yes it is possible... set your control to joystick/wheel and then when assigning axes you can choose mouse...

Quote from sinbad :

Well I've said it before, but I'll say it again. I think balancing cars that are fundamentally different for ALL circuits is impossible, and balancing them so it evens out across all circuits is as much down to changing circuits as it is to changing cars.....

I don't say make them exactly equal, this is virtually impossible, but now there is not a single track (oval doesn't count) where the rwd IS faster... it's all fwd ownage and that is just not right...

Quote from spankmeyer :

Did you know the FXO has the widest tyres of the turbo class? Wider tyres = more grip = faster times. Or the FZR being only GTR car without handicap-o-bonus aka turbo. I'm really puzzled why there are such differences within car classes when logic says those kind of features cause nothing but unbalance.

yup I noticed the wider tyres on the FXO (front and rear same, while the GTT has only the rear tyres that wide), but when playing around with mecanik I found out that is seems that tyre width does not effect grip so much as I think it should (although I might be wrong...)

Quote from Ball Bearing Turbo :

What S2 tire patch was that??

if i recall correctly about a month after the first S2 demo was released... i think it had to do something with temperatures on gravel and also some tweak for tarmac...

Quote from Rappa Z :

What's next? Kids???

the jumping smileys represent kids , i could not find any appropriate smiley...

Quote from Madman_CZ :

a story huh?

:bananadea :ambulance :tombstone

or a happy ending >
:ambulance :doctor: :nurse: :lovies3d: :couple: => :huepfenic

Quote from Gabkicks :

the next patch is supposed to take care of alot of suspension/tire issues.

the s1 > s2 physics upgrade should have done it, the s2 tyre patch should have done it and yet no results, so i'm a bit sceptical...

Quote from _rod_ :

Lets hope with this new patch the RWD will be better to drive with.

well i have hoped for over 2 years now...

Quote from WGooden :

I wouldn't mind some organized races with only the gt or gtt, since you never see them online and they are actually fun to drive.

yup they are, but only a minority of drivers likes them and the rest has no need to even try them since they are slower... and why don't you see them online? because most people (in demo) dont bother bother driving the GT (GTT in demo is another story, since its the only faster car, but on licensed servers where the TBO class is allowed, its almost always FXO), why should they when the gti is faster... i organise races for those without license and they just ignored the GT, maybe drove a few laps but had no motivation to learn it properly...

Quote from MadCatX :

In FXO you can simply floor the throtte at the Blackwood chicane, in XRT you have to do a liftoff on the exit.

You dont have to, but you have to get your line spot on!

Quote from Ball Bearing Turbo :

Maybe the updated physics will affect this? :

Well I hoped for this 2 years ago (see RSC link in my 1st post) and it did not happen... exactly the opposite happend... in S1 the GT was faster than the GTi

I pray for removing the FWD ownage of the RWD cars...

This has been there since the days of S1 (FXO vs GTT)... Isn't it time to reward the drivers that take the harder car to drive (rwd) with better times? In S1 times everybody said wait till S2 when new suspension model comes, after the first S2 demo, I hoped that a better tyre model that will make them more equal... This has not happened, on the contrary GTi was given more HP bringing the unequality to the lower class too. You don't see a single GT on the track in demo and now on all tracks except the oval a fwd car is faster than rwd and in my opinion this is just wrong... There is no possibility to make a league with a choosing a car from a class. Everybody just takes GTi or FXO if they are given the choice and I would love to make a league where different cars appear. Is the driver not that experienced he takes the FXO and he doesen't have to worry much about keeping his car on the track, while at the same time the one who has the balls takes the GTT, wrestles with it and is rewarded by better times...
What do you think? I'm I right or completely out?

EDIT> Almost the same thread back on RSC... over 2 years old...

Last edited by Chaos, Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:55.

well in all racing, the track is defined by white lines on both sides, even curbs are not part of the track and their purpose is to tell the driver he overdone the corner... but as someone in f1 said, every race driver will cut the track unless there is a trench with spears...

no probs with nvidia fx5600, 128mb, detonator 66.93

the FIA GT Champ cars also have pitlimiters

The thread with the suggestion > LINK
the only thing you can do, is mail everybody, so that they send you the skins via email...

Last edited by Chaos, Wed, 22 Mar 2006 08:32.

Quote from MagicFr :

Also i'd like an option to disable steering wheel display ! I already see my own logiteck steering wheel and my hands, i dt need virtual ones

I know this can be done! It's somewhere option/view or thereabouts... You can turn off hands and wheel separately... The button reads something like this "Driver ON, Wheel ON".. I have both on off... so the only wheel I see is the one in my hands

if you buy S2, then when S3 comes, you can still download and play S3, use the latest LFS engine, but only access the S2 cars&tracks... if you would want to upgrade to S3 cars&tracks, it will cost you another 12 pounds...

1) yup, credits are gone
2) the voucher is a one time use only, it upgrades your account on lfs.net... after you have used it, it's useless...

yup... close everything except LFS... do not join a server... open the command line and type "netstat -n" this will show you all connections from your machine... now connect to a server, repeat, and viola the IP that wasn't there before is the IP of the server...

Vain> if LFS you try to connect even via direct IP and there is an active internet connection, LFS checks master server... so: no go for crackers... without an account on the masterserver you can't connect...

Quote from Vain :

It's mainly raising te polygon-count in the high-duty areas and changing the alternation of some polys when someone drives over them. It's a lot of brainwork to be put into it, but the CPUs are definitely up to the work. Performance decrease in fps: 0(,0002)

Vain

nope, i will argue on this... you have to matematically find out how much and which poly has to be altered and the increased poly count will do a hit on fps on its own... the physics of changable envrionment has not been seen in many games yet (red faction if i recall correctly), this is why the Ageia Physics processor has been developed...

yup good idea (real live changes) i think it would not be hard to implement, but imo we don't have the computing power to cope with this yet...

Quote from 180sx :

so you have to press ready to join the grid.
if you dont ready it up and the admin get sick of waiting if he goes ahead will the non ready ppl not be in grid ??

well there are two buttons to press... the join race button, which is in the upper left section of the screen (where you add AI in singleplayer) and then the green GO/ready button in the lower right corner... what i suggested is that the admin would "click the join race button for the player" ...

so if the player doesnt click the join button and the admin would get sick of waiting, then yes, the person would not be in the grid...

ok, there is a possibility for the person to get to the place he shoud be even if he joins last (clicks join and then always clicks on the person above him and swaps position), but some people just don't get this... it's even common that people click the ready button instead of joining the grid, so wanting this kind of "advanced" clicking is just too much for them to handle...

Last edited by Chaos, Fri, 10 Mar 2006 07:28.

in the czech community we also have a professional racer who plays LFS... Jardier aka Jaroslav Honzik Jr. and he is pretty green too :alien2: