Great post, Vykos. The wheels appear to be Logitech Formula Force EX.

Quote from inCogNito :

no, and you have to drive with automatic transmission.

Oh boy.
Guess I'll check out the event(s) in Cologne anyway.

Quote from DEVIL 007 :

Look at BL hotlaps with XF GTI.It looks funny and weird what people do to make fastest lap.

I guess I'm guilty of this, but you don't really have to destroy your wheel to get the tires up to temp. Since my controller has very little steering lock, I just do a couple of long slides to warm them up. When done right you don't need any crazy zigzag maneuvers. I made a replay to show you what I mean.

Quote from inCogNito :

even if foreigners were allowed, i don't know it it's worth the risk to take the journey, unless you want to visit germany anyway.
But you got only one shot per event, the the modus is really stupid. You drive 3 laps with random start positions against 3 opponents and your overall time counts. So if you get knocked out in T1, it's over.

Do they let you run your own sets? Any sort of practice/familiarization before the race?

3. Press F to display the forces and use the chase view to see all four wheels. When the vertical bars over the wheels turn red, they're bottoming out.

http://img14.imagevenue.com/im ... mp;image=86173_blhole.JPG

It's small enough for the XFG to fit through, so wreckers use this shortcut to get onto the track in front of T1 without being kicked for driving in the wrong direction.

Quote from sdether :

Basically I want to selectively let my paddle shifters control up/down shift or control my insim app. Both LFS and my app capture the DirectInput device, but I have no way to tell LFS to not listen to the shifters when I don't want it to. My solution was to bind upshift/downshift to keys, let my app exclusively handle the paddle shifters and send key presses to LFS when I want them to mean upshift/downshift.

I'm actually using AutoHotkey (www.autohotkey.com) to do that (selectively send key presses to LFS when using the joystick buttons). Unfortunately I'm not sure which method AHK uses to send the key presses. It's free, so if you don't have a problem with running an extra executable (you can convert the scripts into standalone exes), you could let AHK handle the button presses and selectively send them to either your Insim app or LFS.

Or you could check out PPJoy (http://www.geocities.com/deonvdw/Docs/PPJoyIntro.htm). It's a virtual joystick driver than can take inputs from other apps.

Did you check deb.log?

Quote from Solar Hydro :

5.38 liters per 100km (Prius meter showed 5.0 - i.e. a big difference - I was on 4.9 for most of the tank but followed-up by long motorway driving).

By the way, do you know about the fuel "bladder" in the Prius? Since the volume of the fuel tank changes depending on the ambient temperature you can't really calculate the mileage precisely. The readout from the computer is probably more precise.

Did you edit an old shortcut to point to the new LFS directory maybe? If so, don't forget to change the path for "execute in", or else the 0.5T exe will look for the BF1 skin in the 0.5Q folders, which obviously don't have it.

Quote from Shotglass :

have you ever driven one of the old porsches without esp and with rather simplistic dampers ? from what ive heard theyre widowmakers

That's because older 911's used semi trailing arms in the rear. Since the bushings aren't perfectly rigid, you get additional toe out if you brake or lift off in a vehicle with semi trailing arms. So if the rear gets loose and the driver lifts off, the outside rear wheel will actually steer into the drift and make the car go even more sideways. Newer 911's and the FZ shouldn't have these problems.

Stop bumping this already.

Quote from kompa :

C'mon stop hammering the site...you can get an SMS when it comes out.



God...

^^^What he said.

I don't see the problem here. Poor drivers cause trouble, no matter if they're in the race from the start or if they join while it's running.

Do you think the number of fatal accidents in real life would go down if you outlawed airbags and seat belts to make people drive more carefully? Somehow I don't think so.

I've raced with him, he actually is that fast without tricks.

Quote from zeugnimod :

It will be impossible to drive with kb. FO8 already is.

Look up KingNothing on LFSW. Low 1:04's at BLGP with kb.

Quote from ajp71 :

Seems to have gone missing from LFSW.

Nah...still there:

http://www.blinkerfluid.net/pie-country.jpg

This is gonna be interesting. We need someone to scope out the conditions at one of the first events (equipment, setups etc.). Anyone in Munich or Frankfurt?

Eye for an eye just doesn't work, especially not in LFS. You end up with two guys trying to wreck each other and taking out 10 other cars in the process.

Quote from tristancliffe :

No you don't really - plenty better cars in the world other than ugly tasteless repmobiles from Germany.

He said BMW, not Opel.

So much for that then...heh.

Quote from MOSS_DJ23 :

If you have anymore tips or links that enhance my learning I am eternally greatful

See ya on the track..........I'll be the one in the wall!

It can help a great deal if you fiddle with the setup a bit, since almost all fast setups are quite unstable. For the RWD cars, try using an open diff, decrease the camber in the front a bit or increase the stiffness of the front anti-roll bars. Granted, you won't be running world record laps, but it's a lot easier to control. With a few days of practice, you will learn the behaviour of the cars, and you'll find yourself catching slides much earlier, if they do happen.

I would also suggest downloading a few replays from lfsworld.net to get a better idea of the racing line. It might also be a good idea to turn off throttle help, as that can make it quite difficult to catch slides if the power is dialed back all of a sudden.

Hm, so basically you have a correct bans.ban file while the servers are running and it gets overwritten when the individual LFS instances shut down.

I'd try using a batch file to kill them:

copy bans.ban bans.bak
kill 1-14
copy bans.bak bans.ban

I don't know if you can kill tasks from the command line, but I'm sure there are tools for that, if not.

Apparently a ban file can only hold 44 bans (or so I heard), so that'd be something to watch out for, too.

Quote from Scawen :

The bans are loaded into memory when :
- the program starts up.
The bans are saved to disk when :
- bans are cleared
- a new ban is added
- the program exits

http://forum.rscnet.org/showpo ... p=2426455&postcount=9

Did you check the expiry date of the bans in the bans.ban file with a ban editor?

Just to explain the different messages:

Bill renamed to Ted = Player changed the nick in his current player profile from Bill to Ted

Ted took over from Bill = Player switched between two player profiles

Wreckers usually just make a new player profile with your nick, so they can quickly cycle through them, and that's what happened to you. Since I enjoy the XFG/BLGP combo, I'm racing on demo servers most of the time and have seen people do this a lot. As much as I love this game, allowing different players to have the same nick is simply retarded.