Quote from Storm_Cloud :

Come on Bradley - same again please in Argentina.

I wonder if you can change numbers mid season? Would be funny if one of the Brits raced as 82 this weekend.

I would get a significant chuckle out of that if it happened!

You may use the setup exe for the game and extract the dds folders to your installation folder. It functions as a self-extracting archive.

Beware though, that if you are modifying the car models themselves (ie the VOB files) that cannot be discussed on this forum. If you are just changing the texture files (the DDS files) then that is legal.

The big problem is getting and keeping participation levels at a reasonable level. There ARE enough people still racing to provide a full grid, but right now it seems as if everyone is hyper-focused on one, maybe two cars/formats, and while they may try a series when it starts, they'll abandon it, and it will cascade into others abandoning the season as the numbers dwindle.

I'm not sure how the new Westhill has affected the community as yet, only time will tell. It feels to me, however, that the newness has worn off and people are just going to the new track when they have the time spare, instead of making the time. Of course it's nearing end of terms for schools, work is still in swing, and activity may spike up in the summer.

I look foward to some more progress on the Developer's side, I get the feeling that they are invigorated after getting a major project finally finished, so I hope that it's the kick and refresh they need to go back to full steam. I would reckon the new tyre physics and whatever else might come at that time would be a good boost possiblity to LFS.

Sadly, those who were here in the past have gotten older: More responsibilities, more activities, more choices. That old core is possibly gone forever, as cycles would allow and require. I think there will need to be a "reset" back to simpler, shorter league races to bring the new racers in. Not necessarily back to the LFSBC series, but MiniFBM/LX Challenge/TBO Challenge are all simple, easy events that can be knocked out in around 90 minutes or less, start to finsh, which is a simple time commitment that might be easier than the 2+ hours you have to spare to do LFSCART or GTWS or the other major series. Those series are also more tuned to the fun and pure racing aspect and need less direct admin involvement to run, and give people a great way to spend an hour and change without too much stress or significant thought to race well.

As is known now, NDR are not organzing leagues at full force, just standard one-offs and other events as needed while the LFS community limps along.

GTWS will always be one that is a high candidate for revival at any time, though.

Surely implementing localisation into the site for users would be beneficial? A user puts in their location/timezone and the site automatically displays time in their local time zone. On input, can say what TZ you're inputting, and then when you submit it is converted and stored in the db as UTC.

NDR lists all events officially as UTC/GMT, but will sometimes also state the time in other common timezones to aid (such as CEST/BST/EDT)

Thanks to all for participating in the 2015 Kyoto 250! I'll work on a few more stats over the coming weeks, but I do believe without hesitation that that is the closest finish in Kyoto 250 history!

See the official photo finish photo attached

2015 Kyoto 250 Race Results are now official.

Official Race Time: 2:01:23.35
Official Race Speed: 198.882 kph / 123.579 mph
Cautions: 4 for 19 laps
Cautions Summary:
#1: Laps 1-5, due to Accident at Turn 2 involving Cars 5, 7, 25, 27, 46, 58, 60, 66, 70, 78, 97
#2: Laps 85-88, due to Incident at Turn 1 involving Cars 60 and 66
#3: Laps 90-94, due to Accident at Turn 1 involving Cars 32, 33, 58, 87, 991
#4: Laps 122-126, due to Incident at Turn 2 involving Cars 5 and 510
Leaders: 5
Lead Changes: 8
Leaders Summary:
991 S. Martin 75 Laps (L3-65,74-85)
64 M. Kapal 26 Laps (L86-94, 100-115, 135)
32 P. Hall 21 Laps (L1-2, 116-134)
7 M. Velikov 8 Laps (L66-73)
25 R. Kingsbury 5 Laps (L95-99)

Quote from valiugera :

Scawen, i have one idea. New objcets is very good, pit stop, start point but why you not make pit speed line limiter? I mean 80km/h zone in pit. Sorry for may bad English.

He is planning to make that it seems, but does not seem to have the time before they want to make this official:

Quote from Scawen :

I'm interested in (possibly) adding "checkpoints" or something to mark the start and end of a custom pit lane with speed limit in future but there's no way can I do it in such a short time.

Quote from UnknownMaster21 :

Quote from Keling :

Some cars are not available on the Kart layout, throwing "XXX can't be used on this configuration" errors. Why?

It has mentioned before by Scawen: Some cars would not fit in the pitlane/grid, that's why. ( Please confirm this though )

Though you can use them with open configuration

This is correct, there would be cars spawning on top of each other on these configurations default pitlane. You may defeat the restriction with open configurations + custom grids

Quote from Eclipsed :

Quote from dekojester :

When the official patch is out, using the official patch version of LFS :P

Did you even check the picture before writing?

Derp /fp

Quote from Flotch :

Victor, what are you planning to allow us to upload on LFS World ?

When the official patch is out, using the official patch version of LFS :P

Race Replay and Provisional Result (in tracker) are added to the OP

Quote from vadim1231 :

Hello everyone. I can not play on the new highway from the fact that I spent all three attempts to unlock the game (((

https://www.lfs.net/mailus - send the devs an email and they can give you a bonus unlock.

Oh, that was leftover from last year - Mr. Diaz had led the most laps going into 2014's edition, but Robin overtook him that year

Hello ladies and gents!

Here's the pole lap and the last lap of the 2nd Twin 115-mile qualifying race run on Saturday, 28th March.





Unfortunately, there won't be a live stream of the event this year, but I'll work on highlights ASAP after the race. Enjoy these couple videos in the meantime!

Quote from pmw :

Why XRG/RB4/XRT/FXO/RAC/FZ5 are disabled on WE4 (gokart track)?
I understand formulas, but especially XRG, it's really great on tight track like that. And no problem with TBOs either.

Why are cars even disabled by the game, you can drive rallycross with formula, but not drive XRG on gokart track?

I believe the larger cars are disabled because they'd spawn on top of each other when drivers exit the pits. When that happens, there's some nasty business that happens.

@cargame: I'm not sure it's fully back yet, but on my Airio, I manually added the new WE configs to my Airio.tcd.txt file, and when i do !node on WE2 and WE4 (the two I tested) I got sensible nodes, I'm not sure where it would pull from otherwise, unless it just reports to you what it sees in an NLP

I have made my Airio rotate new Westhill tracks. You'll need to add the new Westhill Configurations to your Airio.tcd.txt file, then !rld.

Basically, these keys should have all of these values:

TrksList=BL1 BL2 BL3 SO1 SO2 SO3 SO4 SO5 SO6 FE1 FE2 FE3 FE4 FE5 FE6 AU1 AU2 AU3 AU4 KY1 KY2 KY3 WE1 WE2 WE3 WE4 WE5 AS1 AS2 AS3 AS4 AS5 AS6 AS7
TrksName=GP Track, Rallycross, Car Park, Classic, Sprint 1, Sprint 2, Long, Town Course, Chicane Route, Club, Green, Gold, Black, Rallycross, RallyX Green, Autocross, Skid Pad, Drag Strip, 8 Lane Drag, Oval, National, GP Long, National, International, Car Park, Karting, Karting National, Cadet, Club, National, Historic, Grand Prix, Grand Touring, North

NoReverse=BL3 AU1 AU2 AU3 AU4 WE3

NoPitlane=BL3 SO2 SO3 FE6 AU1 AU2 AU3 AU4 A13 A14 B21 K21 F24 WE4 WE5

The 2015 Kyoto 250. Eighth Annual. Sunday, 29 March 2015.

Timetable for the day:

17:20 UTC: All competitors due in server AND in TS in correct name format in each.
17:25 UTC: Grid stacking begins
17:37 UTC: Driver's Briefing (via TeamSpeak)
17:41 UTC: Pace laps begin (all 5 of them)
17:50 UTC: Green Flag (135 Laps, 250.02 Miles)

WEATHER CONDITIONS: Clear Day, Low Wind

The 250 has never been caution-free, but 2012 was the record for fewest cautions - 4 for 19 laps The most, you ask? 2010: 18 cautions for 82 laps. It can get done in less than 2 hours if caution-free, although usually takes about 2h10m or so.

Some other stats for the statwhores out there:

Longest Green Flag Run: 79 Laps in 2011
Most Leaders: 6 in 2011
Most Lead Changes: 14 in 2008
Fastest Kyoto 250: 2012, 2:02:54.37, 122.054 MPH
Slowest Kyoto 250: 2010, 3:00:27.76, 83.126 MPH
Most Laps Led in a Single Kyoto 250: Robin "Robendo" Friskopps, 100 Laps in 2013
Most Laps Led Overall: Robin "Robendo" Friskopps, 288 Laps
Drivers who have led the most laps in the race without winning that year:
2008: Phil "PMD9409" Diaz (66 Laps Led)
2009: Nolan "BigTime" Scott (57 Laps Led)
2010: Michal "Drift King CZ" Saidl (64 Laps Led)
2011: Robin "Robendo" Friskopps (63 Laps Led)
2012: Phil "PMD9409" Diaz (63 Laps Led)
2013: Robin "Robendo" Friskopps (100 Laps Led)
2014: Patrick "FalconBridge" Hall (56 Laps Led)

Past Champions of the Kyoto 250:
2008: Ben "DeadWolfBones" Keough
2009: Phil "PMD9409" Diaz
2010: Phil "PMD9409" Diaz
2011: Phil "PMD9409" Diaz
2012: Robin "Robendo" Friskopps
2013: Jarl "arox123" Teien
2014: Robin "Robendo" Friskopps

Discuss!

Last edited by dekojester, Sun 29 Mar 2015, 07:20.

Official Results now available for Qualifying, Twin 115 Race 1, and Twin 115 Race 2. Grid available shortly.

Quote from -LegoBased- :

Bring back vob mod support in next patch? Miss Z28 days..

VOB Modifications are not supported via official LFS channels.

Quote from dekojester :

Twin 115 Race 1
53m40s race time
Cars 51, 74
Incident between Turns 2 and 3

Car 74 - Excluded from Session - Intentionally Causing an avoidable incident.
Car 74 - Excluded from the 2015 Kyoto 250

Quote from dekojester :

Twin 115 Race 1
1h00m10s race time
Cars 5, 51, 70, 74, 78, 96
Incident Exit Turn 3

Car 51 - Placed to Last - Causing an avoidable incident

Twin 115 Race 1
53m40s race time
Cars 51, 74
Incident between Turns 2 and 3

Twin 115 Race 1
1h00m10s race time
Cars 5, 51, 70, 74, 78, 96
Incident Exit Turn 3