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afastest
S3 licensed
I still love the demo cars the most . GTI, GT and Turbo. Also RB4 feels nice.
afastest
S3 licensed
Quote from Vaillant :
Why, instead, I can get no opportunity to play LFS in an Hardcore MODE

You can play from cockpit, with a FF wheel, three pedals, no aids right now. But you want to get some credit for that? So you can say I am HARDCORE simracer, I play only in HARDCORE mode? And everyone will know who these HARDCORE simracers are, as they play on their own HARDCORE servers, separated from the rest, non-hardcore simracers. Or what is it all about? For me it's about fun and clean racing, I couldn't care less how hardcore someone is.

Until everyone of us have peripheral 180° screen in front of us, it's too early to talk about forced cockpit view.
afastest
S3 licensed
Quote from Woz :Can we drop the forced cockpit fight now.

The forced cockpit debate has been thrashed to death here and in RSC over the years have ALWAYS ended up the same. One side saying "its only an option" and the other side "but it will become the default and I hate cockpit mode or my FPS drops too much so I wont be able to play". I know because I have been involved in some of them myself.

NOTHING has been added to this debate at all and it never will.

Both side have a point and both side will not move their viewpoint so it becomes a flame war.

So true.

Anyway I copy/paste a part of my "discussion" on this matter from the old RSC thread:
Quote from afastest@RSC :
There are plenty of restrictions when playing a sim anyway:
-Looking through a small monitor of about 30° FOV (real life fov about 150°).
-The picture is not 3D, it's a mere projection to the surface of your monitor.
-You can't move your body neither your head, except turning it by pressing a button.
-Knowing the position of the wheels and bumber is by far more difficult in lfs than irl (from cockpit).

Besides all that, there are so many other "unrealities" about the game and the way we play it. This is a game, which we play on our computers the way each one of us prefer.

Having a bigger monitor gives some advantage compared to 15", especially in cockpit view. Some have 15" monitor and play with a mouse, and other with a 40" screen, FF wheel and three pedals. Some use 60° fov and claim it represents the view realisticly, other uses 95° to see the side mirrors. I don't care how others play it.

And as for other options like forced TC or fuel amount, or no damage repair or whatever, that's a different story, I'm for it.
afastest
S3 licensed
Hmm, I understand what loopingz means in his example, but I can't uderstand what Shotglass exactly means. Can you give as really simple example of it?
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afastest
S3 licensed
Quote from Ball Bearing Turbo :I like the RFactor review a bit better, more creativity throughout. NKP Review was still gut busting though. Does he have an LFS review? hehe.

Not yet I think. He should definately write one
afastest
S3 licensed
Sorry, don't remember who made the pic. Was it Tweak?
afastest
S3 licensed
I would pay to cover certain real car/track license fees.
afastest
S3 licensed
LOL his wife tried to silence him by putting her hand on his mouth.
afastest
S3 licensed
If lfs is compatible with your parents, it will just unlock. If it isn't, the main hard drive will be reformatted.
afastest
S3 licensed
Join only with 107% or under of WR, or 110% or whatever. Something like that's been suggested numerous times, here and on RSC. There are a few arguments for, and of course there turn out to be a few of those who are against:
"We just can't shut away the noobs."
"Race in leagues if you want to have clean racing."
And other similiar blah blah blaaah.

In reality a noob whouldn't race a schumacher. Besided to all, they have to drive no slower than 107% of the fastest time to qualify for the race. They qualify with other racers on track, I know. This has already been practiced in leagues, so why not to have an option for public servers too?
afastest
S3 licensed
Quote from deggis :Wonder that when we know the exact release date...

Not before 2010 . My guess is 2012
afastest
S3 licensed
Just get S2 and start enjoying it now! It's many years before we see S3 (S2 final is not yet out!). You'll probably have to pay £12 for S2->S2 upgrade then, but why worry about it now?
afastest
S3 licensed
Quote from Batterypark :Damn, my UF1000 broke down

http://www.timohakala.com/uf1000.avi

LOOL
afastest
S3 licensed
Quote from bal00 :Nah, no ads. Dreamhost has a promo deal every year, which is why it's so cheap. You pay $10 for 12 months and get 20GB and 1TB bandwidth = $0.83 per month. They also increase the limits every week, so you get a little more space and BW over time.

Oh, I thought it is 1TB per month, but it is 1TB per year and 10 dollars? Still very cheap.
afastest
S3 licensed
Quote from GabbO :What???? I HAVE a licence, i just cannot connect to the server cause of
the restrictions in the Student village. I never said i want to have a crack or something! Please dont insult anyone, if you dont read the text he wrote...

Ok, for the other suggestions, ip tunneling is also not working, and also no phone in the app, only cell... So, no way to get my s2 unlocked again?
Sadly i cannot take my desctop to someone who has a better connection, cause its a bit heavy.

Any of your friends have gprs phone you can plug into your computer? Even GSM-data should work.
afastest
S3 licensed
Quote from bal00 :For reference, I'm currently hosting around 20GB worth of videos with ~1100GB traffic/month and it costs me like $0.90/month.

You have over a terabyte traffic and pay $0.90 per month? Sounds unbelievable! Maybe you are talking about some hosting site with add banners or something?
afastest
S3 licensed
Quote from BWX232 :They give them away by the thousands but only to people in their own country? It's getting weirder and weirder..

Ha! Those who don't have a credit card or paypal or young fellas who don't even have an account transfer him money to his bank account or send him cash and he delivers to them a voucher via e-mail
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afastest
S3 licensed
picotto, LFS 1 and LFS 2 sound like they are two different games. This is not the case, they are called LFS S1 and S2. S stands for stage. Currently it is LFS Stage 2 Alpha, version 0.5U. The difference between S1 and S2 is now in content.
afastest
S3 licensed
Quote from GhostVE :Bought the game now. Here is your 1st level equalized, 5th 2 points over. Improved my 2nd level by 2, so a total of 748! Now let's see the other levels.

Good, you can improve by 12 point in third level alone and go over 770
afastest
S3 licensed
Someone beat my first and fifth level.
afastest
S3 licensed
Would it be possible to make sound volume adjustments right? I set it to 0, which would be no sound, still it is pretty loud. And there is no way to adjust messages and clicks volume.
afastest
S3 licensed
Quote from Honey :
i remember i've reported this bug on an already started thread, but it died without conlusions iirc, i always assumed scawen put that on his "to-fix list"

Yes, I meant telling about testing in the bebinning, especially that "UDP packets not sent" thing. Not just the bug.
afastest
S3 licensed
That clearly sounds like the client, LFS, didn't send them.
afastest
S3 licensed
Quote from Honey :never tried: what's that supposed to do?
(i will try it anyway the next time it happens)


last summer when most was on holidays (and nothing on my schedule) at work i got a clean pc -> it happened again, then i programmed the company routers to guarrantee such pc 100Mb bandwidth ...-> it happened again and from router logs i didnt see any packet from such pc, then -> i installed ethereal on such pc and the next time the bug showed, ethereal logs (according to a collegue of mine who is a geek for such application) revealed that no udp packets where sent by lfs.

so the problem is either lfs alone or some sort of stack overflow lfs causes to windows driver.

tests at work were done with windows xp sp2, but at home i experienced it also with windows xp sp1, never tried other windows flavours

That is very good you tested it thoroughly. Often people report bugs before proper testing, OC'ed, faulty hardware, bad connection and what not. This is not the case with you here, but one has to state these things from the beginning so Scawen knows what kind of fault he is dealing with. Or maybe you did it already and I missed it.
afastest
S3 licensed
Quote from Honey :i'm fine if you not plan to fix it for the near future (and thanks for answering me), but i cannot accept your statement that it's my ISP problem, it not happens only to me, also to people from other countries/ISP...if it's the isp, why exiting lfs and restarting solves the problem? and why it never happened till S2K and started since S2L? why happen also with other isp?, why other udp apps continue working fine without a glitch?
please do not jump at conclusions: if i'm losing time writing here, it's because i already verified it's an lfs problem...

The only time I had similiar problems was when I had uploads running or heavy packet loss.

Try to ping the host IP when you have that kind of bug. Don't leave the server or track, minimize LFS and run command line. Then ping the host for example one hundred times. On windows it is ping -n 100 IP. Then you can go back to LFS and play and let the pinging run. Later see what ping is and how much there is packet loss, if any.

I know you said restarting helps, but you can still try that just to see what kind of ping you will be getting.

I use netlimiter to get host IP, and I can also see traffic graphs in it from LFS.
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