Not sure if this has been mentioned, but I haven't managed to find it. It occoured to me while talking with an admin yesterday, that sometimes it can be hard for an admin to get from one spot to another quickly, to check for wreckers/stoppers/breakers/sha...Anyway...
An 'Admin only' vehicle, which allows the admin to circle the track (off racing lines) to watch for people parking up and causing problems. A server option, to allow the admin to specify, for example, the XRT as an 'Admin Only' vehicle. Attatch bright-yellow paint-job, and you have a safety car.
Yeah, sure, somone is bound to abuse it, but somone will abuse everything eventually. It would add another level of realism to the game, and provide admins with an easier way to monitor the progress of cars on the track.
"Why not just put yellow paint on the cars allowed?" I hear you ask.. Because they won't 'stand out'. Imagine a field full of FO8's (Oval, for example). A yellow FO8 doesn't stand out, but a yellow XRT would. Different shape, easy to spot.
This would also allow the admin to organize rolling starts with greater ease and slow a race down (Example, 150 lap oval needs slowing, you can't just say "Okay, guys, slow down now, ya'hear"). If there was an option the admin could set to 'Penlize Overtaking Safety car', so anyone passing the safety car whilst that option is set gets forced to the spectators, or the pits as a pentaly. That would ensure rolling starts function correctly.
Imagine the possibilities.. it can't be *that* hard to do, surely, and it really would add an extra element of realism to the races. Major pileup... No restart, safety car slows the field down for one lap, then we have a rolling start, minus the people who crashed. Darwin-ised LFS.
Just an idea, of course.
An 'Admin only' vehicle, which allows the admin to circle the track (off racing lines) to watch for people parking up and causing problems. A server option, to allow the admin to specify, for example, the XRT as an 'Admin Only' vehicle. Attatch bright-yellow paint-job, and you have a safety car.
Yeah, sure, somone is bound to abuse it, but somone will abuse everything eventually. It would add another level of realism to the game, and provide admins with an easier way to monitor the progress of cars on the track.
"Why not just put yellow paint on the cars allowed?" I hear you ask.. Because they won't 'stand out'. Imagine a field full of FO8's (Oval, for example). A yellow FO8 doesn't stand out, but a yellow XRT would. Different shape, easy to spot.
This would also allow the admin to organize rolling starts with greater ease and slow a race down (Example, 150 lap oval needs slowing, you can't just say "Okay, guys, slow down now, ya'hear"). If there was an option the admin could set to 'Penlize Overtaking Safety car', so anyone passing the safety car whilst that option is set gets forced to the spectators, or the pits as a pentaly. That would ensure rolling starts function correctly.
Imagine the possibilities.. it can't be *that* hard to do, surely, and it really would add an extra element of realism to the races. Major pileup... No restart, safety car slows the field down for one lap, then we have a rolling start, minus the people who crashed. Darwin-ised LFS.
Just an idea, of course.
