I find it's a lot easier to control the mouse with shifting up and down set to the mousewheel and throttle/brake on the keyboard. Putting the gas on a mouse button means you're going to be pushing down on it most of the time. This creates friction with your desk/mousepad, so you have to use more force to move the mouse when you steer. That results in slightly jerkier movements giving you less fine control. With the gearshift on the scrollwheel instead of the buttons you never have to put downward pressure on the mouse, allowing you to glide it around effortlessly. It also makes gearshifts slightly faster.

Right now the standard practice for leagues is to have a private server and give out the password by email or in a private forum. Wouldn't it be easier if you could enter some LFS accounts into a whitelist file and set your server to only allow those to connect? LFS usernames have to be verified by the master server to connect so it's already secure, plus there's no risk of leaked passwords. It would save a lot of the effort in playing email tag to distribute or announce passwords, especially in some leagues where they're announced or sent at the last minute to minimize leaks.

With the success, I hope it encourages more leagues to open North American divisions.

What kind of dates or times are these races going to be held in?

Quote from XCNuse :

ya i suggested this a long time ago back in RSC where it got a +1 from just about everyone

since then there have been like 50 other people suggesting this

anyways.. we dont even have rain yet, so dont count on it anytime soon

You probably weren't the first either :P.

Yeah, I didn't start this thread for bashing. We don't even know for sure what simulator they use. Might not even be rFactor OR LFS. I'll find out friday, anyhow.

http://revupmontreal.ca/fanZone_bestbuy.html
http://www.bestbuy.ca/marketin ... include/Intel_Event_E.pdf

How did I miss this? Intel's doing another sim tour but in Best Buy stores in Canada. It's probably only the same one as in the BMW pit lane park, but still, you get a full cockpit sim.

I was great to have a populated LRF server for once. On an NA friendly time slot to boot.

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As for the essence of racing, it is not necessarily only the final position.

The essence of racing IS the final position. That's what all the drivers are aiming for in a race, the big cup at the end of the road. One of your examples mentioned Schumacher getting points after crashing out. If one crashed from his own driver error and no fault of equipment or other drivers, why should a driver be awarded any points at all? illepall

Great track guide videos. They remind me of these training movies from WWII Online. http://www.snoopstuff.com/

You should put them up on youtube or google video. Free streaming for all!

I'm starting to resent these "zomg restrict demo for better LFS!" threads. The thinking seems to follow these steps:

1. Restrict demo
   
2. ...
   
3. Profit! (for devs)

Not every longtime demo user fits your stereotype.

I started playing LFS before S1 came out and I didn't buy a license until after S2 was out. Not because I was a cheapskate, nor that I thought the demo was "good enough". I waited because LFS wasn't good enough, not for me, not until a certain time. Has everyone forgotten the S1 setups with their wierd rollbars, super stiff suspensions and hyperinflated tyres? I saw LFS as a sim with a lot of potential but several glaring holes that needed to be filled. If the aero bug had been discovered earlier I would have probably waited even longer until the current patch was out.

If LFS had the restrictions suggested in this thread, such as a time limit or no online(and just where does anyone get off suggesting the latter for a demo of an online racing sim?illepall) I would have probably forgotten LFS long ago and would now be playing (and paying for)rFactor or Netkar Pro. All most of these restrictions would do is kill the online demo scene, leaving new prospective buyers no one with whom to have quick pickup races online, making it nigh impossible to give the software a proper test. Unless one of the majestic S2 users deigns to come down from their lofty mountain and give the poor bastard a race at a set time. How would that be any better of an incentive to purchase a license?

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I would also prefer signing up here.

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At first I had a hard time with the Rotax karts since they only used rear brakes. It would either spin out, or not stop in a straight line. Anybody that has driven one of these knows they are very easy to control, and stop very quickly, even with no front brakes. So I had to make a few adjustments to a few files.
I added front brakes in the file to help with stability under braking. But it doesn't show in the game, and you have no control over any brake bias with the Rotax.

Can you say FUDGE? I'd rather wait until LFS or rFactor implement chassis flex.

Quote from Chris_Kerry :

How about you turn off signatures in your options, works for me.

Then I can't see the ones that are small and informative.illepall

Quote from spsamsp :

I really want this!!! I believe it adds character to your sig and is better than just a load of text

Your sig is already hideously large.:smash3d:

Quote from joen :

No to sigs, they serve no meaningful purpose and are annoying.

I could say the same thing about avatars. IMO they're both unecessary. Avatars are a drain on the server, and sig images while they could be hosted offsite clutter up the forum regardless. Even in this thread there's a lot of one line posts that would take up a significantly larger amount of vertical space if the tables had to be adjusted to fit avatars.

No to both avatars and sigs. All they do is clutter the view and eat resources. The way it is now is very neat and easy to read. Plus I don't want this place becoming as slow as rscnet again.

Please don't allow images in sigs. They're large enough as it is.

Quote from X-Ter :

I'm on it
Been a real busy month so far, and I got more to do than I expected. Will get it fixed though

Great. I hope you can do something about the thumbnailing too. Fake-resizing images via HTML code is a not good practice.

Good race on the NA server, even if I finished out of the points. A suggestion about the SCORE website, you guys should really use proper thumbnails. The way it's set up makes the pages take longer to load and eats more of your bandwidth. There's also a lot of broken images on the about page for fake DTM.

Quote from J.B. :

So the BMW F1 isn't worth a front page cover? Or even a review for that matter. But a VW Lupo Cup mod preview needs 38 pages?

The nKP and dev interview parts weren't too bad though.

I only count 4 pages on that Lupo thing.

Try filtering so only the car you want shows up. Less servers to scroll through so it's easier to find one. Make sure you both have show empty servers enabled.

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http://forum.rscnet.org/showthread.php?t=253498
Confirmed by Scawen, with explanation.

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LFS was Intel's first choice but the rFactor developers were able to agree to some terms of a deal that we were not able to agree to. So Intel USA chose rFactor's full agreement instead of our slightly modified agreement. I don't think I should go into details but I am telling you this much to avoid confusion.

LFS is still used for the Racing Tour by Intel Germany.

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