Quote from Bean0 :

Is that by winning on a full server, setting server records each time ?

has to be... i won 4 races yesterday with about 12 people on the server, 3 with fastest lap, one with 2nd best and i'm about half way to bronze...

Quote from BBO@BSR :

Anyway I still don't really understand your arguments.
Everyone (or the really fast guys) has to do the same "boring" things.
It takes some time, true but no one (fast or not) should get a special treatment nor should the system be changed for him.

So you got the self esteem to write here you are so fast bla bla evrytime 1st place etc.
Instead of complaining about the lack of motivation it gives you,
why not surprise everyone (the others) by doing the stages as fast as possible (boring or not).

The faster you are the less time you need for the "boring status stages" and you'll be quicker in Silver, Gold etc status.
Then you meet the other fast guys ealier and you got "not so boring" races anymore.
;-)

time... i'm full-time employed, study a university, starting my own enterprise and i'm organising the 1. Czech LFS League... that is the main reason... i have very little time for actual racing in LFS and i don't want to waste it with boring races with cars i don't want to drive... and there are people racing cars I want to drive, but i can't join them... and as i understand the main reason for the licensing system is to prove that the driver is good and to keep unexperienced drivers off the "better" servers... and why could not someone get special treatment? you see that in your life on almost every step...

Last edited by Chaos, Tue 30 Jan 2007, 14:37.

well since the system changed than i'll get over the XFG... i was "complaining" because the sight of racing the FXO was "scaring" me (fwd - power on bad wheels )...

BBO> i didn't say i did not have time to race, what i said is that i don't want to waste the little time i have for LFS with some boring races just to be able to drive the XRT in distant future...

Al> yea, there are many, but how many are populated by +10 people?

but now that there is the possibility to drive the XRT with silver license, i'm ok with that, because i'll get my hands on a rwd car with the bronze license...

oh, i downloaded the "starter pack" and it said i need gold... if silver is enough for the XRT, then i just might give it a go...

which is what i would love to do, but don't have the time for it... so thank you for frustrating me seeing the TBO server but not being able to race there...:ashamed:

hmm, nice suggestions, but there is one flaw... i really don't want to waste my racing time with x hrs of boring races just to get the golden license to drive the XRT... the maximum time i have for LFS in one week is about 6 hours... and as i participate in two leagues that leaves about 1 to 2 hours free, now count in some practice for the leagues and... i'm glad if i could get 45min for STCC... the only thing is that i want to drive the XRT, because i love this car... now to get there i have to get through to golden license, which in my case would take a month, maybe two... they say STCC is for professional racers, i consider myself pro (ask anyone who raced against me and see my lfsw stats, finished races and how many i finished on top 3 places), but i really don't want to waste my precious LFS time on racing boring fwd in front of the pack... what tears my heart apart is that i see a server with the TBO class and I can't race there

i don't know, but i guess that getting at least the golden license (for the XRT) takes a lot of races...

Pls guys do something about this... If a fast racer with little free time for LFS gets into STCC there is no motivation for him... I tried today... Got on STCC1a server, finished 2nd on the first race (this was a nice race btw, enjoyed it ) but from there on it was just boring... for fast guys like me, it's no problem after a few "learning" laps to do laps almost 1s faster than the rest of the field (meeting someone equally fast is just a big luck)... So when I want to have nice races, i would have to start from the end of the field, because hotlapping from 1st on the grid to the finish is no fun... and how else should i get points to advance to better licenses than by driving fast / winning? With just a few hours of LFS per week, this would be a very long boring run

I'm all for any new config, not to mention track. At Aston I would like a layout on which you come to the AS Club fast chicane even faster, so that you would have to brake (at AS Club, you don't have to brake in any car) before the fast chicane...

For me the first time in years, the sound went off in LFS. Shift+w didn't help, only reconnecting did... It was in a league race (see replay, bug is still there), time about 2:07 (you have to be at 1x time), the weird thing is, that it killed the sound engine at almost everybody (only about 4 people continued without problems)... weird thing is, that if you fastforward past this moment, the sound engine is fine... i guess the cause of this was eraser's car going weird...

Last edited by Chaos, Sat 27 Jan 2007, 13:45.

you're welcome dodo glad i could contribute to smooth organisation

i'm looking forward to race with you guys! Da Hoe, Jos, Lococost - last time we met on the track was in S1 days!

Last edited by Chaos, Sat 27 Jan 2007, 10:56.

Quote from dodo.ger :

only 16 cars on sprint tracks? never noticed that...
are you really sure about that chaos? you havent been on s1 server maybe??

then ill only take 16 signups for now.

yea, i'm sure, i organize the 1.Czech LFS League and nearly had a problem with this...

a note to dodo> SC Sprint tracks can only have 16 cars on the grid...
sorted my schedule -> sign me IN

Quote from Da Hoe :

sounds awesome . hope that i can make it to at least one of those days.

dtto

i really do not consider THIS race line through the 1st chicane as HLVC... do you?

what about putting the left/right pointing track marschall (the ones that are in the AX editor) in front of the box ?

edit> beaten by Keiichi

nice idea will the logos etc be embroided or printed only? embroided lasts longer and looks better

Quote from Turbo Dad :

press Escape then click on Replay, it auto names as i said above

If you press 2 for manual record it asks you for name

not in multiplayer, there's no replay button...

just an idea that i stumbled upon when falling asleep yesterday regarding the automatic update thingy> what if someone does not want to download test patches in the future (not me, i always have the latest one )? i thought that there could be an yes/no option in the menu, that would only download "letter-only" patches not the numbered ones...

edit> did not read the newest posts... mentioned already...

Last edited by Chaos, Fri 22 Dec 2006, 14:08.

Quote from KiDCoDEa :

that's on purpose. that's how it should be in current system. custom cam is used for driving positions where even if on hood or roof (for whatever reason of preference), your "spirit" is in the driving. for now that won't change (as far as my opinion counts on that).

but for making movies (camera on the door, showing the front wheel) this is not good...

Quote from AndroidXP :

These are (semi-)sawtooth curbs. LFS does NOT have such curbs! Ours are more zig-zagging like /\/\, not /|_/|_ (just a lot flatter).

I know these are NOT in LFS, I thought that's what I said with "half and mirrored"...

Quote from Chaos :

good work with the patches Scawen!
one thing tho: i noticed that there is now a "curb" sound when you drive over them with loaded wheels (lx4 at least), but they are way too quiet...

see this vid, at 1.30 i go over vallelunga type curbs (couldn't find a better pic, can make one tomorrow, but seems to me that almost every curb in LFS is of this type (maybe not that 'sharp')) with the loaded wheels and the sound is very loud (sorry for the crappy quality, but is was taken with a camera in a mobile phone and that the A/C was on full because the car was standing in the sun the whole afternoon on a hot summer day, but for the example how loud the curb sound shoud be I think it's enough, louder than the skid sound from the tyres...)

so i made a better photo of the curbs... i imagine that in LFS the curbs are like this, but only a half of these, mirrored, so that its possible to drive over them in both directions...

good work with the patches Scawen!
one thing tho: i noticed that there is now a "curb" sound when you drive over them with loaded wheels (lx4 at least), but they are way too quiet...

see this vid, at 1.30 i go over vallelunga type curbs (couldn't find a better pic, can make one tomorrow, but seems to me that almost every curb in LFS is of this type (maybe not that 'sharp')) with the loaded wheels and the sound is very loud (sorry for the crappy quality, but is was taken with a camera in a mobile phone and that the A/C was on full because the car was standing in the sun the whole afternoon on a hot summer day, but for the example how loud the curb sound shoud be I think it's enough, louder than the skid sound from the tyres...)

Last edited by Chaos, Tue 19 Dec 2006, 23:01.

please how to unban somebody on a demo server if I don't have acces to the bans file? /unban nick or /unban IPaddress does not work...

could it be possible to implement a command for removing all bans from a server?

p.s. dunno if the thread would not be more suited to the Bugs or Improvement suggestions subforums... If the mods feel like moving it anywhere, please do so...

Quote from BEEAH :

LFS Ever Advertise?

I would say "yes", but it does not come from the developers, but from the community. You don't need a true advertisement that you have to pay for. A review in gaming and tuning magazines is much better. In the czech community we had LFS reviews in 2 of 3 gaming magazines, a shorter version in a few online magazines and in december a article in Tuning Magazine and a magazine for men is coming out. Except one, everything came from the community. You only have to tell them you have a great thing for them to write about.

Another way of advertisement is to tell everyone you know about the sim, put stickers where applicable. It did not take much talking and we managed to get LFS into real racing > photo The only costs for getting LFS there were to print out the logo.

So LFS does Advertise, but it's everybody, who has to put his hands into it!