Quote from (SaM) :

Seriously, I'd hate to see people connecting to my 512k server (wich can only handle 8 people lagfree) and they just watch. I hate being watched. Especially when it sucks my bandwidth and less people can join. illepall

well then where is the problem? limit your server to 8 conns only... Even now anyone with S2 license can drop by your server and watch...

IRL the rider who gets a drivethough penalty and doesnt complete it (he has 3 laps to do it, if he doesn't -> black flag, disqualfication) because there are not enough laps, gets a time penalty. This time is added to his overall time and final standing is changed, accordingly... Usually he gets 30sec to his time...

Quote from XCNuse :

.. i think that would be a mess seeing every sever on the list; not only would it take forever to get the whole server list (anyone remember the early months of S1, when we had to wait minutes to get hte list of servers.. and by then they changed however much ... not good times)

the ability to have options, and filters such as choice between Demo/S1/S2.. is good, cause then you know what the server is running, rather than thinking your joining an F/R race, only to find out someone bumped you and then complained and banned you isntantly.... not to wise imo

server list is fine the way it is; now all it needs is the ability to filter tracks

i think you missed the point... Allow users with S1 license to join S2 servers, but only if the track is compatible with S1 allow them to join and race with S1 car only (although there may be some S2 racers on the server using a S2 car). Otherwise spectate only...

Quote from Phlos :

How you think the game will show S2 cars (or tracks ?) if the content is not decrypted ?

well I don't know how it's done... if the S2 code is encrypted or if there is some oher kind of lock... do you?

and if you red further posts, i suggested to leave the demo out... only merge S1 and S2 this way... cause if you have unlocked S1, a part of the code is unlocked/decrypted...

Last edited by Chaos, Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:16.

Quote from Phlos :

LFS devs will not do this for security reasons. It will be a lot more easy to crack LFS if whole content is already decrypted illepall

he? why shoud it be decryped? illepall

Ok, let the demo users out, but with the S1 license only, there are not many servers and why don't let them see S2? Or join a S1 track and see S2 cars flying by? There are some S2 servers with S1 track (BW,FE,SC..) and with GTi/GT, why shoud the person with S1 license not be able to join?

And it would be a good marketing move, cause people say £24 is too much. Buy S1 license for £12, see what it is like in S2 and very likely he will buy S2 too...

What about this: Should someone download the full sized S2 (since all track/car data is there), allow him to connect to every server. Then when the person is connected to that server, then according to his license status allow/disallow them to connect to the race.

This way everybody with S1 license could watch the racing in S2 full, see .mpr replays from leagues etc.

Allow the users according to the "level of unlocking" enter the tracks/cars.

Leave the demo as it is now. "Merge" S1 and S2 only...

Example> A user has the S1 license. He connects to a server with SouthCity Classic, where the people race the FZ50, but with S1 license LX6 is available, so he can join. He could race against the FZ50, but would not be allowed to drive it, not until he buys his S2 license.
Should this user connect to a server with Aston, then he could only spectate.

I think this way the community would only benefit from it, yesterday I saw some S2 servers running Fernbay tracks with GTi/GT... But for users with S1 license only its not possible to join that server. Although they could.

Your ideas?

Last edited by Chaos, Mon, 15 Aug 2005 06:47.

thanks guys!