Looks like my money will be staying in my pocket for a bit longer then.

I really hope that a change of thought goes on soon, if the tyre model can't be completed by easter, (yes, we know and respect the difficulties this has caused Scawen,) then surely it makes sense to release the rest of the content, ie, new track and car plus some other fixes for long running bugs as S3 and then release the updated tyre physics at a later date. The graphics do need an overhaul really, I'm not after GT5 flashy presentation, but 8 year old graphics don't really cut it anymore unfortunately, £36 would net a much better racing simulator than what S3 is currently offering, even if the physics aren't as accurate.

If the devs want to play in their spare time at making the most accurate driving simulator possible then that is up to them, none of us have a right to critisize that, however, if they want a marketable product that they wish to charge people to use, then they have to wise up and alter their priorities a bit. Annual updates are a minimum requirement really, even if it is only cars/tracks or a graphic update, a physics revision or whatever. Leaving people who have already paid out in the cold for 2 years plus is a customer service disaster if you want them to send more money your way in the future.

I'd like clarification from one of the team on which direction they are taking this product, if it's not going to be for the benefit of it's users, then I'm happy to pony up and buy an iRacing subsription to get my racing fix. (I can also race on ovals that way so it won't be too heartbreaking.)

Quote from count.bazley :

To any Englanders bemoaning the fact that the MX-5 is only running at Lime Rock and Laguna Seca: our weekly Wednesday evening club championship will be running a full schedule of races for the MX-5 this season including a few double-headers on multiple circuit configurations and a finale at Spa for Week 12.

Passwords will be in Club England forum.

Excellent! I'll be there. Is there a schedule somewhere?

Quote from Mackie The Staggie :

Thanks, really pleased with what I got to be honest.

I think that would be, there was another person (like yourself, pretty bad with names and i can't remeber who it was) taking photo's but if I mind correctly he was using Nikon????

Could have been me, I've got a Nikon. I've uploaded my full set of photos (individually and as a ZIP) to Franky's server (http://www.500servers.com/kartmeet/2010/photos/). They're mainly of my team but there are some others in there too.

It's been ages since I did this and I can't remember much about it but I've got a batch file with a line in it like this:

start outgaugegateway 22222 56551 11111

22222 is the outgauge port I set in LFS's cfg.txt, along with setting the mode to 2, eg:

OutGauge Port 22222
OutGauge Mode 2

You seem to have put the port numbers in the filename. I have no idea if that works so maybe you could try creating a simple batch file like:

start outgaugegateway 22222 56551 11111
start LFS.exe

with outgaugegateway in the same folder as LFS.exe.

Hope that makes some sense.

Any chance we could have a look at your photos sometime cargame? You seemed to be taking oodles!

Quote from Mackie The Staggie :

Finally got round to uploading photo's onto my Flickr account, these can be viewed either by

1) Pics can be viewed directly here,
2) Through my Flickr main page which can be seen in my sig
3) Or through the LFS group page here which also has some pics from last years.

Some cracking photos there Mackie - thanks I don't know whose the reflective visor was but it makes for some stunning reflections of the track.

A few laps from my cheapo helmet cam (your eyeballs arn't going to enjoy this):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsXCV3jLYjY

I also tried to record some telemetry using my phone's GPS but the resolution wasn't good enough. If anyone wants to have a look it's here though (click on end to show some almost useful summary stats):

Feature race:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms ... 04e7185c&t=h&z=18

Mini endurance:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms ... loc=00048c31048652a923ab1

Thanks Jason and friends/family for another awesome weekend. It was great to meet everybody again and the karting was a blast.

I'm expecting thousands of photos again so I've whittled mine down to 20-odd, though I'm happy to post more if anyone's interested. The one of Brood and Becky staring each other out on the main straight is a classic!

Enjoy, and hopefully see you all again next year.

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/nick.a.aronson/LFSKarting2010#

Quote from hyntty :

An the other fella?

That's Count Bazley. Hello Count!

If it helps (it probably doesn't!) the remainning 3 of us would be happy to be a team of 3.

Jason - just to let you know that me, brood, pswillies and nigelpm will see you at the track on Saturday morning. Me, brood and nigelpm will be staying over afterwards. Is it teams of 4 this year?

Just got my little camera today so hoping to be at the wrong place at the wrong time and catch some more kart-breaking action!

Looking forward to seeing everyone again. Let's hope we get as sunburnt as last year....

OK for me.

I saw this during the week and thought the forum might like some pics.

Thanks for organising this again Jason. Last year was simply awesome. Count me in

I've been trying to make one script that will do two /say commands one after another, but whenever I make the script that way, it only does the first command. This is the script I put in

Quote :

/say !cop Backup/roadblock available
/say !location

Do I have to put in a /wait command or something? I have scripts that use /press then /echo right after it and that works, but not this.

You might be lagging out from all the information being sent to your computer at the starting line, with everyone's cars revving and making the slightest movements.

It's not uncommon to lag out if the track or "time of day" is changed, either.

Hi again GF. Haven't raced on LFS for a looooong time but sure, I'd be there if I could

I'd like to see something like Oulton Park. It's a nice short track but definitely complex enough

Quote from count.bazley :

Was in the 4th split. Started 4th, pitted from the lead on Lap 42 as I stayed out longest of the front-runners. Rejoined in 4th but clubbed the wall on pit exit. Damaged the steering and had the right-front corner dragging on the banking, lost about 5-10 mph of straightline speed. Dropped to 10th in the closing laps, had a great battle with a guy much faster than me but the left-front blew with 2 laps to go after he had just passed me. Crawled round to the pits and finished 19th. If I hadn't hit the pit-wall it looks like I would have finished 3rd or 4th, I barely had any incidents, even with the damage - one off-track and a half-spin in the bus stop and an off-track when I trailed round with the puncture. Brilliant race though, it was unbelievably clean and competitive.

Great effort James! This sounded like great fun - reminds me of something.... I'll definately think about entering the next World Tour event.

Last edited by Nick A, Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:59.

I actually like this idea. It is unrealistic that you can apply a constant brake pressure when ABS is activated, but there's no way that I know of to export the ABS information. +1 for me though.

P.S. - If the game know when to turn on ABS, why can't it put out that information to a brake pedal with FFB?

Having a limited number of unlocks discourages pirating

+1 on my part, and definitely with the pop-up headlights. However, I can see there being problems with skins and textures, as I myself have custom textures for nearly every car and just under 400 skins.

You could always just look between the numbers, unless you want the visuals

Did anyone race in the 8:15 Skip Barber race tonight? When I tried to join I got a "loading error 61". I went to the forum to try and fix it and it looks like the forum is down too - or is it just my connection?

Edit: It was my connection

Last edited by Nick A, Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:46.

Does it happen when you press a menu button?