Well programming is a hard business sometimes. You hear same complains over and over again in this community. I'll share my point of view here.

First you guys have to break with every promise the devs might have given or every expectations you might got out of progress reports. We got so much from S1 and S2 licences we bought and everything that gonna come is just a bonus. They owe us nothing at all for the licences in the past.

Now to look at the past years. There really isn't much visible progress but out of what Scawen wrote here and there he worked several month maybe years on the hopefully upcoming physics update where he seems to have aborted many attempts and tried much.
Also do not forget they slowed everything down some time because there is a RL beside all the work.
The Rockingham update is most likely ready since a long time and just waited for polishing and for the finishing of other parts to release S3.
I am also relatively sure there is minimum one more track and 2 - 5 cars more or less finished beside the VWS.
But only they have a glue when updates will be coming. And because they aren't sure we won't read something before Scawen isn't happy with the new physics and this is ready to be released.

Last edited by CLRS530, Mon 21 Dec 2015, 05:18.

It indeed looks like being something on my PC. I also currently don not have it anymore after scanning my computer without removing something specific.
Sorry for wasting your time.

I wasn't completely at the end as far as I have seen but had to go. I'll look at it again later if you can't locate it with those informations.

Call stack is the following:



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This forum loads insecure content via any third party tracking. Didn't debug deeper.

Why do you see a need and a permission to write for the developers of the game?
No matter if or if not the money to bring up to buy LFS is much to you there are people I assure you have big arguments it is.

On the other hand leaving out the fair/unfair/big/small price discussion a black friday promotion would be welcome anyway.

Stop hijacking an interesting thread with yet another of those neverending and pointless discussions.

Quote from Scawen :

Quote from Dr3dD :

Now that you're talking about streaming...

Is it possible to give us an option to not loose audio in window mode when you click outside of lfs's window please?

That is just something to do with how DirectSound works. LFS is not in control of that.

I remember similar requests in the time you changed the sound engine and the sound stopped or didnt stop after you minimized in full screen mode.

I don't know how you use DirectSound but isn't the following flag changable for you?

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.directx_sdk.reference.dsbufferdesc.aspx

DSBUFFERDESC -> dwFlags -> DSBCAPS_GLOBALFOCUS. Option may appear also elsewhere.

Quote from Scawen :

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Like I said, there is no 'bug' and no 'magic bullet' to be hoped for here. Maybe some slight improvements, but that's about it.

Considering some posts i wouldn't go into the direction of a bug, cpu and graphic limits (only).
If we get an area of many elements and big maybe also memory consuming textures this could be a memory / swap problem. Did you monitor memory consument in those areas?

You should be able to pay with paypal using a normal bank account (you need to configure it there). If this isn't working in your country or as a first payment you can easily transfer money from your bank account onto your paypal account and finally pay with this credit after it arrived.

You guys have really serious problems.
Nothing in his posts was clear in any way. I don't even get the point why this now have to be discussed beyond the end.

Please for the peace of everyone. Close this thread. There is no healthy reason to let it open.

Yes there are several ways to in the worst case inject unwanted links into google.
Think of www.lfs.net/ do not buy this game for example

By the way those titles are also possible through a forum post, because the forum tag currently doesnt get added and it looks like normal site content.

Some small non important notes:

1. title in forum could/should be like the starting point (LFS - Forum) LFS Forum - [Thread] instead of LFS - [Thread] or something similar

2. There is no canoniocal tag use while you often could use many links to one site/content. For example:
www.lfs.net/forum/thread/86391/page/16
www.lfs.net/forum/thread/86391/page/17
...
www.lfs.net/forum/thread/86391/page/16/

Only one example in the forum don't know if there are other more important cases.

EDIT:
3. I would call it a bug - on page 2 and above forum looses thread title after topic id.

www.lfs.net/forum/thread/86391/page/16 -> www.lfs.net/forum/thread/86391-A-New-Site/page/16

Same if you click back on page 1. Also one more case for canonical tag

Last edited by CLRS530, Fri 19 Sep 2014, 10:42.

I have the same problem on my phone.

Don't you remember? +1 / Thanks was activated many years before for a short time/experiment.
I think the reason to deactivate it again was that it supported bashing at each other.
Only saying to let you think over an implementation of this functionality - you might deactivate short after .

In my opinion it can be a nice system, you have almost everywhere these days, but it involves the danger I pointed out above.

i used the xbox controller too. by far the best available for PC.
its definitively possible to use the l2 r2 analog triggers as separated throttle/break

Well now it's going to get even more interesting.

I'm really out of words replying to such illogicality. We speak about a extracted or cloned track. Doing so isn't legal or at least dubious.
You can be sure that Scavier don't like to help other sims out with their content/ideas (I know the track is only fan-made).

So why do we have to talk about if this topic is in terms of LFS, belongs to this forum or even in the official LFS area.

Writing about competitive racing games in the official LFS forum really is missing regard. I appreciate that the devs/mods tolerate that though.

But come on, I often noticed that you guys do that in the General LFS Discussion.
That's the absolute wrong place.

Very good post Dandy.
I also wondered about Scawens reaction.

I am a programmer too so I know a little bit how hard it is to get a starting point / idea to find such a problem.
But there are many sorts of hackers. The people hacking LFS are searching for a challenge I guess and invest much time and have a great technical knowledge.
With those people you can often speak and after they got the trick, it bores them and they can/wanna tell how they did it.
But the last examples showed more criminal potential. Many server crashes, destroying fun of many players (and so on).

Scawen please dont set such a symbol and move them in the positive center.

Would be cool if natively implemented by Scawen but he maybe had his reasons to choose TCP instead.

It's good for script languages, yes...

Why do you take the time to answer if you aren't able to read correctly?

To quote him again:

one friend give me a hotlap replay (he uses z18) but it gives me an error on z20.

But still his error description is more then bad and I can't believe he really guess it is helpful in any sort.

Regarding big Connection lists

An option or static change to very big connection lists would be to create a multi page list. That's a point no one mentioned yet as far as I see. Surely there only would be max 2 or 3 pages.
To step through the pages there could be a new button or simple press the button more then one time.
I don't think this would lead to misunderstandings because the page number at the bottom is intuitive from many other applications and the web. This system could be programmed to be really dynamic:

- Use multi page or not
- use same key or another
- number of entries per page

If you are planning to change the list keep those points in mind:

- Order players outside the box before players in the box + spectators (important for admins I guess)

There is no packet for this you have to find this out on your own.

Yeah he is right. You need almost everything of the game to view the replays. It wouldn't make much sense.

Waste number two...

I'm a programmer too ans especially in developing the Insim Addon I had several problems to solve on the Winsock part.
You could be good in programming but it's always possible that you don't think of a special point because it's so complex.
What the hell could I do instead of.

Anyhow. I won't discuss with you about a hilarious and groundless offensive post.
Good day.