Where is the driver list, as I might wanna sign-up, though I wanna know the other competitors and how many laps, time of event; I admit to briefly looking through your site but this information should be provided. Thanks.

Well everyone, I am back! Woo!

Thanks for all the luck and support. I was able to get online a few times here and there through-out my adventure. And what an adventure it was. I will try posting up some sort of story here when I get a chance, and yes I realize I have been here for two-weeks as it is without this post and my story but I will write something up.

Currently I need to watch Michael's real life video of the karting event... Had some great laughs already from the first 10 seconds, and I am writing this post while it (hopefully) downloads itself a solid buffer so I can watch the rest without interuption... Yea, right.

Buy new monitors. Problem solved.

Massive bump or what??

LOL at the poll, didn't see that the last time I was here!

PS: I was reading the thread like it was new until I came on a post that I had written in the past... Strange.

It's not quite as easy as that. The website was lost among a few other things, the system has a few major issues and although I agree it was great while it lasted, I may not have the time at this time.

I am back from my epic adventure though!

dogs are more loyal.

though I have a cat because I lived in a place that didn't allow dogs and a cat is better than nothing.

I wrote a review on here somewhere after buying mine back last year, it is very annoying to race without it; even for 1 lap. Hotlapping without it isn't terrible but you can easily loose the sense of immersion that TrackIR gives, nothing compares... Well worth the money, for immersion sake, well worth it.

Head-to-Head: Allstar Cup will be starting at 18:00 or 19:00 utc, and it will run for about 2.5 hours or so.

Is the port open for listening and such? Dumb question but its possible...

Wow... that was a good one:

Quote :

Today, my mom walked in on me looking at a 1978 playboy. She asked if I found it in the basement. I said yes. Then I realized she was the centerfold. FML

OUCH ; / Poor kid.

Driver: Tim Beaudet
LFS Username: blackbird04217
Country: USA
Preferred Number: 42

Quote from LFSn00b :

3 of you? There is people who were active in SR such as me, and few other people im unable to name at the moment.(I only was in the team few months before you left though =/)

I wasn't saying we were the ONLY active members. Wanna list:

Cobra, You, Simah, Blas, and Greg maybe a few more that I can't think of. Don't twist my words please.

Quote from blackbird04217 :

the level of racing activity was minimal, and the three of us: Michael Passingham (Mp3 Astra), Eduardo de Souza (de Souza), and myself Tim Beaudet (blackbird04217) were really the most active of all 20? teammates that we had.

I didn't say only active, but we were more active than most everyone, on the forums trying to help, and on track supporting the team in the 12hr race, holding events etc. I'm not saying anything bad about anyone, and I will leave it that way, but the activity level of the team was far below 40% of the members for longer than I remember. Please don't twist the words to make it seem that way.

Quote from zeugnimod :

So why did they leave?

Quote from Thorvertonian :

You would have to ask them wouldn't you!

We provided them with all the support they wanted, and once they had a working system they all left....
Make of it what you will

Well, others seem to think differently from what I am about to state. But, I agree with Thor's statement that Storm Racing gave more support than anyone could have asked for. They provided us with so many tools for developing things such as the Head-to-Head system, and other big systems that I decided to stop working on. However, after being in the team for 8 months, the level of racing activity was minimal, and the three of us: Michael Passingham (Mp3 Astra), Eduardo de Souza (de Souza), and myself Tim Beaudet (blackbird04217) were really the most active of all 20? teammates that we had. I tried over and over to get the Storm Racing team more active, and we all even became a team admin; highest notch we could achieve. The reason we left was simple; we wanted more from the team. I have nothing to say except great things about Thor and Missing (Paul) who are the founders of Storm Racing, they are great people and have taken care of their team very well. Their goals were different than mine, and different than what I originally thought it was.

This is the first time we've publicly announced why we left because Thor and Missing took it quite hard. I understand bits of why they do, but they should know it was never my intention to "stab them in the back". I wanted to maintain close friendships; especially considering it was Thor's idea for us to break off into our own team. During the days when the three of us were in Storm Racing, SRS was going to something big that I do not want to mention. I poured 4 months of my life into that project, and then spawned the idea of Dash-for-Cash, which in turn spawned the idea of Head-to-Head. I wanted to keep running Head-to-Head under Storm Racing's name, considering they made it possible; without them, there wouldn't be Head-to-Head, or anything. I'm not sorry for leaving Storm Racing, although I am sorry things went the way they did when I had left.

As Thor said, "Make of it what you will", I can only say that the above statement is 100% true, and my intention of leaving was simply because the team wasn't what I wanted it to be. Not saying it was bad, I hold a lot of great memories with a lot of the guys I called team mates, and wouldn't trade it for anything.

I hope I'll be there!!

Quote from e2mustang :

every video from you is full with crashes,why? nice quality tho.

Because its two wheel incidents, rollovers, and slipups that show how intense the pressure is while driving in a Head-to-Head race. It's hard to describe, but it is such a rush, and for the most part Nolan did a great job capturing that rush...


About the 1st most controversial incident, idk if that would be Taha's, I would almost go the FZR 'block' maneuver at blackwood and upon review it was because the following driver did not pull out soon enough to pass, although the leading driver was behaving strangely with a subtle wiggle to the car... There are a few more that are up there for me but I think that is the top.

I don't wanna let de Souza's secret out, but he likes to cry over such fuzzy, touching statements :P

Quote from NightShift :

Misshifts are impossible, so it should either include the random chance of misshifts or the shifts should be tuned to be slower

Mis-shifts are very possible, I happen to do it occasionally and it sucks when it happens. Buy an H-gate shifter and you can get that level of realism. As far as mis-shifting on a sequential, why does that need to be simulated?

Quote from PLAYLIFE :

I doubt it.

It seems to me the devs have lost an active interest in developing the game. I mean compare what kind of development went on 1.5 years ago and what has happened during the last 1.5 years.

I too have lost active interest as a result. Haven't played the game for at least a year.

This is truly a sad thing to say, you've lost interest because the developers haven't released a certain number of patches or improvements??? And stating the developers have lost interest is plain crazy, there is only one programmer, it takes a lot to ACCURATELY develop the systems that are in LFS. Any body could go hack together something that resembles driving, but they won't get close to realistic. Give them time when they need it, and people should show support and give the developers reasons to continue rather than nagging about how long it is between patches and how little gets done, a lot goes on behind the scenes - they just need support.

Quote from Mackie The Staggie :

That explains why it took me an hour to shave this morning actually.

Maybe shaving more often would make the once a year shave a bit quicker?

Quote from geeman1 :

Might be, but alt+tabbing causes games to crash and have all kinds of weird bugs and there is not much you can do programming wise because alt+tab goes out of the game by force (It doesn't let the game know that the user is switching to another program).
So sure you can use alt+tab if you want, but be prepared that it can cause games to crash/get stuck/have weird glitches.

Alt-Tab lets you know that your game doesn't have focus, and when it regains it. It just depends if the game handles it or not. Most don't care to, most games feel that if the user is playing their game that is all the user should be concerned about, also the same way most games feel about IMs or any other program running in the background. However, developers just need to handle a few messages, (at least in Windows programming) to support this. I actually thought LFS did this well, but I generally use Shift-F4 to be honest. As far as full-screen alt-tabbing, that might be an issue doing FULL SCREEN to non-full screen and back, but I can't be 100% sure about those issues involved with the alt-tab. As far as LFS Alt-tabbing goes it works here, although I am not on the test patch.

A hint when streaming from google video, deal with a big border around the video at 2 times size max! Full screening the video to the full black box is plain horrid.

Yes there were lots of penalties in this round, and some of the penalties took a long time to investigate as well, it wasn't about being cruel it was about the rules that were broken.

Please make the warning bigger, brighter, and include the fact you should not be drinking any liquids while looking!

New Member arrives to the team: Mackie the Staggie

Welcome and enjoy!

Is the event over or is it still going? I hoped on the server for a moment and noticed it was the event so left as to not disturb any one.

The developers won't respond here unless they actually see whats going on. And if you told them you were sick of it and to delete your account then the only did what you asked of them...

I would have changed your e-mail password then changed game password, did it ever occur that when you change your password you get an e-mail notification of this? Its quite possible the guy found it through there and just kept upto date... I'd always delete password info that gets into my mail box just in case.