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.

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.

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!

Last edited by Eclipsed, Tue 26 Dec 2023, 22:31.

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!

Luckily I remembered to add a new run to the schedule,which came into mind last year - the Battle Royale!

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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)

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!

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.

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")

Now I can confirm it opens a very self explaining page,thanks!

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.

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.

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...

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!

Mass test will happen on 3rd march as this car is selected for 6th round of AWS2024!

Yea,truly innovative idea,something shockingly unexpected!

Just to point out before the big "why LFS not on Steam" crying begins:

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I can't see any reason to consider Steam at this time. It seems to me a really terrible time to just stop developing, hire an accountant, set up a limited company and start integrating LFS with the Steam system. All this while using the old version of LFS which people will just insult because of the outdated graphics.

Please don't try to start explaining why I should stop development right now and dedicate my life to business structures and Steam integration, because I am not remotely interested in that and might as well jump off a cliff. Instead, I am doing what I like to do, currently that is working on a new lighting system.

https://www.lfs.net/forum/post/1949342#post1949342

Since this topic was raised once again in LFS discord server,I would like to post this under official improvement suggestions for public discussions,suggestions and brainstorming. Of course adding this option straight away would lead in huge mess in world record standings,so there should be some limitations to ensure quality over quantity.

One of the key points are mod updates - current system allows users to update their mods at any time,where updates can include big changes in performance. To avoid this my proposal is to add possibility to mark mods as "finished". Once marked such,updating these mods should be possible only through mod reviewers (sorry,more work for you ) and update may include only minor visual fixes without affecting performance in any way. Exception may be when the physics generally in LFS are changed (for example new tyre physics launched) as then hotlap charts are reset anyway.

Once finished,the mod could be applied for inclusion in official hotlapping system,which would go into public voting (for S3 users only for obvious reasons),where each month the most popular car would be officially added to hotlap charts. It's up to discussion here if such charts would be mixed with standard LFS cars or displayed seperately.
* Alternativelly application to such voting could be similar to marking "finished" and inclusion to hotlap charts would disallow updates.

Of course to ensure quality,mods should fill certain criteria - like overall 3D model quality including all LODs,realistic performance and aerodynamics values (no 150hp cars that can reach 260km/h as they have a drag of a bicycle or 2 liter engines with torque of a cruise ship because "diesel"),suspension quality and realism. Alternativelly maybe only approved status cars as they should fulfill highest standards - allthough some does not as these were approved before raising the standards.


So feel free to add your thoughts and suggestions here. Adding mods to hotlap charts would add a little more competition there and also give some more competition to those not living in timezones with most active online racing,while it also would give extra motivation to create quality cars and maybe even bikes - that would be also something new in hotlaps charts.

The 13th season of AWS started with a dusty and dizzy racing at the small 600 meter circle in Westhill. To make the relativelly small track a bit more challenging,a 1800 kilogram car was selected,which with some practice turned out to be slightly faster than LFS's own RB4 used twice in this track in AWS history. Of course seasoned racers were not much affected by car's parameters and focused on their performance,addapting to car relativelly quickly - the same 2 drivers who were on top on all 3 seasonal RTFR standings this year,were also on top of both session tables last sunday.

The 2021 AWS drivers champion R.Kardol qualified 2nd and after little struggle he permanently took over the lead on lap 2 - the dutchman led 99 laps of 100 to score his 6th AWS race win,finishing almost half of a lap ahead of closest rival. That was his teammate Gábor,who started only his 2nd ever AWS race - in qualifying he set the fastest lap to score his 1st AWS pole position,despite not being able to keep the lead,he still improved his previous AWS race effort by 2 positions by finishing 2nd. The bottom step of the podium was taken by probably the most experienced and successful racer on this particular track - the 2019 AWS champion Sobis has celebrated 2 wins here (AWS Dusty 100 with RB4 and also STARL Dusty 300 with XRT - both on 2019) and showed plenty of experience also this sunday as despite low starting position the lithuanian was able to climb up the running order to finish 3rd,setting also new track record with this car during the race.


Top3 of drivers standings are now seperated by 2 points between each other as both drivers besides winner scored a bonus point. Same situation is of course also in both Cross challenge and Oval trophy standings,both of those will have another 2 rounds to decide their particular award winners - next round for one of those will be round 3,which will count towards cross challenge.

The VERL champion of 2023 RD2 was also the best rookie in the series,after round 1 he also leads rookie standings in AWS,having 4 points advantage over Stiefla. The 3rd and last rookie in this race retired few laps before reaching points scoring half distance.

With 2 drivers finishing on top,Team S1dus of course scored most points from this round,missing only the bonus point for fastest lap - the 2021 teams champions now lead the table by 17 points over closest rivals,which are the defending champions RGA. The 2-time champions LLM are in the 3rd position from sole effort of Sobis. 4th and 5th place finishes were enough for defending champions Finland to take the lead in Nations cup table after 1st round - it is the only country with more than one points scorer. Netherlands is 2nd with 5 points gap,Hungary 3rd another 2 points behind.


Of course nothing can be decided after round 1 of 7,so everyone joining in have great chances to get involved in fight for all the awards,however the points scored already might still be a worthy advantage needed to edge out any suddenly joining superiour racers. Round 2 is set to run on the 1st sunday of next year - after 3 weeks gap AWS will resume the action in South City,where a new car power record will be set in league's history - the 545 horsepower Adda 200 will beat previous record by mere 8 horsepower and will be a tough challenge as it does not feature modern cars downforce numbers.

Quote from sjoblom :

i moved to iRacing and now I'm mainly on ACC

Anyway,on topic - my LFS installation is usually as old as my current PC,so now it's just 4 months old. But I always save all mprs,setups,skins,settings and driver profiles on stick and add those to the new install,so some files are almost as old as my account.

Gutholz seems to be still active,so I assume he is still maintaining the translation. If there are no strings in translation page for what you mentioned,they are still not added to translations.

Quote from pantiainen :

Hey, would it be possible to change server slot amount to maximum at mid-period and pay the extra for rest of it? And was it possible also at renewal?

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Quote from Eclipsed :

Will there be an option to upgrade existing server?

Quote from Scawen :

Victor does plan to add an upgrade option soon.

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: S1DUS*GáboR - 4 wins in row
Last RAYBEAM F97 race won by: 1st race with this car
Last Westhill race won by: B2ﾏ Mantas (315th RTFR - XRG @ WE National)
Most Westhill national configs race wins: S1DUS*Litti & Botsi - 2 wins (Finland - 8 wins)
Current rating leader: S1DUS*GáboR (+66 points)

Server link: Ronys Tuesdays Fun Race
Race Green Discord: https://discord.gg/E37R5vD

Qualifying:


Race:


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Deadline for protests - monday,20:00 UTC

Last edited by Eclipsed, Sun 17 Dec 2023, 20:34. Reason : Added mprs

Quote from Scawen :

On multiplayer servers, the maximum number of connections is increased to 79, for an additional charge.

Will there be an option to upgrade existing server?

Server has been updated to newest 0.7E version - older versions of LFS client are not compatible. Apologies for this unfortunate timing!

Server is now passworded and password has been sent to all entrants via PM.

If someone hasn't received it due some mistake,please give a notification!

Signups are still open and new entries will receive PM at some point during sunday/monday.