It'd be nice to see the auto-download feature matured a little. Let the end user select which types of skins to download. For instance, enable auto skin downloading and disable auto helmet downloads. In the future, if we get custom suits, allow us to enable or disable auto downloading of them, too. Some people have suggested server-defined ads, pit markers, etc. Allowing us the option to decide to download them or not (if they ever become a part of LFS) would be nice.

A lot of people don't want custom suits and other textures because it's too much to load when joining a server. Allowing the user to pick which items to download automatically would give the best of both worlds; let those of us who want it all to have it, those who don't want any to not have any, and those who only want some things (IE just skins) to have what they want.

When it comes to replays, having a seperate query for each of the options could come up. Right now, when loading a replay with a skin you don't have, the game asks if you want to download it(them). It could ask if you want to download the skins, then helmets, then pit textures, etc etc.

Just a thought..

Take a look. I do believe I've seen the option to download cars and helmets separately. I remember thinking it would have been nice to have that when I was on dialup and attempting to download 1 skin at a time, but having all the helmets that I can't see racing anyways downloading.

Bah, really? Dang, someone beat me to it!

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Bah, really? Dang, someone beat me to it!

Umm, yeah... i think it's under "misc" in the options.

HAHAHA oh man, seeing that pic I now remember seeing that when I was re-configuring after the X installation. Oh man, don't I look the fool? :P