Does the bank not accept the charge, or does the LFS web site give you an error? If so, what is the error message?

Opening the game to modding would solve the track problem forever and inject new life into the game.

Quote from tristancliffe :

Silver Bullet - you just 'told us off' for talking nonsense about drag racing, and how we should do a little bit of research before talking out of our arses!

It's nice to know that you, the person who claimed to be an expert, and sarcastically pointed us at a poorly written wikipedia article, have been shot down, and your 'facts' proven to be imperfect.

Next time, do some fecking RESEARCH and don't just watch a history channel on TV IF you are going to 'tell us off'

Ouch, way to rub it in

Lol maybe when I retire

I guess I got it all ass backwards...

Well I did see a History Channel special on drag racing cars a few years ago

Im a diehard GTA1/GTA2 fan, played them to death, consider GTA3 and others way too mainstream.

Quote from jamesrowe :

How old are you? Become an actual taxi driver if your old enough , when i was a child i use to pretend i was a taxi driver when on games like Driver and Midtown Madness etc

Lol sometimes I wish i could be a Taxi driver in NYC or something and work night shifts 9pm to 5am. Unfortunately my current occupation as an engineer brings too much money compared to what i would be making driving a cab. I want all the nice things about taxi driving and none of the cleaning/low wages/long hours nonsense

Oh well, maybe they'd make a taxi simulator some time soon. I am guessing that system requirements are the main issue with making a game like that. Simulating city traffic with a few dozens cars in general vicinity would make the game slow down to a complete stop.

Lol I was gonna mention Quatantine but I thought that was too old-school for you all. I guess I should have known better

Im looking for a "realistic" game where I could drive a taxi cab around an area (city?), pick up passengers and deliver them places. I dont want an arcade where you get like 23 seconds to deliver 5 passangers and stuff like that.

Im gathering that im looking for a program that does not exist.

Please don't get so emotional with me

Quote from BlakjeKaas :

As in a sort of NOS -_-'

Ah well...

No NOS for me...
because then you get the guys who will use it at EXACT the best moment and then they win, so it won't be an advantage... :-/

Yes absolutely! Right now every driver out there pushes break/throttle at the EXACT best moment, and turns the steering wheel to the EXACT angle, and thats why every racer has the same EXACT time on every track.

Oh wait a second, I don't think that's the case. Using NOS would require as much skill as using the throttle, and yes it would change your pit strategies. On the other hand i doubt that people would sacrifice an extra pit solely for the purpose of refueling NOS because the time lost would not be worth it.

I have a weird fascination with driving a taxi, and I was actually searching for a Taxi simulator when I first came across LFS.

I tried looking for a taxi game/simulator but I could not find anything. I dont want "Crazy taxi" or "GTA" other arcade crap like that. Is there a game/program that I don't know about where I could drive a taxi around a city?

I know it sounds retarded but I always dreamed of driving a taxi when i was a kid

Quote from Bob Smith :

Heh, you're the opposite ot Tristan, I don't care about lap times, I set my cars up to handle well and are sweet to drive. By making the car exploitable, I can get it round the track in good time. People seem to have too much of a fascination about getting lap times as low as possible.

Yeah people are way too obsessed about this whole "racing" thing

Quote from TagForce :

Current situation:
Noob/Wrecker steps on gas to get ahead, only to enter a tight corner before he's even passed, fails to slow down properly and causes a MAJOR pileup.

Doesn't have to be NOS, but some sort of boost button for some cars might be nice.

you mean like a Turbo boost?

NOS is just another strategic element that we would have to worry about.

It's used in drag racing, Im not sure why it cannot not be used in LFS.

Downside of NOS = more speed = more crashes. Other than that I dont see why it should not be implemented.

I don't really get the whole "OMG NO NOS" attitude.

You might be confusing Nitromethane (used as fuel) with Nitrous Oxide (used as fuel additive to boost the speed).

http://webbook.nist.gov/cgi/cb ... nitromethane&Units=SI

http://webbook.nist.gov/cgi/cb ... itrous+oxide&Units=SI

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Quote from Woz :

Pointless there as well. If a drag car gets added I assume the power curves will be such to take into account the setup of the engine, blower, fuel type, NOS and any other systems in the engine.

I bet nobody can find a single example of a REAL drag car (Not some stupid kid street car) that has a NOS Button. If a drag car used NOS it would be an alway on system. There is far too much for a drag driver to deal with in a tiny amount of time without the added pressure of having to press the NOS button at the right time as well.

I dont want to sound like a dick but you may have trouble finding a drag car that does not use nitrous oxide purge. And no you cannot have an "always on system" unless you want to travel to the moon. And yes there is a button.

Rule of thumb, if you want to sound smart but know nothing about drag racing, read this first:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_racing

Last edited by silver bullet, Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:50.

You could start here:
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=11154

TyresHot when there are a good dozen people telling you to stop spamming, maybe there some truth to it. Your post per day average is 16 which is extremely high for any forum user. In addition to that, you are a Demo driver which means that you know very little about LFS, so you should be reading more and posting much less.



And mee too excellent post! It is great to hear the perspective from a guy with real racing experience. The fact that there are so many real life race car drivers in this simulator means that the developers really did something right.

One time I saw a blue flag, so I slowed down a bit and then the guy rear ended me, and then I was banned from the server.

Now every time I see a blue flag I get so nervous, that I wipe out. Every goddamn time.

This happen to anybody else?

Racer Y if you really expect me to read through a page of sarcastic drivel, at least have enough courtesy to use the "Quote" function.

Scratch what I said, I thought that PC didn't have a real graphics card

Honestly if you know something about computers, build a PC on your own. These bundles always get you in some way, so that in 3 years you'd have to buy a new bundle.

I don't think its the trucks, most of the time it's the drivers.

Couple of years ago we had some ice on the road where I live (rare occasion) and I noticed a very perculiar sight. A guy on a Jeep Cherokee 4x4 stuck on a half inch of ice. He was sitting in this huge truck with his gas pedal to the floor spinning the wheels like crazy. It didn't cross his mind to pump the pedal gently and roll of the ice patch, or as a last resort give the truck a slight push from the back. I just shook my head, got into my front wheel drive Ford, and drove away.

Bottom line, people can't drive

Quote from TagForce :

Could someone change the thread title?

EA buys Dice should be changed to "EA shuts down Dice".

Dice no longer exists, employees will be transferred to other EA affiliates in Canada, or be removed from the payroll.

How can anyone think this is a good thing?

Let me set one thing straight at first. Nobody shut down Dice. Dice was no longer competitive, and EA was KIND ENOUGH to buy them out. Now let me elaborate....

It is a good thing because a company that could not survive in the market (Dice) was bought out by a company that could survive (EA). If EA had not bought the company, Dice would go down the drain and all of the employees would be out on the street.

It is very easy for Dice to blame EA and say "They bought us out, we had such a good thing going, and now we're no longer independant". The truth is that in 90% of the cases the smaller companies that get bought out are not profitable anymore.

Example. When Google was just starting out they had countless offers from bigger companies to buy their search engine, but they never sold it. Why? Because Google was making money. Dice obviously was not competitive anymore, they did not sell games, and they were going out of business. EA stepped in and bought them out, and probably saved people jobs.

The reason why Dice wnt under because they were not making any money from their games, not because EA is evil. If Dice was making great games that were SELLING GREAT, like hell they would sell their business to EA. However, they could not sell their product, and they went under. End of story.

Quote from TagForce :

Is it what people want?
Or is it that people have no choice to play what they want?
My biggest fear is that EA will at some point dictate what you will play on your PC, and then dump PC gaming alltogether and move towards console... They've been doing it for several years with the EA Sports section, removing the cool features from the PC games, to attract more people to the consoles.

Luckily at the moment we still have some simulators that do a good job of simulating racing which are not controlled by power-hungry corporations, but how long will that last?

EA make games that sell. Whatever they want to do with their games, they can do it. Don't buy their games if you don't like them. Fact is that there are millions of people who love EA games, and there are thousands of stuck-up elitists like you and me that don't like them. (unfortunately) The world does not revolve around us.

Quote from xaotik :

Well silver, that's nice - all the best in it. Somehow it sounds like you're fresh out of college and still a little wet behind the ears.

Lol what gave it away

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You gotta have a separate graphics card if you want to play any 3D games (besides REALLY old ones). You can always find a cheap graphics card on sites like www.newegg.com, so you can buy a bundled computer and upgrade it later.

However, make sure that the mother board on the computer you are about to purchase is compatible with the latest graphic card formats.


EDIT if you are on a budget you can buy yourself an older 128mb PCI-e card, that's gonna last you a couple of years.

You can "join" the military but I don't think you can actually ship to basic at 17. I know 100% that they won't send you to the combat zone at 17, or even to the post. Possibly for training.

They are raising the minimum age because the Army is running very short on volunteers.

I guess EA games are like Hollywood movies, aimed to please the most number of people?

I'm not saying it's necessarily a bad thing.