the skins you've downloaded to your main skin folder and race with them yourself, as long as you didn't change their names. Although you'd probably want to give berth to several moral and graphical questions that would arise from that, as you'd basically be pirating and your skins would look shite.
In principle, no. To see other players' skins you must download them to your machine - like you do when you download LFS the first time for the default skinpack or through LSFW for custom skins if you're S2.
However, considering the intricacies of the human mind, I would guess someone, somewhere, has had the default skins uploaded to LFSW with their original names, so, it's possible that they'd be downloaded again if someone was using them to race online, which obviously negates the effort of erasing them in the first place!
That's because of the urban lighting. Although the more you are up north, the more likely you are to experience permanent dusk during summer (tho it should only happen if you're on latitudes higher than Aberdeen, for instance).
Maybe it's a little late for this, but you really should enforce the SC speed during the race. If SC speed is 130 kmph, it is 130. It's not 150 and, definitely, it isn't 100. Brake-testing cars behind during SC periods, like it happened pretty much everytime we had a yellow, at least in the 3 sessions I raced in, should be penalized.