back down again 21.40pm BST just as was uploading SO4 Hotlap for FXO, old one was marked invald, as i clicked to upload server the webiste timeout , co-incidence or ....

***edit*** must be my dodgy ISP

Last edited by Gener_AL (UK), Thu 29 May 2008, 20:54.

Just starting to use this new feature and it really has elevated LFSworld in my world, great work

I'll let the music do the talking

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae-LDQVrDUY

Not too much of this song makes sense, but it still brings chills down my spine and has my hair standing on end whenever i hear it.

First I'd like to say thanks to my main sponsor my cat, for her
relentless support and fur. My kettle for never failing to boil water
each day i wake up. And my mircrowave oven, you are my saviour.

Seriously though. I cant believe it, Tis an honour

Thank you Inferno & everyone for your kind words
.

LFS license: Gener_AL (UK)
Online screen name: Rambo
Do you accept the rules: Yes

:drevil:

Great news Scawen

I hope Mum and your new baby daughter are doing ok, and Leo too. No doubt the little man is jibbering away, speaking as only lil people can.

I wish you and your family all the best in the years to come.

Sincerely
Alan

:Handshake great work

I will try to make it

some sets

Flotch set (mod by Eza)

My set (god mod)

Grats Fox 2, and good catch Mercury.

Working on it, once i get a stable set (no pun intended) I will put a link here.
Я работаю над этим, как только я получить стабильный набор (не предназначены каламбур) я должен поставить ссылку здесь.

*bump*

Heres how things look today, nearly 3 months on from the introduction of patch Y :revs:

The biggest surprise i think has to be the No1 WR holder currently, having caused a few rumbles among hotlappers, just as surprising is the lack of a certain dude called biggie. Arco did very well to hold 1st place and fight off a few attacks from the established racers and still remains with reach in 3rd, with Worm looming in the background (also a table leader in the past) i think this fight for top isnt over yet.

Looking at the Nutter rank John Rees seems to be making a good headway into taking 1st place (go go UK ) but again Rob Newman is dragging the hardwork done by the rest of UK drivers down with some terrible times (*see nations handicap) but the effort is there at least. Marcel still holding onto first place, but for how long ?
the obvious name missing here is Renku (maybe S2 final eh )

Moving over to the MHR rank , the king of nub Jonesy resisdes at the top after surving tit for tat battling with pro racer csimpok since the start of this season. Bratwurst really doing well in 3rd proving good consistancy accross the board.

I wonder how this combination of charts will look in another 3 months or so.

Quote from Niako :

Hi guys, as i saw this post by Pecholobo i decided to reply too:
I think all you guys are jelous about him wiping your W.Rs. Instead of creating a thread you should try to take some W.Rs of him. ...

I dont think its jealousy at all. I think most hotlappers relish the challenge of competing for a WR, i know i do and many others.
The difference is respect, and i think and trust pecholobo is making ammends for the conduct exhibited in the past.
This is the difference between a fast driver and a great driver , respect

I would agree some tracks did have and some still do need fine tuning for hotlap purposes (racing also) and i do agree that this particular part of Kyoto does have issues with HVLC.

Good to see you posting in forums pecholobo, i think you have done yourself few favours with some of the SO laps you have done in the past, but i im sure your learning how harsh this community can be

This is somthing the devs to need to look at, for now in HLVC it is not invalid , but crosses a few moral values.

Quote from Linsen :

It's actually:

In my imagination
there is no complication
I dream about you all the time


... I suppose we all can sing a long from there.

NO!

Quote from DieKolkrabe :

/me thinks this thread needs locking and some members need a talking to.

DK

I think you need locking up

But please lets keep the recent mentality of destroying threads with this sorta "non"sense. and calls for it to be locked i for one would like to keep this thread open and flowing please.

Ian once you get to know him is really quite a decent fellow, sometimes you need someone around you who will say the things the majority of people wont dare say or wont say.

Agreed DWB, i found that with my experience with dSRC, people got worn out or RL commitments take precident, as they should (good job i dont have this thing people call RL)

Im confident in saying that along with my old team [dSRC] and the other leading teams back in 2004-2006 there was some of the finest racing and admining of servers.
What i do notice also as mentioned somewhere in another post (i think) Is the level and quality of administration, has dropped considerably on public racing servers. This itself has impact just as great as the progress you mention DWB.
Now back to the point of "burning out" I see it all the time with the veterans of this game and a few others, some are more resiliant to others, to the fact that the "same old" is all that they are doing.
But this"same old "is damn fine, when it clicks, the full grid, pushing your belief in your own ability and limits of the simulated car/track
CTRA has helped and also been a hinderence, i do have an issue with the toying of mixed vehicle class grids. But i can also understand they need to get it populated to sustain its popularity.
But it hard to keep yourself interested in somthing for a long period of time no matter what it may be, to quote a freind in recent chat.

Quote :

"
I kinda realised how I'm feeling towards LFS and the feeling gets stronger all of the time.
You know the feeling when you've played some game trough and beated up the final boss? Like you've beaten the game and there's nothing intresting to back for it anymore

"

What happens when this is how you feel ? Blame the devs ? Blame the forums ? Blame the game ? Take a break ?

I dont know the perfect awnser for everyone, but to move on and forwards sometimes you have to forgive,forget and most importantly
accept things for how they are. Im not saying you should lie down and die, or believe everything you read or see. But to focus on the positive rather then the negative, take the good from that bad. Hard i know, but nothing is really easy, when nothing works.

Last edited by Gener_AL (UK), Wed 20 Feb 2008, 16:34. Reason : *errors

Maybe the devs do need a kick up the backside now and again, maybe they dont
Speaking for myself again, i need constant motivation from external influences.
What i was speaking about eariler wasnt "dev bashing", just to re-ittereate the essence of the meaning of "live for speed" form the perspctive i have.

Axus to follow on from your point/
There was constant exitement, anticipation "back in the days"
Thats half the problem i think its just as much "fun" or as "serious" as it has always been. The problem its harder to find it, for pickup races.
Why , simple we have an influx of this "its ok its just a bit of fun" attitude when it comes to servers. We already had an issue of empty servers with a few regular names that servered the community very well.
Then along came RedlineRacing and CTRA and the onlsaught of insim mods (not that i think they dont deserve to do what they do some of the apps are fantastic)
What im merely saying that this small community has been fractured to even smaller groups over the last 2 years or so.
The amount of ignorance by those who claim to be in it for the game, is laughable sometimes. I think some people have their own agendas when commenting on issues regarding the userbase of LFS.

Hate to sound like a broken record with my opinion (for those that know it)

Basically this game is "old" people are bored with content (those that have been around for 3-4 years or more) , people move on and come back now and again to see whats happening , statiscally the game is doing "ok" turnover of new racers/old.
What disturbs me is how the Devs have let things like cruise servers stay part of this RACING SIMULATOR

Problem is you guys ike nothing more then to bitch and whinge. (i am also guilty see above ^ & below)

The problem, the majority of these issues (imo) are the amount of useless servers (although "some people" will argue that everyone has a right to host). Also that none (read majority of admins+racers ) of you are willing to sit on a server to get it populated, back in "the old days" i know some of the long serving members/racers of this community would be on a server for hours, watching like a hawk. Also you have insim coder wannabe's creating this problem with cruise servers and other things that run a bit deeper like CTRA midly affecting the breeding ground of the comunity.
Im sick of people thinking its a decline in users, although some forms of racing are sufferung very badly. Its a shift of focus .. nothing more, nothing less imo.

Live for Speed
What ever happened to that ?
Live to Cruise & drift (and race when you can find it eh)

MM perhaps , its a bios issue , dual-bios , each one with different settings? or alternativley , you guys are not switching CPU or OS or the OS key by any chance
The only other thing i know that will throw this off is if a different hardware profile is loaded on restart.

Quote from March Hare :

You hit the nail on the head.

You are allowed to report higher licensed drivers if they act like idiots.

Some fast guys seem to think that because someone is slower than they are then it's alright to bump him or ram him. (Just reported such a driver a few days ago.)

The slow guys have rights too. And if you are so bleeding super fast why don't you pass them when it's safe for everybody.

And most slow guys think they own the road also

As was just proved now (again) on CTRA1

As much as i applaud the report system, nothing beats the old way of doing things ... having admins on the server.

Thanks for that

maybe its time CTRA created a secondary XFG/XRG server, i know it would help the fast guys out. stop this type of thread.

mmm different .... but at least one is creating , thats the important part

It was quite a nice warmup race , lost concentration a few times but overall was an acceptable drive for myself.
Some hard battling which took its toll. and seemed to suffer suspension damage, on the right handside of the car.

If anyone has got the replay could they email it or upload ?
would be appreciated.