Vain, for the idea of limiting practice, I really think we'll need assistance from the devs. A system to stop you from driving single player or online on a specific combo (or the track altogether, both forwards and reversed) outside the practice times for the league you have signed up for would be a great addition to leagues in LFS. Ie. signups for a league end say 3 weeks before the first race. Until that time, combos are not disclosed. Then each player isn't allowed to drive the then disclosed combos until that race has passed. You get the just of it. Only sad thing is that the system would be easy to get around but I'm sure something can be worked out making it pretty difficult for people to cheat it and not worth the effort.

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Evading mobile chicanes is a skill you're supposed to learn on the low servers. You just have to get to silver. That's manageable for everyone except perhaps slow moving mobile chicanes. :smile:

hehe its probably just so that is this bad ... more open tracks should make the deal more manageable
mobile chicanes are one thing ... mobile chicanes with no place to go a whole other

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@axus: What I talk about is keeping the combo secret until the practice&quali session actually starts. Before that you can drive random combos, but you won't know which one will be the one for the race.

I know, but you need to let people know about the race at least 2 days in advance so they can make a setup, considering the fact that we have no multiplayer telemetry... but that still leaves it a bit unfair. And to let them know an hour before the race won't work IMO.

/me puts a thinking cap on and tries to think of something to make this work for LXCC2.

Have you guys seen this? It's not LX4, but it sure is random
http://www.lfsforum.net/calend ... amp;day=2007-2-28&c=2

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I know, but you need to let people know about the race at least 2 days in advance so they can make a setup, considering the fact that we have no multiplayer telemetry... but that still leaves it a bit unfair. And to let them know an hour before the race won't work IMO.

Announcing the Track 1 Hour before the Race would be fine with me. This would create the same premises for everyone.
I have about 5 Setups i regularly use, 1 for fast tracks, one for tight twisty tracks, and so on. So finding a Setup wouldn't be a problem imo.

Yay! I love it! I'm a born-again LX4 racer!

what was the reason the lx8 was canned again? Something about it not being able to be mixed with other cars fairly or something?

I think it would of been fine in it's own class

Remember the old tire physics? How fun was it to drive the LX6 back then?

Now ask again...

I agree with the comment that driving the LRF cars really helps one's skill all around. With the first season of LXCC, I drove the LX6 most of the time. Between the extra practice, and driving the LX6 all the time... my driving made a marked improvment in general, and now every time I drive a combo that I haven't since LXCC, I set a new PB within 2 laps almost invariably.

And I also would be all for noone knowing the combo until race time, there's no need to know beforehand - what's the point of knowing for 2 days? The only downfall I could forsee with that type of venue is that there will be some people who know the combo extensively while others who've never tried it before. But, that's the luck of the draw; the tables could be turned the next week.

That type of system would also weed out the master setup makers advantage.

More than this, I would still like to see the option to force "stock" setups on the road cars. A field of jelly suspensioned open diff XRTs! yeehaw!

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Something LX8 like

Thats cool, Lotus 7 meets Pagani The Z Cars twin-Hayabusa Westfield was similarly awesome, but much more simple and road legal ... can't find any photos of it now

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Vain, for the idea of limiting practice, I really think we'll need assistance from the devs. A system to stop you from driving single player or online on a specific combo (or the track altogether, both forwards and reversed) outside the practice times for the league you have signed up for would be a great addition to leagues in LFS.

That is a very good reason to quit LFS, if there weren't hotlaps.... If this option would come, I would instantly put up a 2nd PC (I have 70% parts somewhere already, so it wouldn't cost much). It would connect to the outside world only when I unlock LFS and then it would stay offline mode. And now I'm gonna steal a quote from another thread:

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And some of us, like me, really need the practise

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Thats cool, Lotus 7 meets Pagani The Z Cars twin-Hayabusa Westfield was similarly awesome, but much more simple and road legal ... can't find any photos of it now

when i was talking about the lx8, i was actually talking about the lx8 that was presented in some pre-alphas.

it was slicked lx with around 350bhp and much wider tyres

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when i was talking about the lx8, i was actually talking about the lx8 that was presented in some pre-alphas.

it was slicked lx with around 350bhp and much wider tyres

Ah right