Our new website is online.

http://nextgenlfscommunity.webs.com/

This is just a starter page for Next Gen. As we progress and grow, so will our website.

1/6th of all the servers are usually empty. that means about 600 empty servers. Unpopulated servers are the first signs of a dying game, Followed by Lack of Dev Communication, followed by fewer updates and longer time between updates, I could keep naming things that show how dead LFS really is.

Fact of the matter is, it has been over 3 years since the Scirocco was announced. (Thu, Dec 11th, 2008 19:10>Announcing VW Scirocco)

It's going on 2.5 years since the tyre physics was announced (Fri, Aug 21st, 2009 20:30>New Tyre Physics)

AND, same can be said for Rockingham (Mon, Sep 21st, 2009 17:30>Rockingham coming to LFS)

Devs announced 3 major additions and updates to LFS that have yet to be released.

I hate thinking LFS is dead, but the evidence is adding up with every passing day.

RIP Joe.

New FE4X Layout thanks to full member Aleksi. It is great.

I never had that problem with this source, unless its a different source than the one I have.

Thanks, we wish Vires and IC the best of luck this year as well.

Here is the NGC Cruise Insim CURRENT Feature List.

**NGC Insim Features**
Loads of Different Ranks and Jobs
Ranks - Cruiser, Member, Full Member, Staff, Admin.
Delivery Jobs - (Taxi Fare and Delivery to Job HQ)
Jobs that require Application - Cadet, Officer, Tow Truck, Mafia, (More Soon)
Street and Speed Limits - Partially Completed, To be finished ASAP.
Health System WITH Health Pack - Health that lowers as you drive. Stop at any shop to get health, Go to Job HQ and get a 151% health pack for less stopping.
Driving Bonus System - 100% Complete Driving Bonus System. For each 50km you drive without pitting, you get a set amount of cash.
Abuse Free Bank Bonus System - Earn 1% of your Bank Balance when you earn 100km, 200km, then every 150km after that. Only works if you drive, not a timed system.

No AFK Timer! AFK as long as you want =)

Loads of useful commands!
!help - Displays Help Commands
!rules - Displays Basic Rules
!displayhelp - Displays Commands to change User Interface Appearance
!showoff - Shows all your stats.
!cars, !money, !distance, !jobs - Displays Cars/Money/Distance/Jobs Done
!ts - Displays our Teamspeak Information
!website - Website Link


This is what our insim currently features, this is not final by any means. We will continue to update and add new features to our insim. Stay Tuned.

Tom and I are fine and on good terms, talked with him today. Like I said before, Tom is just super busy with real life so I decided that it would be better use of my time to run a team that was 100% mine, didn't want to worry about offending or upsetting anyone else by making a decision without the other person's consent.

Just in case anyone was curious.

=-)

I will take this to private message so we don't spam the forums.

Quote from Damion1972 :

hmmm.... i have the strong feeling that Skawn woold more as he could handle, and he have now fear to say again that he must start from new like 3 Jears agoe, and now we can watch dieing LFS more and more (specialy after the releas of race factor2).

And after reading the last post from Skawn,that says to me Eat what I cook or die.Thats not friendly, for me it´s a arrogance that he can not afford after 3 Years waiting time and nothing more as we are working at the tires!

But I couldn´t understand why he didn´t give us new Trackas cars may be rain with the old tire physiks and give us the new physik as a patch like at the Y and Z patch.
So they can make money with the new licence and we have somthing to do.

Sorry my bad english
greatings Broe

I agree with you. Small Progress such as tracks/cars is better than no progress at all.

What's up LFS Community. My ingame name is Psycho, but my real name is John. I manage the cruise and race divisions of NGC. Through out the next week I will be updating our Cruise Server Majorly. Some changes have already been made, but many many more are on the way. You will recognize it as the old UGC insim, but when the updates are done, you won't recognize it anymore.

You can contact me via email at
Gmail - [email protected]
Skype - a420birdman
or via PM on these forums.

**Update**

Full overview of the NGC Cruise Insim Features will be listed here soon. Everything is starting to fall into place perfectly right now, taking it one step at a time =)

Last edited by edge3147, Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:10.

Last edited by edge3147, Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:09.

Quote from JazzOn :

It is based on NFS shift hich is really an arcade racer... or at least not a real simulation) You make you steering wheel setups moving sliders for sensitivity and so on...
As for the developement phase... naturally things progress, but LFS was true simualtion from day 1 in every aspect.


As for your second part, again, conentwise i totally agree, that tehre could be more especially when you have a real simulation base

It is not based off of NFS Shift, it's being developed by people that helped develop NFS Shift.

"Slightly Mad Studios is an award-winning developer known most recently for its work on Electronic Arts’ Need For Speed franchise with the successful SHIFT series." - http://www.wmdportal.com/projects/cars/


doesn't say anywhere that CARS is based off of NFS Shift.

[UGC] Will be closing in the coming week.

The 2nd Owner has become busy with real life and since this was originally his team, I have decided to depart from UGC and start my very own Team and Community. I will be the sole owner of this new team.

I will make my announcement when everything is finalized with the new team.

UGC had a great 4 months but the time has come again for UGC to close it's doors.

Last edited by edge3147, Sun, 11 Mar 2012 03:23.

Big News being announced later today. Stay tuned.

Quote from JazzOn :

While i agree that there could be more content, you dont have any valid argument here, because you say the physics are as good, which is bollocks. CARS is an advanced arcade racer and can't be compared with a real simualtors (LFS, Netkar...)
Graphics are great but to run these, one need a quite new PC indeed . LFS can be played by literally everbody with acceptable graphics. For Cars many have to invest at least 100-200 in PC specs again. Further is the price of CARS not yet decided anyway (afaik), which adds to it.

CARS is not an arcade racer. CARS is an Simulator that is In development. It is still in Alpha stage, so calling it an advanced arcade racer before the game is even launched is a bit much. Remember how much LFS has changed since it was launched as an alpha program?

Quote from JazzOn :

PS.

10 years of online gameplay (with a lifetime license) = £2,40 /year

How much cost an Xbox game and online membership for 1 year?

...and gets cheaper every further year

Yes, it is a good deal to be able to play the game online for 10 years without any additional costs, but after even 5 years, the content gets pretty dull.

It has been how many years since the Rockingham announcement was made? We haven't even got a preview such as a drive around video or anything from the devs. Except that we have it, we know you want it, we are working on other things right now. I mean seriously, why can we not have the new track while we wait for the tyre physics done. Save the VWS for when the rest is complete, but in the mean time, give us something new so we don't sit here and flame each other to death on the forums waiting.

welcome to lfs =-)

"content" hasnt been updated majorly since S2 came out, its been small fixes here, small update here. Not to mention for around the same price, you could go get Project C.A.R.S which has just as good physics, way better graphics, and will have tons of cars upon release. C.A.R.S does require a hefty PC, but what modern game doesn't?

LFS is a good game/sim, but for the price, people expect alot more.

Quote from Foilpact :

They would be better dropping the price to £10 for S2.

£24 for a 10 year old game with 1 expansion is taking the piss, This isnt Xbox LIVE...

Exactly my thoughts. S2 = ~$40 USD. For a game that is 10 years old, this is a very high price.

Don't forget, on UGC Cruise, Track changes are every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Also, we are a multilingual server that doesnt restrict chat to english only, and now we have a private message system too, so it's even better than before.

UGC Cruise Stats have been reset, this should make things fair for everyone. All of our job rewards have been increased so earning your favorite cars shouldn't take too long.

Come experience the fun and changes on Underground Cruise

Would rather drift than cruise? It's okay we got you covered, every new person to connect to our server recieves the XRT instantly, aswell as the UF1, XRG, FXO, and RB4!!!

Last edited by edge3147, Thu, 8 Mar 2012 14:36.

Insim Update
V 3.0d

*Added !admins, !officers, !cadets, !members cmds to show who is online.
*Finished SO4X Conversion
*Added !addofficer, !addcadet, !addstaff, !addugcmember !addfull cmds to easily promote people.
*Added Full Member Status to the insim, Full Members will have !kick and !spec access. Full Members will be trusted and responsible players.
*added !pm [username] [message] To send a private message ingame.

Last edited by edge3147, Thu, 8 Mar 2012 03:17.

Sorry for the multiple posts today.

The Server transfer is complete. Insim Update complete.
[UGC] Cruise Server is online.
The rest of our LFS servers will be finished tonight.


Thanks Everyone, enjoy.

Last edited by edge3147, Fri, 9 Mar 2012 20:17.

We are currently moving to a reliable private server owned by a good friend of mine.

[UGC] Cruise Server will be back online as soon as we finish.

As soon as the UGC Cruise Server is online I will be releasing an insim update.

V 3.0d

Added !admins, !officers, !cadets, !members cmds to show who is online.
Finished SO4X Conversion
added !addofficer, !addcadet, !addstaff, !addugcmember !addfull cmds to easily promote people.
Added Full Member Status to the insim, Full Members will have !kick and !spec access. Full Members will be trusted and responsible players.

MORE TO BE ADDED OF COURSE!



!towtruck and !mafia will be added with the next update.

Last edited by edge3147, Wed, 7 Mar 2012 18:25.

In light of our recent Host problems, UGC has decide to take a different direction with our community. For the last 3 months we have focused on expanding and trying to grow our community. Our new direction is focused on stability and improvement.

Our main focus is going to be LFS. We still play other games, but our community and our servers will be strictly for LFS.

We hope this improves our relationship with the rest of the LFS Community.

Our sponsorship servers will be back online on 3/7/2012.

3/5/2012 UGC Community Update

Due to a clerical error with our host, we are no longer using 1&1 Internet to host our servers. Because of this, we have had to downsize temporarily until we resolve our hosting issue. Our Cruise Stats are being restored, right now they are reset.

Temporary Website being setup.

UGC Current Server List:
[UGC] Cruise S2 Server
[UGC] Public Demo GTi
[UGC] Event Server (when needed)
Teamspeak


LFS Servers:
Cruise Insim Update (Version 3.0c)

Updated User Interface
added UGC Instant Car Shop, type !carshop
Fixed Speed Limit bug.
Cop OnScreen Radar
added !unchase cmd (per request)
Increased All Job Rewards
Job Count Stat


Check back for the latest UGC Updates and Information.

Last edited by edge3147, Mon, 5 Mar 2012 23:32.

I apologize for the late update. We are organizing and preparing from square one.

We are getting everything setup to make theses comps fun and competitive.

Points system
Leader board with updates after each event.
Web Fliers
Information will be on lfsdrift.net as well.
Knowledgeable and fair judges.