A suggestion that I would see as being an improvement to LFS.

On the 'multiplayer' selection screen, it would be, in my opinion, a good idea to have 'See friends online' instead of 'find user online'

This 'see friends online' would take you to another screen where you can add or remove friends - adding them by LFS-username, or removing them by clicking on an 'X' button next to their name or something.

You could also see which friends are online, and at which server they are racing on - if you clicked on the friends' name or the server name displayed, this would then take you to the page to join the server.

Expanding the idea one stage further, you could add a button in-game to 'add as friend' (a button saying AF in the connections list?), with the corresponding button on the potential friend's display illuminating to indicate a friend request has been made. (In much the same way the handover/takeover system works). The potential friend would then click on this illuminated AF button to confirm the friend request.

What do you think? Is it a good idea? I get these ideas and then look at them later and think 'what a pile of ****', but this one has stuck with me for a while now and I think it's a pretty good idea.

Looking forward to your comments..

dont know if its been suggested but its a good idea .
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Or you just use the Live Alert feature of LFSW.

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Or you just use the Live Alert feature of LFSW.

Well that's one solution, but the problem is I can't LFS Join to work.

Anyway, I really do think this would be a good feature to have.

Quote from Joe_Keaveney :

Well that's one solution, but the problem is I can't LFS Join to work.

Anyway, I really do think this would be a good feature to have.

http://www.lfsworld.net/?win=live_alert

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Live Alert is a background process that will check at regular intervals to see if anyone in your buddy list is online in LFS. You can add racers to your buddy list by clicking on just about every racer name you see here on the LFS Desktop (a menu will appear), or you can manually add racers to your buddy list in the 'Your Profile' section of the LFS Racers database.

You really need to investigate this feature more, it has everything you want including a messaging system, so you can send buddies messages like "Hey I'm online - wanna race?"

Please, don't get me wrong, you idea is good, but I really don't think it will be implemented INSIDE LFS DIRECTLY for at least a very long time, because the type of thing you are asking for has already been done in a sense and I can't see Scawen implementing something that's been already done just for the sake of it being directly in game. It's just how I see it. I maybe wrong.

If you're having issues with JOIN to LFS, you need to investigate that. I don't have links for help on that system. There must be something you haven't set up right, look for threads on JOINtoLFS. I believe there is something you have to do to your browser settings or something. I don't use it myself because when I want to join the host listed in the web page, I highlight it, press Ctrl+C and use Join Specific Game from the multiplayer menu then press ctrl+V to paste it.

It is a good idea to have friends lists in game, but I don't think they will add it to LFS game menus until after physics improvements and content is added and that might take a very long time.

I hope this info here helps you with what your looking for until that time arrives.

I made my own little LFS script to see if my friends were online from inside a LFS server, Link Maybe that will help.