The problem i see with that is the host then has to increase the bandwidth quite a lot to accomodate the streamers. This could affect the online collision detection; which is already an issue sometimes.
not really a problem, because you will never stream from the race server, but from a connected LFS client. Indeed you will have 2 different servers, one server is the race server and the other server is the sreaming server. And the location of the streaming server may be completely different from the location of the race server.
In fact, meanwhile streaming is commonly used by some leagues or for some events (especially 24 hour races).
and they have uploaded the streams too they are really worth to watch. Look here: http://www.esport-racing.com/media.php
(my favorite ones are the Aston North race, the Westhill race and the Aston National race of the International eTM)
This idea is probably going to be shot down in flames but ...
What about an LFSW streaming MPR relay? Of course it would be a paid extra.
What would be a good feature for LFS that is semi-related is to have a TV director built in to LFS, and an overlays system with skinnable images to be used.
well, its kinda like that, the client whos spectating on the race server is not gonna stream just what he is actually seeing, but the whole data from the server, so we can connect from our lfs and watch from whichever angle or car we want
There was (is?) a wonderful program that streamed the replays (created the replay in realtime) in LFS. It worked really nicely and you didn't take any slots.
Appart from the fun, the main reason why I would like to see this in LFS is because people would start having a clue about professional racers/races and their levels
