It would work pretty much the same way it does now, but extended.

The way it works now is, when player temporarily loses connection (or let's say "has a long lag") his car disappears from the track on the server (with his nickname being shown in the last received position) while the player himself keeps driving, and if the connection is quickly restored, he reappears in the new position where he is supposed to be according to the player's run.

However when the connection is not restored within usually 30 seconds, he's "kicked" from the server and his run terminated. Usually the affected player is able to reconnect to the server immediately, but he's no longer in the race.

So my idea is to extend (or adjust) the period affected player is driving "alone", and rather than ending his run after 30 seconds of no connection, LFS would attempt to reconnect to the server (which is usually successful when done manually) and if the connection is reestablished, let player continue in the race the same way he would if he just had a big lag.

So this is an idea that was wandering in my head for quite a while, but until yesterday I didn't really feel the need to have it.

So the thing is, yesterday we were having quite a big endurance race. During the race I lost connection to the server and my run was terminated immediately as it happens when the connection is lost. However I was able to instantly reconnect to the server and rejoin to "continue" racing several laps down, where being last was the only thing I could fight for at that point.

My suggestion/request therefore is: would it be possible to rather than simply disconnecting player from the server, effectively destroying all his effort, make him instead continue driving uninterrupted "offline" for a moment while LFS automatically attempts to reconnect the server, and if successful, rejoin the race as nothing happened (in safe manner of course), and just in case of unsuccessful reconnection only then stop the run?

Such feature would have saved my day that night and I am sure many players can recall their own situations where this would have helped them...

Quote from Marino108 :

If this theory could be used for propeller and wings in planes, why not on car body and tires too? The tire could be dissected into many pieces to calculate the grip.

LFS these days:


You’re welcome.

Quote from Huseyin41 :

was not bad

I strongly disagree

Exactly what Rony proposes. Let the consumption be as it is and limit the resources instead.
Should be super-simple with fuel. For faster tyre wear I would suggest implementing some new soft/supersoft/ultrasoft/hypersoft/omgthislastsonemetersoft tyre compounds.

Quote from lucaf :

my internet conn failed just after green lights. Forgot to charge my phone

Do you use your phone as a hotspot?

Quote from lucaf :

I would have love to race there, but the mandatory pit stop rule killed my interest

Why so?

username: michal 1279
nickname: [MRc] Michal

So while we are waiting for official results, here is my low-effort race start replay video

Hope UF1s don't have to complete 80% distance that BF1s did to get classified

Is there no speed limit in the custom pitlane?

Quote from jueweb :

It is sad, but I want to drive and I could not do it allone.
So I am looking for someone who would share the races with me.
But I am driving FXR, have already trained much, and created a race set.
Ah, race is in a few days ..

Why you cannot drive whole race on your own? Races are only 3 hours long and there will be plenty of drivers who will compete alone. Is a one-man-team really a no-go for you?

Wish you luck searching the teammate.

Master Race car #47

Quote from lucaf :

Okay, I admit I am getting old. Watched my youtube incar vids and the gray blocks are there. My brains suck. Now I wish I never opened this subject.

Haha, don't worry, we all sometimes have moments like this

They have always been there, even before the universe began to exist.
As Rony mentioned, it tells how much load is put on each section of the tyre (notice how these blocks change as you take the corner).

LFSW name: michal 1279
In-game name: [MRc] Michal
Full team name: Master Race car
Nation: Czechia

Looks good (I mean sounds good)

Did you intentionally turn off skid marks?

Looks great, but I really wished the autocross area to get expanded, I'd love to make more complex layouts but the space is not there.

Quote from Da_Patriot :

PROBLEM SOLVED........kind of

Start LFS, minimize LFS and activate again....

Exactly.
The thing is, there is a clash with some kind of Win10 gaming interface (dont know how to call it) that leaves a rectangular area at the right side of the screen (where the interface window is "hidden") where LFS cannot recognise the cursor after the launch (that problem occurs anywhere, not just in main menu). It goes away as you minimize and open LFS again. But it should not happen in first place anyway.

Not a big deal but definitely annoying...

Do you use Windows 10? If yes, then I am certainly sure whats going on.

Can I attend as a standalone driver? Feel free to exclude me from official results, but I'd like to test my endurance in a big way

Classic oval racing with a lot of carnage
Pity not everyone knew how to behave on this kind of track, but we still had nice evening I believe

This was my favourite close miss on my way to 6th place ahead of Ade

Quote from Flotch :

A bit off topic, while I see the Aston subject raised, I was dreaming of a new corner for Aston Grand Touring (in aim to differentiate its layout a bit more than the GP one) : it would be to use the part of the last corner of Club as per the attachment

I would prefer this kind of track expansion (yellow lines):

There is part of track going to nowhere near club layout, so why not to expand it a bit...

Looks awesome!!! Also after seeing the updates to Dragstrip I am so impatient to see how other tracks were updated

I think the game fcked me up heavily this round. I got drive-through for speeding in the pitlane despite not speeding in the pitlane at all...

Can anybody who saved own replay please check if I did go too fast in pits or not. I am sure I didn't...

Anyway nice racing as always guys