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Last edited by GianniC, Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:14.

How about stop nitpicking and trying to get yourself an internet discussion going ?

For the OP: Try here, it's even on page one of this section. See what I mean, do some more effort before blaming the so called lack of updates and other nonsense.

Gosh, some of you people know how to make people pissed

Quote from Sir moi 407 :

So for you people that are bored of LFS are:
morrons, kids, immature, noobs...

If they also say that I have no life because I friendly propose them to try to log in on a different hour if possible, then yes.

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Well, it started with your faulty argument: "Not LFS, Devs or game faults, but your fault. Maybe you race on the wrong hours?" and "No matter what your timezone is, you can still choose when you race."

Because of work, the earliest I can race on weekdays is about 7pm, and that's assuming I don't have dinner after work, 8pm-ish is more reasonable. I'm 6 hours behind Europe, so that's 1-2am. You can check on lfsworld what is the number of racers at that time. Most of the time, if I filter out drift/cruise/demo/oval servers, there will be a couple of servers with more than 3 people. Even AS3/GTR has like 5-10 people tops. These are the only hours I can race, so tell me, how do I choose the right hours to race?? Are you seriously suggesting that I should quit a job I like just because of what is ultimately a computer game?

First of all, my argument is not wrong.
Secondly, look, my friendly advice of "change your online time" is possible when the difference of timezone is less large. Obviously in your case this is not possible (which I did not knew nor bothered to look up). Or short put; sucks to be you. You can always try putting up a league yourself or look for a national community forum; where you can get in touch with other racers in your timezone. Or tell your friends (and those friends their friends, ect) to get LFS.

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Isn't that exactly what the OP is asking?

No, what I said is nowhere near the same of what the opening poster stated.

Why not do an easier PayPall donation simply and purely for the maintaince, sever, and other costs ? I believe you can set it so it collects for example €500, once that donation amount is achieved the donating button goes offline. No ?

Though, I do most say, some prize money gets the news and makes leagues so called pro. (ESL eg.) Though for the GTAL this would be bad, but for the IGTC or the 500 KY1 laps race this is a good motivator and very nice.

My quick cents, got to rush now. I'll see what I can chip in though as individual.

Quote from southamptonfc :

Maybe you have no life?

I have no life cause I stay up one hour later on some weekdays for good racing ?
How do you come to this conclusion kiddo ?

And really, blaming the lack of patches or updates for not racing is incredibly morronic. But I guess this is part of the younger generations, eyecandy, updates and new toys is all they care
Quit complaining and making completely faulty arguments.

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The LFS community is really not in it's best shape and yea it's because of the patch delay.

about. What about having fun with what you have ? Isn't that good enough already ? How many of those complaining about the "lack of updates that's why I do not race" have decently tryed ALL the LFS availlable cars ? How many of you have done races at FE Black Rev (to name a track) ? How many of you have even tryed controlling the LX6 ? Ect....

Wrong, if for one reason the LFS Community is not in it's best shape it is all because of the community.

First of all, why wouldn't you race or have fun without a new patch ?
Secondly, patch delay ? What delay ? Cause the kiddo's around here got overly exited about the VW ? Get mature, that happens in every game. Let the Devs do their work and stop ruining OUR community with YOUR nonsense.

Back in S1 we had 6 track layouts and 3 cars; and the community was great and large. But you people's attitude these days, that's whats wrong. Unthankfull kiddo's who can't focus on something and keep for a longer term playing with it. It's like those kids who lay on the floor in the supermarket crying why they don't get the latest Mega Mindy action doll, despite already have a dozen of dolls at home. Going a bit off-topic, but please... Get lost with your patch whining and blaming everything on that. This is a sim racing community, this is a hardcore, low numbered and close group of people. Go fix your attitude, patch or not has nothing to do with LFS. And if you so badly need patches and eyecandy; then LFS is not the quality racing simulator for you. Go play one of EA's games then, but at least stop polluting our community and forum with your idiot nonsense.

I'm looking forward to the new tyre psychics and a possible change in the damage model, and hopefuly the VW and Rockingham get delayed for another year (in the hope that the kids who can't wait go away and we can have our sim racing communtiy back, with some decent high standard).

End rant, thank you.

Last edited by GianniC, Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:35.

nFinity line-up updated.

Tukko & Jonesy can not make the testevent due to real life reasons.

Obviously as the rules state Jonesy won't be able to participate in this GTAL season and can be removed from the nFinity season line-up. Jonesy do asked if he could be put up front to be a guest driver in one or two events, with his slow shifter and looking to regain some experience in endurance racing (after an extensive break) GTAL stay for him the perfect league.

Quote from Fetzo :

it's his fault, that he lives in another timezone, on another continent than you?

No matter what your timezone is, you can still choose when you race. For example if you prefer watching football on tv and therefor not race on a moment when the servers are more crowded but he do races ahead of the football match when people are still at work or school, then it is his "fault" indeed and not the "fault" of LFS, the Devs, patches or other. See what I try to say ? 24 hours in a day, no matter what your timezone is. I'm also staying up later than I normally would, simply to race with teammates. I can decide not to do that and then complain in the teamforum that I never see them online (which is comparable to what he's doing here).

And the 'paying for content' stuff is completely wrong. I payed £36 I believe for S2 around 3 years ago ? I'm still playing and enjoying LFS. That's different than for example the 100 euros for a year of iRacing (or the 7,90 euros for one cinema ticket).

Quote from southamptonfc :

And why does nobody race anymore, most servers are just people doing quali or practice, soooo boring

Not LFS, Devs or game faults, but your fault. Maybe you race on the wrong hours ? Hang out with the wrong people ? Find a (better) team ? Participate in more leagues ?

I'm having no problem at all to find good (occasional) racing

What LFS version are you using ? Using testpatches ?

Burn Kimi burn !

Allright, thanks for clearing that up.

With intentional disconnects I more mean suddenly pitting ourselfs and then shouting over teamspeak to eachother that the backup guy needs to take over asap Obviously nothing will be done which can in the slightest way affect others.

Updated after confirmation from NDR.

Just wondering:

Your ending position in the testrace is not that important right, but your pace, behavior, following rules, ect... do is ? Just asking cause we'd be inclined to make maximum use of this testrace and would think on doing small stints, lots of pitstops and put in some "unexpected" disconnected for ourselfs in; to see how good and fast we respond, ect...

Glad to hear back from you Robin, hope all is well !

See you on track!

Quote from boothy :

It's supposed to be high res skins...

Yes, just noticed that Photobucket reduced the res.
Keep getting uploading error, wtf

I'll ask Paul to upload it here again in high res.

nFinity eSports Racing Testrace skin:

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=1288705#post1288705

Last edited by GianniC, Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:37.

Quote from hyntty :

Well personally I have nothing against it if there is room in the test round... I'm sure D &J will have a look.

Did you actually ask anyone beforehand or just post a confusing lineup here? (I've been afk for a week so I don't know :P)

Line-up has been correctly submitted as requested by NDR; this is done by e-mail, correct heading, ect...

Team Name: nFinity eSports Racing
Number: 99
Car: FZR
Drivers:
GianniC, G. Collier, BEL
DizzyDarryn, D. Lobb, ZAF

Team Name: nFinity eSports 2
Number: 88
Car: FZR
Drivers:
PaulC2K, P. Chapman, UK
rc10racer, J. Pickard, UK

Last edited by GianniC, Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:04.

Some very nice racing currently, great action. Stays nuts to see 1 UFR, 1 GT2 XRR and 2 GT1 XRR's going through one and the same small turn, without single contact. A good broadcast also.

Quote from GianniC :

Application send... :turtle2:

New application send, but this time for another team... :heyjoe67_brm:

Thank you everyone, after 6 years of SCCC it feels strange to drive in green instead of the trusted yellow... but it'll go.

Quote from kingcars :

I need to stop trying to race in leagues...I keep runnin the team leaders off . Hate to see you guys leave before even having a chance to race with yas

There is no blame at all on your shoulders mate.
My excuses by the way, for getting you into our GTAL adventure and now leaving you with empty hands. Hope you find a team and are able to participate in the GTAL one way or another.

Happy birthday, nice event !

Hi,

Well, event 7 Pool 2 was just amateuristic racing. Not pool 2 worthy. Lets be honest about this.

Before the race start everyone was doing laps. The host enteres the server and asks everyone if they are ready. Only 4-5 people reply, the rest just keep doing laps. What for attitude is this ?

The race itself: Prodrive'Dan made an obvious error in turn one, even an AI car doesn't make such a heavy move, but Dan did and took half the field down. Yes, he had to retire, but meanwhile some of our races got ruined.

Limping one entire lap at 140 max speed to the pits, to then see (PM) Istabraq fragrantly ignoring and breaking the pitlane rules (he also suffered damage and pitted in same lap as me, being Lap 2). Because of that I was unable to be in his slipstream after our pitstops and he kept racing 1,5-2 secs ahead of me. Both of us solo racing on the oval instead of drafting... smart .

Solar Hydro then dropped back to draft with Istabraq, but that appearantly didn't work as in no time I was behind them. Drafting done wrong is slower than normal solo racing. Solar Hydro and myself started drafting then, went good to semi-decent, though not perfect either. Now I'm not the perfect drafter, but when you have ~40 laps of drafting together and every damn lap you make the same error (leaving too big gap by steering in too late at the turn), you mostly somewhat correct to that error... no ?

Drafting didn't really aid much, was more a bit of frustrating than being fast. Monkfish and Speedcore were drafting behind us, Speedcore was first and Monkfish was behind Solar Hydro and myself (P13 that is I believe). Solar Hydro went way off his speed to let Speedcore by, but Monkfish as well. Instead of just drafting with 4 people we suddenly got way behind. Too bad I wasn't able to catch Monkfish his draft (310 km/h vs my 290), so I had to wait for Solar Hydro. One place lost and still 37 times with our "drafting". No offense Solar Hydro, though some more training on the drafting would have been good.

Anyway, then we come to the pitlane penalties and the last lap mess. Seriously, all those penalties for speeding in the pitlane ? There is a pit limiter you know. Train some on your pitlane entrance, then you don't get a penalty. Which brings me again to the point of amateuristic racing. Not sure if it is just because this was an Oval Race, I surely hope so, but the racing was in my eyes not on pool 2 level. People were obviously not trained enough and bad prepared, resulting in such a messy race like we have seen.

About the last lap mess, I believe that penalties should be given for what happened. To who exactly I won't comment, that's up to the appeal reviewers, thought this can't go by like nothing. [KA] Thunderdome and Solar Hydro finished their race and it is simply unfair that they are the ones paying for the **** up of "the leader" in front. At least note them down in last and pre-last position so they receive some points.

Regards,