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CLRS530
S2 licensed
Quote from UniValvePlums :a glimpse of hope for my 2 core 2 thread beast of a laptop Petals

Please don't have much hope. Only chance would be if it had a superior dedicated mobile graphic card back at the time. It will be for sure much faster limited by the graphic card than the CPU.
The graphics also have improved from the current version. Even when most new effects could be turned off the maps have more details, better textures, are bigger...
CLRS530
S2 licensed
Really cool ! Thank you for your effort. Smile
CLRS530
S2 licensed
The progress report thread is closed for a described reason. If you now discuss about it here, it very likely turns into the very same result of the reports before and Scawen might stop it again.
I know it has good intention here, but that won't help some guys.
CLRS530
S2 licensed
Quote from Gutholz :Maybe it would be possible to re-add the funtion to play with two players via one license?

Something like:
Allow two connections of one account, if that is the account who started the server and if they connect from the same IP.

The problem is not Scavier wanting to forbid something like you described but it would mean to give out the code which builds a server and this can be easily cracked as it happened before.
CLRS530
S2 licensed
News are coming usually the last weekend of a month.
I expected a post last month as some time had past. High hopes for the coming days, but who knows, should not jinx it Wink
CLRS530
S2 licensed
Are you bored a lot Racer Y?
CLRS530
S2 licensed
Quote from Vladimir_nose :For months there is no news, I hope the next report will not be "Covid progress report"

There will be a Christmas / New Year report I am pretty sure.
CLRS530
S2 licensed
Quote from Tavo.p :You are too late

Or you are reading the history of the thread not properly enough. Wink
CLRS530
S2 licensed
You need to open ports

https://www.lfs.net/faq/13
CLRS530
S2 licensed
Quote from Scawen :Doesn't it use the same DNS as the current version of LFS? Confused

I never played this version. It was just my most likely guess as it works for you and seemingly no one else.
CLRS530
S2 licensed
Some DNS problems not happening in your environment ?
CLRS530
S2 licensed
Quote from Degats :IIRC, the physics will be worked on *after* this track/lighting update has been released.

Do not spread missinformation. That has never been said and is relatively unlikely. The last message of Scawen I read pointed out that he would need to split his development version. And releasing those two major archivements in separated releases also is no good way in my opinion. Such cool new optics and features with the old physics and no new cars lowers the positive feeling so much.
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CLRS530
S2 licensed
This is really really awesome and I mean both SC and the lighting updates !! I am looking forward to a release whenever that will be.

Thank you for the comparison @Degats

Just a minor comment. The traffic lights are not bright enough in the night. But I think that has been said in the past update already for traffic lights or advertisement signs
CLRS530
S2 licensed
Quote from David 96 :Funny enough, the content issue can be easily solved by developing official mod tools. That would be great, especially track-wise. The problem of LFS is that it's not getting new users. Well, not legit ones at least. The more time it passes, the more the userbase shrinks.

That's often an argument. But it forgets that the developers of a game supporting modding have even more to consider when changing the engine, APIs, file formats and so on.
Realistically this is nothing when big project changes are still planned.

And for the small user base. That will change when/if the update comes dramatically. Wink
The potential user base of LFS is big enough. Many are awaiting the update and start playing again. For how long decides the quality of the update.
CLRS530
S2 licensed
It maybe is more complicated nowadays but it generally (could) still proceed fast enough. The problem for LFS is just that the longtime development version with an alpha physics variant delays so many other improvements.
I'm pretty sure if it comes out we are very surprised how good it is and updates can come in a more regular basis (every X month not years).
There must have to exist dozens of physics tries and partly or complete rewrites because the physics had new flaws or in general did not meet their aspiration.
CLRS530
S2 licensed
Quote from petercollins :Yeah great, but no actual work to show, despite asking for money to aid development. You sound like David Brent, all talk, no results. If you were working for me, you'd be fired. Must have taken you 15 minutes to prepare a monthly progress report, but why bother. It's not like you overcharged LFS fans to fund development. Oh wait....

How much money did you take in on the promise of finishing this sim?

"albedo levels"

At least you haven't banned me for my frustration with being sold a lie (this time). It takes some character to abuse the core fans of what you have created. I've been here 12 years. I think that is loyalty that deserves a return.

If you are not bothered about seriously developing the sim, tell us. Be honest. A few shadows is great, but we want proper development, new cars, new tracks.

If you are not bothered, tell us and we will move on elsewhere. Don't promise bullshit and not deliver.

As you really seem to be obsessed over your purchase of S3 I'll try to give you two little things to think about. Maybe you can slowly calm down.

First of all and that is the important one Scawen stated in the news entry of the Rockingham / S3 Licence the followng post (https://www.lfs.net/news/978)

Quote :
We made the decision to release it now rather than waiting for the other content to be completed. Although S3 content is already being developed, we cannot provide a guarantee that it will be released. Please only buy an S3 license upgrade if you feel it's worth it to use Rockingham right now.

In my opinion that are quiet open and fair words.

My second point is that you got a track for 15$ which you sometimes have to pay in a game for DLC content.

Looking at my licence you see I did not buy it. I also don't drive much but I still like the game and the development here in general. If the new physics update comes I'll buy it, not earlier.
You lost your realism mate. But if you really can't live with what you got for your money up to this point and this was hardly earned money for you just leave me a PM and you'll get it from me.
Your text is form of I really don't need to read here.
CLRS530
S2 licensed
That to happen is really really unlikely. He would not want to do this out of many reasons. He would need to be hard stuck in the tyre update and like getting sick even thinking about it. At least the second point I hope he is far away from. But every developer knows these projects and tasks. Wink
CLRS530
S2 licensed
Looks really sweet ! Smile
Nice Tease in the tease also. the third cloud definitely uses the new Physics update.
CLRS530
S2 licensed
When this will be added somewhere in the future (maybe the not so far away future Smile) I can think of three little configurations everyone could do the races he likes.

- Race starting time. (Hour steps 0h - 23h)
- Time changes (Yes/No)
- Real Time hours a day (Hour 1 - 23)

Like this one could do also for example a one hour race in a two hour day configuration which starts in day and ends in the night or vice versa.

Promising demo screenshots by the way. Thank you for trying the new old experiment to show something like this to the community Tongue
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CLRS530
S2 licensed
The next tracks especially south city will need far more time but I am relatively optimistic we do not see the tracks in the order most of the work on it has been done.
Meaning a lot of the missing tracks is hopefully already done.
CLRS530
S2 licensed
Quote from SimulatorRental.com :I see a link to models of the cars, however that site links to .EXE files which I am not about to download from a site I am not familiar with. Especially when the file does not need to be, or gain anything from, being in an .exe file.

There is another trick for you to open those files savely.
exe files from common compressors like 7zip, rar and zip can always be treated as normal .zip, .rar, .7z files.
Means you can normally unpack them with these programs installed.
CLRS530
S2 licensed
Quote from Daniel564 :You sure about that? If so...where's the most dreamed cars like the RBR, RAR, Reborned LX8 often asked and inspired by the community?...that's right.

Intended misinterpretation right? I didn't say they do all the community wants.
What I mean are reasonable features and suggestions like VR, the backward compatibility of old INSIM packages to unsupported but much used add-ons and more small things.
CLRS530
S2 licensed
Quote from taipalsaari :The CPW error occurs because of RevBouncer, a legit program that doesn't provide any advantage.Just try right now with a clean installed 0.6R + revbouncer and you will get CPW.

Your problem is you miss one single but very important point. All those sort of programs aren't using an official interface/API. Instead they are using unsupported and manipulating ways to archive there goals.
If the LFS devs want to track memory changes in a general way to prevent cheating, its not legit to do that?

They often hear the community and might do it here too, but the way you call for is completely wrong
CLRS530
S2 licensed
Always a surprise to see how guys like you think the world is working.
The devs know. They accepted the(ir) limits and acting in them.
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