At first, the idea was to get om0 and "cancel" the Race thread with some mission that does not crash when doing so. I then had some other idea: Make sure that the race ends right before the mission starts (hold F): (onmission = 1 after that, I doubt that you can end up with om0 again, but not all hope is lost.) Almost all missions should be supported: [1:06 PM] Patrick: Afaik, the only requirement is that the mission sniffer ("""marker""") causes a fade before starting the mission. You want both fades (race-end-fade, mission-about-to-start-fade) to happen at the same time. Your time window is big for that (the race fade is 1s, IIRC - or is it 2?)

The rest of this post is just failed ideas. I have not fully tested them all, though.

1. Enex triggers are disabled (you cannot enter buildings during races).

2. Tuning garages: I had a look at the code that disables the tuning garage during races. With $CARMOD_DISABLED_FLAG == 1, the tuning shops almost literally do nothing, not worth testing. Btw, Driving School does not set this flag, disables the tuning garages themselves so that they do not open. You can prevent them from closing in the first place before starting Driving School by parking a car in there, though (Blantas finding).

3. Save points I could not get them to work, yet. That was before I had the genius idea to hold F to cancel the race "menu", I do not see how that helps, though.

4. Using properties instead of missions [4:58 PM] hobrev: oh yeah Patrick, can you buy safe houses with that race failing thing? [...] [5:05 PM] hobrev: he buys an extra safehouse during LS, which he stores the Remington at, so he doesnt have the money for the Dillimore safehouse when he goes there for Catalina [5:07 PM] hobrev: he gets it after Trucking 2, which isnt a huge timeloss but still, inconvenience. If one can buy a safehouse during the fadeout of a failed race then maybe it could be possible to buy the Willowfield safehouse during one of the flying races, saving 10k for the Dillimore safehouse [5:33 PM] Patrick: It has worked the one time I tried it (I ended up at the "race marker" - where you get to the race menu when entering. [5:34 PM] Patrick: But you can get the Property Buying Mission at any point from 0 to 20 ? frames after picking it up - so. [5:34 PM] Patrick: I cannot imagine that being consistent. [5:40 PM] Patrick: There is no way of delaying the moment the mission is started, either, apart from getting om1 via a phone call and dying: [5:41 PM] Powdinet: dying is not a good idea [5:41 PM] Patrick: 😄 [5:42 PM] Patrick: yes

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