even if you wanted to have your 'test patch beta team special forum', would there be a reason not to release them to all paying customers?

While I find the business about 'protecting the devs' a little amusing, I think one of the 'problems' that occured with that thread was that it was quite plain that requests and ideas were being implemented, some relevant ones were being taken into account, and it's one of the very few times I've seen that sort of instant response to suggestions. Seems fairly inevitable that on a big forum you're going to get people noticing this and sticking their own requests in. Not suggesting it's good, just that it's going to happen...

When pitting normally, your car is held in place, you can flatten the throttle all you want and your stop continues properly. When doing a stop and go penalty, you have to hold it there yourself. This is not at all intuitive and pretty damn annoying when you only find out in the middle of a league race

I don't mind which way it is changed, I would just hope it is made consistent. Preferably have to hold yourself there during normal pitstop too.

Quote from Scawen :

Blowtus, don't push me. I've worked my butt off these last 10 days and I am requesting for the requests to stop, and for people to read the thread before posting, so as not to irritate me with repeated requests. I only need to be told something once. Is that so unreasonable?

sorry mate, I may have been misinterpreted...? I had no issue with telling folk to read the posts Just pointing out that although you said you didn't want requests, realistic and relevant ones seemed to be seeing a pretty good hit ratio...

Quote from NetDemon01 :

Come on people...this thread is getting very annoying with all the requests. I don't see how Scawen hasn't completely flipped out already. Give the guy a break!!

it'd be nice to adhere to that, but well placed requests in these threads seem to be doing far better than requests in seperate threads

Quote from dontsimon :

Here.

heh, I see now. my original post lacked clarity. I'm talking the 'virtual wheel display' thing - visible with virtual clocks on. little slider in the centre lower screen that shows how much wheel movement is happening. Can't turn it off while using a virtual tacho.

must be stupid, still can't find it... :|

one option I'd like to see related to the views, is the ability to turn off the virtual wheel display thing, in custom views. fairly pointless having it when I've got a wheel in front of me

the collision system is one of the most disappointing aspects of LFS for me, at the moment. problems with tyre physics etc, while very important, can be written off in the mind quite easily. your car launching to the moon from a slight tap, not so easy...

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here's a few race sets while we're at it. Most should either be capable of wr pace or go very close to it.

I hope it doesn't, or at least they give us an adjustable rev limiter. Don't know of any production car that would have the limiter set past the point where damage occurs in a hurry...

Or at least, they're going to find out eh?

when did this get changed, out of interest?? anyone remember? I sure don't

Ok. Reading that I'm not sure why I asked, very similar to what I do, lol! When I first started playing with sets I had to do a little more practical experimentation, ie start with a baseline guess and see how it felt.

As far as the bit about maximising grip goes, I have found a number of situations where adjusting camber on the rear for a smooth loss of traction rather than a grippy bite makes for faster times, for my driving style.

how do you start from scratch though? What settings do you start with, and what is the reasoning behind starting with those settings?
By 'tweaking' I meant 'change everything until it drives like you want', not just fiddle tyre pressure or something

cool
not something I feel at all strongly about. Hadn't envisaged anyone still trying to drive effectively in the middle of a message, I'll have to try it

Same way it is on the option screen. Would make those hurried words up the blackwood straight that little bit less dangerous

I have no doubt that lfb has the potential to be better. But I don't like the feel of it, prefer to drive as I do irl. Every time I try to learn I stab the brake every gearchange
I crank the idle right up (via dxtweak2) for the fwd's to overcome the deficit, and can still manage wr pace in them...

probably better off tweaking a known 'good' set, I'd suggest.

I doubt the devs are that keen to have every wild idea around emailed at them... reckon they'd do boats if they wanted to do boats
better to excel at one thing than be mediocre at everything, for a game anyway.

you were very slow through the chicane, uphill sweeper, fast sweeper after the wall, and then the final section of corners was all pretty scrappy. Check out some hotlaps from www.lfsworld.com to see where your lines are wrong and compare entry and exit speeds.

Quote from Shinanigans :

My RX7 comes onto boost fairly quickly with the stock turbo, even though i think they're quite large for a stock unit (Hitachi HT-18S). I would be well into the full 10 pounds of boost by the time 2500rpm came along. I haven't even noticed the speed increase of boost from 0-2500rpm though.

you 100% sure on that? when mine was stock it would reach peak boost psi of 6 by about 3000rpm, to reach 10 it takes until about 4000rpm...

hold the throttle flat just before the green light appears. The xrr took a bit of skill to launch well until patch u, now I thought it was very easy.

I love reverse grids, but I don't think they are good if it's a very short race. so long as it's over 10-15 minutes I think it's probably fine.