Everyone can and will do it thus making it even. No point putting ambient at 10'C because you have cold tyres that don't heat up. So you end up having to leave it around or just under default.
No fuel or tyre consumption just means that you have a theoretical lap that you can actually achieve.
Being fastest doesn't mean anything when there's no mod detection either. At this point it's easy to, for example, decrease car mass by 50kg and increase power and downforce by a couple of percent. You can make changes that are difficult to detect but will have significant performance impact. Until there's proper mod detection and (hopefully) some form of official leaderboard these hotlap times should be considered entertainment and taken with a pinch of salt.
edit: Note that I'm not actually accusing anyone of cheating to get to the top of leaderboards; I'm just saying that at this point it's possible.
Sure, it's still possible in LFS to cheat on the hotlap rankings, but it's much more difficult (with the detection system on LFS World). I've got no doubt that there will be a similar type of detection system in AC (it just makes sense), but for the moment there isn't.
Very wrong. LFS has no 3rd party detection. It can only detect if something in the game has been altered. Grip mod etc is undetectable.
Plus the multitude of LFS 3rd party shizzle for people there to use is alot different to AC where if you were that adamant on cheating you'd have to code or make some kind of cheat yourself.
So, the part of the process of validation that's done automatically on LFS World to make sure the replay is of a genuine lap wouldn't be able to detect if a grip hack tool (or similar) had been used at the time the replay was recorded? You're saying that it would only be able to detect (through "JOOS - CAR", for example) changes that the player had made to the car model? If that is what you're saying, do you have any proof of that assertion?
So, to be clear, you used some form of hack (e.g. a grip hack), you uploaded the .spr to LFS World hotlaps and the lap was considered valid by LFS World? If so, when did this happen and can you provide a copy of the replay, please?
I didn't upload the replay. I was under the impression that the main body of the 'cheat protection' was done via the game .exe itself rather than lfsworld web coding.
I also don't have the replay as I'm on a new system now and all that shizzle was expendable so when I formatted my harddrive to put in my new system all the replays went with it. (i'm not really a sentimental person anyway).
Trust whoever you want Ray. My times aren't setting the world on fire. So you should be pretty sure I'm not using any 3rd party software.
Regarding cheating these are the people that avoid a challenge at all costs but with LFS in particular it's a sim that I've never been quick at but I'm addicted to it because of the challenge it gives to me. That would be ruined by cheating of any kind.
Totally useless. Why did you think I specifically mentioned checks done on LFS World before? Just because you managed to get grip_h4x.exe working locally means absolutely nothing when it comes to cheating the actual hotlap rankings (which I've been talking about from the start and you agreed with me that that's what we were talking about).