Just a quick suggestion and one that I did search for but can't see has already been posted.

I suggest servers should be categorised in to 'Racing', 'dr1Ft0ring' and 'Cruising', and to have an interface to sort / ignore categories at your leisure. Would be pretty a pretty easy implementation too methinks.

Why do I suggest this, I hear you ask?

Well, my heart dies a little death each time I see a well populated server on a good combo and then realise it's a dr1ft or cruise one.

Just going by the quality of Scawen's work to date, I would bet that the AI will be able to at least move from it's line to overtake and avoid, otherwise he wouldn't release it.

However, don't get your hopes up.

Nobody in the history of everything has ever made AI that can replicate the little random and smart (and not so smart) things that humans do. So I don't expect Scawen to suddenly achieve this either.

The presence of 'competent' AI cars on track is all that we should expect, and don't think you'll be able to dice and race with them in the same way as you can with other humans.

Quote from joeynuggetz :

All this talk about getting this or that in S3 is goofy. By then PC technology would have advanced by alot and any other dev team with more than 3 people can easily churn out something that can beat LFS hands down. This is what the devs should take into consideration. The reason we dont have the most advanced or realistic physics now has a lot to do with what the PC's on our desks can handle. As technology advances, those limitations will be gone and finding a closer simulation outside of LFS S3 is very very possible and certainly guaranteed. So if you ask me, LFS needs to step it up.

Why do other Developers need to wait for 'more powerful PCs' before they step up and boot LFS from it's pedestal?

The key to LFS's success is that development is ongoing. This is a feature that larger development houses will never offer. They will always move on to the next project. That's why LFS is at the top of the pile and will remain there. It has nothing to do with the power of home PCs.

Quote from Dajmin :

Hasn't Scawen already said that they're not actively promoting LFS on a large scale because it's still fairly early in development? I'm sure I've seen that somewhere.

If that is true, I think it's a little silly and would be costing them money. The 'alpha' status of LFS is exactly that; just a status.

The point is that it's still a great game right now, and should be promoted the hell out of regardless of the fact that it's still being developed.

I always like SRT.
Looking forward to seeing a good feature in the new LFS patch (when it's released).

Quote from mixer13134 :

Well...almost.:P

Hehe - he looks so ashamed.
Wonder why?

Quote from kester :

that explains nothing, nothing at all

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

This should explain pretty much everything and took about 0.254456 seconds to find. Seriously, this is the interweb; it's w-a-a-a-y quicker to search for yourself rather than wait for a forum reply.

Good luck to you though...

Quote from zmbi :

Some black and white pics.

Very nice. My fav was http://www.lfsforum.net/attach ... id=43296&d=1196604123

Quote from danowat :

So stop being such a bloody negative nelly (and you ozzies can us wingeing poms.......)

There's no way this fool is Australian unless he's fresh off the boat from Old Blighty.

'Surprise' was not specific enough.
Luckily, I can make up the rules as I go along.

Well, nobody was right.
As usual, Scawen has dropped a bombshell with a big suprise for the release.
Everyone who bet their $10, please PM me with your address. I'll spend the next 2 years flying around the world collecting my winnings.

Quote from Crashgate3 :

2. A ridiculously hilly and twisty track similar to Bathurst.

I really hope you're right, but I think you've lost your Ten Bucks.

Quote from boosterfire :

get tdu if u want that

Yeah, but TDU doesn't have rocket launchers or sticky grenades which would have been thisnameistaken's number 3 & 4 predictions if he was allowed them.

Quote from garph :

I was gonna say, we've been told what is being worked on/what is going to be worked on already!

True, and these thing might be part of the next relese.
However the BF1 was a major focus of that big release many moons ago, but was not announced.
Who knows what's in store for the LFS community?
Who knows what secrets those sneaky Devs are keeping from us?

Quote from felplacerad :

1. DX10 compability.

Gawd, I hope not.

Quote from felplacerad :

2. Drift machines.

Hovercraft?

After just being bounced into a wall at SO Town, I'm now hoping for improvements in collision detection. However, my Ten Bucks remains on AI & Damage.

If you had Ten Bucks to bet on which 2 areas the next release will focus on, what would they be?
You can only choose 2.
Don't ask why, but it's two only.
And don't ask why the bet is for Ten Bucks.

My money is on:

1. AI
   
2. Damage

Some more rules: Speculation on when the release will occur is not allowed, nor is discussion on the speed of development in general.

Last edited by farcar, Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:57. Reason : changed 'what' to 'which'

Your computer crashed, so no more computing for you? Ever?
Did it wipe your S2 forum account from the internet too?

Quote from Glenn67 :

Just found this old video footage of a V8Supercar race in 1994 in the wet around the Adelaide circiut and thought it was worth sharing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... etu5E&feature=related

I always loved watching Larry race in the wet. He was just so exciting.
I think it was Bathurst 1993 that started in the wet, and Larry turned it on big time.
I couldn't find that video, but I did find some old footage of Seton on slicks, on a wet Mount Panorama in a Bluebird Skyline. Hairy stuff.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=m6qG1Yu6KYA

The flag marshalling sucked, but why didn't they just take the inside line at that turn to avoid all the crap?
Edwards would have known full well where the danger was.

Last edited by farcar, Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:32.

Quote from tristancliffe :

Normally, I'd say no, because I can't do work of satisfactory quality to show publically. But I have, in the past, sketched this for my own enjoyment, and it was never going to be seen by others.

I know it's crap, you know it's crap, but I did as you requested

Not bad, but needs more squids and bears.

Quote from sinbad :

A lot of what keeps me interested in LFS is the promise of things to come, just as much as the actual sim I have on my computer at the moment. I believe this is the case for a lot of us.

+ a million.

Exactly the way I feel. Fortunately we are patient people so don't mind the wait. If I was a bit younger, I probably would have bored by now and moved on.

In my old age, I appreciate the devotion that the Devs have poured on to this sim. Just as I hate the way mainstream games are rushed out unfinished, for profit.

I might be a wrinkle ridden Yoda-like hermit living in a swamp by the time S3 arrives, but I will still be happy that I waited.

He should stick to singing for Coldplay...

Quote from breadfan :

however, you will not care in 150MPH.

True, but I will care when I'm watching replays / making movies / taking screenshots.

While I totally agree with Scawen's famous 'this is not a screenshot generator' comment, I also think that anything that makes LFS look better is a good thing.

Sure, enhancements like this won't be on the top of the Dev's 'to do' list (nor should they be), but with texturing talent like Electrik Kar in the community, it would be good to know what is possible.

Quote from tristancliffe :

Yes, I would like it. If it's just a case of 1. Enabling it in DX and then 2. making a default normal map of every texture, then it has my vote.

If it requires weeks and weeks of programming I vote it should wait a bit longer.

Ditto for me.