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Aquilifer
S2 licensed
Hmmm. That 90-100% thing. In many old WWII fighters had a thing called "war emergancy power"(WEP) (No, don't quit reading... I get to cars soon ). It ment that for short period you could take maybe 110-120% power out of the engine. If run longer than the instructed limit you would risk the engine to blow up. Sometimes this requires extra cooling (like the MW50 methanol water injection Me109/FW190). GM1 used nox to get larger performance increase (Me109).

This wasn't unheard in race cars either. I remember that some old Mercedes Benz race car had a boost which you could run for maybe few mins per race. After that you were on the risk area. Normally it was used when extra power was needed like overtaking. This brings back the idea that LFS should have some old style race car (1920-30s) and that kind of "race emergancy power"(REP) system. It would bring some new dimension to longer races (besides old car would be fun)
Aquilifer
S2 licensed
I don't run server very often. Usually to test my Insim stuff. But when i do...

It doesn't really matter who the person is. All are equal in that matter.

I don't kick so often. I warn first and if it doesn't help, i ban. This is because kicked players could just join again, so it is no use. I also don't keep 'room' reserved for any friends.

Delibarate crashing earns an immediate ban of course. Race accidents are normally forgiven. But if they starts to happen too often, I suggest that the person goes to practise offline first.

Blue flag must be obeyed. If the dude is really lost (new to racing?) he might go with warning before being banned. Yellow flag system is so inaccurate at the moment that currently not followed so closely.

No need to use english. After all not so many racers can speak so good english. Like those who are not so old and do not speak english as native language. Of course swearing and offensive language rules need to be followed with any language...

Swearing not actually banned, but cursing and shouting at other players or using really offensive language causes ban. After all I curse sometimes myself when I make mistakes. So it is ok if it is not dericted to anybody else. In this too I warn first.

Offensive racer names are not allowed. Like anything which concern racial, religious etc things. If they don't change the name i ban. Same thing for license plates.

And iDi idiots get a permament ban as soon as I see one
Aquilifer
S2 licensed
Heh heh, verry funny. Especially if you've seen the original one

You could also make a "new" version of the "Jeremy vs snipers" stunt too (the one where he tryed to escape some British sharpshooters in a village with Porsche and some other car)
Aquilifer
S2 licensed
Quote from Fubar_1 :Download the latest finnish language pack from here: http://www.liveforspeed.net/lf ... ic_translation_viewer.php

Yep. I think that did the trick. It seems to work now. Thx.


Quote from thisnameistaken :
Did you hit Sato?

Huh?
Aquilifer
S2 licensed
Addictive, yes. Buggy, yep that too.

If there is some delay or what ever hassle it could be that wrong word gets attached to a pic.

Like this pic got all suggestions for the earlier pic and finally got tagged with the word "trees"
http://rs.inlinewarehouse.com/iw/big/EP7K-big.jpg
Aquilifer
S2 licensed
In the developer interview they said the goal is that LFS is able to simulate "anything on wheels". So this counts tanks too, doesnt' it?
Aquilifer
S2 licensed
While waiting for the update of his progress, you might read this as well
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/index.html#a004732

Not much but at least something while waiting for more news

My opinion is that it was important news. I wouldn't have been so interested in Tony Blair had crashed his car.
Aquilifer
S2 licensed
Quote from xaotik :So it can be a climber. If you've ever been in a tank or APC going up a steep slope you'd realize why, even more so if you'd drive one up a steep slope.
It takes all the "low" gears you can get to get tens of tonnes of steel up there to "take that hill"...

For a similar reason alot of trucks, especially heavy haulers, have multiple reverse gears or multiple "low" gears.

Yes. I've been in an APC (it was Finnish armoured 'Pasi' or one of the BTRs). But I didn't know about multiple reverse gears.

Actually I was thinking more the reverse gears. On good road you get 38km/h top speed (forward) and maybe only 20km/h off-road. In reverse much less so 4 gears sounds quite a lot, even if some of them are for pulling or climbing. Dunno.. not an expert

The lowest (1st) forward gear had ratio 15.4, so with 700bhp you can do some pulling (even if the tank weights 56 tons). The reverse gears used the first four forward gears with even lowered ratios (if I understood it correctly). I found one good page for Tiger transmission and steering...
http://www.alanhamby.com/transmission.html
Aquilifer
S2 licensed
Quote from herki :and it had less topspeed than the mrt

Good point. I only now started to think where the heck they needed all the gears.

Anyway same principle... engine and four whe... erm...hmmmm... 20 wheels and tracks
Aquilifer
S2 licensed
Quote from Stew2000 :To me Good = Can Walk and Talk. Full = Drive a Zonda F in style

And don't forget that they proved you can drive a lap even if you cannot see ('the blind man')
Aquilifer
S2 licensed
Quote from herki :bah! there isn't such a post



much to complicated, just take the engine, turn it around by 180° (z-axis, everything else isn't very useful ) and reconnect the driveshafts. Now you have 6 reverse gears

So what's the problem? Maybach Olvar gearbox in the Tiger I tank had 8 forward and 4 reverse gears
Aquilifer
S2 licensed
Quote from Yaamboo :I love KY3, but there are rarely anyone playing it - and when there are, it's usually simple hotlapping... And in case somebody would try to race, it would be a borefest with everyone driving at a 10 seconds difference of anybody else.

Do you really need KY3 for this? I think any track will do. Of course at shorter tracks you become overlapped. If I really have to choose it is better not to see him rather than being overlapped 3 times. Of course it is best if the group has roughly same lap times.

Also I don't understand why somebody says long tracks are too long. Even in sprint races they are nice. To me it is same if I drive 3 laps at KY3 or 6 at AS2.
Aquilifer
S2 licensed
Quote from thisnameistaken :It's been suggested before, but honestly it's rare to see KY3 online, or any of the long circuits. I'd rather see shorter configs that actually get used.

Hmmm... and when you try to host a server with KY3 (tryed LX4) you got no guests... bloody awful

Nothing wrong with the track - I like it. What comes to new KY configs, I can give my vote for them.
Aquilifer
S2 licensed
Don't think lag is because of low bandwidth (i.e 'speed'). One connection to server uses so little bandwidth in LFS that a modem should manage it just fine. Usually large delay (-> lag) is because either your ISP or the ISP of the server has some trouble (traffic or just problems). Naturally it can be cumulative delay from long distances, but usually it is your ISP if you know it is not a long 'jump'. Some ISPs seems to have habit of undersize the resources and I bet operators are not putting much money in dial up connections nowadays.
Aquilifer
S2 licensed
Yup /echo does the trick.

I actually solved this by making a car radio app. It works with Winamp. Before /echo it couldn't print song titles when visiting on a server (worked but didn't print them). Good in it is that net radio or any local files which Winamp plays works (and the song name printing). And on the plus side you can control the car radio from LFS (on/off, next track). ...anyway sorry, no intension to hijack this thread
Aquilifer
S2 licensed
Oh no.
Last time I was more shocked when I opened my TV on september 11, 2001.

I really hope he gets well soon. Top Gear is not the same without him. But it is still just a TV program and there are people to whom he is important and loved just as a family member or a friend. To those this must be much worse. Maybe they don't read this, but I wish them all the strength on these difficult times.
Aquilifer
S2 licensed
Maybe. It just makes me wonder why the heck it is shaking/shimmering. You would assume that the skid marks just disappear into the ground.
Aquilifer
S2 licensed
Quote from bo-kristiansen :tha question is... R2 or R3 on the horse...

I would say R3 shoes and 50% load of oat at the pit
Aquilifer
S2 licensed
Quote from S14 DRIFT :BEATFREAKZ REMIX FTW

I think many '80s tunes are being r**ed by these remixes. Like the Hall and Oates hit "Out of Touch" being mauled by Uniting Nations and also the original "It's my life" by Talk Talk is better than the No Doubt version (which is still is fairly close to the original). Then there is that originally Black's song "Wonderful Life" which is now really pathetic (song by that woman who's name I cannot recall right now).

Usually the the remixes just skip most of the lyrics and just keep repeating few lines. Not good I say. Like the Beatfreakz remix. Hey, you loose most of the great lyrics (just read them).

1980s songs FTW

(hmmmm... sorry for getting off topic :shy
Aquilifer
S2 licensed
Quote from Bradracer ::singer:# I always feel like somebody's watching me
And I have no privacy (oh oh oh)
I always feel like somebody's watching me
Tell me, is it just a dream# :singer:
:hidesbehi

You mean... (how i hear the words)...

CHOIR: Who's watching...
CHOIR: Tell me who's watching...
CHOIR: Who's watching me...


I'm just an average man, living average life.
I work from nine to five - hey hell I'll pay the price!
All I want is to be left alone, in my average home.
But why do I always feel like, I'm in a twilight zone.
And...


CHOIR: I always feel like somebody's wathcing me

And I have no privacy.

CHOIR: I always feel like somebody's watching me

Tell me is it just a dream
When I come home at night, I bolt the door real tight.
People call me on the phone, I'm trying to avoid.
But can the people on TV see me or am I just paranoid.

When I'm in the shower I'm afraid to wash my hair
Cause I might open my eyes and find someone standing there
People say I'm crazy, just a little touched
But maybe showers remind me of Psycho too much
That's why...


CHOIR: I always feel like somebody's wathcing me
And I have no privacy
CHOIR: I always feel like somebody's wathcing me
Who's playing tricks on me.

I don't know anymore
Are the neighbors watching me
Well is the mailman watching me
And I don't feel safe anymore, oh what a mess
I wonder who's watching me now--- (BOOO!) - the IRS?


CHOIR: I always feel like somebody's wathcing me
And I have no privacy
CHOIR: I always feel like somebody's wathcing me
Tell me is it just a dream
CHOIR: I always feel like somebody's wathcing me
And I have no privacy
CHOIR: I always feel like somebody's wathcing me
Who's playing tricks on me.

CHOIR: I always feel like somebody's wathcing me
CHOIR: I always feel like somebody's wathcing me
...

Tell me it can't be
CHOIR: I always feel like somebody's wathcing me
CHOIR: I always feel like somebody's wathcing me
...

Who's playing tricks on me.
CHOIR: I always feel like somebody's wathcing me
I can't enjoy my tea!


(Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me c. 1984)
-----

Great song btw. One of my favorits
Aquilifer
S2 licensed
Quote from Jakg :some around the area of the overpass iirc, and there are some at other tracks as well

Oh. I guess it's a known thing then. This is actually bit funny. I've played LFS for a year (S2 4-5 months) and noticed only now. I guess I have to buy new glasses
SO Sprint1 'pools'
Aquilifer
S2 licensed
Sorry if this has been reported already but couldn't find with search.

In South City Sprint1 (SO2) turn1 (Kenton Way SE9), there seem to be patches which doesn't show any skid marks. They look like small pools of jelly which shake at the edges. The pools and shaking doesn't show without the skid marks because they have same track texture, but when there start to be those skid marks around them it is easy to see.

After more investigation, there are at least 3 pools (1 big and 2 smaller ones). Two roughly where the last painted arrows on road are (the other smaller doesn't show in this pic but is closer to the wall) and one smaller where the second last arrows are.

Hard to explain so added 2 pics.

I have U20 patch and Radeon9700, if they have any effect here.
Aquilifer
S2 licensed
Quote from kurent :I use a mouse and only got 13:39 with the drag13.26 set.

But with this set I can get 13:36. I played around a little and the ride height, camber and tyre type seems to be making the difference between these two setups.

I haven't tryed that setup. But so far it looks that with mouse you can get 0.05-0.1 sec slower time (depending which set). That 0.1 sounds a lot for one straight. If the surface was dirt the gap would be more i think

Maybe the mouse times could be improved little by tweaking the low gears (less wheel spin)
Aquilifer
S2 licensed
Anyone with mouse? I'm curious how much you loose with mouse when you have to slam the throttle to the floor. The 13.33 was a slightly tweaked "notanillusion" set. Any better times with mouse? I have to say that i didn't try so long - it was way too boring to try much longer (crazy stuff illepall)
Finnish set error - "damage to taka"?
Aquilifer
S2 licensed
Like said in the title, I get mixed english/finnish text when in pits. For example that "damage to taka". Sorry if being posted before, but couldn't find with 'search'.

Edit: It also shows "damage to etu". Odd but i think this has worked ok before. So maybe it came with U20. I haven't been playing with language files. Any finns there? - do you get the same messages?
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