You did the right thing, IMO. And the guy should have been thankful because you gave him a chance to train coping with pressure. If he doesn't like it, he should rather look for a cab simulator or something. 
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There are lots of great ideas, in this thread, except that they'd require (much) more work from the developers, and I'm afraid they are too busy with their current plans to be able to give us something like that in the near future. However most of these ideas could be implemented by third parties (some of us, that is). Here's how I *think* it could work:
Most public servers would be protected with a "racer" password. Think of it as a federation license. A racer password would be given only to old timers who are in a league or team that already required them to prove their worth, and to people who passed the following tests.
- The federation's site would have a questionnaire, as a web form, with questions about racing rules, how to respect them, and so on. When you get enough good answers in this form, you're given an "applicant" password. This could be fully automatized.
- There would be some servers (with a specific name) set with one or several given races (maybe there could be several categories of increasing difficulty and several different "licenses"?). These servers could be accessed only with this applicant password or with a racer password (or maybe not with a racer password but with a "marshal" password given to the moderators of the federation site only?). Appliquants would be required to finish a given number of races on these servers (which could decrease with their number of podium positions).
I'm not sure how the ban system works, but it could probably be used to give penalties to the worse racers (those who trigger crashes with kamikaze maneuvers and things like that). For example the first ban could last one week, the second one month, etc. There would be a forum on the federation site where you'd have to report having been banned, and where you would ask for being unbanned when your penalty has been fulfilled. Can you save a replay when you've just got banned? If so people unfairly banned could complain by sending the replay to that forum and would be unbanned when proved right. Otherwise, maybe all the races could be recorded and kept a few days on these servers.
Finally, when they meet the conditions, appliquants would post a message on this forum, asking for their racer password. A moderator would then check their online stats and the bans forum to make sure they meet the conditions, and would PM them their racer password.
Such a system would require a bit of voluntary work by some people and some points would have to be worked out, but I think it could lead to have many "clean racers" servers in a short timeframe.
And as a newbie, I wouldn't mind having to go through something like this.
Most public servers would be protected with a "racer" password. Think of it as a federation license. A racer password would be given only to old timers who are in a league or team that already required them to prove their worth, and to people who passed the following tests.
- The federation's site would have a questionnaire, as a web form, with questions about racing rules, how to respect them, and so on. When you get enough good answers in this form, you're given an "applicant" password. This could be fully automatized.
- There would be some servers (with a specific name) set with one or several given races (maybe there could be several categories of increasing difficulty and several different "licenses"?). These servers could be accessed only with this applicant password or with a racer password (or maybe not with a racer password but with a "marshal" password given to the moderators of the federation site only?). Appliquants would be required to finish a given number of races on these servers (which could decrease with their number of podium positions).
I'm not sure how the ban system works, but it could probably be used to give penalties to the worse racers (those who trigger crashes with kamikaze maneuvers and things like that). For example the first ban could last one week, the second one month, etc. There would be a forum on the federation site where you'd have to report having been banned, and where you would ask for being unbanned when your penalty has been fulfilled. Can you save a replay when you've just got banned? If so people unfairly banned could complain by sending the replay to that forum and would be unbanned when proved right. Otherwise, maybe all the races could be recorded and kept a few days on these servers.
Finally, when they meet the conditions, appliquants would post a message on this forum, asking for their racer password. A moderator would then check their online stats and the bans forum to make sure they meet the conditions, and would PM them their racer password.
Such a system would require a bit of voluntary work by some people and some points would have to be worked out, but I think it could lead to have many "clean racers" servers in a short timeframe.
And as a newbie, I wouldn't mind having to go through something like this.
A way to see the specs would definitely be cool. But there's enough room on the current labels to show both the name and the code (I've already made my own cars chart).
This is getting way OT, though.
This is getting way OT, though.
Would be handy if these three (or five) letters codes were also visible in the car selection screen, too. At least for newcomers.
Hi,
I've known about LFS for some time, but being on Mac I couldn't try it. Now I've got a brand new Mac that can also run XP, and the first Windows application I installed (one week ago) was LFS demo. And I can tell you that I'm not disappointed! Wonderful sim!
I've known about LFS for some time, but being on Mac I couldn't try it. Now I've got a brand new Mac that can also run XP, and the first Windows application I installed (one week ago) was LFS demo. And I can tell you that I'm not disappointed! Wonderful sim!
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