Congratulations! She's adorable.

I see you've gotten it. Well done.

brake
feint
side brake
shift-lock
power over
lift-off


many names for the same eh? I honestly don't care, but I don't need a guide to help me remember the 6 most popular terms.

Quote from nihil :

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=354432#post354432

And you'll see in that poll that "names on" won too... Make of that what you will....

are you trying to say that a little over a year ago there was a poll of the exact same quandry and that a simple press of a mythical "search" button would have proved benificial?

gotcha

Quote from Zarky :

Ive heard plenty of rumours about an S3 being made or soon to be made..is this true??

If its is i reakon there should let people add there own tracks/cars into the game(would be so cool)

Cheers Zarky

That is a horrible "idea". Have you played rFactor? Threse's a million and 1 horrible, worthless track/ cars. You can't find a race because everyone is using some different combination of cars/ tracks.

LFS has such good racing because it's minimal. It's about racing, not the most tracks/ cars. A few different cars in a few different classes that run competitively is all you need. I'd rather have great racing with one car/track combo, than off balance racing with 1,000 combos.

Quote from pinoykid13 :

well cause of the many different names it is hard to remember the correct ones

I really don't understand why everyone thinks most drifters are phonies





/sarcasm


PS. I've been on your server a few times and I enjoyed it. Racing is my thing, but I'll go in a drift server a couple times a week. I know enough about it to get by, but I'm by no means going to start my own server, then say that some kids "guide" helps me to "remember" technique names.

Last edited by The Radness, Fri 28 Mar 2008, 14:40.

Quote from Stang70Fastback :

Only in multiplayer so I know who to yell at...

me too. There seems to be people in every race that thinks its a 25 car "hotlap" session and not a race.

Quote :

Big BOSS of [D1GP]!!

Quote from pinoykid13 :

this helps me remember the technique names

Being the "Big BOSS of [D1GP]!!" I figured you may already know the names

Quote from Mike Bingo :

Forza isn't that realistic, using a wheel feels unresponsive and the cars are far too well behaved. It is fun though.

That's because the wheel feels like your driving a Cozy Car

In every car, it's a joke. Breaking, burnouts, anything where the breaks are barely pressed. It's a little, um, over-the-top

Quote from tristancliffe :

Well, in a burnout, the front brakes will generate no heat, as they aren't moving. The rears could generate some heat, but it would probably ruin the burnout as brakes generally have greater torque capacity that engines. With VERY gentle modulation I guess you just about get rear brakes hot, eventually.

But I doubt anyone has ever bothered.

have you played Forza 2? Those breaks glow like hot lava in the first corner

Quote :

Circuit Racing, or standard racing.
Drifting, or Controlling slides around a corner, with angles up to 120 degrees to the apex.
RallyX, racing around a mixture of dirt and bitumen tracks.
Drag, Racing cars in a straight line, often against the clock.
Plus many more obscure forms of racing!
GT only offers a couple:
Circuit Racing and thats about it!

I'm not quite sure that you've even played GT. As I can recall in MY copy of GT4 I had a drag strip, Rally cross, and I could even drift in it.

It sounds like it was written by someone who watched FnF too many times, then found out about the "Drift Bible", and reworded it. ie. It sounds like translated Japanese, not your own thoughts. But I could be wrong.

Quote from nisskid :

depends on their personalities, if the guy that played LFS was like a few of the people on here and thought he'd be an awesome driver straight off he'd probably find himself in a sand trap on the first corner.

if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle........

I think your reading to much(extra words) into Tristans posts.


that'll be all
*backs out slowly*

Last edited by The Radness, Fri 14 Mar 2008, 21:02.

Quote from tristancliffe :

The community IS positive and constructive. It's the newcomers demanding better damage, rain, bodykits, sparks, bloom, modding, dump valves and other stuff within seconds of hearing about LFS that annoys everyone.

When people come here, take the time to learn what LFS is, and what is it's driving force (torque, I suppose), then they are taken into the community seamlessly and without fuss - you only notice the ones that are rejected for being from Americ... for being a bit stupid.

Agreed. I've noticed on here that the idiotic ideas and statements are from us Americans. A certain atlantian comes to mind?

Its from watching too much mass media about motorsports and looking into any history, or why certain things are done to a car. Thay just see it on TV and want it on their sim car.

on the last lap through the chicane I had to let up on the throttle a bit to stay off the wall. I think I still scrubbed it a little, but it killed my momentum up that hill. Had I been a little more cosistant I would of had it. But races like that remind me of why I enjoy this game so much.

yeah i was trying, but at the same time i didn't feel like I had the power to get around him. I didn't want to push him into wall. Just trying to keep it clean.

the whole race battleing it out on CTRA SS1. Me(The Radness) and 12ouncejesus had quite a battle. Clean racing. mpr attached

I don't know if its "cheating", but I do think its unethical. I wouldn't do it, but Maybe thats why I'll never be a WR holder

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=11421


here ya go....It's a beginners forum miracle!

Quote from atlantian :

meh, it's not like memorizing tracks... it's more like learning to corner or perfecting cornering... and i thought that the physics on LFS is pretty acurate, more so then GT

It is alot better than GT. But I'd hazard a guess that every corner on every track everywhere is different. Track temperatures, track CoF, dirt on the track are all going to effect the way you take a corner. It will help you in a sim enviorment, but not in a RL situation.

The feel of going into a corner at top speed with real repurcussions (see: bodily injury) is too frightening for most individuals. You have to learn to trust your car and not your instincts. Instincts make you cautious. Thats a good thing.

If you ignored instinct and drove into the first corner the way you do in sim racing games, you would go into the wall, or you wouldn't make it around the a whole lap.

Thats only assuming that the physics are 100% Real Life. They aren't.

Plus your missing out on other factors that affect the way you drive IRL. G-forces, the feel of proper driving/racing speeds. The proper sounds of other cars driving near you.

I don't quite see how learning braking points on fictional tracks will be terribly beneficial in a real life racing on real life tracks.

Quote from atlantian :

yeah... okey... but what about the cost of tires... the cost of fuel... and parts?

what about it? Having the "best of the best" wheel won't make you a better driver in real life..... Just like driving an F1 car won't make you a better driver, on the road or the track.

to say that you need the "best of the best" to drive better is ignorant.

Quote from atlantian :

i need something that i can practice driving in...
)

You should get guitar hero too. That way you can practice playing guitar .......It's not the same, and never will be.