If you knew the extra time the extra weight of fuel cost you, per lap, and the amount of time needed to refil that fuel, you could calculate which should work out fastest. For the road cars, which refil slowly, and don't have huge tanks, it's usually faster to start with more fuel. Add to that it's a lot easier to pass a car in the pits than racing on the track, I'd want to be in there for as little time as possible.

Quote from hazaky :

I say, dont buy it.

He wasn't asking for a recommendation to buy or not, but for opinions by people who have bought it, as to the plus and minus points of the sim, so he can make up his own mind.

DaveWS - I'd have thought, if anything, most racing games/sims guess numbers that are too high for the moment of inertia tensor. LFS takes the generation approach, since such numbers are not easily measured, so they should be quite reasonable, and can dynamically change with passengers, fuel and mass handicap. Also, any sim only take 3 numbers it not fully modelling inertia, as simultaneous pitch and roll should be different to pitch followed by roll.

Quote from ColeusRattus :

On a sidenote: what would aliens need a cow for?

Steak? Durr. All those BurgerKing adverts beamed through space got them hooked.

Quote from Greboth :

Hmmm, Anyone else thinking the 'light's are something to do with the RAF then.

Usually, I would have thought. Far more believable that UFOs are from earth than from space.

Finally got some photos back.

Before going out: http://www.thefloatingwidget.net/mjh/Halloween/PA310004.JPG
At the end of the night after the mask was removed: http://www.thefloatingwidget.net/mjh/Halloween/PB010011.JPG

I got some great looks out in town. Maybe next year I'll go all out.

I don't think the garage readouts show dynamic loads, else you'd see them fluctuate when you dropped the car. The effect should be there when you're on the track.

Am I interpreting that story correctly, the 'disguises' didn't actually disguise them, but actually helped with their identificiation due to said disguises not being removed afterwards?

Hmm, the file is there but the new webserver is not liking the filename, hence the 406 error. I'll rename the file and update the link.

Edit: done

Last edited by Bob Smith, Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:18. Reason : new link

Quote from Crashgate3 :

I imagine a very light car like a Caterham can get away with taller sidewalls as there's a lot less centripetal force that they need to withstand as the car corners.

Probably offset by running lower inflation pressures.

Quote from brt900 :

doe sanyone know the sizes of clio cup wheels and tryes but converted trye sizes to normal tire sizes not in slick measurements please i would extremely appreciate this

If you have the measurements in a size format you are not familiar with, post them here and I (or someone else) should be able to convert them.

Quote from Crashgate3 :

Which is a good thing.

What next, the stealth Lambo? That would be an oxymoron if I ever saw one, as no doubt it was still be sprayed bright orange.

The Starion had ABS, and that's why it's an option for the XRG/XRT. How much more realism do you want?

Quote from ATC Quicksilver :

, they have little islands that direct you into oncoming traffic...apparently it's safer to drive into oncoming traffic than 2mph over the speed limit.

They're all over the place round here, 'cept on my road which is one way and thus immune, so it's filled with speed bumps instead.

The most annoying thing is that almost every resedential street around the city new seems to either be:
*30mph limit, with speedbumps you need to slowdown to anywhere from 25 to 5mph (or affore mentioned road narrowing zones, if the roads are long, wide and otherwise efficient at moving larger volumes of traffic)
*20mph limit, and no traffic 'calming' what-so-ever
*Or, the one exception, is the road past the school over the road, which is 30mph, and has nothing to go slow over except all the kids that run all over the road on their way to school

And they call me crazy?

So naturally, I try take the 20mph roads where possible, and do 30mph anyway (does anyone actually adhere to 20 zones?), thus getting to my destination more comfortable, in less time and with less wear and tear on my car.

Quote from mblixt :

some one shoud skin those evil pepole alive too

I think that would be much fairer than just shooting them outright.

It's coming along with Latin and Coptic.

I agree with Jakg on this, a road car has very different brake needs to a car designed for the track. The brakes on my Mondeo fade after only a couple of hard braking stints, I doubt they'd even last a hard lap at a track. On the road however, unless I've just done a high speed emergency stop, I've got enough braking friction to lock the wheels if I so wish. So there would be zero benefit of me upgrading the brakes unless I wanted to start going to track days, or finding some nice windy hill roads to blat round (which, in a car that rolls like a ship and accelerates like ball of dung down a gentle hill, I won't be).

Edit: Post is a bit redundant now...

I think TN panels can get a bad rep for the same reasons that CRTs do: people are just used to the cheap and nasty variants. A decent CRT gives an excellent picture, but a knackered old CRT, or just a cheap and nasty one, will give an awful picture, far worse than even the world TFT, that will at least not blur or distort (assuming the signal remains intact all the way to the panel, which is not always the case). Not helping either is that most CRTs can be drastically improved just by twiddling with the many different settings for half an hour, and setting a more suitable refresh rate.

Likewise panel type is not the most important attribute of a TFT, my IPS at home is worse for dark games and films than my TN at work due to the very poor black depth that comes with cheaper public displays, than the standard computer orientated monitor I'm sat infront of now. Of course, move to the design environment of display adverts in a bright or outdoor environment, and it's a whole different story which will give the better, more vibrant image, from any angle people might be looking from.

I'd imagine a modern TN panel is leaps and bounds ahead of early examples, and reaches the "good enough" level for most people. Other panels can look better, but many people won't pay a premium for extra quality beyond what they consider enough.

While I'll never buy a TN panel for myself at home, that's mostly because I'm an electronics snob and only buy the best I can afford, or I don't bother at all.

Quote from dorikick :

Can you not see the disadvantage of remaining closed ?

If you were pointing it out, I missed it.

Quote from dorikick :

You can absolutely charge for playing online. ... Not to mention if you go down the MMO route, you can charge people monthly.

I for one wouldn't pay monthly, unless it was ridiculously cheap. I think one sim going that route is enough for now. Although I admit I race in LFS very rarely, it's become more of a physics experimentation tool for me now.

Quote from dorikick :

It's expensive considering the little amount of cars available, and tracks and other modes of play.

Tracks I will agree with being short in quantity, cars not so much. People are just spoiled at having hundreds of cars these days. Even if LFS had all that, it will dilute online play far too much.

Quote from dorikick :

The numbers speak themselves: compare the sales for NFS, or other simulation franchises vs. LFS.

NFS is no way a meaningful comparison. Compare to NASCAR 2003, RBR or Grand Prix Legends to LFS, and we could draw some useful comparisons, although LFS does not have the conventional business model (i.e. sold in a shop) or advertising (other than word of mouth) that all those sims benefitted from.

Quote from dorikick :

They have real cars. LFS doesn't.

I'm sure this just an oversight on your part, but LFS does have 5 real cars. Not many, but a start, and I'd hope that number continues to rise as LFS evolves. Fictional content was clearly the only choice to begin with, but I see LFS moving further away from (new) fictional content as time progresses.

Quote from danthebangerboy :

And the poll, yah, the reasons are correct, but 'yes' and 'no' are the wrong way around.

Fixed.

Any chances of a link to the longer video? No point discussing it with most of us not knowing what you're on about. Unless it would violate rules, of course.

Considering they have knives to take the fur off, can't they just slit the throat and let the animals die in a much less traumatic and painful manner (than being skinned alive)? Or even better, stab it in the brain or something? Surely it's easier for them too than trying to skin a live animal that clearly isn't going to be all to agreeable about the process.

Your Hungarian, the article is Hungarian, but this forum is not. So that follows you can read the untranslated article, but most people on this forum can't, and thanks to the accuracy of online translators, nobody can understand the translated one. So if there's nothing English to read here, there's no reason for a thread.

What's wrong with a tie for the WR?

Education is the only long term solution to deal with that.

Yes, the sidewalls contribution to cornering stiffness will be reduced, although the contact patches contribution should remain unaffected (and I think this the more prominent of the two). It would be nice to see data where only profile changed, and not width or radius.

Quote from Jet_ CZE :

is this old bug/feature? i just noticed it in z22

An optimisation that has been there since the dawn of time (2002).

No licence begging.