So, I thought that maybe it would be good to change the color of the setups that include the name of the current track we are about to drive on, in case we have just joined the server, or in case you are new to LFS and don't yet know the track names by heart. You know, the default color right now(if you haven't picked a different color for the setup name of course) is black... So I thought maybe change it to something lighter. Like light gray, which we already have as default for /msg messages anyway. Or maybe to make it better for the eyes to note the difference and respond faster, maybe the blue, that is used to announce that a new guest is connecting. Or whatever color seems good for there - just different from the current one.

And I don't mean only the short track name, but also make it work when it contains either the long track name or the configuration name.

Also one more thing: Some people may want to remove the spaces from the track/configuration/both names to save space, so maybe check if records exist with and in the same time without spaces(that didn't sound quite right, but I hope you got what I wanted to say).

+1

Good idea.

I don't quite get what you mean, although I'm not quite awake yet so that's my problem.

I've always thought regarding setups that they should be track specific. The game currently recognises that the setup is for a certain car by using the CAR_ prefix. It would be great if it would be possible to extend that to tracks as well. Then for example if I am in the Fox and I am on a server running SO6 I would only see setups I have for that track and car and not every setup for the Fox I have.

I'm sure a lot of people end up putting the track code into the setup name anyway... ky3-qual or something similar. I just think it would make the long list of setups we currently have smaller and more tidy on a track by track basis.

I understand now I think, we are almost talking about the same thing but coming at it from different sides. You would like to retain every single setup for a certain car but you somehow have the setups for the current track you are connected to highlighted in some way whereas I was taking away all the other setups that didn't match the track.

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I understand now I think, we are almost talking about the same thing but coming at it from different sides. You would like to retain every single setup for a certain car but you somehow have the setups for the current track you are connected to highlighted in some way whereas I was taking away all the other setups that didn't match the track.

Exactly. But well, your idea could be extended to make it better too. Since it's a set for the car, then why not be able to access it(let me give you an example: a stupid thing, imo, in LFS is that when you save a layout for a specific track, you can not load it on the reversed version of that very same track+configuration - not the same thing, but I hope you will get the point :razz. So, then, another solution from your suggestion came to my mind: Why not have: STT(Show setups for This Track only); STC(Show setups for This Configuration only); HOT(Hide setups for Other Tracks, eg: Show the setups that contain this track's name or do not match with any other track) and SAT(Show setups for All Tracks), and yet when in SAT mode, still highlight the ones, the names of which match this track's and/or configurations' names.

Anyway, in that case it might become a little overdone, so maybe it would be the best if we just stick to the main idea.

That's already available in the hosts list. Except the lap/laps, iirc. And it's not gonna be that efficient imo.