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BBO@BSR
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Quote from Bawbag :
Paulie, the UTC time hasn't changed yet all of our clocks have went forward, which means that tonight the start time can't possibly be the same as last month if the UTC time stays the same...

Me votes to get rid of summer time everywhere just for Paul and 3j
BBO@BSR
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Great stuff
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Quote from versusboy :
Before u go to the pit u have to push a button and after a time a sound plays and a man says: your granted to come in the pits
and if they not hear the sound and the man says it and they still go in the pit they will not be able to pit so to get fuel and tire change..

How can this be useful and for whom would it be useful?

If I want to go to the pits (or have to go) then I go to the pits.
As in real life

The pit crew can tell you, you have to come in in lap 20 but when you get a problem in lap 18, you'll have to come in earlier.

With your suggestion it "can" be like this.
Driver: "I'm running out of fuel I'm comming in"
or
Driver: "I have a problem with ... (whatever)"
then
Pit crew: "No your are not granted to come in"


That doesn't make any sense to me tbh.
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BBO@BSR
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What's an FJR
BBO@BSR
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Quote from Stigpt :http://www.hdd.pt/download/118 ... n_Alonso_Onboard.avi.html

actually, if you look at this onboard - he was CELEBRATING the overtake and hit his fist in the button, not ripping a tear off.
Look at his right hand -its hilarious.

I totally agree with you
he just raise his fist and wasn't rip off something from his visior
at least it doesn't look like it and usually they move their hands from left to right or right to left to tear off strips from the visor.

Edit: and I have never seen someone doing it in such a short time
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BBO@BSR
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I agree with what James wrote.


In the end it's just a normal reaction if your people are being under cultural repression for so many years.
Here is another uncensored vid:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstrok ... 8/03/images-and-news.html


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BBO@BSR
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Quote from hyntty :
Which reminds me, Germans are now walking with their heads up high. Yesterdays Bild: "WE have the best cars. Mercedes p1, BMW p2 and williams with a german built engine p3. WE have the most succesful drivers..." It can't be that big of a thing can it? Our magazines don't write with that tone, do they?

I bet you also have such yellow (brainless) press in Finland
Bild is in Germany like The Sun in the UK
BIG generalised Headlines for the masses.
No one with a brain would take these papers really serious.

btw
we have the best cars

BBO@BSR
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BBO@BSR
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:birthday: Happy Birthday, keep on coding
BBO@BSR
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Quote from traxxion :
Is that real?

Yes it is :drink:

BBO@BSR
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Quote from Memph1s :how about save the Qualify Results and hold the race on next Saturday ?

Edit: This is my opinion, cause i guess its getting very tight for many Drivers with the LFS World Series Qualify.

No good idea. It's hard enough to get drivers with time for one weekend/saturday.
BBO@BSR
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Quote from AppiePils :For all new drivers: send an email to our email address after which we will notify you whether that person is allowed to drive or not.

Quote from DeadWolfBones :Applies to all teams.

Don't get me wrong maybe I just don't get this new rule or missunderstand you but now the MoE Admins decide if a driver of our team can race a race or not ?
That's tbh really strange.

If you want to hinder that people from one Team drive for another Team during a season then ok, that makes sense.

Anyway as in my Team the Team Managers (three_jump and me) do all the organisational stuff I have send you a mail about our new driver.

Regards,
BBO@BSR
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Quote from AppiePils :For all new drivers: send an email to our email address after which we will notify you whether that person is allowed to drive or not.

Was that a note only for #17 Total Power Sliders or for all teams??
BBO@BSR
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Never seen something like that before.
Strange.
BBO@BSR
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#23 Triple 7 Racing
GT2 FXR

richard dk, R. Torp, Denmark
BBO@bsr, B. Weingart, Germany
slogan, E. Jahn, Denmark
P1lot, G. Burton, United Kingdom
BBO@BSR
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Quote from buedi :Just looked over to BHMS and saw the Announcement of Nitro Stunt Racing S1. I checked the Trailer and the Site and try to download the Demo now.
Looks like some Arcade Racer like Trackmania with some basic Physics added. Sounds interesting for some Arcade Racer...

http://www.nitrostuntracing.com/

Hmm... me wonders if the Stage System gets popular in the Independent Developer Scene?

I thought it was a new game but it isn't

It was released in april last year by frogster:
(check amazon and get it for like 12 to 13 euros )

It's a funny arcade game that you can play from time to time nothing more and def. not a sim

btw:
The developer on the "new site" said to the "new version":
Quote :The German version has slightly different tracks.
We have modified a bit the Jump it up and the Hot rusk tracks so they are more playable on the EN/FR version.
All the rest of the content is exactly the same (appart from all the bugs we've corrected )

BBO@BSR
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Quote from VoiD :I prefer licence-names. Makes searching (and finding) on CTRA much easier.

and you also prefer giving yourself comical names.
I always liked the "Karl Ranseier is dead" part in the good old german saturday night live show.
BBO@BSR
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Quote from Horseman : But let’s face it, the developers behind the project give pretty much 100% guarantee that the quality will be outstanding.

Oh great then it must be like this.
rFactor, GTR, GTR2, WTCC RACE 07 whatever was the best sim out there bla bla (lol)
If I wouldn't have heard such statements from almost every dev or company that come out with something new then maybe the concerns would be a little fewer.
But just because the devs say it's outstanding it doesn't mean it is like this.
I can't really remember a programm the could hold the promises the devs made before it was released.
But you are right we have to wait and see but I'm not surprised if it is not as good as they say.

btw:
where do the 9 euros per month come from?
They say on their website it will be like 16$ to 19$ per month over 3 years which is almost ~11 to ~13 Euros.
BBO@BSR
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Quote from auch_enne :Although I don't drive in MOE I do have an opinion


If you compare this digital endurance race to a real life endurance race there is a big differance. In reallife it is a battle to test if it can hold up, the car that is... If you roll it, crash it, park it in the gravel or get some technical failure it is over, done, no more for you... and they practise for a year for such an event, develop the car for lots of $$ etc. etc.

In my eye's the best and simplest solution to your problem would be... drum roll please. OUT is OUT... crash it, roll it, park it in the gravel or get a "technical" failure.. it's bye bye, pack in the spare tires and go home... Ofcourse this (negative word here) if your isp decides to unplug you for a second, but it also (an other negative word here) when your engine blow or your tranny breaks..

I think it would make a lot more "endurance" and adds the part where it's not the fastest guys that make it but the guys that hold everything together..

Just my 2 cents, I guess none of you are willing to go down this road, but in my eyes it's what makes endurance endurance. Imagne Le Mans.. "Well Bentley is down to their 5th car now, 2 took fire, one parked in the gravel and 2 blown engines. Lucky for them they took along 10 cars this weekend."

I forgot the time but I think after 18 minutes a lot of people disconnected because of a server problem? ISP? whatever - doesn't matter, technical failure and they are all out. Great
How many teams would then have finished the 24 hours race?
None? 2? or 4?
And how many people would watch something like that in a broadcast for the rest of the 23and a half hours. 5 or 6?

LFS should also be fun imo but your suggestion would only create much more boredom.

Quote from Scawen :...If you want reality then just go racing in reality! If you want a sim then you are avoiding many of the problems of reality, and cutting it down to the actual racing. That's the purpose of a racing sim....

BBO@BSR
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We all know that LFS is the exception rather than the rule but this is just crazy.

LFS costs me ~36 Euros in 5 years (including demo times + new cars + new tracks + online play + lfs world etc.)

for iRacing it would cost:
just an Example
5 new cars = $15 * 5 = 75$
5 new tracks = 20 * 5 = 100$ (~20$ per track)
5 years of online playing (if you pay for a complete year) = 13$ * 12 * 5 = 780$

All together for 5 years: 955$ = ~658 Euros

ROFL

I would say better spent that amount of money for real life track days or buy LFS another 18 times.

Their marketing analysts must live on the other side of the moon if they really think people will/can pay it or they are not really convinced by their own product and expect only a few people to pay for it.
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BBO@BSR
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That's sad. A good actor.
I liked him in "The patriot"
BBO@BSR
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I wrote something like that in the MoE board because there this discussion makes more sense imo:

Every shift+p is benefical for a team in the same way.

"get stuck n the gravel and don't use it - your race is over !!! ",
"engine damage and not use it - your race is over (well or better completly senseless)
"DC and not drive on - your race is over"
(there will never be a proof if someone does it on purpose or if it happend randomly - all you can do is speculate about it.)

Anyway all has the same result - "the race is not over" for no one
So why should there other or different penalties for the same thing.

If that would be treated diff. then the MoE admins also have to check in what part of the track and gravel a driver was when he shift+P to drive on etc. etc. etc.

Ayway without the MoE shift+p rule we would have 4 cars finishing a 24 hours race and hey this is a game to have fun with others and your team and not reality - because in reality their are no drivers that magically dissapear from the track and wake up at home all alone .
BBO@BSR
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ROFL Tweak - great one
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Quote from imthebestracerthereis :Hello, I am wondering is there a possibility that I can have XP Home and Vista Ultimate running on the same computer using two hard drives? I'm not sure exactly about boot managers and things like that, and I would be grateful if someone could help me

Yes you can:

just install them (first XP then vista) on the HDD of your choice.
You will later have the boot loader from vista and can choose what Os you want to load. Only makes problems when you want to get rid of vista i.e then you have to perform some action (canbe googled) to not also destroy the XP installation.


If you don't want a boot loader and two complete indipendent OS installations you can unplug 1 HDD and install 1 OS on the other HDD and vice versa with the next HDD. Depends on your board sometimes it also works without unplugging the HDDs.

Depending on your Motherboard (SATA/SATA II/ Raid boards usually have that) you can then hit F8 or F11 or what your board manual tells you to open an "onboard boot-loader" and choose from which HDD /DVD/CD etc. you want to boot.
No need to go into the BIOS each time.
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Quote from shiny_red_cobra :Well this lfs remote thing survived it's first major test, the 24h race! Congradz!

Yes, it really helped us a lot and worked perfectly.

Great work Victor, that tool came right in time
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