Quote from sinbad :

I believe Nikimere was involved in a proposed Mondello Park (Ireland) cooperation a good few years ago, at no cost to the devs. They weren't interested iirc and obviously it never happened.

Ideas like this are useless. What do you expect will happen?

Scawen: ERIIIIIIIIIICCCC!!!! ERRRRIIIIIIIIICCCCC!!!!!
Eric: Huh?
Scawen: ERRRRRIIIIIIIICCCC!!!! You HAVE to see this!!!!
Eric: OOHHH What?!
Scawen: Someone just came up with a BRILLIANT idea!!!
Eric: Wow!! At last!! What is it? What is it?!
Scawen: Sit down... Here it is..... Nurburgring Nordschleife.
Eric: O.M.G
Scawen: I know, right?
Eric: Get on the phone to Victor, he will go nuts where he hears this!! I'll get to work right away.
Scawen: I'm going to PM this guy, he should be on the dev team!!
Eric: YAY!

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Even if you've organised it all, and got them express written permission, they'll still most likely not care.

Free vacation down under? Maybe they would?

Quote from blakehoo88 :

it would be good if you stopped whining. So what if your picture didn't get the most votes! Enter the next competition and prove that your work is worthy of winning a competition. Simple

well, it is teh thing that second in competition is plain wrong - so why should I join next competition when photomode is eh...

just besides competition I added some to create a puzzle how could this be made. In fact I would like to see such picture shot in real to see if it would look alike.

And btw. voting for plainly wrong picture reminds me football league here in Poland. They are doing it completely wrong, they have not qualified to champions league for couple of years. Why? The referees, the trainers and the players knew 2 years ahead the scores schedules, who is going to drop off from the first league. Fans all know that and they dont mind players are doing it completely wrong

Last edited by AndRand, Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:37.

Quote from AudiBG :

Thanks to the guys which spend their vote for my picture

Frankly speaking I have no clue about their preference of choice as they voted for city traffic through the pits

Here is my entry

Ithink that any random failure in computer games sims is not welcomed really. It will just raise suspicions.

Quote from obsolum :

nKp is a much more difficult sim than LFS, though, so be warned. It's also mainly aimed towards openwheeler drivers at the moment, with only 1 tintop being included in the full game. The demo only lets you drive the F1600. That being said, it is a very rewarding sim if you're willing to put the time in to become good at it, and visually it looks a lot better than LFS.

I dont find nKP as more difficult - it is easy to get used to after LFS. The differences I find is mostly in FFB - nKP is very harsh on wheel and has no smoothness so it is more in feel simbin like, though going back to LFS it feels (LFS) bit too springy.
Second thing I noticed mostly was DX9 effects.

Quote from Torben :

Instead have some kind of relay-server, to which you connect, which forwards you to one of the servers behind it. This way instead of having one server with 38 people on it and total mayhem happening, you would have two with roughly 19 people on them each, providing still a big grid, but maybe less mayhem.

Quote :

As I said before you would want to keep the ability to join the server with your buddies on, which could be an automated routine depending on an yet to be implemented buddy-list-feature.

I think easier solution is: smaller grid

Quote :

Considering the proposed Division-wise joining policy, you would even end up with two servers having drivers with closer driving abilities (e.g. measured in personal best time).
Of course you would have to administer two servers instead of one, which will lead into the same situation why CTRA closed down. So that's one point you gotta find a solution for.

Long time ago I was promoting this idea but there are big concerns on splitting the community.

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AndRand, I back you up on the extended "meeting-room". That thing definately could need some improvement. I almost never use it, since there is never someone in there (and I am on the FM-TS3-Server anyhow when I go racing).

My idea comes from assumption that many more ppl see the list of servers, the combos, and its occupation and they don't join. Seeing others with similar interest would make them ready to race.

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One way to "improve" it, is by simply removing it. Instead have like a Contact List of buddies, where you can see where your buddies are racing and join them by simply clicking on their name.

Well, good racing is with ppl you know or with ppl of similar skill (no matter you know them). List of buddies and Similar PBs holders meeting room would provide that.

I proposed just an extended "meeting room" - the place to chat and to decide on what server are ppl going to go... just that. For now Meeting room expands the window and the server list is all visible. If you want to go on some server you just clik...

Quote from lukelfs :

Well it seems u created them with the brush tool freehand, maybe try like the pen tool or line tool? , they also look kinda stuck on the image

I would take several pics with running car and the then create line with bezier

Quote from Torben :

I'm sorry, I can't seem to get what you are trying to say...

well, mdmx wrote about some laddering system
you opposed to that idea as automatic redirection would disallow racing with buddies - and as I see you would promote buddy list in meeting room

My proposition is: lets make buddy lists that are not in any way automatic - it is the way to gather people for some racing.

Quote from mdmx :

That would be very easy to implement... Maybe it could be done even without devs help, as 3rd party tool, but devs approvement is needed of course coz it has to connect to master server. What i mean is that we don't need the devs to upkeep/administrate the ladder, we just need the tools so teams can easily set up laddered multi-server systems.

Quote from Torben :

I thought of that as well, but was too lazy to post it yesterday.

I see one big problem with this approach:
A lot of players (including me) want to race with their buddies. But with an automated distribution system it is pretty likely, that you end up on different servers.

Now you could argue, that buddies that like to race together might have similar PB's and stuff, thus getting connected to the same "Division", but that's not always the case.

So, you would need to also have a friends-list functionality (which in my opinion is missing in LFS anyways) to add preferences of players which you would want to be joined with.

If you plan to follow this idea, send me a pm, I might be able to help ya with implementing (but not before mid of March, I'm afraid).

I got hight ranking [post=64726]on this thread[/post] but not rally high support or maybe things will change

I hope when you work on this white sides and rub them good the door will open easily

Quote from AndroidXP :

Oh I'm pretty sure LFS chooses connect messages at random, no?

"Scawen connected (Scawen)"
"Victor (Victor) has connected"

:rolleyes:

I thought it was [post=1365721]nice hoax[/post] but I didnt notice that fail
btw. I wouldnt be surprised that devs create some kind of frenzy on that - they usually did

Quote from kimd41 :

thread must live....


Maybe someone should do a contest where people guess the date of the patch's release for a free s2 licence?

As I know overall rule is that you cannot take advantage of an illigitimate move. So if that was my fault I am to stay behind or let pass the other racer and start the battle all over again. If I was the driver bumped out I would report it in league to race admins I looked for time-penalty. As I dont race in leagues I report just a evident wrecker.
And sometimes when I see someone stopped in a crash I just give a bump ahead to get him in race

I wish we had steering lock.

ok, I had to go way around - get text with commas, change commas to colons... still Excel best times (minimums) rounds to seconds


Diagram on averages (difference between average time with this car to average time on this track)

Last edited by AndRand, Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:47.

Quote from Framaris :

I know it can be a little confusing , BL1 is also wrong btw...

damn I have to find good xls formatting - it get 1:11:76 (as hh:mm:ss) transforms it it to number and back to time as 1:12:27 grrr just a moment

Last edited by AndRand, Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:11.

I thought I got rid of that distortion due to your time format is in xls hh:mm:ss and I removed the notice about it. Just a sec

Really XRT AS2R isnt 1:13,03? I divided your figures by 60 to get mm:ss,00

Last edited by AndRand, Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:58.

when I click SAVE in engine sound window it minimizes LFS to the bar

What I would suggest to all beginners: race with AI1 and AI2. When you are able to catch up with them and to cleanly overtake them (at least AI2) your pace is enough for online play. Top drivers race usually 2-3 seconds quicker than AI1.

Second thing - minimum laptime at the combo. If your PB does not let you join the server just pick an empty host (there are hundreds of them) thet has the same combo (or has option to change car/track enabled) and make your online PB there.

Quote from keiran :

The `spaceflight` isn't exactly programmed into the game is it? It's one of these things that will probably get fixed before S2 goes final but as we know Scawen doesn't often/ever take shortcuts. I'm sure if he really wanted to he could go down the route of other `21st century` games and basically make the car stop dead.

I think we had discussion here on this. And in case of online play it is quite inevitable - your ping determines frequencie of packets updating car position. Therefore the always existing lag creates sharp car position update that in case of collision creates huge forces. What I would suggest is make barriers more elastic so they would absorbe those forces.

Quote from Feffe85 :

I think he meant that we need to redo ALL our skins for the cars if that would ever happen..

if ALL the cars would be facelifted at once

Quote from Furiously-Fast :

Oh yeah, there will be a problem... older skins. :doh:

and with completely new cars... what? no skins at all?