Indeed, back in the day, I would prefer a general set rather than a different set for AS3 and AS3R, f.e.. The set and it's familiarity, behaviour and predictability was more important than the last 0,1s-1s of WR laptime.
Still, I am in debt to many setsharers of my current LFSW and pre-LFSW rankings. (I prolly should name names, but I don't remember the names I met in person last week :facepalm
I confess (ages and ages ago), when I found out the sets were unencrypted and somewhat easy to steal for a ½:nerd:, I borrowed some sets from the WR BL1/XRT replays . Incidentally, from the same people, that would later share their set if one would ask on a server after loosing to them.
If you want equal opportunities, then ask for fixed setup server ability
I have petitioned for fixedset, mandatory cockpit view and manual shifter and clutch option for server admins since this forum was in RSC. I gather that this wasn't that much popular request, so, we don't have it now or the foreseeable future.
For public racing, sure be as arcade as you want
Are chess, rubik's cube, etc, -championships 'arcade'?
Is it not the most penultimate race when everybody races on level playing field/track (In LFS's case, par PC/HW-specs and ISP performance)? If you and your possibly salaried[best|worst example] personnel, associates or friends can setup your car, predict or guess the weather or other racer's race strategy do you really count that as individual racedriver's skill?
If for one particular track the default LFS's set is absolutely wrong for that track, do you really hold it against it those that can't properly setup their car? I can't setup my car beyond aero and gears if my money depended on it. But could reach within 1s of BL1/XRT WR with a donated set back in the day.
Warning CPU ussage > 95%. What does it mean? What's wrong with it? I would want it to be 100% all the time
Lets say you have pint. It's empty, you can do what the ever you want with. Then you fill it 50% with beer, you can do pretty much the same as with empty pint with out spilling, but be more careful. Then you fill the same pint to 95% of beer, you need to be really careful not to spill, even a single wrong move can make you spill your beer. Fill the same pint with 110% -> :drink:
That was the 1st Green Hell server I joined, was seriously sad to find it didn't work, thought it was something wrong with the track period, affecting all servers.... the next one did however work and had awesome race with 'Hensen'
Now where to find my race history, to find out the server Hoe was hosting........ guess not.
1st online race ever:
Qualy: 2nd - so podium place
Race start, everybody crashes into to me since I was still in the previous race about to start screen.
Result: I won on a combo I never drove on, by 2minutes.
Transported to pits, I magically drove through everybody else sitting in pits, and booted off the server?