Hello everyone! Loong time since I last posted on here , been racing again on LFS for a while now and thought about this:

IMO a good part of what's killing the online pickup racing aspect of the sim is the current server system, by having all the server classes in one list people in the end only join the servers wich have people inside (c'mon is more fun when there's more racers inside!), the way I see it This is the cause of having an overflood of demo/drift/cruise servers and people joining them just for the population, ignoring there's other 300+ servers underneath wich are set to other car/track combos and different modes of racing, take for example this: say that you want to join in for some racing and go to the server list, being an S2 user you only find (currently) 1 populated racing server (cargame S2), the rest is Demo, Drift, Cruise and Crash, and if you find another S2 server with people inside is just like 2 racers in there at most.

What I say has to be done (or re-done) to improve the online experience of the sim is to implement again the option to select the Server class before showing the server list, in this way Demo racers can go their own way and we (licensed S1 and S2 users) can find again more populated servers with different car/track combos than those found on today's basis.

Please discuss your own opinions, and Excuse me if this has been asked a lot before.

Adolfo Herrera.

The removal of the distinction between "classes" of servers was done mostly to benefit the S1 licence holders. Servers now automatically switch between Demo/S1/S2 mode based upon the currently enabled content. There's no real reason to re-segregate the server list other than restricting the already limited player pool based on what licence they own. It makes more sense to simply allow them to join every server possible.

I agree with both threads here, but maybe this suggestion then. At the front of the name, a simple column which says (D, 1, 2, 3) Demo, S1, S2, Etc

That way people if they want, can just search by License or view all server's?

Fordie

On that note - wouldn't be even bad idea that demo users could see licenced hosts (grayed out,unavailable,just visible in list) - could be a small advertiser,what's available when they buy licence. I'm pretty sure,there are not much of them checking LFSW.

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On that note - wouldn't be even bad idea that demo users could see licenced hosts (grayed out,unavailable,just visible in list) - could be a small advertiser,what's available when they buy licence. I'm pretty sure,there are not much of them checking LFSW.

if you don't show the amount of people on that server...

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Please discuss your own opinions

This sim needs content and optimizations which really matter... Otherwise it's basically dead.

The servers and communities behind it are not the problem. Development, that is where the problem is.

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On that note - wouldn't be even bad idea that demo users could see licenced hosts (grayed out,unavailable,just visible in list) - could be a small advertiser,what's available when they buy licence. I'm pretty sure,there are not much of them checking LFSW.

I'm sure that one is already implemented. Basically everyone sees all servers but those you can't join are grayed out.

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I'm sure that one is already implemented. Basically everyone sees all servers but those you can't join are grayed out.

Really? Oh,I'm too long licenced then...

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Really? Oh,I'm too long licenced then...

Thats like from 0.6B or something