I'd buy an S2 license if I were you. You'll have more cars and tracks to enjoy and it's a different community.
Initially, when you look for online races, you'd probably wonder why not many more races online. Well, most S2 racers belong to teams and race in sponsored league races. Many teams have their own servers and practice in private. Some teams have "team nights" where they race against each other.
All that said, at first sight it may look like there is little or no support for online racing, but if you visit the leagues' websites you can find their racing schedules and may be surprised to see 30 or more drivers in one race.
Some leagues offer multiple races on week ends and all these races are scheduled in their calendars.
As far as this community growing, yes, it is growing. You won't login one day and find everyone gone.
Regards,
Initially, when you look for online races, you'd probably wonder why not many more races online. Well, most S2 racers belong to teams and race in sponsored league races. Many teams have their own servers and practice in private. Some teams have "team nights" where they race against each other.
All that said, at first sight it may look like there is little or no support for online racing, but if you visit the leagues' websites you can find their racing schedules and may be surprised to see 30 or more drivers in one race.
Some leagues offer multiple races on week ends and all these races are scheduled in their calendars.
As far as this community growing, yes, it is growing. You won't login one day and find everyone gone.
Regards,
Hey Nitrox, have you read this post?
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=18589
See if that helps.
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=18589
See if that helps.
I don't know if this can be done. The engine sound files are compiled and are part of the game program. The video shown in youtube is from a real car, not LFS so, the sound must be recorded and compiled for LFS as far as I know.
You may want to post in the technical forum to see if you get better answers.
Regards
We are testing the tire issue in our team. It appears that in the FZR at least, the tires do well up until about laps 10-12. Depending on the track , the fronts begin to cool off in an unnatural way but gradually. The skin stays warm but the inside goes blue and cold. This leads to blow outs. If they stay cold, they usually blow out around laps 27-30 as we tested on West Hill. Of course, tire wear has an impact on blow outs too.
Yesterday I did some testing on the Kyoto Oval (with FZR) to see if they cooled off evenly. I was surprised to see that the left front cooled off to black while the right rear was nice and green. The right front had a red skin running about 125 degrees on R3s. The same thing happened driving the BF1.
This is new stuff to me. It never happened before. Who knows what they did to patch X, LOL!
I agree with you folks on the AI issue. They are not very intelligent and in some cars they won't shift past 5th gear. They don't recognize you on the track and they observe no rules. Frankly, I don't know why the devs put them there.
But if you want to learn to race clean, fill the track with AIs and start from the back. Try to pass them clean and win that race. I bet you'll have your hands full.
I do miss racing with good AIs as I did on GP4. That game has AIs that race like people, they wait behind you and avoid wrecking. And you have to be good to beat them. I haven't seen nothing like that to date.
Good AIs may be a fuzzy dream in LFS but they are on my wish list.
But if you want to learn to race clean, fill the track with AIs and start from the back. Try to pass them clean and win that race. I bet you'll have your hands full.
I do miss racing with good AIs as I did on GP4. That game has AIs that race like people, they wait behind you and avoid wrecking. And you have to be good to beat them. I haven't seen nothing like that to date.
Good AIs may be a fuzzy dream in LFS but they are on my wish list.
Hi guys,
This incident happened on lap 87 not on 94.
I lost control of my car entering the turn and it got to fishtailing. Car 23 ignored me fishtailing and tried to pass on my left. That's when we made contact accidentally and we both spun out of control. I tried to think of a way of apologizing but remembered that I can't message in a race. But I do apologize.
In no way did I mean to cause DWB any harm. But from my perspective, the accident was unavoidable.
Now, I noticed that not too many drivers here know how to pass a slow car. If you watch the video between laps 86 and 110, you'll notice the many times I moved off and in one instance I stopped on the S turn to let a faster car through, because many of the drivers here drive like the AI's. Yet I was hit and pushed off track many times between laps 30 and 54 and on laps 93 and 94.
Well, I'll reserve my comments for the next thread. But I apologize and if DWB wants 20 second of my time is fine with me.
Regards,
Jim
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Isn't this wheel for Play Station 2? Can it be used on PCs?
Yep, the same here. Time makes a big difference.
Dumpy and CodieMorgan, perhaps you need to join a league that races in your time zone. The specialized leagues usually race on private servers but they have many active teams you can join. Try LOTA (League of the Americas) for a change and see how you like it.
They are in the North American continent and race in our time zones. We have many events scheduled and in fact we just finished a series of races for the GTI/GTRs called the Micro-GTR series. A lot of fun.
There are others too, like IGTC which is very active. IGTC normally races on Saturdays but it's mostly reserved for teams.
You're right again. That's why I stopped reading these forums until today. My first time in 2 months.
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Good question. Just don't do what the AIs do and you'll be allright. If you follow their example you'll be banned from most leagues
Cheers!!
Good idea. There are more than just a few Americans who like NASCAR. But the problem would be the tracks.
The challenge in an oval race with the same car lies on your strategy and setup. You would not be very competitive using your WR set because it is designed for only one lap. But a 100 lap on an oval requires a long distance set and one that allows you to pass others at high/low speed.
Then we have the yellows. We would need a pace car and pace rules, since that is part of the NASCAR strategy. We should have paced yellows because without them everyone would be forced to pit on green. No fun.
Another thing: how many pit areas in each track?
This could be a lot of fun, especially if someone develops a short track. Here in the US we have lots to 1/4 mile ovals and some folks do get a kick out of that.
Ciao
The challenge in an oval race with the same car lies on your strategy and setup. You would not be very competitive using your WR set because it is designed for only one lap. But a 100 lap on an oval requires a long distance set and one that allows you to pass others at high/low speed.
Then we have the yellows. We would need a pace car and pace rules, since that is part of the NASCAR strategy. We should have paced yellows because without them everyone would be forced to pit on green. No fun.
Another thing: how many pit areas in each track?
This could be a lot of fun, especially if someone develops a short track. Here in the US we have lots to 1/4 mile ovals and some folks do get a kick out of that.
Ciao
Same thing here. If I make a pit stop it won't go past 40 MPH regardless of the gear.
Hey Gosser,
After a while you'll learn that there are some things you don't discuss in these forums, LOL!
Sorry to say, but many in these game forums are children who haven't developed their sensitivities and are rude to everyone. To boot, many can hardly converse in English and have difficulties understanding these posts. If you notice, many times they drive the posts in a different direction because they can't keep up with the subject.
You best bet would be to just read and if you need unbiased opinions, just PM someone whose posts show some kind of maturity. Or better yet, join a league or team forum where you can ask questions without kids making you feel like you are dumb and stupid.
This is the best advise I can give you, and btw you will see a barrage of posts commenting against what I just said. That would prove the point, right?
Regards
I appreciate all that has been said here and the good LOTF reputation. However, it is very hard to find a team that will accept new members in this day and age. Last time I checked LOTF, R4R, Carbon, CoRe, and others, none were accepting new members.
So, that would leave someone like me to start a team, right? What other choices are there? If you want to race and be with folks of your liking, that would be the only recourse.
Joining a league as a loner is fine, in fact I belong to LOTA. But I have to wait for the right event to race as a loner. With a team you can organize your own practice races and more.
For a while here, I fought against myself restraining myself from offering to be a sub-driver on teams to cover for anyone that may miss a race. That could open doors for a permanent position in a team once they get to know you. But to this day I have split feelings of anyone taking me seriously because I am so new at this.
And so it goes. Good luck to you guys, may the moon shine your way and the wind be on your back.
So, that would leave someone like me to start a team, right? What other choices are there? If you want to race and be with folks of your liking, that would be the only recourse.
Joining a league as a loner is fine, in fact I belong to LOTA. But I have to wait for the right event to race as a loner. With a team you can organize your own practice races and more.
For a while here, I fought against myself restraining myself from offering to be a sub-driver on teams to cover for anyone that may miss a race. That could open doors for a permanent position in a team once they get to know you. But to this day I have split feelings of anyone taking me seriously because I am so new at this.
And so it goes. Good luck to you guys, may the moon shine your way and the wind be on your back.
!!I just die laughing at all this nonsense!!
I would figure there would be better ways of using server space, but if the owners of this server don't care, why should I, right?
Good day!
Matt, no offense created on your part. I was only offering a suggestion for your benefit. Anyway, you see how fast people volunteered to join, right? I give you lots of credit for applying wisdom here. Good luck with the team.
Regards
Okay, here's the question:
Suppose there's a skin that contains inflammatory language to some or perhaps graphics and it's posted in the skin forum.
Suppose some in the LFS community complain to the skinner about the undertones of the skin, would it be illegal for a user to adopt that skin removing the offensive stuff and replacing it with accepatable language?
On the other hand, reading the posts in the skin forum and reading about the intent of posting skins there, it leads me to believe that we can use any skin uploaded there unless the skinner states that it's private. Maybe I'm wrong, but if it's private why upload it?
Suppose there's a skin that contains inflammatory language to some or perhaps graphics and it's posted in the skin forum.
Suppose some in the LFS community complain to the skinner about the undertones of the skin, would it be illegal for a user to adopt that skin removing the offensive stuff and replacing it with accepatable language?
On the other hand, reading the posts in the skin forum and reading about the intent of posting skins there, it leads me to believe that we can use any skin uploaded there unless the skinner states that it's private. Maybe I'm wrong, but if it's private why upload it?
Well, if I may offer a suggestion, it may be better not to classify the drivers as fast, medium, weak, etc. That kind of stereotyping doesn't work too well when you look for volunteers. 
It's mistifying why people like to chide with young ones, LOL!
Let the kid do his thing, he isn't harming anyone using the fonts he likes. Let's not discourage them from the fellowship nor from racing.
Let the kid do his thing, he isn't harming anyone using the fonts he likes. Let's not discourage them from the fellowship nor from racing.
Hmmm... I'm sort of new to LFS, but could you have replaced the S2 sounds with the S1 sounds?
Some of you guys are simply amazing! Thanks Victor and all of you for your efforts. Well appreciated.
Jim
Jim
Hi Otolikos,
I visited the league's website.
Unfortunate as it is, I don't think you gave the league enough time to develop. It would have been nice to wait to see a track rotation first, but a week or two doesn't reflect the health of the league.
I visited the tracks and as you stated on your website, no one was there. Then I looked it up this week-end and the server was gone.
Open racing is fine, but scheduled races are what the users depend on and we never had a schedule. There was a race and you issued some awards but I never knew the race was on until I read the post on your website.
If you decide to put the league back online, PM me. I'll support you as much as I can.
Regards,
Jim
I visited the league's website.
Unfortunate as it is, I don't think you gave the league enough time to develop. It would have been nice to wait to see a track rotation first, but a week or two doesn't reflect the health of the league.
I visited the tracks and as you stated on your website, no one was there. Then I looked it up this week-end and the server was gone.
Open racing is fine, but scheduled races are what the users depend on and we never had a schedule. There was a race and you issued some awards but I never knew the race was on until I read the post on your website.
If you decide to put the league back online, PM me. I'll support you as much as I can.
Regards,
Jim
I use a joystick but the option isn't available. So, I marked "other".
Someday when I get rich enough I'll buy a wheel.
Someday when I get rich enough I'll buy a wheel.
You can get m ore info on tires on some of the other threads. This one could be some interesting reading: http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=21673
I have tried the hybrids and knobbilies on different cars and tracks, and there sure is a difference. But the question is: is it worth it?
I agree with Damo because I have used them on short and long races and they do fine on the 5 lap races. After that, they begin to heat up and lose the tread. I have driven them until they became slicks and eventually fell apart.
Initially you have good road grip, but after they begin to wear in, the cars become sort of unstable. We don't notice that because we make adjustments to our driving style automatically without considering the tires.
But if you take the same turn at the same speed and at the same G force (in the groove) without making any adjustment to your driving, you'll see that the tires begin to lose grip. They get mushy and you hear them skidding more.
The basic concept is that hybrids are off-road tires. They are softer and wear faster. But they help only in the turns. Soft tires add drag because of the friction with the road, so they are poor on long and straight stretches of track.
If anyone of you ever drove a real life car with snow tires or off-road tyres at high speeds, you can understand what I mean.
However, look at the WRs and you will see that the fastest setups have hard tires with high tire pressures, mostly in the 30-35 psi (207 - 241 Kpa).
I agree with Damo because I have used them on short and long races and they do fine on the 5 lap races. After that, they begin to heat up and lose the tread. I have driven them until they became slicks and eventually fell apart.
Initially you have good road grip, but after they begin to wear in, the cars become sort of unstable. We don't notice that because we make adjustments to our driving style automatically without considering the tires.
But if you take the same turn at the same speed and at the same G force (in the groove) without making any adjustment to your driving, you'll see that the tires begin to lose grip. They get mushy and you hear them skidding more.
The basic concept is that hybrids are off-road tires. They are softer and wear faster. But they help only in the turns. Soft tires add drag because of the friction with the road, so they are poor on long and straight stretches of track.
If anyone of you ever drove a real life car with snow tires or off-road tyres at high speeds, you can understand what I mean.
However, look at the WRs and you will see that the fastest setups have hard tires with high tire pressures, mostly in the 30-35 psi (207 - 241 Kpa).
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