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LX Cup
englishlord
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Round 1: LX6@Westhill "Historic" Reversed - Sunday 07 May 2017
(This is like Westhill International Reversed but with the bit before the bridge bypassed so it's more like old Westhill International.)

Round 2: LX4@Fern Bay Black - Sunday 28 May 2017

Round 3: LX6@Aston Grand Touring Reverse - Sunday 18 June 2017

Round 4: LX4@Blackwood Historic - Sunday 09 July 2017

Round 5: LX6@ Rockingham ISCC Long - TBC

Round 6: LX4@Custom Track TBD - TBC

Qualification will be a 15 minutes session before each race, starting at 19:30 CEST. Shift+P and shift+S are allowed during qualification.

Races will be timed 1 hour races. Grid based on the results of the qualification session.

Pit stops / free repair. There will be a mandatory pitstop but no pitwindow. There will be a minimum standing time of 15 seconds. During this stop everything except refuelling is allowed (tyre changes, repairs, setup changes). For each second (or partial second) under 15 seconds the driver will get 1 penalty point. For example, if one stops for 12.5 seconds he will get 3 penalty points.

Most light damage will be fixed in 15 seconds. Fixing major damage will take longer, but with this system the time loss for fixing damage will be limited.

Refuelling during the pitstop will come with a 5 points penalty. Of course it is allowed to make a 2nd pitstop. This pitstop is not time limited and does not have to meet the above criteria. Basically 1 of the stops you make during the race has to meet the criteria.

Server will be AB.nl[MID].

Sign up at http://www.absolute-beginners.nl for the server password and exceptional levels of kudos.
LFS World login insecure
englishlord
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https://support.mozilla.org/t5/Protect-your-privacy/Insecure-password-warning-in-Firefox/ta-p/27861

Firefox is now putting a warning making it more difficult and less attractive to enter login details to sites which are not secure. As a users account could be hijacked with the information sent over that login, time to make it secure?
englishlord
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I think so but now is the time to mention the exciting combo of FBM at Aston North that is taking place tomorrow.

http://absolute-beginners.nl/e107_plugins/calendar_menu/event.php?1488137400.event.541
englishlord
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Quote from SimulatorRental.com :Cost is the biggest issue with these, some of them cost as much if not more than an actual race car.

I dunno, LFS has a BMW Sauber F1 Wink
englishlord
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It's about time Formula 1 was run by someone with an awesome moustache.
englishlord
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q14 is much less clunk clunk on the force feedback, as you go on the kerbs and green run off. Still a bit there with the FBM but not other cars.
englishlord
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The bumps seem to be feeding back to the wheel quite heavy. Could you make separate sliders for the feedback that is for steering and the feedback that comes from bumps/kerbs etc?

It would be useful for things like driving late at night and not wanting to wake other people with CLUNK CLUNK.
englishlord
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Quote from UnknownMaster21 :it does not show an actual track though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peaWV5o9cIo there you go.
englishlord
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Quote from LFSANDREJ :Hey everyone,

I stumbled across a video of this game on YouTube and it looks pretty awesome.

^^^
englishlord
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Quote from BeNoM :I've had the exact same thing happen without .vob mods from high ping, and there's no vob mods in that video, so...

Plus I'd love to see some 2014+ videos not 2011 videos were vob mods were just starting and people didn't make them properly.

Wrong.
englishlord
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Quote from Eclipsed :So what should I do now? What would be your suggestion to avoid this "conflict"?

Well, I'm not admin over there, their secondary cup is always open to suggestions, they are generally accepted. Personally, I've had multiple ideas for cups, I just post it on their site. They set it up, host it, admin it, do the scores. 15-20 people every week turn up to race. I just turn up, race and make comments about bananas.

The 6 round format of your league is almost identical to what happens in the AB cup also and the main thing I'd say AB lacks is keeping a decent presence on here, which you are good at. So my suggestion is maybe, in future, some dialogue rather than competing for the slot.
englishlord
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Quote from BeNoM :I'd love for video proof that vob mods affect car collisions Smile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxXrxLs_728
englishlord
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AB races are every Sunday for years, it's like church. When there are no events announced, it's not like there isn't one planned, the combo just hasn't been decided yet.

If you look on their site calendar, they have this logo:



for the 10 round S3 league dates and usually this logo



for a 6 round special themed cup. The latter generally gets decided at the last minute and it's probably that what happened in 2015.
englishlord
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I would race but you put this on at the same time as AB league races again.
englishlord
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Simulator games are more expensive because they are built from scratch. Majority of games now just use some already made engine like Unreal or Unity, which are also as old as LFS engine really and thus have a good deal of the work done already. Which is why a lot of games are both cheap and samey. £24 was worth more both in the UK and abroad when the price was first set, so in essence, the price has always been falling as it's never been changed.
englishlord
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Quote from Ken.Block.43 :I apologise if you were somehow offended by my comment, that was not my intention in the slightest. And that is correct, i doubt anyone on here will be concerned about by absence because i have not played on official servers in at least a year, so it's unlikely anyone would remember me after all these months. (I am only back here now because i received an email notification of which i was not expecting!) I understand my response was off-topic in areas and have rephrased it in an effort to make amends, although i realise that will be somewhat difficult to achieve.

Kind Regards and Best Wishes for Christmas!

There are people in third world countries that think you're a tight shit and don't give me this crap about being unemployed, you get more than enough benefits to put a couple of quid a week aside to save up for a game that you deem as important. I bought the game when on benefits, when the game was same price and benefits were lower. I hope you get bunged on some dreadful workfare placement soon, then you might have some understanding of what you're doing to devs.
englishlord
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Fern bay, that favourite of demo racers.
englishlord
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They're going to have a good early retirement off the backs of gullible sim racers. A DLC a day helps you work, rest and play.
englishlord
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Quote from Racer X NZ :If you bother reading my posts....

That's the thing.
englishlord
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Thanks for running the series. It's been great fun and difficult Smile I would have raced yesterday but my pc is sketchy with Rockingham performance (need upgrade).
englishlord
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I would be more inclined to blame the software you are using to the do the !pl command.
englishlord
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there's a couple here https://www.lfs.net/files/setups/FO8/WE00 I haven't tried them myself though.
englishlord
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You are labouring under the misapprehension that anyone who doesn't agree with you must be stupid and not understand what you are saying. I understand perfectly, you need to take the rod out of your backside. I was making comment in jest and you want to start a full on debate about it, demonstrating your bigotry. If people put headphones on when you're around, it's because they are tired of listening to your whining.
englishlord
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Quote from cargame.nl :It has nothing to do with being 'cooler', I guess you are to young to understand what I am talking about or too autistic, I don't know. Some people find it very convenient to isolate themselves 24/7 from the real world.

But for most normal people it's not working and this is why, VR, will not be a success with the current designs. Maybe at a much later stage with completely redesigned headsets. And yes, for most people its more then enough to have a steering wheel in front of a screen to have some relaxing hour of online racing after a working or parenting day.

You don't like the 2D cockpits, you don't want VR because you "look like an idiot" and you wouldn't want to buy a 3D monitor. I am assuming you don't think you look like an idiot wearing 3D Glasses. You're not going to be pleased soon either way.

Personally, I don't really look at the cockpit when I am racing. I'm sat on a desk chair, playing virtual racing with a toy steering wheel. I don't think a VR headset is going to alter someone else's opinion of the aesthetics of that. Perhaps you need a sense of humour about yourself.

Besides, that's not really looking like an idiot. How you look like an idiot is to use either youth or autism as a condescending insult.
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