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Quote from BeNoM :Man this forum keeps on coming up with new ways to dumbfound me...

With that logic, the millions of kids worldwide who played GTA or Call of Duty should be shooting everyone they see in the streets? Get over yourself lol

Not everyone - most people have healty perception and can tell apart game and real world. However there will be always few black sheep who will think "hey,I was racing through flowing traffic in a simulator and nothing happened,I'm sure I can do that also in real life." But sure,let's forget about these black sheep and make shit out of one of the best racing sims by completelly turning it into some cruising game!
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First - learn english to properly understand what's written and how it's meant.
Second - I would still not go that far to promote street racing on actual traffic as unmature minds may try that in real life which might end with bunch of [...] coming at you head on with high speeds.
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Official results
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Qualifying:


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Race statistics / RTFR .mpr folder / Event rating and other statistics (will be updated later this week)


The 14th year of RTFR started with it's first ever race in the new,normally empty Layout Square. RGE however filled it with around 2000 mostly concrete objects to create a city street course inspired racetrack,where 2 whole kilometer long straights were connecting 2 different slow speed turns sections. Some complained about the track,some liked it and some were just happy not to race the 600 horsepower VERL car here like it was done 3 months ago,instead the much more simple 150 horsepower french car inspired hatchback was used. During the race there was an interesting trend - most of the drivers were motivated by direct competition on track and improved their qualifying PBs,some of them many times.

The race winner however was not able to improve his track record,but at least he matched it and what's more important - he led every single meter of the race to score his 20th RTFR race win with his 100th RTFR race finish,while from this race he also added 18th pole position,14th fastest lap of the race and 85th top5 finish to his stats. For Lorenzo this was the best RTFR ever - in qualifying he set the 2nd fastest time,improving his previous best by a single position,while the 2nd place finish in the race was improvement by 2,this was the italian's 3rd top5 finish. After a big struggle with competitor,Thehemuli was able to upgrade his 4th place in qualifying to 3rd in race results,scoring his 7th top5 finish overall and also 2nd in row. J.Pichard was the one who lost the struggle and had to settle for 4th position,which is his 16th top5 finish. Top5 was closed by 2nd RGA member in it - Falcon scored his 40th top5 finish.


The racing from RGE this week is not over yet - on sunday AWS will return to action with it's 2nd round of the season,where a wild 80ies car will be run in South City. More info and signups as always in AWS forum section. Next week there will be no RTFR of any kind,but we have something in our mind to fill the day with some action - stay tuned for info on the weekend! RTFR will resume in 2 weeks,when it's planned to start the 2024 Season 1 of standings based competition. Further details to be posted soon! The RTFR server however will be set up with combo for laptime testing for the upcoming RTFR XL - the standard LFS's BF1 will be run on a custom Aston configuration known under name Classic (A32),run in reversed direction.
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Why would you need to use editor for skin creation? In LFS garage you have the viewer where you can see the skin on car without hassle of converting dds for editor.
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* PENALTIES :
JAM jesse & Ertti Eräreikä - receives a DISQUALIFICATION from event results for unsportsmanlike conduct of gaining unfair advantage over others by using 2 accounts for one user.

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For the past 3 years the event attendance somewhat stabilized as it was simply reaching server limits - 44-46 drivers were attending. However this year the server limit was raised,allowing more users to join server,thus beating the all time attendance record by 18. There were 63 results in qualifying,however research found evidence of just 62 persons being connected,resulting in one of the rare disqualifications... 4 previous champions attended,including the only back-to-back double champion,however none of them made into semifinal,meaning there will be a new one added to the long list.

Once again pure pace was important on the way to better results - all of the top3 finishers in event results qualified in top10,with another 3 top10 qualifyers being in the final,the lowest qualifyer in final set the 26th fastest laptime. However some tactical skills and plenty of luck is also required as the quarterfinal runs had way more drivers in them as usually expected,resulting 2 top10 qualifyers being eliminated before reaching semifinal.


Without a single champion in the semifinals list,the intrigue was high who will become the 11th different This is Crashmaaas !!! champion. As the dethroned defending champion mentioned - the crown stayed at "home" as his teammate was the one to cross finish line of the 20 lap finale first. The lithuanian B2R member Upsas qualified 6th and in the quarterfinal heat 6 he crossed the finish line first in solitude,advancing himself to semifinal directly. The early phase of his semifinal run was more difficult as he had to really fight through,however he still finished in the final ticket gaining 2nd place with a big advantage,meaning he'll start the deciding heat from 2nd row. The final started with usual shunts and hits,eventually Upsas worked up his way to lead,spending there 10 laps,however he caught back of the field and the way through it cost him lead for 3 laps,but the lithuanian fought back and return to the top of the field for last 4 laps to finish 1st just over a second ahead of competition. With this Upsas is the 11th different event champion and 2nd lithuanian.

Best of the rest was a seasoned rallycrosser and banger racer Joukeheddema from Netherlands. He was the one who broke winner's leading run temporary to lead 4 laps in the final,but lost the battle and had to chase the leader to finish 2nd. That must have been a dissapointment for him as it was the 1st heat he did not won - he went through both quarterfinal and semifinal heats with at least 3 seconds big gaps. The bottom step of the podium was taken by latvian A.Laipnieks,who set the fastest laptime in final,which was also the fastest laptime in all heats. Also he never saw a single relegation run as he won his quarterfinal heat,finishing 2nd in the semifinal,however the latter one had a bit close finish. The polesitter of final and early 2 laps leader Unite lost the lead in battles and was escorted out of track with 6 laps to go.

The brand new run "Battle Royale" featured 3 previous event winners (one left before the run) and the new one. Unfortunatelly the battle started with some pushing and bumping until the hairpin,where the only 2-time winner in the heat was taken out of track,then all 3 remaining drivers were seperated by a gap,making a 5 laps long parade run for remaining 3 drivers - the 3rd positioned driver slowed down to try to create some action by hitting leader,but Upsas' win was not affected and he took also the glory of this one. But the 3rd place finisher was not disqualified for braking the "no intentional slowdown" rule only because the finishing order was not affected.

The weirdly stacked grid for bonus run caused a huge traffic jam with only few lucky ones being able to run away quickly. One of them was the organizer,who was the only one to know the way around all the booty traps,but after leading the first 11 laps,he got involved into some battles and ended up rolling his car,leaving the fight for win wide open to few other high running survivers. Eventually the competitive chaos was won by Jamin,who gained the race lead with 3 laps to go and finished the intense survival carnage with 5 seconds gap to the brand new main event winner.


With more users being able to connect,more drivers were set up in the quarterfinal heats,increasing the luck part required to advance to next level. This means the system requires a little change - current idea is to add another level of runs (preliminary heats),where the (probably 20) best qualifyers won't take part advancing directly to quarterfinal,while rest have to fight through short preliminary heats to earn remaining 22 or 28 tickets to quarter final. Rest of the event course should stay the same. This will make more heats,more action,more crashing and also more more chances to advance for the better drivers. We still have about 11 months time to sort out all the details. Another detail what caused attention is qualifying,where more strict ruling on tyre warming will be added in future.

2024 version of This is Crashmaaas !!! will fall in the thursday,so the usual "GTi Thursday" will be limited to use of XRG in a very short unpaved bullring with most of the racing rules removed. So don't forget the date to return to this event so we can find out if 2024 will bring the 12th different winner,3rd different double winner or first ever tripple winner! Since the new winner was not present in teamspeak channel to provide interview with broadcasters,maybe we can have written winner's speach here?
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96/Eclipsed/Rony Kronpušs/Latvia/Race Green Autosports
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I bet you're banned from both...
323rd RTFR
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A reminder - server will be password protected 1 hour before qualifying start to keep not knowing crowded server jumpers out of way,pass will be always the same: green

Some historic stats:
Last race won by: [MRc] Zesty
Last PZG COMPACT race won by: 1st race with this car
Last Layout Square race won by: 1st race in this environment
Current rating leader: S1DUS*GáboR (+58 points)


Server link: Ronys Tuesdays Fun Race
Race Green Discord: https://discord.gg/E37R5vD
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Oh,missed that update. Shrug
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But 3 cars per guest was always the limit. And why you need 3 cars from each user? Hosting a bot race?
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The prefix is the skin ID: https://www.lfs.net/files/vehmods/A2F058 (actually same as the 6 last characters of this link)
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Max cars per guest means how many cars from single user can be added (3 means user himself and 2 AI). If you don't want users to add AI,keep that at 1!
Max connections are dependant from the slot count you have ordered in hosting.
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Quote from MicroSpecV :It is noticeably different from before the update.

Didn't you by any chance had a snack with these?
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True - that could be a great tribute to your friend as he seemed to be a fan of it. Also since rear car's name is out of question (unless you have a chance to get licence from manufacturer),you might even name the car after him as a further tribute.
Alternativelly maybe you can give over some well skilled modder (who does 3D modelling himself) to finish your work if you're really not motivated to carry on.
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Yea - 150hp is huge amount of power,which has to be tamed with electronics as only high tier drivers can control that with huge effort. Tilt
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The server upgrade to more slots resulted into more participants,setting a new all time record of 63! This also extended the event and also made the quarterfinal runs somewhat more...random... Still that's how this event works - besides pace and derby tactics you also need some luck. Since all 4 attending previous champions run out of the last one,we have a new champion added to the glorious list! Who? To receive answer either check replays or wait for official results!
All session replays attached.

Edit: The server will stay online until sunday with 5 laps on bonus run layout and all cars (including mods) allowed - feel free to join and invite friends for some crashing!
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Shortest user agreement in the world:
https://www.lfs.net/agreement
3.4 You must not give your username, WEB or GAME password to other LFS users.
That means also that you may not resell your LFS account as it is bound to user for lifetime!
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Luckily I remembered to add a new run to the schedule,which came into mind last year - the Battle Royale!
Quote :Battle Royale:
This run is for This is Crashmaaas !!! overall winners only! All the past event winners (including the new one) are set in the short 6 laps exhibition battle to sort out between themselves who is the best without any outside influence! Starting order - random,because the real champion does not care about grid position!

This new heat will take place between final and bonus run - let's hope for proper champions action!


Server is now password protected,password is in 1st post right under the section everyone should be familiar with - rules!

Please DO NOT post server info in random places without leading info to this thread - otherwise too many people join who have absolutely no clue what's this event is about and what is it's format! (and leave after setting qualifying time,thus taking away chance to race from those who want to race)

Event live results sheets for heat tracking purposes:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1o0WnhWzf8xW40ElXAgPUkVVsUomAIYnnVlDvODuL4e0/edit#gid=0
(this is where everyone can see in which heat he is,I can't answer everyone personally during the event)
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Just like for past 3 years,SimBroadcasts.tv will offer you the chance to follow the action on track via livestream:



Make sure you mark the date - either for jumping into action yourself or at least watching the show!
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LFS community in a nutshell:

Many ask to open LFS for modding and even make it open source,so people can improve it to make it much better.

Reality - opening LFS to car mods results in tons of junk mods with unrealistic values,many try to sneak in ripped 3D models from other games,while only a handful people do the modelling themselves,not all of them in good quality. After 2 years we have some good cars in the list,but most are useless for proper racing. As much as I would like to race in many other different tracks,I have to admit that I'm affraid from the mess what would be caused by track editor release...

Other reality - Airio has been abandoned by it's creator since 2011/12(?),still being used as best serverside stats add-on to LFS despite being outdated in many areas,there is still noone who has created anything better. Sorry,LFSLapper creators,I'm meaning insim add-on that can be configured also by narrow foreheads like me. Razz

So,where are the programmers,who would take the glorious work to make newer/better/more modern version of Airio? Or where are the programmers,who can create something similar to LFSLazy? (yes,I know,the french guys have something similar,but somehow people still come back this this one and expect to be revived)

LFS devs with their limited manpower and worktime have provided us a great racing simulator with insim protocol for community to create all the needed addons,if there is something missing,then it's the community's effort to make those.

(This was just a long version of Number's "Why dont you program it yourself")
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Now I can confirm it opens a very self explaining page,thanks!
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Seems like something is not working right - clicking to upgrade it leads me back to my hosts screen,link has changed,but there is nothing else different.
RandomCar 2023 Series final standings
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At the start of this year Race Green Events presented the brand new concept of racing where racers got their cars for each round drawn by randomizer from a pool of several different and yet performancewise balanced cars. The test race was successful and we launched full series straight away,setting it in the "free" tuesday left between RTFR and RTFR XL races. During the 1st season cars list grew from 17 to 26,diversifying the cars field even more - cars power ranges between 196 and 337 horsepower,while weight varies from just under a ton to almost twice the weight. From all possible engine/drivetrain layouts only the rear engined/all wheel drive is missing from the list,ironically car with this layout being voted 2nd twice and will be in voting for next addition again. Attendance was quite high,exceeding 30 for first 3 rounds with at least 21 drivers in all others except in round 8,where attendance suddenly dropped to 12. Still the average attendance of 25.7 is higher than in any other RGE's regular leagues.

The online randomizer had it's mood swings and did not draw cars very evenly - T.Soini got the same car 4 times out of 10,while 3 other drivers got the same car three times,with plenty of double draws through the field. The car drawn 4 times to single driver was also drawn most between all - Imprezzive B2 was drawn a total of 29 times out of 447 overall (6.5%),closelly followed by Talot,which was drawn 28 times - both cars made on the manufacturers podium.


RandomCar 2023 Drivers Champion: S1DUS*R.Kardol
The seasoned dutchman has plenty of success in most RGE events and also other leagues,so it wasn't a surprise of him topping also RandomCar's chart,however the way to top was steep as he did not attended the 1st round,spending the whole season in chasing position and taking over standings lead only after final round of the season. R.Kardol gathered up a total of 2 race wins,1 2nd place finish (all in the last 4 rounds) and 2 3rd place finishes - both on his first two attendances. He set the fastest lap of the race once,but never qualified better than 2nd,repeating that 3 times however.

2nd place in overall standings Nosle finished on podium just once (3rd place finish),however earned the season's runner up position with consistency by finishing outside top8 just once. The driver from "home team" representing Luxembourg put himself into league's history as the 1st ever pole position owner,being also the 1st standings leader with the 3 extra points for that. RD2 made the "home team" being represented on 2 of 3 final standings podium positions,however he started the season as individual racer and joined the RGA just before round 9. The bulgarian was the 1st to get the "supercar" and used it to start 2023 series with race win,finishing 2nd in round 4 where he get the same car again - in both of these races he set the fastest lap of the race. Even if he never finish higher than 7th in any other round,it was enough to defend the 3rd position in standings.

A total of 8 different drivers scored a race win,interestingly keeping the different winner each round trend alive until Thehemuli scored his 2nd race win in round 9,while also round 10 had a repeated winner. Besides the 8 drivers,winners list includes also 5 different teams,6 different nations and 6 different car models.

RandomCar 2023 Teams Champions: Race Green Autosports
With 7 drivers representing the "home team",it was clear it will do strong also in competition for being best team,even if with some struggles where RGA had an ups and downs withing top3 of the chart,season finale brought the decision towards them to become 1st teams champions in history of this new league,despite being the only team in the top4 without a single race win. Born to Race used last rounds double points rule to jump into 2nd position in final standings,being the winningest team through season with 3 wins,scored by 3 different drivers. Despite having drivers champion on their side,the communities one of the most successful teams in recent years finished just 3rd in standings - Team S1dus finished the season with a deficite of just a single point to 2nd place,having champion's 2 wins as their only top achievements.

RandomCar 2023 Nations Champions: Finland
The nation that has probably won every single nations based competition in LFS was on top also in RandomCar,however their story is similar to drivers champion's story - Finland was in chasing position since the season start and only round 8 brought them in standings lead,which despite closest rival's efforts was kept in the final with the tiny 3 points advantage. Both wins under finnish flag were scored by 5th place in drivers standings - Thehemuli. Lithuania scored most points between all nations in each of 6 first rounds,however being scoreless in next 2 rounds destroyed their built on advantage and the last dash in final round was just too little and too late,but just like champions also the other baltic country scored 2 race wins,each from a different driver. With sole effort of drivers champion,Netherlands is placed 3rd in nations championship,also bringing home 2 race wins,where the last one was the one helping to climb up to podium position.

RandomCar 2023 Manufacturers Champions: URC1
With many different cars being involved in the new league,RGA presented a brand new award - manufacturers champions title. The Ultimate Road Car 1 started the season with 4 consecutive race wins,earning even higher ballast weight,still being rated as unbeatable until round 5 in Aston,where it finally was beaten (7th place finish). Still the built up advantage was enough to keep the lead through 2 scoreless rounds and the 5th racewin in season finale put a dot under exclamation mark of their performance statement. With relativelly consistend points scoring through the season,2nd best car is the Talot Suns Lomis,which is based on a british hatchback's from late 70ies rally version,the small RWD car produced 1 race win and 3 second place finishes. The all wheels driven Imprezzive B2 made 3 different layouts on the manufacturers podium by being the 3rd best car of the season. Despite being complained about lack of top speed,the road legal version of late 90ies rally legend still finished one race as a winner,scoring 2 third place finishes - the 3rd place in final standings was kept despite not being even drawn for the double points season finale.


On january RGE will start preperations for the 2nd season of RandomCar,which is planned to start on 1st tuesday of february. Currently no major changes are planned,only car performances have to be rechecked and couple recently LFS approved cars can be added to the ever growing cars list,including also voting for one in our Discord server. The biggest change will include Manufacturers championship - the scoring has to be reworked as with bigger cars pool,chances for all cars to be drawn are decresing,damaging the chance to find out the best performing car instead of the "luckiest" one. Most likelly we will go for the same season format - 9 races set with lapcount to exceed 30 minutes with 1 hour season finale with double points to keep the finale intriguing.
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Server is now online!
Unfortunatelly Airio tends to corrupt the stats files when using mods,only solution is to clear them - that means the top chart is empty once again...
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Qualifying:


Race:


Winner:


Race statistics / RTFR .mpr folder / Event rating and other statistics (will be updated later this week)

* PENALTIES :
Stiefla - the unserved drive-through penalty is converted in 30 seconds penalty added to his finish time as per standard LFS rules.

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The scored championship seasons are over,so the last RTFR of the year was just a simple fun race as RTFR used to be - just for fun and glory. And since it does not decide anything,organization allowed itself to select a car that is not really meant for masses - a 900+ horsepower single seater based on american single seater racing car of late 90ies. It's a car that is ready to turn it's rear tyres into huge cloud of white smoke if driver is not careful and rear's tendency to overtake front was stronger than for most cars,but 18 drivers were not scared off and took the challenge to handle it. One of them left and did not start however,while few others retired during the race,leaving 11 classified drivers and just 8 completing full race distance.

With active 4-race winning streak,Gábor joined this to try to extend the streak and during qualifying everything went well in this direction as the hungarian was the only one to break 1:14 laptime mark - 23rd pole position was secured. However after leading 7 laps,he spun the car,losing lead,after another spin he left complaining about hardware issues,ending his winning streak. Zesty was the one who took over the race lead - he qualified 3rd,repeating his previous best qualifying result. On lap 8 taking over the lead,he scored his 1st ever lead lap in RTFR,adding another 17 to his total to celebrate his 1st ever RTFR race win,improving his previous best finishing result by 2 positions. He scored the 1st ever win not just for himself,but also for Malaysia and whole Asia in RTFR,adding also 6th top5 finish to his stats. Arska finished 2nd for the 2nd week in row (84th RTFR XL),scoring his 25th top5 finish,followed by his countryman UM21,who retured to RTFR for the 1st time since 170th RTFR - return resulted into podium finish and 12th top5 finish. Another finn finished 4th - Thehemuli won the late battle and scored his 6th top5 finish,the organizer himself completed the top5 with his 86th top5 finish.


This concludes the racing action of RTFR. This year. On 2nd january RTFR will resume the action with race using one of the road legal cars - which and where is yet to determined,just like how exactly the next seasons will be shaped - ll of this will be announced within this year! Now it's time to rename the server for the yearly smashing party - next tuesday it will not be RTFR,but other way of having fun in tusday as for the 13th time - Race [un]Green Events presents: the chance to take your 140 horsepower rear wheel drive XR GT and don't feel sorry if you happen to destroy it - because this is an event where you have a risk to get your car finished before crossing the finish line. Info about that here!
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