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Gentlefoot
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Quote from Mike85 :I meant not going to SHIFT+U but in regular spectator the ability to turn the view anywhere around a spectated car.

You know like in GTA San Andreas where you can move the view around the car with the mouse (if you played it). Which I guess you didnt

Yes - that's what I meant too
Not shft-U

Next to where it says 'In Car' you can choose 'custom' as an alternative. Then there are various sliders to move the camera left/right/forward/back/up/down change pitch, FOV and rotation all while being attached to the car.
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Gentlefoot
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Quote from Mike85 :Also would be nice to have free mouse look from outside of a spectated car. Like a 360 degree camera. Could you try to squeeze that in for W44? It would be a sensation

Sorry for offtopic, but I think it could be done quite fast and easily.

Spectate another driver in in-car view then go to options and choose custom view. You can position the camera anywhere and point it in any direction you like. Is that what you meant?
Gentlefoot
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MRT can be popular. There are a core group of hardcore MRT fans out there and very few servers for it.
Gentlefoot
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Quote from DeadWolfBones :Time to fashion some Scawen/Victor scarecrows to put up in T1 of every track, I guess.

Do you score most points for Victor or for Scawen?
Gentlefoot
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Quote from Alles :cant wait to get X soon. now the LFS comunity is separated to W and Wtest. So not many racers to play on same servers... which is sad.

That's true - my server has been dead quiet this week.
Gentlefoot
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Quote from pasibrzuch :So if I vote for restart and after waiting for others votes I change mind and vote for quali, witch votes (mine) are still valid? Or both?

I think if you vote restart and then vote quali right after the first vote is cancelled and superceeded by the quali vote.
Gentlefoot
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I'm sick of the XFR but love the GPs. FOXs and FO8s are pretty well covered in other leagues. I think either the GTRs or LXs would be good fun.
Gentlefoot
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Quote from bbman :Tbh, I found it boring and turned it off halfway through... It was just music with the same scenes over and over again, showing only how unrealisticly you have to throw your car through the chicanes to be quick... Maybe you should consider doing videos from races, as qualifies don't have action to them (read: passing maneuvres, close driving aso.)...

None of the footage was repeated. But thanks for the criticsm anyway.
Gentlefoot
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There's now only 1 guaranteed slot left for race 1. I will accept up to 10 reserves as there are usually several no shows. 7 failed to turn up last time from an entry list of 26. This grid will have 32 cars on it so I expect at least as many no shows as at FE Club.
Gentlefoot
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There's now only 1 guaranteed slot left for race 1. I will accept up to 10 reserves as there are usually several no shows. 7 failed to turn up last time from an entry list of 26. This grid will have 32 cars on it so I expect at least as many no shows as at FE Club.
Gentlefoot
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Quote from LFSn00b :Shift+-

I watched the flash one, haven't seen the wmv.

flash has turned out to be terrible quality

Cheers for the message tip. A few of us were wondering that.
Gentlefoot
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Quote from joshdifabio :The Formula XR still takes 11% longer to complete a lap than the Formula V8 at SO Long. If you do beat anyone they will have to have awful race, I don't understand how this can possibly be worth scrapping a fair points system for. Can you give me a link to this discussion that you had about the points system? Maybe there is a good reason for the current system which I have missed, but I can't really imagine that there is.

I might review it at the end of the season. If I have to split it out it'll mean more work for me too which at the moment isn't helpful.
Gentlefoot
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Quote from joshdifabio :And the Formula V8 you beat could have been 10 minutes faster.

As I said before - racing is not just about lap time.

You are far more likely to have a big accident in an FO8 than a FOX. They require much more throttle control and this means concentration becomes even more important (especially over 75 mins). For this reason I am confident that I will continue to beat FO8s as the season goes on.
Gentlefoot
S2 licensed
Quote from joshdifabio : You did finish 13 laps behind the winning Formula V8.

Yes but I also made 4 pitstops myself - three of which were unsceduled and in the first 50 laps of the race following accidents. So I could have been about 2 or 3 minutes faster!
Gentlefoot
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Quote from joshdifabio :Looking at the race results, FiredUp pitted 8 times and the pace in that race was generally quite poor. Also, FE Club is not a good indicator of the balance of the cars in general, because it is such a short track and is mainly made up of corners. Surely you don't think that this vague hope of beating 1 or 2 Formula V8s each race who either don't finish, pit lots of times, or are hopelessly out of practice, is worth sacrificing a fair points system for?

The Formula V8 that you beat was also over 10% off the WR pace on average, so I don't really think that it's a fair example. You did finish 13 laps behind the winning Formula V8.

I don't expect to take any FO8 scalps at Aston Historic because it is such a fast circuit. However, at places like SO Long I have a good chance.
Gentlefoot
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Quote from joshdifabio :


Did he retire?

No he didn't. And I was also on the same lap as Fired Up - only behind by a few seconds and 6 laps ahead of my nearest FOX rival.
Gentlefoot
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Quote from joshdifabio :But the number of points for a win in the FOX class changes depending on how many FO8s turn up

That's right - because we are all competing together.

Quote from joshdifabio :What point is there in having the FOX drivers competing with the FO8 drivers in the same championship when the FO8 is so much faster over 1 lap?

Because racing isn't just about lap time. I beat an FO8 at the last event.
Gentlefoot
S2 licensed
Quote from joshdifabio :The points system needs to change IMO, at the moment it seems seriously flawed.

This is copied from the GFC forum:

Below are details of the points you will score in the GFC. Only the top 25 finishers will score points.

1st = 40 Points
2nd = 37 Points
3rd = 35 Points
4th = 33 Points
5th = 32 Points
6th = 31 Points
7th = 30 Points
8th = 29 Points
9th = 28 Points
10th = 27 Points
11th = 26 Points
12th = 25 Points
13th = 24 Points
14th = 23 Points
15th = 22 Points
16th = 21 Points
17th = 20 Points
18th = 19 Points
19th = 18 Points
20th = 17 Points
21st = 16 Points
22nd = 15 Points
23rd = 14 Points
24th = 13 Points
25th = 12 Points
26th = 11 points
27th = 10 points
28th = 9 points
29th = 8 points
30th = 7 points
31st = 6 points
32nd = 5 points

At the end of the season, all drivers completing 10 races or more will be rewarded with a 10 point bonus.

Firstly, the two classes should have seperate points classifications. Currently, a win in the FOX class will be worth only 1 point more than 2nd place. Look at the following examples to see how unfair the system seems at the moment:

1) Driver A competes in 9 races and wins them all, Driver B competes in 12 races and comes 6th in all of them. Driver B would beat driver A by about 10 points.

2) Driver A competes in 11 races and wins 11. Driver B competes in all 12 races and comes 2nd 6 times and 3rd 6 times. Driver A and Driver B would achieve almost identical points totals.

The situation is similar in the Fo8 division. Someone coming last in the Fo8 class would get over 50% as many points as the driver winning the class... which makes no sense whatsoever.

I really think the points system needs to be the same for both classes, and I would suggest something like the MotoGP points classification:
  1. 25
  2. 20
  3. 16
  4. 13
  5. 11
  6. 10
  7. 9
  8. 8
  9. 7
  10. 6
  11. 5
  12. 4
  13. 3
  14. 2
  15. 1
Pleeeeaaaase make sure you get the points system right, so many leagues fail to do this. I don't really understand it considering it's importance and the number of real life series to use as an example.

Edit: I was just told that you can drop your worst two scores, which makes the above examples incorrect... I still think that the MotoGP points system would be far better though, with seperate championship classifications for each car.

We had a lot of discussion with all entrants in the Gentlefoot.com forum about this. Initially I had a system a bit like yours but I changed it because of majority rule. The way we have it now encourages people to race and also encourages people to finish the race even if they are in last place with no hope of coming 2nd to last.

I don't want to separate the classes because I want to finish above some FO8s at the end of the season so separate points would make comparision impossible.
Gentlefoot
S2 licensed
Quote from DieKolkrabe :I've been blue-flagged an awful lot, and tried driving defensively. Which usually results in somebody slamming into me and a hail of abuse. I tried sticking to my line and got 'You f***ing n00b, MOVE OVER! IT'S A F****G BLUE FLAG!'

DK

You've wandered into the wrong servers by the sound of it.
Gentlefoot
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Quote from LFSn00b :Block all the messages, and do it in a bit higher res, and it's good

Couldn't work out how to block the race messages. Blocked chat easy enough but couldn't find the config for other messages.

Didn't want to go bigger on the res cos of file size. It's 640x480 which looks fine on my machine even in full screen view. You did watch the wmv and not the flash video didn't you?

GF
Gentlefoot
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I personally couldn't car less about real cars. I would like real world tracks but for me UK circuits would be most beneficial and I'm sure real world tracks would be from all around the world.

So really I'm not bothered either way and the effort involved in modelling real circuits to the level needed is just way too much. I would prefer the efforts to be put into constantly improving the race experience by tweaking the collision physics and stuff.
Gentlefoot
S2 licensed
Nice video of this event available here:

http://www.gentlefoot.com/LFS/GFC.html
Gentlefoot
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I think it vary's from situation to situation. Sometimes stay on line - i.e. going onto s straight, sometime move of it - mid corner you might skirt round the outside to give them the line.

This is racecraft at the end of the day and you learn it with experience. Drivers begin to understand one another too after racing in a series together.
Gentlefoot
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Quote from Gentlefoot :Here's the highlights from the qualifying session of the pre season race at Fern Bay Club. Fraught!!

Comments welcome - it's my first. The high quality WMV download is highly recomended. Flash video is not good quality.

http://www.gentlefoot.com/LFS/GFC.html

See the top news item.

Come on - someone must have something to say about this - is it really that bad? I'd love some tips and ideas for the next one.

GF
Gentlefoot
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Quote from sinkoman :Am I the only one who follows blue flag procedure properly?

Every time I get a blue flag, I stick to my line, and that's it. No blocking, no break checking, I drive defensively and conservatively, till the other person passes me.

But every time I do this, somebody will slam into the back of my car, and start yelling at me "SINKOMAN, BLUE FLAG!". They all yell at me, "blue flag means pull over and get out of the way you tard!!!".

WTF, and it's not just a few idiots, it's EVERY SERVER I GO TO. DAMNT.

So lately i've been trying to do precisely what i'm told, and slam on my breaks and move over. Usually they either slam into my rear end, or T bone me, and scream at me "WHY DID YOU BREAK AND MOVE?"

Holy shit, am I doing something wrong here? I thought that you weren't supposed to actually change your line when given a blue flag.

The GFC is the competition for you mate. We have dual classes so blue flag rules a slightly different and it is really the driver behind's responsibility to lap the driver cleanly.

Have a look at http://www.gentlefoot.com/LFS/GFC.html and read lots more in the forum. Times are suited to your zone too.

The GentlefootFormulaRacing public server is always open too and I don't stand for "blue flag spamming".
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