Not a bug, just the nature of LOD... You can also watch the bonnet and trunk clips disappear on the GTR cars...

Quote from hrtburnout :

TBOs or LRFs?

By the way, JeffR, that was a failed attempt at being funny. It's a good idea to lighten the mood a bit though.

Yeah - it turned out quite funny with many jumping him again (out of habit?) when he just tried to be funny for once...

Quote from hyntty :

Be patient, it is after all a hard job to do.

They've already restarted the race, which would've been the time it should have reconnected to the InSim Relay... So something went wrong there...

Still no remote even after restart...

Worse still - I think it lost the connection to the master server, I can't even see my teammate driving according to LfSW...

Quote from Mojo1987 :

Use teamspeak, like the others guys too.

I'm sorry, when somebody disconnects somewhere in the field, I usually don't have the time to check which lap he was in since he's already gone! Teamspeak won't help me with this task, unless it has some sort of time travel mechanism built into it that I don't know about... And if you're suggesting I keep tabs on every car in the field every lap, then I'd like to talk to someone else with a little bit of common sense...

Quote from Mojo1987 :

Well we have a live tracker system this time on our server.
But we will decide at saturday, whether we will publish the livestats for public-access or not.

It would be good if the participating teams got access to it at the very least... How else would we be able to tell whether we're racing someone (reconnected) or not?

This whole wall of text and it's completely useless... The only thing that matters: how much more expensive is it to do it their way? That truely makes or brakes the car, not what they chopped up to make it...

Team Name: Guglhupf Racing Team
Car Number: 11
Drivers:
G.Haiderer [Isehwurscht] AUT
R.Karner [climbs] AUT
B.Bendl [bbman] AUT

Quote from Checkout :

There's one thing that I'm wondering about. I don't understand that MPR system. Did some Oval Racing to get my rating above 3.0 and it says that I have all the requirements to get the promotion. So that's fine. But in Road Racing, it says that I have to drive at least 4 more races to get the promotion. So I thought 'Ok, let's do some Road Racing then.' So I did some races, but the MPR still says, that I have to drive 4 races or more. Is there something wrong or did I missed something? Has it something to do with the class you're racing in? I'm a Rookie in Oval and Class D in Road.

Yes, only official races in your licence class (or upper) count towards your MPR... Also, I've heard no races in the 13th week will count towards your MPR, you can only boost your Safety Rating...

And smove beats the both of you: he owns one...

Quote from mcintyrej :

Well I've been playing for about 20 minutes and I'm pretty into it already. The damage is brilliant - the first time I crashed my car into the wall I was suprised at how realistic the hit was and the damage caused.

Starting my first qualy session now!

Well, it's more realistic than LfS' model, but it's still flawed: too much damage dealt at low speeds, and still not enough at really big impacts (due mostly to no tyres falling off and no aero-affecting damage)...

Ben Collins, alleged Stig, is co-commentating (as third commentator)...

Quote from richard dk :

After 5 days you can judge the community... wauww thats fast...

To be brutally honest, the negative athmosphere in the forums is pretty obvious to see, you don't even need one day to experience that... Throw in quite chaotic rookie races with tempers rising and you can imagine how he got to this conclusion...

Quote from Jertje :

The SR system doesn't put blame on anyone;[...]

Everyone stop that nonsense with "anyone" and "it's a no-blame-system"... You even said it yourself in the second part, it's the complete opposite: it's everyone and a blame-all-system! If it would be no-blame, nobody would get incident points...

I find the SR system so very wrong, it actually prevents good, close racing because you always have to fear a 4x contact if you slightly bump into each other... It would have been perfect to have the SR only in Gran Turismo-like licence tests - pass those and you are allowed to race the car in the season... If someone misbehaves, there's still protests...

Quote from MR_B :

I believe it to be a bit more than a VW, I would imagine they've decided to add more goodies into the game, and maybe even something which has required an extensive re-write of parts of the game. Although my suspicions are just that, and I have no sources to back it up.

They have - I can confirm that the next patch will have ABS and ESP!

As for the end of your post, I will refrain from commenting for forum climate's sake (although it wouldn't really matter in a thread like this)...

Quote from NoXciousKiD :

Hi there guys. I've playing LFS for a while now, but until the S2Z patch i've never used the account. I got one question though. As a demo driver, can i save multiplayer replays? Because i have a few friends playing with me, especially drifting, and i would love to make a movie with some races....

Thanks in advance...

Welcome, and yes, replay saving is no problem regardless of licence status - it just has to be activated in Options -> Game: if you set it to "enabled - manual saving", just hit "2" (before a session ends) and give the replay a name... You can also set that LfS automatically saves the replay at the end of each session for both single and multiplayer...

Welcome John!

I would recommend downloading the latest patch, some cars might handle differently, so you won't learn habits you can't use when you update... As for the wheel: it looks promising, nobody got it yet though as the very first batch will arrive with customers only as early as the end of May...

Not to slow your enthusiasm, but a bit of a warning: due to your timezone it might be hard to find a race server that runs S1 content... Peak times are euro prime time and the big majoritiy of the userbase already upgraded to S2... Therefore be prepared to search a bit longer - though it's really worth the hassle when you DO find a good server!

It might also be worth looking into leagues even though you may not be up to speed - as long as you're not inconsiderate when lapped I'm sure nobody will mind...

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Quote from NightShift :

What I find hard is to tell is how much oversteer/understeer is caused by rake alone, as it affects the amount of F/R weight transfer and also has aerodynamic effects especially at high speeds.

Sometimes even relatively small adjustments to ride height result in a remarkable change in handling.

I know it's more semantics than anything else, but that's more due to shorter spring lenght etc. than rake angle really... Rake angle is just a result of your suspension settings, not the other way round - in itself it is pretty meaningless...

Don't worry, we'll see the comeback of tyre ovens (unless they're explicitly forbidden) and teams will bring them out JUST before the car enters pit spot... It might make for more Ferrari-like moments where a team just forgets to bring a tyre (in time)...

www.virtualr.net - from hardware to speculations over the next NfS you can find everything there...

Quote from NightShift :

What's the difference between a locked diff and a LSD with preload set to a sky-high value?

None, although there is the possibility to overpower the preload... I'm just not sure how helpful an opening diff is when you're already spinning (quite wildly at that)...

Quote from StableX :

I would have agreed until trying the DP and Radical in this week's madness thing..... they are a lot of fun, especially the radical the default setups really suck until you start with a decent one from the forums, then the understeer has gone and VRooooooooooooom..............

In testing I've fiddled with the defaults - just getting the rake right (don't know why they're all squatting) makes a big improvement on turning already...

Quote from richard dk :

Next season is a week later..this coming week is called the 13th week..

Right, took the wrong Tuesday, my bad!

Quote from twizzyjay :

LFS is one of my favorite racing games ever. better then forza 2 or GT by far. but i would love to see the developers give a try at a open city, street racing type MMO. Fully customizable parts, Fully liscensed cars, different levels of tier cars. and did i mention a open city? drive around, set up your own races, drags, and you could have some people be cops, through applications, and they could drive the new Dodge Chargers, like real cops. i think a game like this would be absolutely amazing, and the only game that i would love to see attempt it would be LFS.

i'd love to see it have cars varying from hondas and nissans all the way up to ferraris and porsche's.

Just so you are informed too (since none of the posts above contained any information whatsoever):

The graphics engine LfS uses needs a properly layed out path, it just can't cope with multiple different paths at once (yet)... Big open spaces like the Autocross Area are a borderline workaround already... Scawen would have to rewrite the whole engine for your suggestion to happen, which would probably need years, so that's highly unlikely...

And real makes require costly licences, which given the nature of three developers without any backing investors is just not affordable (not even going into the hoops manufacturers like Ferrari and Porsche let applicants jump through to be granted the holy licence)...

Anyway, welcome to the forums! Don't let the bashing get to you, your suggestion albeit a repeat is way better than the usual "I want car xy" or "why no Nordschleife"...