Quote from Eric :

34 slots, yes.

Is 32 or 40 the common number of grid positions?

40 is common, especially for weekly pick-up series.

The pitlane on your proposed new configuration is very small however, so you could leave extra grid slots to the layout editor, as with others.

Fantastic stuff, Eric!

Very nice.

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Quote from Tomfuel :

what race simulator do you run on it ?

I hope this wasn't a serious question.

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This is one hell of a piece of kit, and I admire you for sticking at it. Best of luck this year!

I tried the free trial, and yeah, it doesn't work.

Quote from Flame CZE :

I use PlayOnMac: https://www.playonmac.com/en/

As you know, I tried this on Apple silicon, and it didn't work so well with LFS. I'm going to try Dustin's suggestions above.

We're almost a third of the way through 2023 and already we've seen a great number of events being organised, and many of those organisers have partnered with Sim Broadcasts to expose their series to the community.

We're really keen to grow our broadcast effort in Live for Speed, and that's why we're recruiting those who are keen to get involved in Sim Racing, but from the other side of the lens.

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Quote from xolan1993 :

So mainly the goal here isnt to make a copy of LFS but to document the binary for mod development.

That sounds like a different kettle of fish to what's going on in the LFSLazy thread. Maybe pinging the devs an email might be a good starting point to see what they think about that idea, before you sink too much more time into it.

All of the data in our broadcasts is pulled via InSim, but that car graphic is generated before the broadcast from the skins teams submit.

Quote from Gutholz :

Sometimes broadcasts use overlays for position lists etc, I do not know how they do that.

With InSim.

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Thanks for your effort. We've had Landrovers Defenders in our family forever, so it's cool to have one to use in LFS!

The classic cheats (speedhacks, ghosting etc.) were so easy to detect in LFS such that it was enough of a deterrent in most cases. I think you're right that the current community is built on trust, and with it being so tightly knit, I think that helps.

There have been cases in the not so distant past where people have been using cheats in high profile events, but once you cheat and are caught, your name is tainted and it takes a long time for you to be accepted or trusted again: either a) you work hard to build your reputation back up, or b) the people who knew you were a cheater move on.

If LFS' player base were to grow again, we might see more people cheating, but I think we're in a comfortable place with this issue at the moment that it isn't really something we see discussed anymore.

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Round 5 VOD:

Quote from jmeade :

Lets face it, I probably deserved it

• First being introduced to LFS at my dad's work in 2003 during a school holiday and beating all his colleagues at RallyX in the XFG.
  
• Getting S1 for my 11th birthday in 2004
  
• Annoying Boothy on Fragmaster's Ventrilo server by telling everyone to "Press i to get a boost off the line" at the start of every race.
  
• CTRA. I miss it.
  
• Getting banned for 12 hours from Fragmaster's Oval Junkies and subsequently finding [TC] CityDriving in 2007
  
• Joining the [TC] team in October 2007
  
• Countless hours of laughs and fun on the [TC] LFS and Teamspeak servers with the great community over there.
  
• Competing in Genuine Racing leagues with the [TC] Racing team.
  
• Organising the 2015 [TC] CityDriving Gumball Rally with almost 200 entries.
  
• CityLiga. Enough said. I even made a video to commemorate the series when it ended.
  
• Cargame.nl S2.
  
• My first CityLiga Grid 1 win, but especially beating Cali Winkler and Patrick Kunbinji (just).
  
• Trying LFS in VR for the first time.
  
• Accidentally agreeing to broadcast the NDR LFS S3 Voucher Giveaway event in 2016.
  
• Entering the British 24 Hour Kart Race with a bunch of my team mates at [TC] (we later started Rethink Racing)
  
• Deciding to hang up my racing gloves and start Sim Broadcasts with Chris and Deko on 22nd February 2020
  

I've made a lot of great memories since then, but it's not yet nostalgic, so I'll leave my summary there! I probably forgot a lot of things.

Quote from w126 :

I wonder why Sim Broadcasts producers don't use live multiplayer replays to make their streams smoother.
I hope one day there is more seamless equivalent of this feature in LFS. I mean, it probably wouldn't hurt if the action was delayed by around 1 second when spectating in multiplayer mode and then the game could interpolate steering inputs and maybe do other things that make playing mprs smoother looking than live action. This way every LFS event streamed to yt/twitch (not while driving, obviously) would look better.

We're actively working on this.

The technical limitation for us right now is the time it takes for the replay to spool to an event when you choose a timestamp. This problem is exacerbated in longer races with many cars. Any solution relies on 2+ LFS clients for this feature to work reliably during live broadcasts, and is non-trivial.

Fantastic

That's excellent!

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