My point is that we shouldn't waste that much.

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What does nitrogen dioxide have to do with this thread? illepall

Hmm, I thought they are the same. But does it really matter in this case?

no, NO2 is prohibited, and gangsters are hunted down here.

I'd like to suggest to Victor to rethink the cars' hotlaps ranks. The same set of tracks is not convenient, IMO.

Still, it can be discussed if it is proper to make all cars drive at the same tracks, if it takes much skills to drive at AS3 in XFG or UF1.

So the problem is that AS3, -4, -5 consist of long straights and few corners. The gaps are not as big as at Fern Bay Black for example. So these tracks do not reveal skills as much as the latter, but take your time to drive about 20 laps to polish it. Look at benchmarks of UF1 and XFG for these tracks. That's awful.

So, point 1: what's the sense of keeping long and not much skill-requiring tracks like Aston National? For these cars they are waste of time. In fast cars it really requires some skills, but not in these.

Point 2: including Kyoto Oval in XFG/UF1 ranks is sensless. They do all the lap with 100% throttle and gaps are miserable. While in BF1 and FO8 it is not a big deal to make 10, 20, 30 laps to get a good handicap, in XFG it becomes a diseaster. You just WASTE YOUR TIME driving straightly.

In my opinion, these two points favour nutters and prevent wider range of people from participating.

Solutions.
I write for XFG and UF1 only, because I didn't try to hotlap with other cars. It is better to ask those who race GTR/single seaters if they like hotlapping/racing at SO3, for example.

Let XFG and UF1 hotlap at AS1, BL2, FE5, FE6 for the ranks. Exclude KY1, AS3, AS4, AS5. Instead AS7 can be included, because this track has more %-ge of corners and less of straights. FE4 is a special case, it is very twisted, very challenging track, it must be kept in these ranks. KY3 may be discussed.

I think hotlaps at LFSWorld must have a special mark to indicate an alien and special filter to select only humans.

I think, along with "No join during a race" there can be an option "no escape during a race", which would mean no Shift-S outside of pits, no going to spectators when driving.

Scawen, I thought, Vic has told you my message. Variables related to tyres (those grip coeff., opt. temp and heating/wear coeff.) and air temperature aren't checked by CPW. That was quite surprising. It's possible to get an advantage by setting air temp to tyres opt. temp and heat/wear coeff. to a low value. If this is done in a smart way, it can be hard for others to notice. Ask me by email, please, I can send some more details.

@Tristan, the issues of Mechanik were closed yet in LFS 0.2.

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Quote from maczo :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Smirnoff

Roses are red
Violets are blue
In Soviet Russia
Poem writes YOU!
:uglyhamme

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In Soviet Russia?

Now you owe me $5 for using this brand!

Raising the old topic.

Watched DTM today. Very impressed, what a close finish for the first 5! Not many passes were made at Lausitzring, but how close they were going! And Schneider rocks! Kristensen pushes hard too. Veterans aren't getting older!

This year we've got even more racing on public TV with very few ads. One public TV sports channel yet in 2004 had got financial problems and stopped many programs, but started showing a lot those that they had got. Before that they have been showing only main DTM races. Then they started showing the whole DTM weekend. Now they've added more races, so there are 10 different races in the weekend LIVE! VW Polo cup, Porsche Carrera cup, Formula-3, Formula-BMW, DTM, Renault 2.0, Renault Megane, Renault World Series, WTCC, GP Masters. Amazing. Of course, I don't spend 10 hours a day watching all of them. But this really impresses.

I know that. For me it just makes some inconvenience with firewall windows.

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Of course he does - he uses the ghostcar

Neither I use it, but I've tried once and left the dll there, Mr. Sense of Humour.

Biggie, Do you have the d3d8.dll in your LFS dir? I've renamed it and the packets dissapeared. Checked this twice. d3d8.dll (GhostCar mod) was the cause for me.

Found it because noticed that GhostCar has the same port 28888 to which mysterious packets were sent.

Фигасе! Зачот!

Well, I've found a line in cfg.txt:

OutSim Mode 0

I have an antivirus, but checked to assure an MD5 of running LFS.exe and a fresh unpacked:

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All of my LFS also send such packets. When I make a rule to block these connections, it waits quite a lot (expecting network connection).

Direction: outgoing
Local Point: 0.0.0.0, port 31000
Adapter: N/A
Remote Point: 127.0.0.1, port 28888
Protocol: UDP

checking config...

Istanbul Park would be a nice track, as many other real tracks. The question is if the track owners are negotiable.

I don't think it's a good idea to force a player to read the welcome message. Most of the time it is junk, like advertizing of owner's website/league/(clan in CS). Yes, you may have sincere wishes, but it will be widely abused.

Please, update the info.

Kegetys' mods:
Slickmod
PitSpotter
Motion Blur
additional textures
SmokeMod
GhostCar

Two my mods (description page)
Unreal Tyre mod
True Winter mod

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What about adding time of events into the dedicated host's console?

Was asked to tell a coment from some users at liveforspeed.ru. They dislike the times font, because it is less readable than the usual. One told his settings: LFS font size is default, screen size is 1280*960.

BTW, I've noticed today that at Westhill in Cloudy weather the sky differs. Really, at the 2nd split usually you see blue sky, but today once I started racing and noticed that that place seemed to be darker and the sky visible from there was grey. Is it a feature?

Fast working, Scawen!

I've submitted my updates to the translations.

Wait-wait-wait-wait-wait, please, with the final patch!!! I was offline 3 days, and my translation update will be soon!

A bug since patch S: I load my autocross layout at AS1 and instead of barrier_long get cone_green, instead of barrier_red - cone_blue (iirc). The layout file wasn't modified since patch Q.

Attached the problem file to test.

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