The best racers, the aliens, are fully capable to get by, any problem on the road, in a fair and clean manner ! Look at the last BOTT race. Watch the leaders for some laps, and see how they drive bumper to bumper, lap after lap.
Totally fair racing, without bumps and schratces.
Now you will say. yes but they didn`t have to cope with noobs, and can rely on their fellow racers and so on !?
The problem is the big bunch seeing this type of battles between the aliens, and think that they can do the same ! But they don`t have the talent or training to perform that way. Then they hit my bumper, or yours !
If you want to drive agressively, then be sure to pack up some talent too
I can see no excuse for hitting another car in the arse. If you are a skilled driver, then you will notice the other car, is beeinged drivven by a racer, who is not in your standard. And you have to calculate with errors from the front car also.
I can see no excuse for not driving clean and fair, even if one wants to get a little agressive.
Also ask yourself this question : Who do I want to race !?? A fair and clean guy, and let the skills decide the positions - Or an agressive racer, who sends you off the track, most of the laps !?
THERE CAN BE NO EXCUSE FOR NOT DRIVING CLEAN AND FAIR !!!!
I saw 17 laps of safetycar, very early in the morning, here in Denmark. Then I decided to get to bed. I heard that they started racing after 18 laps !?
A piece of software, offline offcourse, which can load your setup. Then we can tell the pitcrew (Teamspeak etc.) what we want, when we hit the pit. Everything can be altered, tyrepressure, camber, fuel, caster etc stc. When I hit the pit, I press a button to "load" the changes. Time could vary, depending of the amount off changes. (You have a crew, not participating in the race, who changes the car for you.)
And I miss local chatting. It would be nice to talk to one racer specific, and noone else could see what is said
Last, but not least.
Disallow chat when race starts. Only spectators can chat, and no racers is able to see that, if they not press a button
YES !
When a race starts, chat should automatically be disallowed for the racers. Those who spectates should be able to talk without any racers seeing it
It`s not just demoservers, which contains bad drivers
It only take one, or two rotten apples, to spoil the races for many
I have an idea, about ppl, maby young ppl, playing need for speed, and other cargames, and they behave in the same, way, in Lfs.
Yesterday I was on a CTRA server, with about 8 ppl. I was hitted in the three first races !? That`s some of the most protected servers, so the problem is overall in the Lfs community. It will first stop, when we get cars, that can really go broken - Then they`ll learn
I sometimes visit the demo servers, and the ppl "out here" are sometimes better drivers, than the "chosen few"
But there are more wreckers - Real wreckers out there - That I give you. But there are many capable drivers too !
EDIT :
And I think that the demo as is, is very very good. Boy would I like to see other cargames/simulators do the same thing
I just know that the last time i saw someone mention speedhack, things kind of exploded in my country. To many saw speedhackers, everywhere
It`s just like ufo sigthings. There tend to be more sightings after a newspaper has published one event Suddenly they all around us
So we learned the hard way, that there are far more aliens in Lfs, than there are speedhackers
Most "speedhackers" are racers lagging That I have seen a lot of times
Btw !
That event with so much media covering !? Have you published anything about it here, or somewhere else on the internet. In english, because my portuguese isn`t to good
I have driven 155.000 km`s online, and only once have I seen a cheater. That was the STIG thing, not so long ago.
I think it`s "dangerous" to start roumours about speed hacking, and other ways of cheating, when the problem is so minor
We must not end up in mistrusting Bawbag, Flotch, blackman and all the other aliens They are skilled persons, with a speical talent for Lfs. It can seem impossible for us mortal people, to drive that fast - But they do it every day