I've searched through the forum and Suggested Improvements Log but couldn't find something similar, so I'm posting my suggestion in a new thread.

I would find it useful to have the name(s) of the driver(s) you just had contact with shown in the log/history. Sometimes you get bumped, but trying to recover your car you didn't get the chance to see who actually did it. Or otherwise, you hit someone accidently and want to excuse yourself to the other car. But who was it? If the contact was light and without severe impact for both drivers the "Sorry" key is sufficient enough. It doesn't matter to know who the other guy was. A simple sorry will do.

But sometimes you cause a crash where the other driver loses a lot of time or places, or you end up in a crash going off yourselves. In these cases I'd like to excuse myself personally to the other driver or ask for an explanation why the other car hit me. Especially this last case seems useful to me because in close pack racing there are often some over-enthousiastic drivers that force you to go off the track but never apologize.

So all I'd like to see is just the name of the driver you just hit appearing in the log/history.

It may be even useful to have this information shown to all drivers. Especially during starts or t1's crashes are frequently caused by the same drivers. Now you often don't know who actually caused the crash unless you view the replay and this often causes the wrong people accused of being wreckers. For example, someone on my tail brakes to late for t1, smashes into another car which hits me an causes me to hit yet another car (yeah t1's often turn into complete mayhem ). The driver in that car thinks I caused the whole accident and starts a kick vote. If the "contact" information was shown on screen it would be easier for everyone to see which cars made first contact. And while that doesn't necessarely tell which of both was faulty, it gives a good indication if a certain user's name keeps popping up.


A second suggestion I have is the ability to have the tyre temperatures as well as the drivers positions list displayed both at the same time. Now it's either one, but not both. Playing at 1920x1200, with a high FOV I have plenty of room for both (most of the screen is just cockpit without real use), so I'd really love to see an option in the game to have both shown at the same time. I like keeping an eye on my tyre temperatures, but I also like to know who's in front of me or tailing me and at what time.

How about a small dialoge would popup asking you if you wanted to kick/ban/spectate the player who hit you? By dialoge I mean it would'nt interfere with the game, just press F1 for kick, F2 for ban, etc.

Quote from wheel4hummer :

How about a small dialoge would popup asking you if you wanted to kick/ban/spectate the player who hit you? By dialoge I mean it would'nt interfere with the game, just press F1 for kick, F2 for ban, etc.

How about No.

Quote from SatCP :

I would find it useful to have the name(s) of the driver(s) you just had contact with shown in the log/history.

This is available in the "Online Race Results" section on LFS World. You can see the usernames of those with whom you just raced. Although I am not endorsing using the LFS World messaging system as a means to express your concerns with the driving abilities of certain individuals, that feature is available for communication with any LFS licsensed driver.

Quote from wheel4hummer :

How about a small dialoge would popup asking you if you wanted to kick/ban/spectate the player who hit you? By dialoge I mean it would'nt interfere with the game, just press F1 for kick, F2 for ban, etc.

I don't want a system that makes banning and voting even easier than it already is. Although there are wreckers out there where such a system would be welcome, many people simply abuse the kick/ban system if something happened not to their liking (even if they were wrong themselves).

I just would like to know who hit me. Now I often don't know who bumped me off the road. Similar, when I accidently hit someone, spin off I have to tab through all cars to find that one white car with the black stripe (just an example) to see who that was. If only the name would be displayed of the car you touched, I'd be happy.

Quote from banshee56 :

This is available in the "Online Race Results" section on LFS World. You can see the usernames of those with whom you just raced.

I might be a tad blind, but I nowhere see in the "Online Race Results" section what cars hit me and what cars I've hit. And besides, that information is only available on LFS World after the race. I'd like to know it at the moment. Otherwise I can just as well save the replay and watch it.

Maybe you misread my question a bit. I don't mean contact information as in a way to address a user. I mean touching cars with contact. So all I asked was the game to display the name(s) of the drivers my car touched with. I don't need their LFS World profile or a private way of contacting them. The point is that I often don't know who hit me, and I'd like to know that

Quote from wheel4hummer :

How about a small dialoge would popup asking you if you wanted to kick/ban/spectate the player who hit you? By dialoge I mean it would'nt interfere with the game, just press F1 for kick, F2 for ban, etc.

Oh yes I could just see the numbers in the demo servers go down already.