Quote from FL!P :

Of course it's a dictatorship. If someone you invited at a party took a dump behind your couch, would you kick him out, or would you organize a poll?

In a comparable situation. Like.. for example, to keep with your party;
If I invite someone for a party and someone says: "This party sucks" or something in that direction I don't really find that a reason to throw him out. Maybe to give him more beer...

Quote from Becky Rose :

@Darkone55, if you did all this on SS1 where I believe you are a NatB licence holder then each block would represent 100 points, my guess is you probably scored under 100pts today.

Ok, thanks for the reply. I guess I'll have to be more patient then.. BTW, please take a look at the PM.

Quote from Becky Rose :

Each green bar represents a number of points, not just one, and as you go up licences it represents more points. It will move.

Yea, I know but, I've done over 10 races today on your server (about 7 or 8 wins, fastest laps/ maybe podiums) and it didn't increase even 1 block. So I must have earned about more then 100 points..

Quote from The Moose :

I would suggest you can have criticism when it's backed up with a reasonable argument.

That was just trolling.

About that picture I said it's a statement. For the arguments just search in the CTRA launch thread.

To be honest people, this really reminds me of some kind of dictatorship. I don't use bad language, my racing is good and fair. It's not even against the rules.

Ah well, I think we've had a discussion like this before.

But I would just like an answer to my question.

Quote from do0f :

I don't see why we HAVE to take every piece of crap that gets thrown at us. You use our system or you don't use our system, but frankly I feel almost violated when you use our own system to take a dump on us. If you think that's okay, then you don't belong on our system because I don't want you there. And that's the only reason needed.

I appologized, I would have deleted it. It's gone, ok?

Quote from SamH :

I just checked your licence. I'm really not impressed. I don't put my time into the CTRA for you to abuse it like this. You've got until midnight, MY time, to sort it out. After that, if you haven't sorted yourself out then I'm removing your access to our system. I'm disgusted.

Oh, well, I'm sorry for that. Must have done that when I wasn't really happy about the system.

But appearantly you can't have any critisism. It's just a statement. And I would have removed it if I got the chance..

But that wasn't really my question.

So, I tried the CTRA server again. But I think something's not right. Today I won 6 races after eachother at the SS1 server, on South City Town. Most of them I had the fastest lap, and I even drove a pb. But...

When I checked my license, it stayed the same. It said I received points at the result list, but the green bar didn't grow.

How is this possible? And how can I solve it and receive the points?

After I saw JakG's helmet I thought, hey I can do that too! So I made a new version of my helmet. 2048 instead of 1024 pix this time..

Here are some high quality pictures. Beware! They're pretty big!

http://lfs.cyxian.nl/darkone000.png
http://lfs.cyxian.nl/darkone001.png
http://lfs.cyxian.nl/darkone002.png
http://lfs.cyxian.nl/darkone003.png

Maybe I'll release the skin template (visor and stuff) once, if there's animo for it.

New version of my personal helmet. I'm not uploading the skin, but here's a picture of it.

Quote from rjm1982 :

Yeah, probably has nothing to do with getting knocked into the sandpit by someone else in T1, getting wrecked by somone else in general to the point of needed to telepit, then when you rejoin your back on lap 1.

Oh, that and new people pick the game up every day. I doubt you were running with the leaders in your first 50 races...

Sorry, I don't think you meant to...but your post sounded very, very elitist...

My first 50 races were probably offline.

Quote from mikey_G :

I dunno if "uitmelken" can be translated, but the closest would be "overdoing it"/ "extracting to much from a single product".
However, I have to disagree. ky2r, as3r, bl1r are way better then their overdriven (thus dull) counterparts.

Well, thing is, all the tracks feel like they are designed to go one direction. It's like the devs only made reversed options to have "more tracks", but this isn't really true.

That the original tracks are driven so much doesn't make them dull..

Ah well, my conclusion: please stick with the original tracks, they're great already.

Quote from N I K I :

Please don't burn me but i'd like to see rev track too. For example Kyoto National Rev is much much better then Kyoto National, or some of Aston configurations....

No please! No reversed configs, please! Never! Oh, I hate all rev. In Dutch it's called "uitmelken", don't know the word for it in english. But I'm against all rev configs! :P

Quote from Biohazard :

join mid-race?

We'll, there are always people who manage to get a lap behind even when they didn't join mid race.

Hmm.. I haven't binded a blue flag message. But sometimes, very rarely I'm on a really fast pb lap and a backmarkers appears (no that's not rare at all, but the next part of the sentence is), I quickly type something like "pleeeeaase, blue flag". With a smile behind it or so, and then I hope the backmarkers will let me through.

To be honest, how can you manage to get 1 lap behind in a 5-10 lap race anyway? Sorry but then you're just a very bad driver.

Quote from Crazy Harry :

FO8, looks great drives great, not that much technical bs like the BF1. BF1 cuts the fun on the oval for me because everyone can manage to drive fast with the BF1.

Hmm.. Driving the BF1 on the edge is a different thing then just driving it.. If it's so easy, why do I see so many people crashing it? Even on straights. TBH, I find it one of the hardest cars to drive on the edge. A small error has huge consequences, which makes it so hard.

I like the FO8 most, and I learned to appreciate the FZR with his behaviour too. And the BF1 is also great to drive, such a rush!

Mostly I don't have any problems with backmarkers, but there are some people who can't seem to think. For example, if get behind someone on Aston National, on the last hairpin, the backmarkers usually wait untill the straight before they pass me. I can't stand that. In 9 of 10 cases the backmarkers does something stupid in the chicane, for example crashing in the tyres. Just because he's under pressure. So please, let people pass before the chicane..

And of course when you join in mid race you should go off the line and brake if needed, for the race leaders. You got absolutely no rights when you join midrace, imo.

Well, I'm still thinking about the league with Josh. But for now I think we'll just have to say that I stop the league from now.

The things we're still thinking about are the day and time. I think it's smart to pick some dates very carefully in the future. So I'm really sorry for this, but 7 people just isn't gonna work.

Luckily I (and Josh too) learned a lot from this, and maybe we can do something with it in the future.

Quote from Lightsaver :

I like to use this addon!

But one thing is annoying me. The reflection on the speedometer and rpm are just too much. I cant see my speed at some points.

Any idea how i can change it?

Reading the readme might help.

Quote :

If you think the reflection maps are too light (too much reflecting),
go to the cfg.txt in your main Live For Speed folder and search for "Car Shine 1.00". Change 1.00 to a lower
value for less reflection. 0.00 is no reflection.

Yea. You are right. I informed all drivers that may be interested, but appearantly not many are interested. I'm affraid I'll have to stop the league if there are 10 or less drivers. It's just not enough.. Sorry.

I'll give a final decision tomorrow.

Quote from Bandit77 :

but still you wouldn't know if the setup or the driver had won. that's only possible with the same setup. I thought about forced setups too, but that's a bit like "I have a nice setup here, and I hope it doesn't suit any of the other drivers."

Well, a lot of fast drivers just send they're sets if you ask them nicely. Then you can always edit it to suit you're own driving style. At least the base is good then.

LOL. That race mission was easy man! 1.21.6 was my best (I installed Mafia again earlier this week). Just pass everybody in T1 and finish the race. I passed about 10 backmarkers.. :P

Sorry, I went on a bit too long yesterday. Maybe I'v gone too far, and maybe I'll try CTRA again one day.

Quote from Becky Rose :

I did receive a long tirade from you yes, a list of moans and complaints about how unlucky you are, I got bored reading fairly early on went back to working on one of my LFS projects, which I think at the time was X-System.

Well, it's supposed to be as just critics, and you might learn from it. Maybe it's good to have some user input.

Where can I delete my CTRA profile?

Nice movie, not bad. I really like the colors/effects over it!
But it are all only onboard shots, making it a bit boring to watch. Also, a moving cam on an onboard tv-shot isn't good. :P

Quote from Jakg :

"bugs"? It's intentional iirc, as you could be great in an XFG but terrible in an XRG

Quote from Darkone55 :

... So I switched back to XFG and what do you think? Time still gone. ...

Anyway, I've sent a PM to Becky and Sam, if you want I can send it to you too. It's a long list of a part of my bad experience on the CTRA servers. All about the system itself. Hence the "s" in bugs.

Ok, that was the last drop.. The track switched to Blackwood reversed (why always reversed!?). Because I was still driving the XFG I just finished the race. Then I wanted to take the XRG.. I typed $grid and hey.. time erased. So I switched back to XFG and what do you think? Time still gone.. great, had to start at the back again, noobs all over end of race.

End of my CTRA story.

I won't return on any CTRA server untill you sorted all these kind of bugs out. You probably don't care, but it's a shame for LFS.

Quote from teaz-R :

Same rules for all the people. That's just the way I like it.
Don't you like racing?

I don't like the road cars, but I'd like to drive the GTR's on another track then Aston National..