Quote from gezmoor :

Edited to add - The sport their talking about is stock car racing NOT rally. The only motorsport where contact is allowed is stock car racing. All other forms of motorsport are strictly non contact. Although of course the occasional mild bump does occur but it's not condoned in any way.

I wouldn't say that contact is "allowed"; tolerated is a more the appropriate word.

Quote from tristancliffe :

Ahhhhh, it's phrases like "fender bender" that make us Brits want to pick you all up and give you a cuddle... Sooo cute in it's strangeness

We'll, we are adorable. And EXTRA cuddley from all that McDonalds.

Quote from tristancliffe :

Perhaps it's another one of those "stupid people protectors" that are prevailent over the pond?

your probably right. If we didn't have immediate brake lights, the roads would be one huge fender bender.

Quote from Christopher Raemisch :

LOL all 2% of them =)

We hear the complaints, it's a challenge to tackle with limited manpower to be sure. We know there is an issue with 'noob' drivers crashing people, we do have some concepts drawn up, have had for a good 6 months at least, but we cannot 'put the pen to paper' without some more manpower to shove at it. Reports alone can only do so much and they do a great job, but...

Oh I completely understand, I say the more the merrier, but If I'm paying 13,15,20 bucks a month, I sure don't want to be punted into the kitty litter 30% of the time so I understand where they are coming from with the smaller grids.

OT: I do most of my racing at CTRA and it has drastically improved my door-to-door racing.

well if it turned off while you were still moving, wouldn't a drop of the clutch turn it over again? kinda pointless

Quote from SamH :

LOL!

Finishing stats in CTRA aren't THAT bad! We consider <80% races finished to be a bad number.

Well I'm glad you gents found the humor in my post there.

But in all seriousness, alot of people complain of T1 pileups, but with half as many cars, that guy/girl that forgot to install his brake pedal is going to have to be a litlle more accurate with his/her bump-stop

women drivers.....am I right?

Quote from Linsen :

A maximum of 12 or 14 racers is an appalingly low number, I must say. Very disappointing.

On, I don't know; lets say CTRA Race1, you may start the race with 20-25 people. But how many actually finish? 12 or 14 MAX . If you start with less, hopefully(HOPEFULLY!!!!) more than 50% of the field will finish.

Quote from xtremeracer83 :

I agree. This is not a bug. After further investigation, you do indeed go up the curb. The stiff suspension does not adapt to the angle in which the car is at and the car procedes to take a slight bump. This causes the tires to lose grip which resulted in the spin. Simply just watch out so you dont go too far up the curb

Agreed.

I say you kick that habbit to the um, er......"curb". sorry, I'll be out now.

*closes door slowly*

I may be wrong but I I come to a stop after a crash and I don't press clutch.....my car dies. perhaps you need to take off auto-clutch?

I have the 8600GTS and it keeps messing up the textures. Temps run at about 68-70 underload....sometimes up to 74-75. but around 72 or so, sometimes it missplaces the textures, like the road will be made out of billboards, and the steering wheel will be made out of bricks....lol. I thought I may have ate some bad brownies at first but then I alt-tab out and back in then it was fine for a little.

I'm not entirely sure if its the new drivers or not, but I think I'm gonna just go back to the ones on the CD.

I beleive I have this issue from time to time as well....pretty random, so I can't figure out how to reproduce it.

You're talking about if you move the G25 wheel 10 degrees, but the car steering wheel is moving almost 720 degreees? thats what happens to me at least.

It starts fine, then all of the sudden in the middle of the race it goes to that weird setting. I then have to alt-tab out, then back in and normally that fixes the issue. I'm not sure if its LFS related or Logitech related, but very, very irritating none the less.

Quote from spankmeyer :

You are screwed.

lulz........again


thanks spanky

Quote from Pantera70 :

thats it i'm ripping the home phone out the wall.... Sticking to the Mobile and buying a Harley....

*sniff sniff* Is that a midlife crisis I smell? j/k

I'll try to show up for one of those "tryouts" but I'm on the crazy US time.

Quote from Pantera70 :

We have now set the first tryout session for 5th June between 19.00 & 21.00 GMT...

Anyone interested should check our team forum for more info or by all means drop us a line (do people still say that or am I just showing my age again )

Hope to see you all soon

Yeah, that means your old. That from the days when people still had to use home phones to communicate. GET WITH THE TIMES OLD MAN! pssshhhh

Quote from thisnameistaken :

Cruise servers suck ass and you should be ashamed of yourself.

Bring the infractions, bitches.

Quoted for truth, and of couse, the lulz.

Quote from Luiii :

hm... I made a break of more than 2 years. From April 06 till April 08 i never touched the game. Now I still drive again, and it makes a lot of fun... BUT: not many things changed. 2 or 3 new cars.

I'm a bit dissapointed, because a programm still got many points, where something has to be done. I paid for this game, so I expect a development process, that is much faster than this...

so I agree to the statement of james12s... It will look the same in 2 years. A funny game, but not a serious racing simulation. The possibilities are great, but in a 24h race there has to be a night and in a rain race there has to be rain...

I'm not sure why everyone complains about the "lack of cars" I think it's great that there are a limited number of cars. Look at the problems that Forza2 and GT5:P have online. People only use about 8 different cars anyways because they are the fastest, then eveyone else complains that everyone else is "cheating" by using the fastest cars in the class. Its almost impossible to race online in rFactor unless you have every mod ever made installed because theres 1,000 rooms with 2 people in each. Thats not fun racing to me.

People want more tracks, but most can't even be competative on all the tracks we have now.

Everyone shouts about rain, but half these racers can't even stay on the track for 10 laps at a race pace on dry pavement. The novelty of racing in the rain will wear thin very quickly.

Frankly I could also care less about day/night transitions. It may be nice, but I'd rather have the most amazing racing game than a beauty queen.

But thats just my 2 cents. This wasn't directed at Luiii directly, but his post brought the ideas up.

Just go in to a server, stay at the back with the other back markers, drive slowly and try to just finish the race. I guarantee that if you finish the race, you won't be in last . On CTRA Race 1 at least . You'll figure it out in due time.

Stay on servers with XFG/XRG until you can overtake cleanly, know how to hold a line with cars next to you, and can finish about 90% of your races. Then you should be able to race comfortably with others and not freak out to much.

Good Luck!


PS.....your mirrors are your friends, if you turn in on someone inside, be ready with the "sorry". and learn from your mistakes.

word

+1

You guys never cease to amaze me. Always something amazing and unexpected. Now I have even more stuff to look at while I put of work.

Quote from Gekkibi :

Thank you. Trying my best. If you would like me to stop, buy me a decent keyboard ("Decent" means that it won't break if I spill coffee all over it).

Take your coffee in bean form. Minimal spillage, except for the drool after you break all your teeth.

Quote from Gekkibi :

Damn. For some reasons my brains didn't registered that, even I red the whole post.

I think I am an epic failure...

Perhaps you should have read the whole post.

Two fails in one thread is pretty epic. Congrats


I joke

I notice the "biting if I press the brake then turn while standing still.

I'm not sure, but I think you may be confusing LFS force feedback system with ISI's"canned" FFB effects. eg, understeer and the wheel gets light, as far as I know the forces on the wheel are still there even if sliding. but I may be wrong. My wheel feels fine. no "canned" effects to disturb my steering inputs.

In rFactor the wheel is all over the place even on straights. When I drive on the highway, even hitting bumps, my steering wheel stays relatively straight.

edit: Try enabling the "centering spring", but keep it at 0

Quote from duke_toaster :

Isn't the entire conversation a moot point as those cars would not have it, as they are a recent thing and then only used in the US?

exactly

Quote from Crashgate3 :

He does now..

I wouldn't be too sure about that