Quote from Amynue :

Is the shocks and wishbones placement acceptable?

Looks sensible as a base. I don't have any data for what is correct though.

Quote from Amynue :

Another question - what kind of differential should I use?

The standard car has an open diff but no idea about the faster one. In any case, traction control is probably essential.

Quote from Forbin :

Specs are easy enough to change with LFSTweak. Although suspension specs are not.

Only because the developer never added them. They're no easier to change than any other part of memory. Getting them right is of course a little more difficult.

Quote from Amynue :

Since I'm not so smart about suspension, could anyone tell which suspension type from the ones currently available in LFS is closest to multilink?

Double wishbone. Essentially with multi-link I think you'll just be missing out on any dynamic toe effects, if you otherwise get the geometry right. But I'm not quite so hot on multi-link either, so could be wrong.

Sad but true. Maybe that's down to many gamers who are voting only being aware of the cars that have been in other games? Or get featured in magazines held high in the circles of automotive journalism... such as Nuts and FHM.

Quote from Amynue :

So, for example to get the 5th gear ratio I have to do this:
1.093 x 3.136 ÷ 4.058
?

I believe in the cast of the VW twin shaft gearbox, the numerically larger final drive ratio applies to 1st through 4th, and the smaller one for 5th and 6th.

Quote from Amynue :

I doubt it's a mistake since 4th and 5th gear ratios for every VW or Seat with 2.0TSI engines look that way

This is because there are two final drive ratios. Apply the correct one for the corresponding gear ratios, and the overall ratios will fall in order.

Quote from Amynue :

if possible - the recomended tyre pressure.

They don't list values for the Scirocco but the closest Golf should run the same pressures: http://www.thetyrepressuremoni ... action=step2&maker=29

Voting is over now. The closed beta should be coming soon (order of weeks).

bunder, there is a large web based element but the racing is certainly not.

That was funny?

Nice one Scawen.

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

Not sure if this is allowed but I'm after a quick sale (hopefully the powers that be won't mind)

Sorry, we only permit adverts here for sim racing related goods.

Also, your advert on ebay is pretty poor, you should learn how to make a decent advert.

Yorkshire can never compete with the deep south west for town names; Cocks, Green Bottom, Mousehole, Virginstow, Barripper, Congdons Shops, Goonhusband. Never was so much fun had with a map.

Quote from P5YcHoM4N :

I got a quote of £800 for a 1.8 Volvo S40.

Last year my renewal was about £540 for my 3 liter Jag. Although I did refresh prices on that and it was giving me quotes of a grand, so hopefully they won't rape me come my renewal this summer. Can only wait and see.

Only trouble I had with insurance was trying to buy the car, the dealership tried to get me day insurance via them so I could drive it away but they wouldn't cover me at all as I was under 25 at the time. I know some people go nuts when they get their licence and mellow with age but I started slow and just gradually get faster as I gradually lose patience with all the slow traffic. Maybe I shouldn't tell them that though...

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

£3300-£3700 to insure depending on what year.

Ouch. I'm hoping that comes down for you over time.

I just played a little game with moneysupermarket to see if I could get quotes that high. It proved harder than I would have thought.

They always say a small engine helps reduce your premium so the game begins with the largest engine possible; 8.3 litres of Viper. Surprisingly only £1570, despite pistons the size of small continents. What about something a little more focused, say a Lotus Exige 260? £1725. Still way off, I need something prestigious. Ferrari 612 Scaglietti F1 comes to £2660. Ultimate luxury and speed? Bentley Continental Speed GT comes in at £2900. And then I have it, £140k worth of Ford GT, £3730.

But can I go further, is it possible to break into five figures? Well no Veyron in the list (nor XJ220 either ), but I do spy a Ferrari F50. £9845 to insure £400k worth of Italian lust isn't too bad really. All other insane supercars are giving me the same figure so looks like no five figure premiums for me.

At least I know if I sell my car I can afford to insure a Ford GT. Now I just need someone to give me one.

Quote from Jakg :

A little experiment...

Of my daily drive to Uni.

(5x speed, no audio)

It takes you three quarters of an hour to get to Uni?

Quote from Shotglass :

seriously wtf?

Less aggravating thread title now?

While I agree most people get technical terms wrong, I can't be bothered to correct people any more. So long as I understand what they meant.

Getting some stock car urges are we?

TBH 200GiB isn't so bad as a fair usage cap. I've known worse. For example with Virgin, their fair usage is only 2 or 3GiB during working hours, and unlimited outside those hours. Basically it means big downloads need to be done overnight, which is a bit of a pain, but I can happily get 50GiB night after night and have never heard from them. Bandwidth does seem throttled at peak hours though, between early evening and midnight I can only get about 250kb/s, then at precisely midnight the rate jumps back to 1600kb/s. At least when you know you can worth with it though, and I know Virgin are too huge and faceless to do anything about it if I complained anyway.

For anyone who's bought a NASCAR game before (or are very seriously considering buying one), I'm trying to see how much of a North American bias there is to the fanbase, so I've started another map of players, but for NASCAR (no specific game in mind) rather than LFS. If you're interested, stick yourself on.

Cheers

Looks good. Some pleasant editing too.

To quote the producer for this game:

Quote from davet :

To clarify, the PS3 version is region free. The Xbox 360 version can be player in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. The is no region lock online so you should be able to play each other worldwide.

Quote from danowat :

Huh?, really?

Yes, Activision are only publishing in the US, as presumably that's the only market they think it will sell in sufficient volume to be worth their troubles. I think historically, previous NASCAR games have mostly sold over there. They should at least set up some online shop for Europe to save everyone having to import copies from the States though.

New 1 min dev diary regarding car setups:
http://www.gamesradar.com/xbox ... 068/g-2010111815425601069

Quote from (SaM) :

stack some supplies to make it through

I always find cookies especially useful. And tasty. Yet distracting.

I know why we couldn't just drop it in at the moment; our transmission model needs a bit more work for that. We could drop it in as is but then you'd all be complaining you can't stall and don't need to clutch to change gear. What I don't know is why the designer or producer didn't want me to add it, then I could have made all the necessary improvements. Be happy I at least took the liberty of making neutral available to sequential manuals, before it was only selectable if you had an H shifter.

If enough people ask for it after release, no doubt they'll ask me to do it for the next game. They're very focused on the casual gaming market first, sim racers second, so things like this can get left behind. A large portion of the dev team (and Activision's QA, you should see the bugs I get!) are just into games, rather than being into racing sims or cars at all. You can't blame them for not having the interest but there's not a lot you can do about it apart from pointing things out.

I like.

I've now locked the original map so nobody (except me) can edit it anymore. Please see the third attempt at the map at the new thread.

Thanks to all who added their markers to this map, sorry that you all will need to do it again due to a few idiotic individuals.