I purchased the license for the d/l of LFS. :headbang: It has an option to start your own track. Is that a server or do I have to install something else? I get racer visiting the track I started, but I can't put messages on the front, or stop racers from starting a race until I want it started.I also want to know how to stop the AIs from wobbling while they drive. It causes unnecessary wrecks.
When you host a game in multiplayer other people can connect to it and you appear on the master server, but the message at the front I think is a feature of the dedicated server software (a low cpu % usage version of the game which just has a text console and lets machines with big internet connections host several concurrent races).
You can't stop a race restart vote that i'm aware of, LFS is the ultimate democracy in that sense (there might be a command to cancel a vote but i'm not sure).
There's no helping the AI. They do learn, theoretically, as it is a learning AI. Unfortunately they dont have much cranial capacity to put their learning into !
I don't really know what you mean by a message on the front. Is that the welcome message when someone is joining? You can create a small text file file.txt and type /welcome=file.txt into LFS.
If you are host you can stop a race restart by pressing ESC during the countdown. You can also disable guests from voting completely, in the Start New Game screen, or by typing /vote=no after you've started the host.
These useful commands will not show up, when you type /help.
Penalties :
/p_dt USERNAME :give drive through penalty /p_sg USERNAME :give stop-go penalty /p_30 USERNAME :give 30 second time penalty /p_45 USERNAME :give 45 second time penalty
Race Control Messages : (big text in centre of screen)
/rcm MESSAGE :set a Race Control Message to be sent /rcm_ply USERNAME :send the RCM to USERNAME /rcm_all :send the RCM to all /rcc_ply USERNAME :clear USERNAME's RCM /rcc_all :clear all RCMs
If you want to cancel the restarting (voting) manually, press escape. If you want LFS to do it for you:
/rstmin X :no restart for X seconds after race start /rstend X :no restart for X seconds after race finish
Scawen told you, how to use welcome command. I think that's all. Look in your LFS/Docs/Commands.txt for all the commands avalaible.
EDIT: If you want your server to tell a message, when somebody joins (not is joining), you can use an useful program Automessage by Crazyice, but don't overuse it, or the messages will get annoying. There is also a tool called LFSLapper, but it's pretty hard to set it up. It can do pretty powerful things tough.
EDIT2: The AI system is not yet updated for S2, it can get a bit better, if you leave them to do a 100 laps for example, but LFS is a online simulator, after all.
I get racer visiting the track I started, but I can't put messages on the front, or stop racers from starting a race until I want it started.
I also want to know how to stop the AIs from wobbling while they drive. It causes unnecessary wrecks.