Quote from DeadWolfBones :

So for the first round, where only 4 spaces are available for reserve shootout drivers... was that the test round, or is that the first round of the season on Jan 11?

It's the first round of the season on 11 January. 4 (or more, if some of the confirmed entrants don't turn up) spaces will be available to the top 'shootout' drivers.

Basically we will have a full server of 30 drivers - this will be made up of the confirmed entrants and the fastest reserve drivers.

For the second round and subsequent rounds, we will operate the 'lock-in' system.

What font did you use for your numbers?

Quote from greg_slideways :

=( awww Im out shined yet agian! =(

As long as there is somewhere to practice it's not important Thanks for the help!

Quote from greg_slideways :

I have a practice server up atm!

ICON Racing - Server 1 is set to the track for the 1st round of the championship WE1R.

Enjoy!

Joe Keaveney - iTCC Admin

Quote from BenjiMC :

i dont like it either, so i tryed something quick...

I'm sorry if I sounded a bit sharp there...I'm just not very good at GIMP/Photoshop and it takes me ages to do these things...

Ben, if you would release that as a .PSD, we could use that as the numberplate - it looks really good.

Quote from CELTIC100 :

I don't want to be picky but I have just tried to use the HiRes PSD and the red border corners are all mushed on the No Boards also the skin pack we use at RSR has a vent on the front bottom edge of the doors and this No Board Position partialy covers it - would it be possible to reposition the no Board back 6 inches

See Picture Below with added ITCC Logo's - Font Used is called "Impact" which gives a large clear Number on ours.

That's great, CELTIC100 - nothing wrong with that - the number is clear and the boards are the size they would be in BTCC, I'm happy with that.

Quote from Pringels :

must the numberplate be on the door or can i put it behind the doors?

It must be at the front edge of the door as seen in the attachment above this post.

OK, before this thread goes any further - I moved the time because a) I got finished at the Pre-Season event at 23:00 UTC, which was too late for me, and thus b) definitely too late for most European guys.

Also, a lot of people asked me to put it back to 1800, I try to do the best thing by everybody, but I can't please all of you.

So it's staying at 1800.

Cheers

Joe Keaveney - iTCC Admin

Quote from J@tko :

(Wasn't it going to start at 1800GMT...? :P)

Oh Edited.....

And sorry for inadvertently editing your post

Hi Racers,

Here is the calendar for the first season of the iTCC Touring Car Championship.

iTCC Season 1 Calendar 2009

Dates:

Round 1 - 11/01/09 - WE1R - Races 1/2/3 - 14 Laps
Round 2 - 08/02/09 - FE3R - Races 1/2/3 - 17 Laps
Round 3 - 15/03/09 - BL1 - Races 1/2/3 - 19 Laps
Round 4 - 10/05/09 - SO4R - Races 1/2/3 - 14 Laps
Round 5 - 24/05/09 - KY2R - Races 1/2/3 - 13 Laps
Round 6 - 14/06/09 - AS3 - Races 1/2/3 - 13 Laps

Dates in bold denote an amended date.

Format of iTCC events

All Timings are GMT(UTC)
1 week before iTCC round - Server password PM'ed to all competitors


(For Round 1 only - 11/01/09

16:15 Password Changed for Shootout 1
16:30 Reserve Shootout 1 - 20 Minutes (Race Numbers 1-49)
16:50 Server Empty & Password changed for Shootout 2
16:55 Server Open for Reserve Shootout 2
17:00 Reserve Shootout 2 - 20 Minutes (Race Numbers 50-99)
17:20 Server Empty & Password changed for Race)

• 17:00 Reserve Shootout - 15 minutes
  
• 17:15 Password changed and PM'ed to all iTCC competitors
  
• 17:45 All iTCC Competitors to be on Race Server
  
• 18:00 Qualifying - 15 minutes
  
• 18:15 Break - 5 minutes
  
• 18:20 Race 1 - approx. 25 minutes (grid as per qualifying)
  
• 18:45 Break - 5 minutes
  
• 18:50 Race 2 - approx. 25 minutes (grid as per race 1 result)
  
• 19:15 Break - 5 minutes
  
• 19:20 Race 3 - approx 25 mins (Grid - Top 6,7,8,9, or 10 from Race 2 reversed depending on number drawn by lottery – thereafter as per finishing order of Race 2)
  
• 19:45 Debrief and preliminary results
  

Thanks!

Best of luck in the iTCC

Any problems just PM me.

Cheers

Joe Keaveney - iTCC Admin

Last edited by Joe_Keaveney, Tue 20 Jan 2009, 22:47.

Talk about the upcoming race here.

Cheers

Joe Keaveney - iTCC Admin

This thread is intended for general discussion of matters in iTCC.

Keep it clean!

Cheers

Joe Keaveney - iTCC Admin

The Car = FXR with 32% air restriction.

Entered Drivers = As per the published list of drivers confirmed as entrants available at the iTCC website.

Reserve Drivers = Drivers not confirmed as entered drivers, who have been admitted to the Reserve List.

1. RACE FORMAT FOR THE iTCC

1.1 Championship Format:-

There are two championships within the iTCC - the Driver's Championship and the Team Championship.

Drivers score points for the Driver's Championship by finishing in point-scoring positions at each of the races in which they compete. The cumulative total of the points they have scored in all races that season is their championship points.

Teams of a maximum of 2 drivers can enter the Team Championship. If there are more than 2 drivers from a particular team entered in the Championship, then they may still compete in the Team Championship as part of a second team - e.g. iCON #2, CoRe #2, etc.

The drivers of that team add their individual points together to score point for the Team Championship.

Track Order = As per the published calendar available at the iTCC website.

1.2 Event Format (Irrespective of Track):-

* Reserve Shooutout - 15 minutes
* Qualifying - 15 minutes
* Race 1 - approx 25 mins (grid as per qualifying)
* Break - 5 minutes
* Race 2 - approx 25 mins (grid as per Race 1 result)
* Break - 5 minutes
* Race 3 - approx 25 mins (Grid - Top 6,7,8,9, or 10 from Race 2 reversed depending on number drawn by lottery – thereafter as per finishing order of Race 2)
* Debrief and preliminary results.

** There will be a “lag lap” at the start of the first race (lag lap = start to 1st sector)

2. EXPECTED BEHAVIOUR DURING EVENT

Infractions of the rules below and in Rules 2.3.x will be penalised in one of two ways:-

* During the race by way of a drive-through, stop-go or disqualification.
* After the race by way of the Penalty System (Rule 2.1)

The race stewards decision is final.

2.1 Penalty System

Behaviour deemed by admins to display a lack of awareness of other cars/track conditions will receive a warning.

Drivers who receive a warning for their behaviour will be expected to take heed of the warning - if they behave in the same manner a second time they will be deemed to be displaying unsporting behaviour and be penalied as such.

Chatting before the race is declared over by Race Control - -1 point per entry
Unsporting behaviour - -5 points
Failure to follow league procedures = -5 points
Causing an avoidable accident = -5 points
Deliberate blocking during qualifying = -5 points
Failure to drive to pits at the end of race = -5 points
Failure to notify admin of an accident from which you cannot continue = -5 points
Deliberate Wrecking = League Ban

2.2 Driver Obligations

Driver Names

Driver names should be of the format - 00 J.Bloggs, i.e. the number follwed by the initial of the forename,then the surname.

Entered Drivers must be present on the Race Server 15 minutes before the Reserve Shootout is due to commence. This is so Reserve Drivers are given the greatest possible chance of competing in the Championship should an Entered Driver fail to turn up for the race.

Drivers will be also expected to obey the basic rules applicable on all ICON league servers (see Rule 2.3). In addition the following instructions are to be observed and complied with:

2.2.1 Event Procedure:-

Reserve Shootout

The Reserve Shootout gives drivers on the Reserve List a chance to compete in the iTCC. At each event a certain number of reserve places will be available.

At the first round of every season, some reserve places are available. All reserve drivers are to complete flying laps in the 15-minute 'Reserve Shootout' session. The fastest of these reserve drivers will then take the remaining places not taken by the top 15 point-scoring drivers from the season before and compete in the iTCC. (Note: for Season 1, the reserve take up the places not took by Pre-Season drivers)

At the second and subsequent rounds, ONLY the top 15 drivers in the Driver's Championship are 'locked in'. All other competitors, both entered and reserve, must complete flying laps in the 'Reserve Shootout'. The top 15 competitors in the Reserve Shootout will then take the remaining places on the server and compete in the iTCC.

This system is designed to ensure that all drivers have competition - those at the front AND those at the back, whilst also allowing new drivers to compete with established drivers.

ONLY the drivers on the Reserve List are allowed on track during the Reserve Shootout.

Any Entered Drivers joining the track will be deemed to have failed to follow league procedures. (-5 points)

Qualifying / Break

You are free to join and leave the session at any time.
You must spectate as soon as race control announces the end of session.

Race 1 / 2 / 3

You should join the grid ONLY when instructed to by Race control.
If you have an accident from which you are unable to continue (e.g. if you end up on your roof) you must notify the ADMIN at the earliset opportunity. Do NOT Telepit ot Telespectate.
At the end of the race you must drive back to the pits and then spectate.

Debrief and preliminary results

No procedure required

Red Flag Coniditions

The red flag will be shown (or will be assumed to have been shown) if the Race Server crashes or if there are a large number of disconnections. This will be called by the Race Director.

Yellow Flag Conditions

The yellow flag will be shown if there is an incident on-track from which the affected driver/drivers cannot self-recover back to the track or pits, for example a car rolled onto it's roof.

Drivers should NOT telepit or telespectate, instead they should signal the Race Director who will then show the Yellow Flag, and deploy the Safety Car.

The Safety Car will circulate around the track, and the driver in the lead of the race when the Yellow Flag was shown will take up his position behind the Safety Car. All other drivers will take up their positions (in the order they were in when the yellow flag was shown) behind the leader.

Any cars ahead of the Safety Car when the Yellow Flag was shown may circulate around the track to take up their race positions.

No overtaking is allowed.

The driver(s) affected by the incident will then be told by the Race Director to telepit/telespectate. The affected driver(s) will play no further part in that race.

Whilst under yellow, the field will be led by the Safety Car, who will be instructed to maintain a suitable pace. The field will be then given the
instruction 'SAFETY CAR COMING IN THIS LAP' by the Race Director. Before the final turn onto the straight, the Safety Car will accelerate away and drive into the pitlane. The lead car is to lead the field at an even pace onto the start/finish straight. When the Race Director is satisified that the field is lined up for the restart in a fair manner, he will give the green flag signal. It is at the discretion of the driver of the lead car when he chooses to accelerate to take the restart. Once he has started accelerating, he must not brake or lift off the throttle. No overtaking is allowed before the start/finish line. Drivers must not: jump the start, lag back and subsequently gain a significant speed advantage on a restart, or begin an overtaking manoeuvre before the green flag is shown.


2.3 General Server Rules

‘Race Hard, but Race Fair’

We all want a good race, so that means think about your fellow racers. Overtake cleanly, give your fellow racer space on the track, and generally conduct yourself to the highest standards. Here are a few pointers:-

2.3.1 Overtaking

Overtaking must be done cleanly, with nil or minimal contact. Leave the ‘dodgem-style’ of driving in the fairground where it belongs. It does not belong on the track or on an ICON server.

2.3.2 Being Overtook
‘Brake testing’ and deliberate weaving in front of an overtaking car is seen as unsporting and will jeopardise your championship position. This does not mean you can’t defend your position fairly and cleanly, however.

2.3.3 Rejoining the race

Take care when rejoining the race, either after an incident or when rejoining from the pit-lane. There will be other drivers on track travelling much faster and wrecking their race as you rejoin by not paying attention to their position will be seen as causing an avoidable accident.

2.3.4 Conduct

No insults, No swearing. No arguing. We don’t expect to have to revisit this rule ever. So be warned.

2.3.5 Be Fair

Don’t take people out of the race. If you hit someone, let them pass before rejoining the race. Apologise at the end of the race.

2.3.6 Observe the Rules of the Track

Let lapping cars by when you are blue-flagged. Slow-down and don’t overtake when yellow-flagged. Observe penalties such as drive-throughs and stop-go penalties.

2.4 Protests

All protest should be submitted to the iTCC Admins via the relevant forum thread in this forum.

Please us this template when making your protest:

iTCC Protest

Your Name:
Your LFS Username:
Protest Against: (LFS Username)
Type of Protest : Unfair Overtake or whatever)
Description : Your opinion of what happened)
Which Event / Session: (Quali or Race 1/2/3)
Attached Evidence : Attach your pictures, or other evidence)

3. POINTS SYSTEM & SUCCESS BALLAST

Points System

Race 1 / 2 /3

1st = 12
2nd = 10
3rd = 8
4th = 7
5th = 6
6th = 5
7th = 4
8th = 3
9th = 2
10th = 1

Fastest lap of the race = 1 bonus point.
Pole position = 1 bonus point

Success Ballast

The imposition of success ballast is based on 2 criteria: championship points and race results.

a) according to the Championship points: 1 kg per every 3 points scored

b) according to the sum of points obtained in the three races of the last event, according to the following scale:

1st = 30 kg
2nd = 25 kg
3rd = 20 kg
4th = 15 kg
5th = 10 kg
6th = 5 kg

These ballasts will be scrapped and recalculated after each championship round.

Handicap weights a) and b) are cumulative up to a maximum of 70 kg

At the first round of the championship, nobody carries ballast (Because no-one has won a race or has any points)

At the second and each subsequent round of the championship, any driver entering the championship for the first time that season will have a 'new-entrant' ballast of 30 Kgs for that round. (The WTCC 2008 ballast rules had the same clause)

Last edited by Joe_Keaveney, Tue 20 Jan 2009, 08:11.

Quote from Gil07 :

Those numbers aren't editable at all... They're just normal rasterized layers, what font are we supposed to use?

Also, any chance of a bit smaller/nicer design plates?

With respect to the numbers, you're right - I'll get that sorted very soon.

With respect to the numberplates, they're that size becuase they're that way in real-life - check out any of the 2008 BTCC cars. So no to them being smaller.

If you don't like the design, feel free to PM me with your own design - I'm afraid I just don't have time to do them at the minute.

Hi Racers,

In this thread you will find the information you need for how to prepare the skin of your car for use in the iTCC Touring Car Championship.

Links are provided at the bottom of this thread for a Numberplate - this is a .PSD file containing the layer you need to skin your car with the correct iTCC-liveried numberplates. These numberplates have editable numbers.

Please make sure that your car is correctly skinned, and that the skin is uploaded to the LFSWorld website.

This is also the thread to post your skins. Please post your hi-res skins here so I can use them in the broadcast.

Thanks

Joe Keaveney - iTCC Admin

Number-plate Kit

EDIT:
Here is the official iTCC Skin pack DOWNLOAD (~50 MB)

Last edited by snoring_snoopy, Thu 12 Mar 2009, 18:59. Reason : Skin pack added

Quote from Rudy van Buren :

yea indeed way better, almost 10 sec was to much

why not cross a line at 2.48.00 xD

No, it's 103%.

If we end up having too many sign-ups we're looking at a way to give reserve drivers a chance of competing in the event. (Thanks to Darryn Lobb for that idea). More details on that to follow.

Joe Keaveney (iTCC Admin)

Quote from BigTime :

Just a recommendation, but 105% is a walk in the park..........

You know - you're right.......

I had thought originally to make it 103% but I looked at my own best time (2:47.8) and thought to myself 'well I'm not bad - actually 2.50 might be bloody hard', but then looking at the results from the pre-season, nearly everyone was doing those sorts of times anyway.

So I've amended the percentage - time to beat now is 2:50.18. I'm quite happy that at that level, we'll get drivers who are not only pretty quick but also hopefully aware of what they're doing on track with relation to others.

Cheers

Joe Keaveney (iTCC Admin)

Hi racers,

Welcome to the first season of:

iTCC - The Touring Car Championship by iCON Racing Events.

This is a race series taking place in the first half of 2009, and will consist of six 'triple-header' rounds (3 races at each round). The car used will be the FXR restricted to 32%. The idea of this championship is for it be run, as far as is practical, in a similar way to both the BTCC and WTCC. This means a similar race format, with partially 'reversed' grids and also success ballast.

Timings for the race meetings will be Sundays at 1800 GMT (UTC)

Please make sure that before you sign up for this championship that you are eligible to enter.

Eligibility

To be eligibile to enter the iTCC you must be able to meet a minimum standard of outright pace - the iTCC requires that you can lap within 103% of a recognised benchmark. In this case it is Rudy Van Buren's fastest race lap from the Pre-Season meeting at Aston Grand Touring (AS6) - 2:45.22. So the time you will be required to beat is 2:50.18 (Sorry to those who signed up straight after this post, but this is the time you need to beat now - looking at your names, I know that won't be a problem)

When registering your interest in this series please submit a .spr hot lap of your racing at Aston Grand Touring (AS5)

Please submit the .spr as an attachment to your sign-up post.

Joining iTCC

Please signal your intention to join the iTCC by replying to this post with the following information as shown below:

• LFS Username :
  
• Real Name :
  
• Team :
  
• Eligible (Hotlap under 2:50.18) :
  
• Preferred Number :
  

If you competed in the Pre-Season meeting, as long as you meet the eligibility criteria, a place will available for you until 31/12/2008. After this time, no preference can be given to you.

Teams

There will be a team championship within the iTCC - each team is to consist of a maximum of two drivers. If there are more than two drivers in the championship who belong to the same team, you are more than welcome to enter as another team.

Race Numbers

Any numbers are available between 2 & 99 (the number 1 is only for use by series champions)

Allocation of race numbers is strictly on a first come first served basis.

Confirmation

The confirmed drivers have been informed. All other signed-up competitors are on the 'Reserve List'. There is a 'reserve shootout' system, please see the rules for more details.

Sign up is open from now until 2200 GMT (UTC) on 01/01/09. PMs will then be sent to the confirmed and reserve drivers with details of the first round. Sign-up to the Reserve List for the second and subsequent rounds will be open after the preceding round.

The first round is 11th January 2009 at 1800 GMT (UTC).

The iTCC website can be found here

Rules are here

Calendar is available in the Calendar thread.

Thank you to those drivers who made it to the Pre-Season meeting, the level of competition was absolutely fantastic - if we have that level of skill in the 1st season of the iTCC, this will be a great league!

Best of luck,

Joe Keaveney - iTCC Admin

TEAM ENTRIES:

New Dimension Racing - J. Atkinson, T. Hynninen
CoRe Racing #1 - K. Johnsen, Lukasz Malecki
CoRe Racing #2 - B. Keough, N. Scott
CoRe Racing #3 - F. Enersen, Á. Árnason
CoRe Racing #4 - M. Cherkashyn, P. Diaz
CoRe Racing #5 - K. Burns, L. Baker
iCON Racing - D. Zanetti, J.Jokela
iCON Racing Toro Rosso - T. Osterhouse, D. Novak
F1RST-Xfusion Racing - R. Van Buren, R. De Jong
RSRadicals #1 - N. Mul, A. Kirschetorte
RSRadicals #2 - S. Lees
GT Motorsports - G. Thilesen
Serbian Hell Drivers - M. Boljevic, V. Belenzada
WOOT Motorsport #1 - J. Ward, B. Grindle
WOOT Motorsport #2 - C. Wilkinson
Conquest Racing - M. Makalowski, P. Goik
Sonicrealms Racing #1 - V. Gruppelaar, C. Ford
Sonicrealms Racing #2 - K.A. Gjerde, C. Zörner
Sonicrealms Racing #3 - T. D'Souza, M. Meier
Sonicrealms Racing #4 - J. Matthews, J. Lovett
The Danish Racing Team - S. Mathei, G. Noll
SCPtm Serbian Chromed Pistons - C. Rosic
My3id Gaming - B. Crooks
Clockwork Motorsports - J.J. Wang, S. Moore
Renesis #1 - A. Laudens, D. Faurie
Renesis #2 - D. Jourdainne, E. Bitan
Renesis #3 - J. Souai
Serbian Racers - A. Ristic
CROtm Racing - J. Dimic, D. Vuckovic
GSR - K. Sørvig-Johansen
LLC - T. Klipikovas
Forcefield Motorsport - T. Oliver
LFS.se - N. Grans
AMT Sim Racing - N. Darko, P. Vladan
High Voltage Racing - E. Kasperniunas
KXR - P. Doležal
Mercury Racing Team - J. Pickard
FUBAR Racing - M. Ruis
Karma - R. Gonçalves, J. Miranda
Karma #2 - H. Marques
Legends Racing Team - T. Østgaard, S. A. Skavdal
C4Racing - F. Fredrikkson, E. Liibeon
Team Lithuania - S. Stankevičius, K. Gasiunas
Greek Virtual Racing Team - A. Perrs, G. Alamaras
Czech e-Racing Team - Z. Cagas
Driven By Passion - A. Turner
Parkfield Motorsport - A. Collett

All entries are in order of sign-up date

Sign-ups (from Pre-Season drivers)

26 J. Atkinson
57 R. Van Buren
19 R. De Jong
35 J. Ward
5 T. Osterhouse
13 A. Zadro
82 S. Mathei
34 Y. Laprevotte
77 D. Novak
18 J. Jokela
27 T. Hynninen
37 T. Oliver
20 N. Grans
4 D. Lobb
38 P. Doležal

Other Sign-ups (the Reserve List)

22 K. Johnsen
46 D. Zanetti
43 A.Kirschetorte
12 A. Moor
67 N. Mul
24 K. O'Keefe
7 M. Boljevic
93 D. Adelin
15 L. Malecki
55 M. Makalowski
8 V. Gruppelaar
9 C. Ford
56 P. Goik
33 B. Kough
11 C. Rosic
3 B. Crooks
16 N. Scott
61 J.J. Wang
47 D. Lind
41 A. Ristic
71 K. Gasiunas
36 G. Noll
73 J. Dimic
14 K. Sørvig-Johansen
29 T. Klipikovas
40 N. Darko
48 G. Thilesen
74 P. Vladan
99 F. Enersen
98 S. Stankevičius
97 S. Moore
96 E. Kasperniunas
44 Á. Árnason
69 H. Marques
23 J. Pickard
2 V. Belenzada
88 D. Vuckovic
94 A. Laudens
95 D. Faurie
92 M. Ruis
45 I. Abbas
6 C. Zörner
90 R. Gonçalves
91 J. Miranda
25 T. D'Souza
89 J. Matthews
87 J. Lovett
86 M. Cherkashyn
66 T. Østgaard
85 E. Bitan
42 S. A. Skavdal
84 M. Booth
83 F. Fredrikkson
81 E. Liibeon
80 M. Meier

All drivers on the Reserve List will participate in the 'Reserve Shootout' (See the Rules) in order to compete in the iTCC. The successful drivers will take up the remaining positions on the server that are not filled by the 'locked-in' drivers entered in the Driver's Championship.

Last edited by snoring_snoopy, Thu 23 Apr 2009, 07:07.

Hi Victor,

I'd like to ask you to create a subsection for ICON Racing Events, and within that sub-section, a sub-forum for iTCC Season 1.

We've recently held a pretty successful pre-2009-season race meeting which went pretty smoothly and was generally well-received. The forum link for that event is : http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=50941. The replays for that meeting can be found at the above link and the broadcasts can be found at http://iconracing.co.uk/itcctv.htm

Our website for the iTCC Touring Car Championship is at : http://itcc.iconracing.co.uk and for the RACCAR championship (RAC-only) at http://raccar.iconracing.co.uk.

The iTCC Championship will run from January onwards. The RACCAR Championship will follow on soon after that. The sign-ups for the iTCC Championship will open as soon as the sub-section is up and running.

If anything is missing, I would very much appreciate any feedback.

Thanks,

Joe Keaveney (iCON)

Good luck to Team Ireland!

Great to see an all-Irish team - when will we see the first 'All-Ireland LFS League' then?

I'm in if that's okay? LX6 please!!

ICON JOE (Joe_Keaveney)

Just like in F1 - make sure you beat your team-mates! Ah they're great guys..

Yeah, all very good points.

I'm in agreement, immersion is what sim-racing is all about to me. Do I feel (as far as it is possible) like I am racing for real?

When a car is on it's roof/immobile after an incident, why is there no recovery-truck? When tyres are hit, why do they disappear after a short time?

I agree with Becky for what my opinion is worth. How closely do tyre dynamics need to be explored? The environmental aspects of the simulation are equally important in immersing us in the race, suspending our sense of reality - they should be given equal attention.

Ah man, felplacerad is coming? And Bob?

If they're going, I'm going (if Tristan lets me). It was great to race some of you guys at Bob's meet in the summer. BTW I may be able to put up a driver or two overnight as i live in Wiltshire, just up the road. Note the 'maybe'!

Can't believe felplacerad will come (again!) from Gothenburg for this. You're properly dedicated to your racing man. Respect.

Quote from AndroidXP :

Or you just use the Live Alert feature of LFSW.

Well that's one solution, but the problem is I can't LFS Join to work.

Anyway, I really do think this would be a good feature to have.

A suggestion that I would see as being an improvement to LFS.

On the 'multiplayer' selection screen, it would be, in my opinion, a good idea to have 'See friends online' instead of 'find user online'

This 'see friends online' would take you to another screen where you can add or remove friends - adding them by LFS-username, or removing them by clicking on an 'X' button next to their name or something.

You could also see which friends are online, and at which server they are racing on - if you clicked on the friends' name or the server name displayed, this would then take you to the page to join the server.

Expanding the idea one stage further, you could add a button in-game to 'add as friend' (a button saying AF in the connections list?), with the corresponding button on the potential friend's display illuminating to indicate a friend request has been made. (In much the same way the handover/takeover system works). The potential friend would then click on this illuminated AF button to confirm the friend request.

What do you think? Is it a good idea? I get these ideas and then look at them later and think 'what a pile of ****', but this one has stuck with me for a while now and I think it's a pretty good idea.

Looking forward to your comments..