No, please do not do that. We do not accept translation text files sent to technical support and that would be a waste of your time. We have a special online translation editor and assigned users.

Thanks but we have active French translators, so we don't need additional help with the French translation at this time.

Instructions for those who cannot access their registered email:
https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/112018

Well, it should have appeared as in my screenshot after we zeroed your code. But not now, if you have got a new code?

EDIT: If anyone wants, I can zero their code again as a test, but it's probably not that interesting.

Last edited by Scawen, Sun 10 Aug 2025, 18:44.

For people who don't have access to their old email address, I've added instructions to the first post in this thread.

And in the sticky thread: Your unlock code...

Quote from JoeHeinZ :

Hi,
I registered to this game in the early 2000s. The old AOL email doesn´t exist no more.
Any chance to change it to a new one?

Yes, please follow the link: https://www.lfs.net/forum/post/2131496#post2131496

Unfortunately with this change you won't get a list of hosts.

When we go official there will be a message at the top saying a "A new update is available" with a link to a test patch thread. Hopefully that will help a bit.

I'll have a go with the flashing button too, it could be useful.

But let's face it, a lot of people aren't going to read, no matter what, unless forced.

You could put a big sign in front of them and they would just walk around it. They aren't going to think something might apply to them, until the point they can longer proceed.

Then, as we notice, a lot of them come to the forum and still simply refuse to read anything at all, even making near duplicate thread titles to explain their problem. Apparently it's easier to write than read.

Through discussions, we have definitely made some useful changes in the past few days to avoid difficulties entering the code, but we probably can't go much further. I think it's time to get the full version out there and this episode will become a thing of the past.

But maybe, as I said, I could make that "S3 licensed: User name" button flash in two situations:

1) Unlock code is wrong (zero, just now, or requested a new code at any time)
2) License level is wrong (upgraded on site but not yet unlocked again in game)

I get what you are saying, that LFS doesn't seem to indicate that you need to do anything, other than the gigantic red text and "Security update: You need to set an unlock code".

Apart from that, there is very little to catch the eye. I might make the "S3 license: User name" button flash.

See attachment.

But no, clicking 'unlock' if already unlocked does not consume an available unlock.

I am wondering, why the red message is totally invisible to so many people. It is in the form of a fake "event" but the large red text might catch the eye? Or not?

Compounding this error on official tracks (without custom checkpoints) is that a finish line was determined by one of the path nodes, which are not necessarily exactly perpendicular to the track direction or aligned with the finish line. It just used a nearby path node.

That is no longer the case in the development version, which uses checkpoints like the custom checkpoints.

Also recently I fixed a bug where positions of two nearby cars could switch often under some circumstances (that was related only to the live positions list, shown on screen and output to InSim, not affecting race results).

Since we are into numbers today, I do notice that before yesterday's change, it was highly likely to get one of those four ambiguous characters in your code.

Probability of all non-ambiguous:

(58/62)^20 = 0.263

So that means around 3 out of 4 times, there was a l/I/O/0 in the code. I should have thought of this earlier.

It's no problem if you select the space. Spaces before and after are removed. If interested, you can safely test that, you don't lose any unlocks for failed or successful confirmations.

OK, I have removed the ambiguous letters (small-L and capital-i / letter O and digit 0) from unlock codes that are generated from now on.

So if you get a new unlock code it should be more suitable for typing, if copy and paste isn't practical.

Quote from J.E.R.E_254 :

And finally, my goal was never to offend anyone (I greeted them on the forum and said, "Look, I have a problem, can you help me please?").

I was focussed 100% on helping you then you said this:

Quote from J.E.R.E_254 :

Let's make this easier. I'll send you my personal information so you can try it out, and I'll make sure you don't ignore me.
If nothing works, I'll file a claim on the account I paid to buy back the S3.

And that is a threat.

Personally I find threats offensive, but maybe I am just a delicate little flower.

I just tried your user name and unlock code and it confirmed the unlock fine. So don't be alarmed if you get an email.

I think I should eliminate these characters from unlock codes:

l I 0 O

It's not clear to me if you have tried to type in your new code or you copied and pasted, although apparently receiving the code on your phone.

That's really not nice as I am dedicating my afternoon to helping you.

Now you made me angry, I don't want to help you any more.

All right I have one more suggestion.

I can also see in your code come capital-I characters.

But in the font on your phone, small-L looks the same as capital-I.

So, to type in your code:
- When you see a zero or capital-o it's actually a zero.
- When you see small-L or capital-I it's actually a capital-I.

Hope it helps. But after all this discussion your unlock code isn't the most secure, so maybe you should get a new one!

These codes are not suitable for typing in, they are designed for copy and paste. Maybe we should eliminate the use of ambiguous characters to avoid confusion.

Thanks. It looks like you have received the code on a phone, so maybe you can't copy and paste in to LFS?

I see in our admin pages there is a 0 in your code. I want to emphasise that is not an O. It is zero, not capital-o. In LFS they look exactly the same which might not help much.

In your case, for this code, you need to use a zero. Could that possibly be the problem?

If you want to change your email, without access to your old email, you click the link "send email to set new address" on your details page.

Now, as you don't have access to your old email, you have to wait 7 days. You can see clearly there when the time will elapse, then a link appears and you can proceed with entering your new email address.

So, you may lose access for this week but in 7 days you will regain access.

That's how it works, a lot of accounts were stolen recently and it was possible to change password and emails instantly. Now we send the email to the old email address and we give them seven days to respond.

There is nothing on our system that has blocked your account, so we don't know what you mean. Maybe you are banned from a server? In that case you need to talk to the server owner.

Can you try again with a different unlock code?

You can simply request another one on your details page and it will arrive in your email. It doesn't cost you an "unlock" or anything like that.

Make sure you only click once and use the one in the next email that arrives.

Thanks all!

Finnish and Bulgarian website translations are live!

Quote from Gutholz :

3h_trustedb "trusted"

The correct translation is in my opinion: "vertrauenswürdig"
It is too long by one character.

...For now I have put "vertraut" which should be understandable but sounds a bit weird.

It could be possible to extend the allowed characters but then I should use a wider button.

But first can I check if the longer translation would really have the right meaning?

From Google translate:
vertraut = trusted
vertrauenswürdig = trustworthy

I'm no good at German so I don't know which words sounds weird in a given context, but "trustworthy" seems like maybe an overstatement. Taking the English translation at face value, we don't really want to claim the host is "trustworthy" (because we don't really know). This button is only shown, if you, the user, have previously answered "join" when warned "You should only join if you trust the host".

So it's trusted in the sense "you trusted the host". See attached images.

If there is a discrepancy in the results generated by LFS, it is probably that the centre of the car crossed the line during the same 100th of a second.

Anyway, in the new version of LFS, the front of the car is used instead of the car model's origin, so it doesn't matter about different cars, plus the accuracy of results is much improved by the 1000Hz physics.

Thank you! Live now!

Thanks! I've made it live.

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