Quote from Vain :

Going back to the topic of the 2010 F1 season, I'd like to put up a topic for discussion:
What do you folks think about the development of tyre pitstops when you can't refuel?
Since the pitlane is still as long as before but the amount of track time that can be gained by pitting more often diminishes (you can't carry less weight if you two-stop as opposed to one-stopping) I'd hazard the guess that teams will rather be contemplating no-stop versus one-stop strategies than the current one/two(/three)-stop strategies.
Alongside that point, if teams demand tyres that can take 90 minutes of racing, I'd love seeing several tyre manufacturers back in F1. It'd be pretty nice to see some cars/tyres perform better at the start, some better near mid-point and some better at the end.
Also note that from 2010 on tyre warmers will be forbidden. That means stone cold tyres for starts and pitstops (and likely teams that try to move their tyres into the sun before putting them on the car for that extra degree of heat ).

Vain

I can see the shade scandals brewing already - "McLaren has positioned giant umbrellas over the Ferrari pit!" Good point though. I wonder what other "natural" warming devices teams will use. Big guys and spicy food? Where do I apply?

Regarding pit stops, I think the requirement will still be there to run the two compounds, so at least one stop is mandatory.

I take it by "not lifting off the gas", you're leaving it floored and braking when you need to. If so, that's really bad news for me, suffering here in combined throttle/brake axis hell. It sure sounds like fun though for people with proper controllers.

I'll be curious to hear how you guys like the SRF. That car was the most intriguing part of the original announcement to me.

Quote from rexology :

Firstly, thanks for a great game which I use as a practice for WRX Club track days.

I personally would have no objection to paying for new track and car upgrades, as I have paid nothing since joining back in 2006. So I think it's time to dip into the pocket and give some back into developing the game further.

+1

How about the reverse? Can I sell back my RAC? It has very low mileage. Bidding starts at $2...

Quote from Slartibartfast :

PS, and this is not going to go over well, I would expect...

I think Scawen should start charging for cars.

At first I was very surprised when I payed to get the Mazda and tracks to run a series. Then I started to realize that I am OK with paying for something that has a high perceived value. Seriously, I've wasted 60 bucks on a crap meal at an overrated restaurant in the last 30 days alone.

I think Scawen deserves the dough. And, with me not buying the Scirocco, YOU won't have to worry about me taking it out for the odd curiosity spin, and ruining your race.

It's been brought up before, as well as paying for additional tracks. I'd be in favor of it if it meant more high quality content came out faster. But Scavier have said repeatedly that more $ would not speed up the development process. They work at the pace they like and they are not looking to hire anyone else.

I'm a little surprized that the "name and shame" clause hasn't been whipped out in this thread. On the other hand, the subject seems to be playing along, so WTH, I'll add my .02.

He drives a lot like AI1.

There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users, technology and the drug trade.

I don't claim to be a linux expert, but apt-get is an easy way to install applications in Ubuntu and Debian. I'm not sure if qemu is supported, but lots of other things are, like wine, mono, etc.

I lost about 60 lbs. (sorry I'm metricly challenged) over the course of a year and a half. My basic plan was simple - only eat when you're hungry. It sounds obvious, but I found that I was eating for lots of other reasons, like:

- It's free and it's sitting in the breakroom at work.
- I don't want to offend Grandma but not having a second helping.
- I had a rough day, I need a bunch of cookies.
- I'm bored.
- This lasanga/burger/pizza is so good that I want more.
- If I don't eat these leftovers soon, they'll go bad and I'll have to throw them away.

Excersize, and as many have pointed out, leading an active life, are important, but for me the big thing was getting the food intake under control.

So F1 becomes "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" - the points don't matter. Is Clive Anderson hosting?

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Quote from tiagolapa :

Yes, they will shut down to add stuff

I'd like to agree with you, but lots of major updates have happened without taking down the master server. Only the game servers (those run on people's PCs and hosting services like 500 servers) and the clients need to be updated.

I don't see that they've listed exactly what the maintenance is. Chances are its something as exciting as applying apache security patches.

Somewhere I read that the DSi has 4x the RAM of the DS lite. I don't care about the cameras, although my kids might like to play with them. It's the extra RAM that apparently speeds up web browsing that interests me.

I guess my alternative for a mobile wif-fi web browser would be an ipod touch, which is about $60 more, but probably better suited for the job. I'm not sure I'm cool enough to own an ipod though. I'd have to turn in my grumpy old man card. :geezer:

I find myself oddly excited about the DSi. I'm not a big gadget person (this was my last handheld game system, seriously), but I would like something small for web browsing using Wi-fi instead of using cell phone minutes.

I know you can buy Opera for the DS Lite, but apparently it's very slow. This video is all I can find about Opera on the DSi. Apparently the faster hardware helps quite a bit.

I guess the DSi has been out in Japan for a while. Anyone have one yet? It comes out here next month and I just might buy one, especially if there's a good homebrew market.

Quote from SamH :

FYI, Scawen has introduced penumbral shadows in the latest test patches.

Penumbr-what? Oh, maybe you mean the pendulum umbrella? If so, lerts deserves some royalties.

I would love to see NASCAR race on more road courses. Now that there are more "international" drivers (ok, Montoya and Ambrose) you'd think they would be trying to broaden their fan base.

Of course they don't want to alienate their current fan base either. If they were to add road courses they would be over here I'd think. The cost of shipping all the cars overseas wouldn't be something that most teams could handle. As nice as would be to see NASCAR race at Monza, Spa, Silverstone, etc, I really don't see it happening.

There's also the "meeting room" thingie in the server list browser. People who are trying to find a race could go there to figure out which server to join. The few times I've gone in there it's been empty.

Quote from cobra193 :

I have the same problem. I had a DFP for about 2 years and it started doing this a few weeks ago. I tried new drivers and it still happens. I just received brand new DFP and yes, it STILL Happens!!! I have tried the wheel in GTR2, rFactor and N2k3 for a few hours and the pedals are fine, as soon as I go into LFS, the throttle starts cutting again. Usually once or twice per race. I don't think I can go an entire 10 lap race without the throttle cutting at least once.

I don't normally like to blame once piece of software but I don't know what other conclusion you can come to.. It really seems to have something to do with LFS...

Another thing to check is how many USB devices you have hooked to your PC. I had a spiking throttle, plus sometimes my gas or brake would just completely ignore the fact that I stepped on them. One thing I would up doing was unplugging a USB HD tuner while I was racing. I haven't had problems since.

I'm not sure if it's a question of the USB power being split too many ways, or if my PC isn't fast enough to keep up with polling the USB ports for input, or something else, but it works now.

Quote from ACCAkut :

any possibility to add the LX4 to the TBO class? i think LFR would end in a total T1 carnage as the newbies mostly have no experience at all in these cars, but would still join if the server is full.

FWIW, I did some testing a while back and it seemed like LX4 with maximum weight added was pretty close to the TBOs.

I spent some time there too. It was nice to race "in the wild" again. Any thoughts of putting 3% IR on the FXO to balance it with the other cars a bit?

Several years ago my wife and I bought a 4 foot by 8 foot section of lattice at a home improvement store about 1.5 miles from our house. Unfortunately it was too big to fit in our '92 Ford Escort hatchback, so we decide to tie it down to the roof for the short drive home. The store gave us some twine to tie it down with.

To our credit, we managed to tie it down without tying the doors shut. The car had the motorized seatbelts that automatically slide up a track when you start the car. The problem was, the twine was blocking the end of the track for both seatbelts and they are apparently "smart" enough that if they don't make it all the way to the top of the track they would go back a little and try it again.

So now the metal seatbelt clips are gently sawing away at the twine. To add to the fun, if I got over about 15 MPH, the front of the lattice would rise up into the air and try to pull away from the car. It was a low speed race to make it home before the seatbelts cut the twine and the lattice went flying up in the air. We made it home. Barely.

I guess that's more of a OMG, I'm so stupid story.

Quote from Christofire :

Is it over? Yes, and no.

The problem is that the CTRA system as is can't go on. It needs to be changed to reduce the manual workload. This hasn't been done in the past as we've been concerned that it will have a negative effect on the quality of the system and the racing.

There's also the problem of the legacy of the system. I don't want to take any baggage forward. That is something that must be worked out.

I'm going to look into the options and see what we can do. For now the servers will be offline. Even if patching things up were a good option, I'm geographically away and can't do anything right now.

I hope you'll indulge me a little time to work out what can be done.

IMO, scaling back is a great option. Make the system something that's more managable. Honestly I never used most of the features of the system. Stats on facebook, country rankings, racer profiles, licenes pictures, etc are nice add-ons, but I liked CTRA because it was a good place to race.

I made a similar post in the pong forum when I stopped playing that game.

Quote from flonoen :

I wish there where some official servers, one for the TBO-class, one for the fox or fo8, and one for the GTR-class (and perhaps one for fz5, lx6 and rac). With racestart every half hour, ca 20 minutes races, and 10 minutes of qualify in between. And of course some variations in tracks. Maybe a points-system, which could be viewed through lfsworld.

Something like CTRA, without the licensing-system.

I've thought about that in the past. There are so many empty servers out there with interesting combos, but nobody wants to join a server called "running in Bob's basement #5."

If one server was designated as "the official TBO server" people would know where to go. Think back to the load testing that was done before patch X. Scavier put up an official load test server and people flocked to it.

Since you mention it, we have a tiered racing system running that uses TBO as the entry class and LFR as the second tier. The system tracks crashes and races completed for each racer, kicks those who can't keep it on track, and rewards those who race cleanly. The system has been up for months, but it only gets traffic when we have a team night on it.

It's the same old thing, if you run a TBO server in the forest and nobody races on it, does it exist?

I tried this last night and it was actually InvalidKey.wav, but I wouldn't have found it without your help. Thought I'd share that for anyone else too cheap to buy a shifter.

Thanks again.