I thought it was Max's job?

Setups cannot be forced on people so it is harder to keep the balance, and yes, we already use people balast but it is no where near enough and again relies on people being honest (although we can see if they have them in or not).

It's is always a bitter sweet day when a new and decent Sim comes along to upsurp the last. I still have GPL and GTR and intend on getting GTR2 when it comes out, but LFS has been on my HDD in demo form for ages, only recently got the cash together to get it. Worth every penny and then some. So far I've convinced 3 folk to go buy Steering/wheel pedals and the game by letting them play the LX4 and 6 and the V8 single seater. OMG such good fun.


How can you beat that beer analogy?

I help run a local lan group for Glasgow Uni, we have a small number of people that can race, and a larger number of people who enjoy LFS. In order to get the most out of the game we have to keep the races short (those counter strike boys can't concentrate for more than 5min at a time). However for us racers there is not much challenge in a 5 min race. If you are faster and don't screw up you win. If I could scale the tyre wear to a value that actually meant that racing hard for 5-10 laps would require a pit stop then those that are using thier tyres would need to pit, and those that are not using thier tyres could stay out. Can't see much use for online servers and such like but for local events and tourneys it could be usefull. No? Thought I'd ask anyway.

I am the server admin for the local Uni net gaming society (guns.snakebomb.com). Having started everyone playing LFS demo over the past year, it has come time when we shift up to S2 (Yay). However one of the major problems I have in the game is controlling the people playing it. Having a hardcore option, or the features that have been proposed as a server side option would be hugely advantageous for me as, so far, the only real options I have is to limit the car they are driving and set the race distance. Can you imagine a Quake 3 tourney where you were allowed to change your veiw? Or a Counter Strike tourney where your teammates turn out to be using joypads? Simply not enough control. Forcing veiws and suchlike would also discourage silly behavoir that was exhibited at our last lan where 2 lads decided to play micro machines style. No problem for me, but for those that were behind them at any stage it was a nightmare. Other options like tyre wear rate and fuel consumption scaling would be nice and would also need to be locked in a hardcore mode.