And to get a general overview of how the mod system works, see: https://en.lfsmanual.net/wiki/Vehicle_Mods

Quote from Tuborg :

So nobody hosting online game?

After a quick look at the hosts list (https://www.lfs.net/online/activity), team AA has two servers set to BL Rallycross currently: [AA] Demo Racing and [AA] Rallycross GTI. You can join those servers to find someone to race rallycross with.

I think, in order to clear up a lot of confusion in here, please provide either:
- a replay of the whole phenomenon and post it here as an attachment so we can check (.SPR in single player, save with buttons 1 or 2, or .MPR in multiplayer with button 2. Find the replays in LFS/data/spr or LFS/data/mpr)
- a short video, with Show pedals set to YES, showing the beginning (when you started the race or joined/spawned with the car) and also the problem at the end, uninterrupted if possible (upload to YouTube as unlisted and just post the link here, or similar).

Regardless of who that is, sharing your account credentials is against LFS Terms & Conditions 3.4: https://www.lfs.net/agreement

Contact developers here: https://www.lfs.net/mailus
Make sure to include all relevant information (proof of purchase mainly, date and method of purchase etc.) so they can check what happened.

When your host is running, open the Hosting admin console webpage (https://www.lfs.net/hosting/admin/), Extended settings tab, at the bottom.

Yes, you can adjust/limit the range on a per-axis basis (see attached image).

Last edited by MandulAA, Sat 27 Jul 2024, 11:06.

- is the car you are driving the Formula BMW (FBM)?
- if so, then the answer is that it has a sequential gearbox without ignition cut*, and generally, you should lift throttle every time your change gears. It is not a bug or glitch, it's how the car's gearbox works.

Last edited by MandulAA, Wed 10 Jul 2024, 08:04. Reason : ignition cut*

Quote from superlame :

what i think he wants to do is a individual car to have different color, for example Yellow if he is working as a TAXI in his cruise server, which is not possible at the moment

Actually, it is. With 0.7E and up, the minimap arrows can now pick up the color of your first character in nickname. For example, you can have a yellow T, or any other character in yellow to have the color for your arrow on minimap. Of course, the server admins have to set the option with /teamarrows=no/yes for this to be enabled for the minimap.

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Team arrow colours on small map are now enabled by a host option
- arrows on non-race small map take colour of first name character
- option is not yet available but is coded as /teamarrows=no/yes

Last edited by MandulAA, Mon 8 Jul 2024, 11:20. Reason : added an illustration after abusing some AI

Quote from rane_nbg :

I would like to know more about the current changes/updates that took place going from E12 to E13 hosting versions of lfs. Also what are the methods or plans to make lfs more robust and less vulnerable to ddos attacks?

There is a reason the changes were not detailed publicly... I see no value in making the E13 or any of planned changes related to the issue detailed for the public, for good reasons. For now you'll just have to accept that the changes made by the devs in the background are proper, in order to try combatting and mitigating these brainless attacks, without knowing exact details.

Unfortunately, presumably there are some attacks going on, which cause some issues (makes people time out from servers and such). Yesterday's FM FOX Friday event was cancelled due to this. You on your side can't do anything about this, just wait until the situation gets back to normal.

Just to clarify some things, to help find the cause / debug:
- what kind of little update do you mean? There was test patch 0.7E12 released recently, is that it?
- did you have version 0.7E installed before, on top of which you installed 0.7E12 test patch? If not, what version were you on (last time it worked), and what version are you currently on (without sound)? Check version at the bottom of main menu.

all hope is lost then

Related: https://www.lfs.net/forum/post/2091945#post2091945
Same story there, turned out it was the "antivirus" messing with DirectInput.

Hmm, I definitely remember it showing this exact server (Tütüncüler Garaj) with correct letters before (also, if I remember correctly, it had a red-white coloring). Has the name of the server changed recently?

You might want to have a look at this brief step-by-step tutorial as well: https://en.lfsmanual.net/wiki/Skin_Tutorial#How_do_I_make_a_skin.3F

no/43/MandulAA

Try setting the "Battery saver" setting for this app to "No restriction" (on MIUI). You can do this in "App info" (long-press on app icon - App info, or Settings -> Apps -> LFS Stats), but it can be called some other way as well. The phone usually kills off background activities like this one, and if it does, you will not get notifications. This was the case on my phone, this setting fixed it.

Update 0.8.4
Fixed a crash, with a minor visual improvement to Friends list.

New version can be downloaded in the attachments of original post.

Please try it out, and as always, if there are any crashes, please post feedback here. I hope you enjoy the update and the app overall.

Changes:

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The notification came when I entered the application.

Yes, if the app was force-closed (so it no longer runs in background), the checks and notification only come alive when you actually launch the app for the first time.

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You were not online when I entered the application. When I clicked on the notification, I saw that it was active. (in friends list)

Yes, that is the confusing bit, which I described in my previous post. It sometimes does not update the "Friends" page when you are looking at it. Open sidebar menu, and click on Friends (even though you are on that page currently), it should update the list. Needs to be reworked.

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Do I get notifications when the app is open in the background? Or do notifications come even if it is turned off (removed from the background)?

You should get notifications, when the app is kept in background. When you force-close ("remove from background") the app, I'm not sure you get notifications, I have not tested that specifically. I suspect that way it will not send notifications. Although I know many phone users tend to force-close all apps in the background, if you definitely want to get notifications on friends coming online in LFS, I recommend you to not force-close the app (it should not do anything besides the check for friends every 15 minutes, so it should not slow down phone at all).

Last edited by MandulAA, Mon 6 May 2024, 13:02.

Okay, I joined a server right now, at :34. I will stay on the server. So, my status should be updated before :49 at latest on your phone. Check the Friends list at :50, or if you get a notification then its definitely working.

(Notification: make sure that in Settings you have Notifications turned on AND the tick next to Friend activity is turned on too!)

Thanks for confirming that crashes stopped for now, that's great to hear.

The logic behind the automatic updates of friend statuses and when that happens is a bit confusing and definitely needs some rework. For now, here are some facts which might help keeping the friends statuses up to date:
- currently, the status will never be real-time, do not expect it to be (so if you join a server, the status will only update when the next check runs in the background). If you joined a server for a little bit (for like 20 seconds), and during that 20 seconds the app did not do any background checks for statuses, you will not see a correct "last seen" time, it will just show the previous time or stay "never".
- the background task in Android can only happen every 15 minutes, but it should happen every 15 minutes
- the background task is only scheduled to happen if you opened the app at least once since phone boot, and it did not crash, you just exited it normally to use other apps on your phone. This way, it keeps the friends updates running in the background, every 15 minutes.
- the "last seen" time will always show the last time when the check successfully happened and the player status changed from online to offline on that check.
- the friends list can be forced to update by force-closing the app, launching it again, waiting a bit (while it goes through all players, retrieves and updates statuses). You will not see it change real-time, but once it completed, if you select Friends page on the side menu it should be updated, with a very recent time at the bottom.

I fully agree that a refresh button would be great for the Friends page, so you can just click and force it to update. For now, I hope the automatic updates of friends statuses still happens in the background from time to time (I spent some time testing this on my device today, and it did update every 15 minutes. I joined and stayed on a server for 15 minutes and even the notification came to my phone that I'm online in LFS. Later, I left, waited another 15 minutes, so a background check definitely happens, and when I checked in the app I was offline).

Last edited by MandulAA, Mon 6 May 2024, 12:31.

@RealistAdam:

Could you please try the version attached to this post (0.8.4-fortesting), to see if it still crashes? There were some behaviour changes in newer Android versions which I was not aware of and against which I was not testing properly. Let me know if you still have any crashes (with error messages).

Thanks for the error messages, I'll have a look. Friends update might stop happening in background after the app crashed, until it is launched again, so we'll investigate that later, once it is no longer crashing on your side (Im on Android 12, have no crashes and friends list does update regularly).

Quote from RealistAdam :

The friends we add to the friends list never appear online. Also the app crashes on its own. This happens in the friends list.

- friends never appearing online: please make sure that if you are on mobile data, you enable the option in the in-app Settings to "Allow update over Mobile Data" in the background. Without that, it will never consume mobile data, meaning you will only see friends status update once on wifi.
Also, friends status update only happens every 15 minutes, and even then, to see the list update you sometimes have to open the friends list again (click "Friends" in side menu). At the bottom, there is a precise date/time when the last status update occured. This should update once you reload the Friends page, every 15 minutes at least. If it does not, you probably are on mobile data but the setting I mentioned was not enabled.
- crash: please describe how you can reproduce the crash (what you did, which buttons you pressed in order, if you had any friends added at that moment, on mobile data/wifi, Android version etc.), and if you get any weird looking error messages when the app crashes, include that here. Would be helpful.

Quote from RealistAdam :

I would appreciate it if you add language support. I can do translations for Turkish language support as a volunteer.

Thanks for offering that. Language support is what I intend to do at some point.

Last edited by MandulAA, Mon 6 May 2024, 07:22.