Can of worms, yes, if people expect it to be feasible (i.e. customize handicaps to make all three cars even over a certain set of tracks, race lengths etc) without any effort. But we would find a few effective rules of thumbs soon enough, I think.
The settings wouldn't vary that much.. I don't think any car would be wearing much more than the FZR is now, and the FZR as is can easily cope with (sometimes the positionabe ballast is actually helpful) the extra weight.
At best it would mean public servers where no one car is overly advantaged/disadvantaged, at worst those servers with unplayable handicaps would get no traffic at all. There's plenty of those already.

In any case we are already much better off than we used to be. The biggest criticism I would make is that the turbos are still not great.

The LRF class would next best benefit from handicaps. It would be a shame to see the LX6 lose power, though. An updated (e.g. 2006) RAC and slightly modified (lighter/stronger?) FZ would be preferable. [/ot]

Last edited by Breizh, Fri 20 Jul 2007, 13:46.

Fuji would be like a more boring Westhill.

I would make it serverside too. Public servers not following any particular scheme would use the present overall handicap settings, but league admins could change them to fit the particular track(s) and race length(s) and/or pitstop rules their league runs.

Quote from srdsprinter :

If our GTR class is to expand, then RAC GTR is the logical choice.

Which would be awesome except for it using yet another inline-four.

No downforce on those would be great.

In the mean time you can go to the track selection screen and see the track configurations in their numerical order there, or by pressing F8 while on track and online.

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A tire engineer with the really serious FEM stuff they're using these days could probably answer that.

Surely someone can bend one's ear to get him to give Scawen some useful info?

If cone collisions are client-side, then ping doesn't matter and there should be nothing odd about the cones' behavior... I would wager the server's extrapolation, if collisions were server-side, would make for a lot more mistaken collisions.

Why aren't the cones collisions managed client-side?

Probably an oversight.

Forced cockpit shouldn't be forced in replays.

They know their days of arcade gameyness are counted

The last one was locked, as well as the last version of bespoke. I'm not sure about the versions before that.

Quote from Gunn :

- To promote the use of the LX cars so that more people might consider spending some time behind the wheel of one

Does anyone have the LXs' usage stats from June? LX Month ought to make for interesting stats.
Then again the stats are pretty stacked already..

Gianni, you should argue with those server admins or league organizers, not with Scawen..

There's a fuel gauge on the dashboard, and the F12 readout.. way more useful than some light. A low fuel light would only be interesting if it would light up at a custom fuel amount.. and even then you have all the info you need in the F12 HUD: fuel/lap consumption and fuel remaining. You don't even have to do any unit conversion operations.

Here's a blog that keeps track of developments for anyone who doesn't want to spend more time than one glance at an RSS feed.
http://freeenergytracker.blogspot.com/

There could be either a check that the custom view is within realistic boundaries, or an additional custom view restricted to such boundaries and allowed under the new forced cockpit rule.

Not General LFS Discussion material anymore.

South City long reverse, Classic reverse, KY GP long, Fern Bay gold reverse, black, and Aston National because I could drive it at 10/10ths.

No need to force it for spectators.

It's either F10 or F9, you can't display both.

Great fun
Official events like this should happen more often.

Quote from Joris :

I once noticed a facist running a "hitler" skin with swasticas and a portraid of the bastart on his fox. (skin name FOX_POOPOO)

Sounds like the same guy I've run into before.