Quote from birder :

Who agrees that this action should also get an automatic 30 second penalty or a pit before the end of the first lap not be counted as a pit at all.

I do. That's totally lame.

Quote from ShannonN :

You can't sit back and expect the money to suddenly turn up under your pillow, you have to go out and earn it.

Please add poll option:
Pull all teeth with pliers, buy S2 with tooth fairy money.

You don't need teeth to drive.

Quote from Gabkicks :

you could also just pick a section of any track you want, and put down your own start, finnish markers and drift that section over and over.

Hey thanks for that tip! I don't drift, but I've often wished I could practice certain sections of tracks over and over. I never thought of that though!

Maybe if it was scaled down a little bit to give more room back to the server list and became a permanent part of the screen that auto-joined whenever you were at that screen it would be utilised more.

Quote from Nck 1991 :

I read a few thereads back tht ppl sayin how ppl shud react when some has crashed i.e stay still till every1 has passed.So Why dont servers dedicate one racer as a safety car then theyll be less hassle wen a crash has happend n complaining of positions. guys wt u think

I'll take this seriously once LFS has a Nissan Skyline.

Yup, I'm using Joy2Key for that.

I tried assigning look function to Axis mode, and in the controls I set Look Heading to MouseX and Look Roll to MouseY and it looked pretty nice leaning into turns. Unforunately the right-click view reset doesn't work when the look function is set to Axis, so I went back to MouseXY mode.

Your team should race theirs for the name, winner takes all.

You need Joy2Key. It has just the functionality you're asking about. You can use it to assign buttons to basically any key combination or mouse movement, then you can define multiple configurations within one profile and choose a button to switch between the profiles. Incredibly useful little program.

it's fine, lern 2 play

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Quote from Octane :

IIRC the right mouse button resets view to center (at least for freelook with mouse)

Wow thanks, that's true! If that's documented anywhere, I didn't see it. That'll sure save me the time spent manually trying to center the camera everytime I bump the mouse . I do still wish there was a key press to do the same though.

I've gotten freelook working pretty well otherwise though, maybe I'll post my profile file once I tweak it a little more. I want to experiment with Look Roll .

Bah I just read this whole thread for nothing? Who resurrected this thing? ^.^

Yeah, Joy2Key is a great program. I used it extensively in Oblivion and LFS when I was using a gamepad. I also had a profile setup to use my gamepad for common Windows functions so I could browse webs and emails and such with the gamepad heh. Really handy utility.

Hey nice one!
This is all I could fit on it...

I'm trying to get Freelook to work also and am having the same problem. LFS doesn't seem to have a button to center the view. I've noticed when you press ESC to get the menu the view snaps back into its original position, it just needs another button that will snap the view back like that but without summoning the menu I think.

Oh that's pretty cool. The headset acts as a completely separate audio interface I guess? Didn't even know those existed ^.^

OH MAH GAWD!

How did I not know about Kegetys' Ghost mod?! I've been wanting something like that for soooo long. Kegetys, if you are reading this: Thank you sir, you are an angel.

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

I think we should pay to have a phone embedded into vic's head, so he never needs to suffer the pain of holding a phone to your head.

Hmm... Like this?

Is your headset not stereo? I just have all my sound going into the headset's earphones with the speakers out of the loop entirely.

Here's my rig in action. I'm just having trouble getting FF to work

I'm not sure why you would want to do that? You don't want speakers on while you're using a microphone; you'll end up fighting feedback and echos.

Quote from Gentlefoot :

I have a name for the effect you describe. I call it 'The Lowenbrau curve"

HAHA That's great!

Lately all the time I've had for LFS is a half-hour of hotlapping online while I nurse a Sam Adams right before bed. I rarely drink more than one or two at a time these days, so It's actually enough to just loosen me up a little, but I couldn't say whether it really helps or hinders to any noticeable degree.

My WoW guild used TS extensively for 40-man raids and just BSing and such. It always ran without a hitch and I was even able to run WoW and TS on dial-up. I have no experience with Vent.

Boy do I feel dumb. I know I've seen a key assignment for 'reset car' in the options, and I think I may have pressed it a time or two while racing and thought, "Uh, that doesn't do anything?" and forgot about it. Whenever I get unrecoverably stuck in the sand, or end up on my roof, I warp to the pits.

From reading this thread though, I think I favor the option of disabling resets - if you're in a position requiring a reset, it should be "game over man, game over." However, I also like the idea of having a reset delay; this should be significant though. A tow truck can't get to your location, hook you up, pull you out, and unhook in 10 seconds; you should have to wait a minute or more to rejoin the race.

Of course, the delay should be a configurable option as well; when I'm hotlapping online on my hidden private server, I'd rather take the easy way out. I guess I'll have to try this fancy-schmancy "reset" thingy though, if I ever wreck again (lol )

RFB FTW!

I drive both a manual and an automatic on a daily basis IRL, and the only times I've ever experimented with LFB my left foot thinks it's a clutch (my clutch is pretty stiff) and presses really hard even though I tell it not to, and I end up with skidmarks on the road and in my pants.

Driving with the DFP, I think I've become good at switching my right foot from accelerator to brake quickly but smoothly - Whenever I get sloppy and hear the pedal slam back into place I wince, thinking of all the threads here for people with broken pedals =-/

This is clearly a terrorist attack. If we aren't safe in LFS, where are we?