+1 to lollipop man, pit crews, designated pit boxes & optional team allocations for individual pit boxes & customizable signage over each.

u know what we need ?

we need the lights sistem that ferrari has so when we get out of our box we go in the path of Adrian Sutil's force india

I said no, its useless. And come to think of it, maybe a ferrari system. Just a red and green light oh the HUD. go before green light and either get stuck or a penalty etc. But even that, whats the point? Theres no use for it except in leagues which would be very handy.

maximum eye-candy is not very important right now, and won't be for quite some time. The devs need to figure out the final car models, physics and tracks.

Yeah aoun, because the Ferrari system works so damn well

Really though, it'd be nice to have an idea exactly where your garage is, whether a lollipop man or just your name floating there at the end of your spot (as it does above your car).

You always return to the same one when you shift+P from the track and it would add a little to the realism. At the moment, you have to just pick a spot, any spot. Not only that but there's no indication where to stop the car. Many times I've come in to pit, parked in whatever spot (after some guesswork), only to be honked at or just punked out the way by someone leaving their garage. Just having your name at the end of your own pit-spot would be fine. You'd have a definite place to stop your car every time, eliminating the guesswork we currently have to use: stop, inch forward, stop.

In Grand Prix Legends, there's just a little black board with your name on it at the end of your pit spot. Easy to see and provides a definite place to stop. GPL's a ten-year old game too, so you'd think it wouldn't be too difficult to include something similar into LFS. Also in GPL, only your pit board is visible to you so there's no confusion as to who goes where.

The idea in itself, is a great one, and I agree wholly.

However, due to the fact that when we exit the garage, we're teleported to whichever pit is convenient/available/what-have-you, and we can stop at any pit space [regardless of pit usage] it would be unneccessary.

+1 for the thought.

+1 good idea.

I don't get why everyone is saying there's only 16 places for 32 drivers, because that's what it is now too.

+1 for designated pits, and lollipop men. Even just a pole at the moment with the possibility of a jump start would be a good start...

Also, to add to this suggestion it'd be cool if the pit lights actually worked. Not to recreate some quality Hamilton moments, but just because they're there

-1.

I see it as rather pointless. I'd much rather have the game store the number of the garage you were in. Then LFS store it in the F12 menu with other pit info and options. I'd only want the lollipop man if the whole pit crew came along.

+1 very good idea . And how about the full pitcrew?

Quote from TexasLTU :

+1 very good idea . And how about the full pitcrew?

Hi TexasLTU,

Of course the full pitcrew is the ideal, but due to the constraints I have suggested only the lollipop man as a benchmark for pitstop. Here is a simple example for full pitcrew. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... se_Mg&feature=related

YES, I'm adding vote to this reuest and adding few words of my suggestion.
As in real race, in the Pit Box stop, there if car is stopped, one of the team man put the STOP table (Lollipop) on the engine bonnet. It can be fix painted passive table, or electronical type with red, yellow, green lights. Whether electronical type or passive table, leave this decission on the developers.
Then if pit service going to the end of car repair, tyre changes, refueling, then table (Lollipop) will change to yellow and if all is done, then change it to green or GO and car can go back on the track (race). It make possibilities to false start from PIT, but will be penalized, something as false race start. But it make more realistic race feeling. Can be created this in LFS?

What if I preferred a lollipop woman?

What abaut the lollipop guy runs out to pit garage And puts the lollipop in your bonnet. When you are ready to go back to track he just raises the lollipop and you go and he run back to garage.

Sorry my bad english.

+1 from me. I tend to sit very low in the cockpit. So I always miss the pit boxes ftl

Quote from d3boy2002 :

my god, i hate having to choose pitboxes lol i lose so much time sometimes. I brake as late as possible, only to find myself having to take the pitbox in front of the one i was aiming for. Some kind of pit box notification would be amazing.

+1

some kind of pit box notification would made pitting much easier and real, and that would be a plus
it coud be done in a quite simple way, when you enter the pit lane the server picks a first free pit box for you and shows a big sign with your helmet design and name in front of it, so that you simply stop at it, and you get the message with the pit box number assigned to you

I like this idea, would be great in league races when many cars pits on same time.

A lollipop man would fit perfectly with the possibility of really control the car on a pitstop.

I mean, you have to stop in a certain place (this already occours, and people can train to do it perfectly, as real drivers do). Then, while changing tires, you have to set neutral/clutch and push the brake pedal (to avoid wheel spin, mainly on center lock racing wheels). When it's finished, the guy turns the lollipop to the "throttle + gear" side. With the refuelling completed, lollipop is off and you go.

If we can do mistakes on the start, why can't we do them on a pitstop? It's just... real.