Hi,

My wife paid for my Live For Speed 2 licence, and when paying for it put her name (Juliet) in as the account name. However I race under my real name as Paul (UK). When I race on any S2 track it always gives laptimes as Juliet 1:56 (whatever) instead of Paul (UK) 1:56 ...

What do i need to do to change this?

It seems like I need to buy another account to change the account name, or is there something else I need to do to get servers reporting my driver name properly?

It's only a small thing, but I don't want to continue racing as Juliet 'cos people often get the wrong idea, as you might guess.

Cheers,

Paul (UK)

Could be a bug?

As far as I am aware you can't change the licence name, however you could chnage your player name in LFS to whatever you want, but you will always be called "Juliet" underneath any player name you choose.

Dan,

Quote from danowat :

As far as I am aware you can't change the licence name, however you could chnage your player name in LFS to whatever you want, but you will always be called "Juliet" underneath any player name you choose.

I do use Paul (UK) as my racer name, but when laptimes are being recorded they flash on screen as Juliet, I can't remember the exact wording, but for instance when you do a new fastest laptime the screen shows "Juliet Best Lap Time 1:56" but Juliet isn't racing, it's driver named Paul (UK)

It's bugging me somewhat.

I'm sure some people race under different names to their licence name and don't have this problem, and would like to figure out why I do.

Thanks for the help so far anyway.

Quote from faster111 :

Could be a bug?

no, its called having a license, you should try it sometime...

Unfortunatly mate, you are stuck with it, only way is to buy another license.

http://www.lfsforum.net/showth ... highlight=change+username

Dan,

OK, no worries.

Thanks anyway ...

LFS has two fastest lap messages.

1. If you do the fastest lap of the race it users your race name (e.g. Fastest Lap by Paul (UK) 1m31.45)
2. If you do a personal best it uses your username which LFSW sees (e.g. new pb 1m31.45 by Juliet)

[the actual messages are different, but it's been a long time since I set pb's ]

Unfortunately there's no way to change the username, so a solution would be to never set pb's, but where's the fun in that.

Quote from Juliet :

I'm sure some people race under different names to their licence name and don't have this problem, and would like to figure out why I do.

As Tristan says above, there is no way to change it. For me its the same, I am registered with a different username (mkinnov8) to my Race Name (ATC Stoney), which thinking about it is for the best, incase I ever switch teams or anything...

Would like an option to change it, but can see why none is given.

asl pls

Quote from Becky Rose :

asl pls

He's married, Becky! Mitts off!!

LOL!

Well, it certainly doesn't help that when I come to read this thread you're online at a server called "Annabelle's racing club"...

Anyhoo, maybe you could try sending a desperate e-mail to Victor although I doubt even he can change it.

In the meantime, I'd just be thankful for having a wife that buys you this kind of gifts.

YES!!! I've won the nKP battle with Kev. Not through on-track pace, but because a pack of Maureens and Sandras is on the way over to his house right now. The injuries he recieved were, err I mean will be horrific and there's little chance of him driving ever again...

LOL, thanks for all the replies, it's been more interesting than I thought.

My wife does race too ... when she does she uses her real name, Juliet. When I race my Race Name is my real name of Paul (UK) and yes, it was me on Annabelles server yesterday. Unfortunately my son also races .. we all use the same licence with different racer names, and we only have the one computer good enough to run LFS (for now) so we've never raced each other yet.

We haven't been racing much on S2, mainly demo servers and BL Rally reversed on Airattack (1:10:94 PB)

We're now starting to race 'properly' so I might see more of you all on-line ... dunno whether to be happy or wary about that ...

Anyway, Becky, I'm 46, married, male, and have two kids a Landrover, god knows how many R/C cars and buggies and ride Trials motorbikes for fun as well as off-roading the Landrover. I'm also an ex sidecar racer, which explains some things.

If you're 18, Swedish, blonde and have a squillion quids then I might be tempted to let you buy me dinner some time ...