F1 is F1 and not LFS
Did you ever drove in an LFS league with pit stops and more then 25 drivers?
As someone else already mentioned here in this thread in F1 you have teams and 2 drivers share a pit, right.
But in normal LFS leagues (or in the leagues I usually raced over the years) you usually don't have this.
Atm everyone can pit everywhere and even if we got fixed pit places then you still have to share the pit with someone you don't know or who maybe have the same strategy in a league race etc. etc. I sometimes have driven a lap longer just to not get into trouble because of the few pit places we have to share - so it's def. a complete other precondition.
So they have some kind of psychic in the police there or why did they had to speak with him earlier?
Maybe the world press is just not reliable (as you can find articles like this everywhere):
So the authorities have to check your backgrounds before giving permissions, now let's blame them even more, they must have seen it.
I just wrote the sentence you quoted and the above as an example, that you can blame everyone if you want to, depends of how you argue.
I think it's just not fair to always and everywhere say: "the parents fault"
But they only noticed and visited him because of the videos he posted earlier, or not?
Anyway I agree with you there is no real way to find out psychopaths but if not even trained people can, how can the parents.
Do you really think that parenting can stop a disease?
Because someone who does something like that
must be emotionally and psychologically disturbed.
And not even a trained police officer noticed it how can the parents know it.
I don't think it's always that easy to say: "It's the parent's fault"
But of course if you want you can find guilty people everywhere:
What about the Gun fabricator, if the guy had no chance to buy one, he couldn't shoot someone else.
That's just an example of "It just depends of how you want to see it".
or blame the government that allows 15 year olds to buy weapons in Finland,
or the police officers who visited this guy 1 day earlier (because of the shooting videos he posted in the net before) but the officer thought he is not dangerous. etc. etc.
Funny looks like you know more about the game code itself than Scawen.
As much as I like the idea, as long as we don't have a "pit box" for every driver it doesn't make much sense.
32 driver must share 16 pit places like in Blackwood or Westhill.
What will happen if everyone is pitting at the same time?
Where will the lollipop man appear? And so on...
There are much more things to think of than you thought
For me it would be great to have at first a pit box for every driver,
then it would be nice to have the other stuff.
And I still be certain about it (see the last 2 paragraphs of this post)
( You quoted my post from page one it was all in there)
The last work we all got from Eric was released with "Patch Z" on the 2nd of July 2008.
1 Day later on the 3rd of July 2008 Scawen wrote:
About the half-baked code sentence:
For me that means Scawen can release code with a test patch that doesn't work 100% as he can fix it easily with the next (small) test patch .exe and often the game does then not even get incompatible.
But things like a new cars and tracks take way more time then a few months and have to be (almost) perfect before they can be released, as it makes no sense to force the users to download real big updates again just because there have been fixed some small graphical glitches in the model. And then the whole game will get incompatible to the version before ect.
In the end he said that there are still things on Eric's harddisk
Ok you are right Scawen could mean anything with it:
- Finish and release Westhill updates
- RB4 / UF1 / UFR interiors
As he wrote a few words about the progress and future updates of LFS before Patch Z was released ->: http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=44905
BUT
Eric is still the (3D/GFX) artist of the devs. and usually do the tracks and the car modells and most of the GFX stuff. But what makes anyone think that Eric has stopped with his usual work? (Which includes also track updates and working on new cars and tracks)
So if he has not stopped being the artist of the LFS Devs team then it would be logic that he is still working on track updates, new cars and tracks as that's part of his job in the team. That's for me common sense
Your reply to my post doesn't make any sense it
seems more like you have not read my post properly.
When Scawen writes 1 day after we got the latest stuff:
(The quote I used from Scawen was from the 3rd of July.
Car interiors with patch Z came on the 2nd of July )
Then I think you don't see the difference between an example and actual info.
But I never said it's a fact that we get a new track.
I said "That makes me believe" (together with a bit common sense)
What do you think is Eric doing all day since we got that?
Does he really only do some interiors all months since Dec. 2007 when we got the FBM and the rebfurbished South City and Blackwood track.
Victor also asked someone else to work on the scirocco modell at first which implies Eric has much other things to do. That can't be just car interior updates.
Dunno where you get that from.
All I know is that Eric is doing things like that (modelling cars and tracks, gfx stuff)
He is not working exclusively as just a trackdesigner but still does all the graphical stuff.
If Victor is asking someone else to do the modelling.
Then Eric must be doing something else that eats up all of his working time apart from refurbishing the interior of some cars ( as this can't take up all of his time for such a long period).
Together with this statement from Scawen (03.07.2008) where he also talked about a track:
That makes me believe that Eric is still working on the tracks and on a new one.
Sooner or later we'll all see it
Totally agree.
The most hated sentence from him for me is:
(freely translated)
"We are now making our own pit stop (commercial break) but you wont miss anthing.."
I then always think: WTF is he talking, of course do I miss something when they come back with the live feed 3 minutes later.
If he would not have Christian Danner at his side then he would look like a complete idiot sometimes
I agree with you in most parts tbh I was really shocked that there is not even fuel/pitting/flags implemented.
It was a good experience to drive but imo it's still in beta (maybe more like LFS is atm) and so I decided to try it again maybe next year when hopefully the fundamental things are implemented. Sure shiny new tracks and cars etc. but for the money they want I expect much more.
Looks like I have to wait.
Have you watched replays from the other drivers?
If not try to get them especially from Tobias Thomas
I've only seen something like that once.
In my replay there was no touch at all but some small lagging of the other car. In some of the other replays you could then see the other car was warping and touching me for some ms etc.
The disconnection was bad luck
but you entered the server again after 10 minutes !!! and 45 seconds
when we were in lap 8. Then you asked if you missed it
What have you expected ?