I went in to work with my dad for a few days once during a school holiday and him and his work mates would play LFS during their lunch hour. I played it the whole time I was there and by Friday, I was winning everything. After that I set up LFS on the home computer and the rest is history.

Jump to 16 years later and some of my best friends are people I met in this community. We've run a kart team together in the UK since 2016.

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Live stream replay for round 26: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isenYQ6KsYo



Qualifying start @ 5:42: https://youtu.be/isenYQ6KsYo?t=342
Race 1 start @ 26:00: https://youtu.be/isenYQ6KsYo?t=1560
Race 2 start @ 53:53: https://youtu.be/isenYQ6KsYo?t=3233

Last edited by mbutcher, Wed, 1 Jul 2020 00:23.

A lot of people will be in the same boat as you. I would advocate for an archive of all hotlaps and PBs, even if it's just for statistics nerds and/or nostalgia. There's a lot of data there which has a lot of history. We already lost historical data of a few older versions of tracks over the years so I'm not sure if the Devs would consider this.

Quote from MicroSpecV :

Although I have a sneaking suspicion that it will be released in two separate stages...

https://www.lfs.net/forum/post/1954925#post1954925

Quote from Scawen :

I hope to release the new tyre physics with the graphical update.

Quote from Paprika6 :

Are the new tracks going to affect lap times and uploaded hotlaps?

Yes. Especially considering it's likely this will be released with the new tyre physics.

Quote from LakynVonLegendaus :

Thanks, I was looking for your post haha. First image seems broken btw.

Seems fine to me, it's just a part of the track that wasn't open before.

Quote from NumberTwo :

i manually checked all 50odd usernames and copied them into msg adress bar

This is common practice. Those message chains sometimes turn into a discussion, the downside of which is that everyone gets a notification about replies, which some people probably find annoying. We should be promoting discussions, so this is one argument to support the close-coupling of the leagues sub-forums and the leagues page.

Live stream replay for round 25: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFHqujU2yyE



Qualifying start @ 8:53: https://youtu.be/mFHqujU2yyE?t=533
Race 1 start @ 31:05: https://youtu.be/mFHqujU2yyE?t=1865
Race 2 start @ 59:05: https://youtu.be/mFHqujU2yyE?t=3545

Last edited by mbutcher, Wed, 24 Jun 2020 00:45.

All good suggestions. This isn't strictly a suggestion for administrators but it's something that could help participation and awareness of leagues and events:

Having more integration between the leagues section and the corresponding forum subsections would be a bonus so that discussions are closely coupled to that system. In addition to the options we have available (the list and calendar), perhaps something could be done to mimic what the LFS Twitter handle has been putting out occasionally: A summary of the day/week's events (example) on other pages of the LFS website. This could be shown in a small panel to the side of the LFS homepage or somewhere on the forum. On that subject, I do feel like the forum index page could be narrower and other information could be shown on the side somewhere. Or the forum could be made full-width with room for this other information.

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Last edited by mbutcher, Mon, 22 Jun 2020 08:42.

Ever considered running a once-a-month event with races at a few of your layouts?

So, when's the race?

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Damn Thilo.

Live stream replay for round 24: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn0EnFeKj3U



Qualifying start @ 6:15: https://youtu.be/mn0EnFeKj3U?t=375
Race 1 start @ 31:24: https://youtu.be/mn0EnFeKj3U?t=1884
Race 2 start @ 58:27: https://youtu.be/mn0EnFeKj3U?t=3507

Last edited by mbutcher, Wed, 17 Jun 2020 00:01.

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Round 4 livestream replay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvFpadJgG_s

Last edited by mbutcher, Sun, 14 Jun 2020 00:59.

Live stream replay for round 23: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE-CyoIYxNE



Qualifying start @ 12:40: https://youtu.be/wE-CyoIYxNE?t=760
Race 1 start @ 34:45: https://youtu.be/wE-CyoIYxNE?t=2095
Race 2 start @ 1:08:50: https://youtu.be/wE-CyoIYxNE?t=4130

Last edited by mbutcher, Wed, 10 Jun 2020 02:18.

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Live stream replay for round 22: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4SplazgT0c



Qualifying start @ 11:56: https://youtu.be/l4SplazgT0c?t=716
Race 1 start @ 36:05: https://youtu.be/l4SplazgT0c?t=2165
Race 2 start @ 1:11:45: https://youtu.be/l4SplazgT0c?t=4305

Last edited by mbutcher, Tue, 2 Jun 2020 23:52.

Nice words Isaac, good luck in the 24hr!

Round 3 livestream replay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eGMEpCx_ag

Last edited by mbutcher, Sun, 31 May 2020 00:24.