I think as time progresses more and more, i think the devs will rather add a new car or two than change old cars, because of the cars establishment with the community, and WR's and everyhting. I figure, everytime they change a cars performance, peoples WR's will be gone basicly.. But i agree, i also want a impreza / evo like car... Would be cool

I think one of the things that made GT4 take so long is the number of cars, and the IRL testing they did on the cars.

starting new threads is like, totally evil... its the dark force of new threads that is threatening our very existance.. making new threads is so n000bish... :uglyhamme

I agree totally to what most of you say. I was out racing a popular server with FOX/Blackwood combination today. And it got pretty ugly with restarts and pileups and wreckers at the middle of the straight at lap 5/6 etc.. I posted a thread earlier where i suggested "lock race", witch basicly mean, after 30 seconds or so, the race locks, and no restarting can be made.. Either way i think the problem here is people are really impatient.

A slow/ok driver will se no good come out from running in the back and getting blue flags for 6 laps, and therefore vote for restart to get a shot at some glory.

A driver that is faster than the normal guy wont care much for restarting in most cases, because he realizes he can gain a few positions for the next starting grid and so on. You gotta work your way up a couple of races sometimes to get ahead of the chaos.


I guess most people want to win as cheap as possible, and dont respect others . The good/bad thing with this kind of online gaming is that everyone has the same power(with voting, etc), but some use it for the wrong purpose.

Thanx a lot and keep it up !
The look of the road is very important for any driving game. This does miracles really for the game, i like it much better. I like the feeling on going around on fresh tarmac instead of grey old tarmac. Looks good and feels fresh, a definate keeper.

I have just been trying it out on my macbook. As said, it has 1gig ram and 2ghz processor. I have fiddled around a bit with the settings, and resolutions, and i get an fps rating between 50-65 when going around by my self on blackwood forest track. Everyhting works without any problems, i havent tried it with my momo wheel yet, but i guess thats simply an usb issue, and my usb-mouse works fine so...

Good thought behind the idea.. But i agree it could drive people away from racing online.

What if there was statistics over crashes attached to drivers. This could include how serious crashes the driver has been involved in. Like for example: "crashes involving 3 or more cars", Or simply a counter of how many times your car has been severly damaged, or something similar. Could prove handy.. There could also be an icon in lfsworld, like "most serious crashes ever/this month" etc.. Anyone who cares about their online reputation would try to avoid crashing as much as possible. (i agree that innocent people would get some crashes to but i think it would probably show in the end that some people may be more dangerous, there will probably me a norm, no of crashes/month, but some will surely rise above the norm)

I can see the fun in this track (im talking about the track being suggested). Its a whole other kind of racing as stated, and it may not require as much skill, it is more about tactics and teamwork. As stated earlier, imagine teaming up, driving in trains where the car in the back go up front and you switch places to keep the train going as fast as possible. I think that sounds pretty cool, and it would require coordination between people.

I say +1 to the suggestion. As have been suggested somewhere else, if there where "official mod-teams" this could be a cool track 4 sure, as long as it doesnt hold up the development of other, more mainstream tracks.

I think, as in most cases this is a matter of respect for other drivers. If i join mid-race, i always keep of the main line as soon as i get a blue flag, and before pitting out, i make sure i wont cause any potential danger to racing cars. As i see it, the racing rules doesnt ever grant you any rights, only obligations. Some people drive like they own full right to the track, and as i have seen, it often leads to them going into a wall. A blue flag means, youre obligated to let the leading car pass as soon as it is considered safe, but it grants no rights to the leading car. If that would have been the case, i think the leading car would be getting a flag message like: "blue flag, youre good to pass" or something similar. When i drive, i use my common logic sense to take descisions on what action to take at any given moment. I can actually get enjoyment out of just driving accurate and polite, (i think it adds to the reality of the simulation) and i have noticed, that even if i aint the fastest car around, i have sometimes gained high positions by just taking it a little calm and showing some respect while others crash all over the place...

Quote from zeugnimod :

LFSWorld does that.

Under Online Race Results, if you click on DETAILS for a race, it shows the lap times of every driver, who finished the race.

Wow didnt know that, just checked it out... awesome! hehe..

I tried this last night... The thing is, because there are no support from the "game" for the rules, there are a lot fo unfair gaming. The cops are being harrassed, and i felt sorry for them. Its a game about give and take, and respect. If that works i think it seems great though..

Yeah i saw that thread, but it didnt touch the regular macbook...
Ill keep you informed when i get a chance to try it out...

This is interesting. I belive Project Gotham Racing had this feature. (the game had a similar track concept to lfs, where every track was a version of the "free" city area, but with roadblocks on different places) When you completed the whole game, you got to play "free" verisons of every city. (thats what i heard anyways) I belive if you where to edit the track by putting your roadblocks where you want, it will mean the AI-cars wont know where to go on the track. I guess it would be really cool to have a free version of south city when playing cops and robbers and similar games..

Anyone tried running LFS on a mac with winxp+bootcamp?? does it work ?? any one tried it on the regular white macbook ?? im plannin on trying it out soon...

I think this one should be added to the list, its not the same suggestion as the one already on the list, maybe add this link also to the paragraph "race restarting / voting" under "GAMEPLAY/ONLINE"

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=10104

Maybe theres already some sort of function similar to this. Today when i raced, i was leading the race and the race was voted restart at lap 7/8 because of a crash. The next race theres a huge crash at the first lap, and my race is ruined. But, people deciede not to vote for restart.

How about a feature that can lock a race from restarting after a certain amount of laps/time, maybe after 75% of the race ? Maybe a lock could be voted down if it gets 100% votes. I think it would help improve the amount of honest races out there. Anybody agree ? Also, this feature could be customized by the host to deciede at witch lap to lock race and if you can vote it down etc.