Hi M3thanol,
Thank you for this reply (and sorry for the delay I was on a business trip). Very good news. I test your latest creations as soon as possible
Thank you for this reply (and sorry for the delay I was on a business trip). Very good news. I test your latest creations as soon as possible
[Chimay < 3] 
Before driving, it's better.
Nice skin.
Before driving, it's better.
Nice skin.
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Will you continue to improve this car?
I ask you the question because I think your mod has real potential. It doesn't take much to complete it:
1- A template for skins with the possibility of integrating a headband on the windshield
2- And a more elaborate racing style dashboard as in the attached photos. It's important for immersion
It's good to go to the end of the concept so that people take ownership of the mod and produce skins and organize races
I ask you the question because I think your mod has real potential. It doesn't take much to complete it:
1- A template for skins with the possibility of integrating a headband on the windshield
2- And a more elaborate racing style dashboard as in the attached photos. It's important for immersion
It's good to go to the end of the concept so that people take ownership of the mod and produce skins and organize races
I hope to test this soon. I liked your MK1.
Thanks for this car. This is my favorite mod (I haven't tested everything).
It's great fun to drive. And the AI isn't doing too badly. The power to weight ratio is very good. it looks like what we imagine of this car.
I'm a little surprised that the car is so docile and glued to the track. The dashboard could be improved but it's a very good job. Hopefully we will have nice skins and competing cars soon.
It's great fun to drive. And the AI isn't doing too badly. The power to weight ratio is very good. it looks like what we imagine of this car.
I'm a little surprised that the car is so docile and glued to the track. The dashboard could be improved but it's a very good job. Hopefully we will have nice skins and competing cars soon.
Thank you for your answers.
@ Bishtop & Rane_nbg
You are right. But this is not incompatible with the idea that all drivers all have the same setup.
The setup could be adapted to each track. One could also have 3 or 4 standard setups for each type of tracks. Or have a setup type "factory output" as the current default setups.
The idea is not to have the most configured car for the track but create a new type of online challenge.
The best drivers always win. But the novices could tell "what's wrong with me? Same car, same setup, 2 seconds difference?"
@ Gu3st
I find this idea funny, friendly and "educational" (sorry I do not find the right word). I'm not saying that all races must be like that. It would be just a new option for new challenges.
@ Bishtop & Rane_nbg
You are right. But this is not incompatible with the idea that all drivers all have the same setup.
The setup could be adapted to each track. One could also have 3 or 4 standard setups for each type of tracks. Or have a setup type "factory output" as the current default setups.
The idea is not to have the most configured car for the track but create a new type of online challenge.
The best drivers always win. But the novices could tell "what's wrong with me? Same car, same setup, 2 seconds difference?"
@ Gu3st
I find this idea funny, friendly and "educational" (sorry I do not find the right word). I'm not saying that all races must be like that. It would be just a new option for new challenges.
Sorry if this has already been suggested or already exists. I looked but I did not find (and I do not have time to detail 34 pages in a language which is not mine 
).
I just learned that it was (perhaps) possible to force the use of a fixed configuration for all drivers. But this possibility is not notified in the legend of the rules of the servers.
I think it would be nice and friendly to have events with cars with the default setup or another fixed setup for everyone (or new modded cars with a fixed setup).
I know configuration is important. It's not about questioning it. With a little practice, anyone can hold a steering wheel. But not all of us have the time or the skills to do a good setup. This might entice new players to log in hoping to be less ridiculous.
If this is already possible, it would be good to communicate on it and to be able to identify events of this type at first glance.
Another thing I would like would be a menu to configure the AI. Like the menu to configure the sound (shift+a).
Many people find the AI bad in LFS and the AI is not the priority of an online game. I think (I practice it a lot) that the AI is already correct (it's AI, not real pilots...). The AI is just too slow, dull and blind. Manually adjusting some parameters such as speed, aggressiveness or collision detection would be good (this without major development work, depending on the possibilities of the current code).
).I just learned that it was (perhaps) possible to force the use of a fixed configuration for all drivers. But this possibility is not notified in the legend of the rules of the servers.
I think it would be nice and friendly to have events with cars with the default setup or another fixed setup for everyone (or new modded cars with a fixed setup).
I know configuration is important. It's not about questioning it. With a little practice, anyone can hold a steering wheel. But not all of us have the time or the skills to do a good setup. This might entice new players to log in hoping to be less ridiculous.
If this is already possible, it would be good to communicate on it and to be able to identify events of this type at first glance.
Another thing I would like would be a menu to configure the AI. Like the menu to configure the sound (shift+a).
Many people find the AI bad in LFS and the AI is not the priority of an online game. I think (I practice it a lot) that the AI is already correct (it's AI, not real pilots...). The AI is just too slow, dull and blind. Manually adjusting some parameters such as speed, aggressiveness or collision detection would be good (this without major development work, depending on the possibilities of the current code).
I'm glad to hear that it's possible to have fixed setups, thank you.
Are there online events with fixed setups?
But the idea here was to have new cars whose particularity is to have a fixed setup.
This post is a bit off topic and I apologize. I asked myself the question of modding differently.
I was wondering what kind of modding LFS needs?
This seems more constructive to me than judging the work of modders.
The LFS needs to attract more players. This is the real reason why modding is possible today. So how could modding attract new players, especially online?
Answering this question is easy for me because I haven't played online since... 2007 (And I know why. The reasons would take too long to explain here and there is not the question).
The thing that might get me racing online again would be to find races with cars that aren't configurable. Everyone with the same car, same configuration and may the best win.
Discussions on this subject are old. I understand that experienced players prefer their setups. It is also more logical and more realistic for a simulation to have advanced parameterization possibilities. I have no problem with that.
But if the project is to attract new players with modding, I think modding should bring something new to the game. Increasing the number of vehicles does not ultimately bring much. Everyone can already find something enjoyable to drive in LFS.
I think modding could help (for example) by offering non-tunable car categories, if the modding tools allow it of course.
I was wondering what kind of modding LFS needs?
This seems more constructive to me than judging the work of modders.
The LFS needs to attract more players. This is the real reason why modding is possible today. So how could modding attract new players, especially online?
Answering this question is easy for me because I haven't played online since... 2007 (And I know why. The reasons would take too long to explain here and there is not the question).
The thing that might get me racing online again would be to find races with cars that aren't configurable. Everyone with the same car, same configuration and may the best win.
Discussions on this subject are old. I understand that experienced players prefer their setups. It is also more logical and more realistic for a simulation to have advanced parameterization possibilities. I have no problem with that.
But if the project is to attract new players with modding, I think modding should bring something new to the game. Increasing the number of vehicles does not ultimately bring much. Everyone can already find something enjoyable to drive in LFS.
I think modding could help (for example) by offering non-tunable car categories, if the modding tools allow it of course.
I understand what you are saying. But we do not need to know Ukraine well to subscribe to the right of peoples to self-determination. And it would seem that the Ukrainian institutions have made choices in this direction. Even if it's very interesting, the question of the language seems to me here very secondary here (in addition you do not seem to agree between you
).I don't think Putin is the kind of guy who bows to international pressure. If he ends up being cornered, he will cause an incident with planetary repercussions. He's not going to kill himself alone in his bunker. And the international strategy boils down to cornering Putin, at the risk of pushing China to react.
I think that the West does not have the means of its policy and more enough credibility to federate on “the beautiful values of freedom carried by the West”.
We are a bit like the German generations born after the war. They had to bear the historical weight of Nazism without being responsible for its crimes.
Your video is interesting. I confess that I do not know what to think?
The war in Iraq was a great trauma (especially for people of our generation). This has done a lot of harm to the concept of law. We could also talk about Libya. But these are just examples of the double standard that we feel we can impose on the rest of the world. "Do what I say. Do not do what I have done in the past or what I still allow myself to do before your eyes".
With regard to the crimes of the West (the wars of yesterday and today, but also colonization and its genocides, forced evangelization, slavery, the methodical plundering of planetary natural resources, the use of the atomic bomb, ecological devastation, our assumed consumerism and its effects...or our racialization of refugee status...the list is endless) who are we to teach lessons?
Our arrogance led us to proclaim "the end of history" to erase our debt to the rest of the world. But history catches up with us. Beyond the tragic fate of Ukraine, this is what is in question.
The double standard today authorizes other nations to perpetrate the worst atrocities in the name of equity, or the right to self-determination. Israel has raised the "double standard" as a concept [Three Ds]. It is a sign of anti-Semitism recognized to disqualify all criticism of the annexation of Palestine. Emerging nations invoke the double standard to justify their right to pollute and dispose of (even destroy) their natural resources (which we consider to be the common heritage of humanity since we no longer control them) Putin would be entitled to to invoke the double standard about international sanctions following his invasion of Ukraine...
I have big doubts like you. For Putin to stand trial for his crimes, he would have to either volunteer or be removed from office and handed over to an international court. These scenarios are unlikely. Labeling Putin a war criminal has another more immediate effect, however. It says there will be a "before" and an "after" Ukraine.
Putin played big. It seems that he has already partly lost. The West could perhaps do without Russian gas and oil. It will be more complicated for nuclear power. But the West will not be able to keep up the pressure on Russia without the support of China. And China is increasingly claiming its status as a non-aligned country.
The real question is, "What's behind the invasion of Ukraine?" The control of the Black Sea, of course. Putin already has some strong allies there. But the invasion of Ukraine could also hide something else.
Our navel-gazing has made us forget that Russia and Japan are still officially at war (the end of the Second World War has not happened for everyone). Following Japan's adoption of international sanctions against Russia, Russia redeployed to the Kuril Islands in late March. 3,000 men with missile batteries (the islands of Kouriles are less than 9,000 km from the USA...).
How would China react in the event of an armed confrontation between its hereditary enemy (Japan) and its contemporary best friend (Russia)?
I am not a collapsologist. But even if we escape the worst, this crisis will have considerable repercussions. After the health crisis and the economic crisis it caused, the conflict in Ukraine could be only the beginning of very large upheavals for which we should reflect and prepare (as far as possible).
This seems more urgent to me than testing our knowledge of wikipedia. It's just my opinion. And I prefer to be wrong.
I agree. I would add that the posts here remain cordial despite the differences in point of view and the links unrelated to the subject.
For those who missed something, a link to a terrifying and already far too documented article on war crimes committed in Ukraine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_in_the_2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine
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I agree with what you say but what does this have to do with the last videos you posted?
You know very well what is wrong with your links. The whole world is in shock at what is happening in Ukraine and the tragic fate of refugees who are victims of the worst abuses and the worst violence (mass deportations, genocide, trafficking in human beings, trafficking in organs, so many atrocities common to dirtiest wars) and that's not what you decide to watch.
What interests me is that I would never watch this kind of...stuff. I don't even know where to find them? It's the same with Russian propaganda.
But understand that it can be disturbing.
The choice of these videos informs us about what some people think. It's instructive for those who (like you and me) do not go on these propaganda media and do not share the racist theses.
Russian propaganda seems to have abandoned here
Those who were still wondering will find the answer in your videos. It seems difficult to continue to support that it is propaganda.
With Putin he has since started a huge casting problem that has made the standardization of east-west relations impossible. Putin is a criminal. Every day that he passes to power brings us closer to a new world war.
I understand your position and I respect it. From where you are, our little quarrels must seem very childish to you...
About your video, I find it hard to subscribe to such a simplistic and Manichean analysis. I am also very suspicious of people who quote the wise words of Nazi criminals...
I no longer have any confidence in the United States since the war in Iraq. But it seems to me that one can understand that (seen from the west) Putin never seemed reliable. Since then, he's shown who he really is too many times. The expansion of NATO, the contempt of the United States for Russia and the Nazis of Ukraine are unfortunately only pretexts.
To complete what Bishtop said, after a complicated past, the Republic of Ukraine became independent again in 1990. The United Kingdom, the United States and Russia guaranteed its territorial integrity since 1994 following its denuclearization.
One cannot say that the perfectly illegal invasion of Ukraine is a good sign for the future of nuclear disarmament or for the solidarity of nations, even when this solidarity is enshrined in treaties...
And ? Are you afraid of blows?
[quote="SamH;1996138"]Okay, but then introduce the stated proposals and objectives of the World Economic Forum and the conspiracy theory mutates into a **spoiler alert**
The World Economic Forum is a fine organization of psychopaths to dismantle... but that's another subject.
The World Economic Forum is a fine organization of psychopaths to dismantle... but that's another subject.
Conspiracy theories are reassuring in that they tell us that what is happening is intentional; of an identifiable cause, of a common enemy against which we could fight. Thus, it would suffice to open our eyes to the truth that is being hidden from us for the world to become comprehensible again.
The reality is much more tragic. No conspiracy is necessary for our annihilation. There are no strings to pull, no one at the controls, no pilot in the plane or navigation instruments. All of this would be completely useless. This is why the only button present on our dashboard can only be used to destroy everything just before the big crash. A world so resolutely consumerist cannot know any other destiny nor nourish any other ambitions.
The dominant economic ideology inherently carries the seeds of its (our) self-destruction. This ideology is objectively suicidal enough to be able to instantly transform every planetary problem (including wars) into a market opportunity and impose the most inept solutions on us in return (new nuclear power plants, American shale gas instead of Russian gas, more weapons, more military bases, more control, less freedom...) and make everything that is essential to us more and more expensive to end up dispossessing us of everything, until to make us mere tenants of our lives, indeed.
Sanctions against Russia are part of this arsenal. They are speculative and dishonest since partial and gradual so that no one loses too much money and everyone has time to look back (for example: the big French companies have still not left Russia and Germany continues to import 200,000,000 euros of Russian gas per day). The truth is that the fate of a few million civilians weighs nothing here.
I advise you to go back to your books. You will learn that you are very unfair to Napoleon. Napoleon did not just try. He has achieved great things in a very short time. Like causing several million deaths in Europe, restoring slavery, reigning nepotism and terror, rekindling the flame of imperialism which inspired other great men like Hitler and Putin, and which still poisons contemporary geopolitics. .. The only good deeds of Napoleon are to have ratified some of the achievements of the French Revolution, of which he has nothing to do with the foundations. For someone who has just "tried", it's already good.
I am not against the idea of a new world order. The current world order does not satisfy me. But it depends what gone replace it . The times do not lend themselves to progress. And nothing in what is happening suggests that the freedom of peoples will triumph. There is no point in speculating and please leave god, Napoleon and the devil out of it all.
We are already in the situation that I have described. It doesn't make me any happier than it does you, but here we are. The Russia/Ukraine conflict is globalized. We will escape, I hope, from a nuclear war, but the consequences will already be terrible.
Sorry for this anxiogenic message, but it will end very badly, without the shadow of a doubt. A third world war, the total collapse of Putin Russia and / or decades of crises, wars, famines and various shortages that will lead to a new world order even more authoritarian and more violent.
I specify that none of these scenarios suits me. But I do not see others. Putin has already been far too far. Even if he left Ukraine entirely (and he will not do it), the harm is made. And nothing will be able to improve as long as he runs Russia. We are already at a situation of no return. Nuclear war is no longer a taboo for any of the parties. Europe and the rest of the world buy weapons again ...
The only plan seems to be to wait for the Putin system to collapse from itself, from the inside. But Putin is not at his first war or his first mass crimes.
The worst option is to examine a new genocide at the gates of NATO and do nothing. The inaction of the West has strengthened Putin. As she had allowed Nazi Germany to prosper. NATO should have given a strong ultimatum at the beginning of the invasion. But the concept of nuclear deterrence dissuaded us (again) to save people.
The time has come to pay at the high price for all our mistakes. I fear it. I hope (if not what?) That this major crisis (which is not a simple problem between Russia and Ukraine, but the end of the current geopolitics) forces us to rethink a world capable of resisting tomorrow's challenges .
@ kahn62
I think it's better not to borrow more in Napoleon.
Instead of always looking at what is wrong (in graphics, physics, weather, number of tracks, age of cars, color of tires or helmets...) and extending development indefinitely. .. has anyone ever wondered if the LFS-style inline racing model isn't a bit outdated? If the inter-self of the community was not a problem? If the online chat does not harm the spirit of racing? If the LFS does not need new blood? New ideas? Concrete actions to say why this game is absolutely brilliant?
Why always wait for what the devs can (maybe?) do tomorrow without seeing what we (the players) can do for the game today?
Why always wait for what the devs can (maybe?) do tomorrow without seeing what we (the players) can do for the game today?
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