Come on, give him a break, man. I can understand his frustration when he spends hours coding something and half the feedback he gets is questions that people could answer themselves if they spent 5 minutes using their head. Everything is explained in the cfg file, admittedly in Frenglish, but it's still perfectly understandable.
BTW, the dog is a quite famous French comic strip character named Gai-Luron.
BTW, the dog is a quite famous French comic strip character named Gai-Luron.
It's a shame, indeed, but don't think this is specific to the tour de France. I'm sure there's as much doping in every other international (and even national) cycling event.
I heard that there are methods that are still completely undetectable, like taking EPO off season (or is it growth hormones?) to boost your red corpuscle level, freeze some of your blood at that point, and inject it to yourself months later, before or during an important event. That increases the quantity of red corpuscles in your blood, allowing for better transport of oxygen, which increases performances and endurance. One of the guys who got caught this year used someone else's blood, and that's why he was caught. The funny thing is that they could get the same exact effect by training at high altitudes, and then that wouldn't be doping.
I heard that there are methods that are still completely undetectable, like taking EPO off season (or is it growth hormones?) to boost your red corpuscle level, freeze some of your blood at that point, and inject it to yourself months later, before or during an important event. That increases the quantity of red corpuscles in your blood, allowing for better transport of oxygen, which increases performances and endurance. One of the guys who got caught this year used someone else's blood, and that's why he was caught. The funny thing is that they could get the same exact effect by training at high altitudes, and then that wouldn't be doping.
Car code in pb messages
When a pb message is displayed to everyone, I think it'd be very handy if the car code was part of the information. I run in a league where two different cars are used for each race and you find out at the last minute which one you're driving (and they aren't always perfectly matched). Since these are always uncommon combos, there are lots of pb's during the quali, but as you don't know which car others are running and the time-sheet doesn't stay displayed long enough to study it while rushing to T1, it's difficult to know where you stand compared with others running the same car.
Now I realize that this may be a rather exceptional situation, but multi-class races are not so uncommon, so I think that adding the three characters car code to those messages wouldn't add too much clutter to them and would be very useful in some situations.
And while I'm on this subject, it would also be very cool if the current player name was displayed in those messages rather than (or in addition to) the license name.
Now I realize that this may be a rather exceptional situation, but multi-class races are not so uncommon, so I think that adding the three characters car code to those messages wouldn't add too much clutter to them and would be very useful in some situations.
And while I'm on this subject, it would also be very cool if the current player name was displayed in those messages rather than (or in addition to) the license name.
Obviously the climate goes through cycles and there have been many global warming events (and ice ages) in the past. And I never said that human activity was entirely responsible for the current one.
But claiming that our recent release in the atmosphere—recent in cosmological terms—of millions of tons of carbon dioxide and many other greenhouse effect gases has no effect whatsoever is a blatant lie told by coal and oil producers, and by the governments of countries whose economy is based on them. The ability to put two and two together should be enough to understand that whatever enters a system affects it in a way or another.
You can always find scientific articles that contradict the others (especially in this case, because as I mentioned earlier, the US government and various oil companies have founded several allegedly independent researches during the last decades to make up proofs that human activity had no effect on the climate). That's why you should never base your claims on one research or another, but only on the international scientific consensus. And AFAIK, the consensus at the moment is that human activity has indeed a big effect on global climate.
Many people live by the Bible and believe that the Earth and everything on it were given to the human kind to do with them whatever they wanted. I don't mean to offend anyone, but this also is a lie (and please, don't bring up creationism). The Earth doesn't belong to us. We belong to it, like everything else that has grown on it. And as the (so-called) most advanced species, it's our responsibility to take care of it, not only for us and our grand-children, but also for the other species that have the same rights on it than us (most were here long before us, after all). But what do we do instead? We exploit everything that can be exploited, and we're now doing it at a rate that exceeds the system's capacity to heal and regenerate itself. This is stupid, and selfish, and closing our eyes on it is the laziest and most childish attitude we could have. Like "I can't hear you, lalalalala". I agree completely with what Smith says in Matrix: "The human species is the cancer of this planet".
And don't get me started on the ****s, whatever their age, who say they don't give a shit about what will happen after their death!
But claiming that our recent release in the atmosphere—recent in cosmological terms—of millions of tons of carbon dioxide and many other greenhouse effect gases has no effect whatsoever is a blatant lie told by coal and oil producers, and by the governments of countries whose economy is based on them. The ability to put two and two together should be enough to understand that whatever enters a system affects it in a way or another.
You can always find scientific articles that contradict the others (especially in this case, because as I mentioned earlier, the US government and various oil companies have founded several allegedly independent researches during the last decades to make up proofs that human activity had no effect on the climate). That's why you should never base your claims on one research or another, but only on the international scientific consensus. And AFAIK, the consensus at the moment is that human activity has indeed a big effect on global climate.
Many people live by the Bible and believe that the Earth and everything on it were given to the human kind to do with them whatever they wanted. I don't mean to offend anyone, but this also is a lie (and please, don't bring up creationism). The Earth doesn't belong to us. We belong to it, like everything else that has grown on it. And as the (so-called) most advanced species, it's our responsibility to take care of it, not only for us and our grand-children, but also for the other species that have the same rights on it than us (most were here long before us, after all). But what do we do instead? We exploit everything that can be exploited, and we're now doing it at a rate that exceeds the system's capacity to heal and regenerate itself. This is stupid, and selfish, and closing our eyes on it is the laziest and most childish attitude we could have. Like "I can't hear you, lalalalala". I agree completely with what Smith says in Matrix: "The human species is the cancer of this planet".
And don't get me started on the ****s, whatever their age, who say they don't give a shit about what will happen after their death!
No need to generalize. Check the profile of the person you're replying to. Most show their age; others don't, but sometimes give obvious clues, like "occupation: school".
I don't want to sound pedantic, but the entire climate history is written in the polar ice cores. More exactly, air bubbles caught in the ice allow to determine the exact composition and temperature of the atmosphere at the time they were formed. The deeper you drill, the farther in time you go.
The climate history have been studied and modeled several times using this method and its variations are well known. And these studies show an unmistakable increase of CO2 in the last 200 years, obviously related with human utilization of fossil carbon (coal, oil, gaz, etc).
The Net is full of articles on this subject. For example here's one: http://pubs.acs.org/hotartcl/est/99/apr/learn.html. Google is your friend.
Hi, sorry you're having trouble with FlipCams. Does your LFS\data folder contain the "views" folder and 4 "view_cam*" folders (where * is a number between 1 and 5)?
Sounds awsome! Unfortunately the server stopped responding 10 or 15 minutes ago while I was downloading it and hasn't got back up yet.
Update: I finally managed to download it. I love the changes, but everything doesn't seem to be working all the time. For example I've seen the fuel indicator work once when I set the fuel to 1%, and as soon as I got on track I got the low fuel alert (which is great). But most of the time it just reads "-- Laps". I'll post a more complete report later. Thanks for this update anyway!
Update: I finally managed to download it. I love the changes, but everything doesn't seem to be working all the time. For example I've seen the fuel indicator work once when I set the fuel to 1%, and as soon as I got on track I got the low fuel alert (which is great). But most of the time it just reads "-- Laps". I'll post a more complete report later. Thanks for this update anyway!
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Of course governments lie all the time, I don't need teenagers to teach me that! But global warming is a reality, and your government has lied for decades about it, denying its existence, and even founding phony researches to prove that it didn't exist. Do yourself a favor: use the Internet to learn things, not only for gaming.
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Yeah, that's what happens when the lap record has been set by an alien.
I agree that it's frustrating, but thankfully it doesn't seem to be the case on each track. But if you think about it, it has to be that way, otherwise any noob could get up the rank simply by racing when everybody else is sleeping.
I agree that it's frustrating, but thankfully it doesn't seem to be the case on each track. But if you think about it, it has to be that way, otherwise any noob could get up the rank simply by racing when everybody else is sleeping.
I don't have any time to lose arguing with a stupid 13 years old. Don't bother replying, I won't see your bullshit anymore. Welcome on my shit list.
I don't know where you live, but if you think that global warming is a joke you'd better take your head out of your arse!
Well, there's a couple of reasons why I usually ask someone else: either I ask someone I know because I use to like the sets he uses, or I ask someone I just saw doing something I know I couldn't do with my current set (like riding a specific kerb, or cornering at a speed I couldn't).
No, it was CTRA's message saying it was a new track record. The one displayed in LFS' chat area. Sorry I wasn't clear.
Update: I see that this fastest lap is now displayed on CTRA's site.
Update: I see that this fastest lap is now displayed on CTRA's site.
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This evening I got a track record at FE1R, but I was several laps down from the leaders. The track record message was displayed in LFS, but it's not been recorded in CTRA's database. Is that expected? (I'm not complaining, just wondering if I found a bug.)
If you're trying to use LFSRelax, extract the folder named bin and give it a better name. Mine is in LFS's folder and is named LFSRelax.
Then launch LFSRelax.exe, launch LFS, press T and type "/insim=29999" (without the quotes). I'm not 100% sure it's the correct syntax (as I use to launch LFS from a batch file) but I hope someone will correct me if it's wrong.
You can enable/disable the various functions by editing LFSRelax.cfg. For example replacing "EnableTSView = true" with "EnableTSView = false" would disable the TeamSpeak display feature.
If you need more help with LFSRelax, I'd suggest you to post in its thread.
Then launch LFSRelax.exe, launch LFS, press T and type "/insim=29999" (without the quotes). I'm not 100% sure it's the correct syntax (as I use to launch LFS from a batch file) but I hope someone will correct me if it's wrong.
You can enable/disable the various functions by editing LFSRelax.cfg. For example replacing "EnableTSView = true" with "EnableTSView = false" would disable the TeamSpeak display feature.
If you need more help with LFSRelax, I'd suggest you to post in its thread.
Whatever the reason you write like you do, don't be surprised if you don't get the answers you expect. I've read your last post four times and I couldn't figure out half of what you're trying to say. If you can't be arsed writing in an understandable way (whatever it takes), don't be surprised if no one bothers trying to decipher your fricking code.
Update: oh, BTW insulting people is not one of the best ways to get help either.
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A proper racing school would have to be a whole sim of its own, IMO. I think a simple one like you suggested wouldn't really teach you racing, it would just help you learn the specific track you're on. You mention braking points, apex speed, etc, but you can already learn these by spectating a fast racer online or watching a hotlap replay.
Alternatively you can also learn to figure these out yourself, like it is done IRL. All you need to know is that an early turn-in leads to an early apex, which in turn leads to running wide at track-out. So start with a bit early braking points and late turn-ins, so you have plenty of tarmac left at track-out, and progressively bring your braking points deeper and your turn-in points earlier, until you find the right combination for each corner.
You may think it's a waste of time to do this when you could be told what to do, but you'd miss an important thing such a simplistic racing school wouldn't teach you: these braking/turn-in/apex/track-out points are only valid when you're alone on track. In a race they'll often vary because of the cars around you. For example if you wait for your optimal braking point at T1 in the first lap, you'll wreck half the cars ahead of you because you should have started braking when the leader reached the braking point. Similarly, if you experienced by yourself the results of early apexing, you'll know what to expect and how to react. But if you've only learned to always brake and turn-in at the same point, when a car spinning ahead of you will force you to turn-in earlier, you'll crash.
Alternatively you can also learn to figure these out yourself, like it is done IRL. All you need to know is that an early turn-in leads to an early apex, which in turn leads to running wide at track-out. So start with a bit early braking points and late turn-ins, so you have plenty of tarmac left at track-out, and progressively bring your braking points deeper and your turn-in points earlier, until you find the right combination for each corner.
You may think it's a waste of time to do this when you could be told what to do, but you'd miss an important thing such a simplistic racing school wouldn't teach you: these braking/turn-in/apex/track-out points are only valid when you're alone on track. In a race they'll often vary because of the cars around you. For example if you wait for your optimal braking point at T1 in the first lap, you'll wreck half the cars ahead of you because you should have started braking when the leader reached the braking point. Similarly, if you experienced by yourself the results of early apexing, you'll know what to expect and how to react. But if you've only learned to always brake and turn-in at the same point, when a car spinning ahead of you will force you to turn-in earlier, you'll crash.
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Great, I'm glad to see you guys collaborating, Gail-Luron and riskredruM!
I have a few bug reports about the new InGame feature:
1. The first split always shows your last split as the best one (at least it's the case when watching mpr replays, as I didn't try it online yet). In other words, both Split1 times are always identical.
2. The last split boxes give the best last split, and your lap time. I'd expect the best last split and my most recent last split.
In both cases, see the attached screenshot.
3. If you press SHIFT+B to hide InGame's info, it works as expected. But if you press it again, it no longer works and InGame's info stays hidden.
Keep up the great work, guys!
I have a few bug reports about the new InGame feature:
1. The first split always shows your last split as the best one (at least it's the case when watching mpr replays, as I didn't try it online yet). In other words, both Split1 times are always identical.
2. The last split boxes give the best last split, and your lap time. I'd expect the best last split and my most recent last split.
In both cases, see the attached screenshot.
3. If you press SHIFT+B to hide InGame's info, it works as expected. But if you press it again, it no longer works and InGame's info stays hidden.
Keep up the great work, guys!
I was not talking about staying half the race in the pits. Both occurrences I mentioned occurred in the last lap. So you're saying I'd better join the track in the last lap rather than cleanly waiting in a safe place? I'm sorry but I disagree.
How is defined the length of the delay between races? Admin option, or dynamically based on the number of racers? I ask because when I raced on CTRA 1 I found it nice, but on the Single Seaters server this delay is always very short. If you don't finish in the top 3, you don't even have time to go to the garage and change your setup, or you'll miss the next start. Any chance that you guys increase it a bit?
Update: BTW, it happened a couple of times that I was crashed near the end of a race, so I went back to the pits and waited for the race to end. And when it did, I was sent to spectate mode and couldn't rejoin because by then the race was full. Any chance you could disable this force spectate when the driver is waiting in the pits?
Update: BTW, it happened a couple of times that I was crashed near the end of a race, so I went back to the pits and waited for the race to end. And when it did, I was sent to spectate mode and couldn't rejoin because by then the race was full. Any chance you could disable this force spectate when the driver is waiting in the pits?
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Yeah, the first few races you do on combos where you don't have a time yet may be difficult, but it becomes easier after a few races when you got up the grid. This qualification system is pretty cool! And I've got some excellent racing in CTRA and SS.
One thing I wonder: is your yellow flags ratio used when calculating the points you get?
One thing I wonder: is your yellow flags ratio used when calculating the points you get?
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