Voted for Valve.
Lot of people wh called me nerd for playing computer games now are addicted to those Windows paint shop drawn games...
I don't have anything against Zynga, they actually are developers who have chose their sector in the market. I too play, but only when I don't have my pc with my games, like at work for example (where I am now!)
anyway those for me are stupid games to attract masses and it fills me with rage to see Valve struggling with Zyngar to win.

Guys we are talking about Valve, not a cheap team!
Well I am talking out of rage I better cool down!

I have a question:
if you use 900 degree steering, will you see in game wheel turning 900 too and with hands crossing?
It can be a silly thing but I serached youtube and even if it says the driver is used 900 I didnt see the car turning more than 300 something.

I found a video of a Ferrari F430 and in a moment when spin out of the track you can notice a weird hand crossing gmovement but I'm not sure.

I bought a Wheelstand Pro for the G25 for my living room racer needs.
Waiting the holidays to pass to receive it thou...

Quote from NitroNitrous :

Do you mean the Ferrari 458 Italia? Because that one was designed by Carlo Palazzani (who's my teacher )

Sorry, that was the F430.
Anyway design solutions in development while still in Ferrari probably were used to draw the lines of the new Mclaren

Now that I think of it, our locations are reversed! I'm Italian living in Spain wile you re Spanish living in Italy, how funny.

All the people who says the McLaren is similar to the ferrari is right,
both car have been designed by the same man whose name is Frank Stephenson (who I met in real life).
Before going to McLaren he was working in Ferrari/Fiat.
So his experience and style reflected in both cars, and probably he used some tricks learnt in Ferrari too!

I had the same problem with my brand new G25 some months ago.
It randomly turned off not only while racing but even while idle.

I tried all the solutions mentioned above and more, then I discovered that I can voluntary cause the phenomenon by switching on lights in the bathroom, I had a fault on that portion of electrical system.
It looks absurd I know, but the soultion was simply plug the G25 power supply to a inlet on another wall of the room.

Quote from profike :

RAC already exists

Oh man you are right, I completely forgot!
Well at least it's one car less to work on.

Quote from J@mes :

On another note, in one lesson i got told off for left foot braking and being in too low a gear all the time, which is a bit of a hangover from lfs!

Happened to me too, I was doing lef foot brking onthe real car, meantime telling myself no to do that because it is not the gme and maybe dangerous!

I would like to build the RB4, maybe no the fastest or the coolest but for me it is very fun to drive. Then I will build the XRT and RAC

After lots of years I drove a car last week. I normally play LFS with G25 so first thing I had to get used to different sensibility of controls. A real car is nowhere near the G25 pedals. Next step was getting used to clutch, but surprisingly I stalled a lot more often with the XFGT that with that real car. Parking decenlty for me ws almost impossible in LFS, even in pit going straight, you just dont know where the car is and you cant lean your head towards ahead! In the real car was quite easy.

As said above in a real car you have awareness of what is around you and perspective of the space occupied by car. LFS helped me to get rythm quite quick cause after a while my body started to use the reflexes aquired by playing and I found myself shifting gear, steering right and looking oncoming left cars (didnt have to press any button!) at the same time. Only that the gearbox of that car was awful.

What my experience told me is: with LFS you get used to the controls of a car and your muscles memorize the movements.
Sensibility of pedal wheel ecc is different, but it's like when you drive a new car for the first time.
You are nervous less time.
In LFS you drive on a track, even if it's a cruise server. It wont help you in everyday driving, moreover, you know its a game so crashing doesnt worry you a lot. If somebody can do a track similar to a city road maybe would be different.
There are more of small difference that I wont list for post size reason, but the conlcusion is that LFS can help you in some aspect of real driving but only if you always keep in mind that cant subsitute a real teaching or experience.

Thanks for reading.

This and the football server, you sure arebored of the game without updates!

Just kidding, I like those kinds of original ideas and I have to recognize that you have a lot of creativity and knowledge to transform a car simulator in a paintball game!

I bought LFS S1 long ago after staying in demo some times, then after years without touching I decide to buy a G25 and upgrade to S2.
I feel greatthe fact that after you buy it you have the game and can download it everytime you want to return.

The day LFS will have monthly fee I will stop playing it because I am like those people who sign in the gym, pay the full month and then never go training. I have very little free time so I will just end up loosing money.

Dumb question:
Why mommy¡s car has 900 degrees steering angle when a racing car has about 200-300? As said in this thread less degrees makes a car easier to drive.

I bought a G25 4 months ago and snce then I never used paddle shifts again (no, I never drive GTRs or Formula cars). I came here fomr the oher thread about realistic controls and I'm very intersted in our server. is it still running?

Hi everybody,
I've been into LFS from some years by now but never been on the forums and I ugraded from S1 to S2 only few months ago so I think I need to make things official and make acquaintance in this thread.

See you on track!

And what about shift lever?
on right hand drive do you have gears mirrored or normal?

I mean, the first gear is on the top left corner like on let hand or is on right top corner?