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Gizz
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im grate at fixing these!!! send it to me ill even pay postage.......

although i carnt promise you will get it back

oohh and give it a clean before ya post will ya it just help with the technical side of the operation
Gizz
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as said above really there so different so its down to PP

the thing that turn me of ovals (in LFS) really had nothing to do with the track, now before i say this i dont want a linch mob after me ...

i went oval racing a hand full of time's and the drivers on there were so........... aragent?? now i only did it a few time's but thats just what i found, im not saying (by any stretch of the imagination) that all the merry go round drivers act like this so be gentle ...

other than that it just doesnt float my boat, i dont HATE ovals or the drivers you guys payed for your licence just like me...
Gizz
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Quote from Dissident :This change (I went from 75% to 60%) made lots of improvement. It has gotten much more fun driving the FOX and now I'm down to 1:10.50 on BL GP, with a TPB of 1:09.70. Thanks a lot, Gentlefoot

dont thank gentlefoot!!! his head is big enough already
Gizz
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oopps i did forget to mention the MP aspect of LFS too, by far the best netcode of ANY race sim, and come close to being one of THE best,

thats also a good point its very easy to find a decent race, you get the odd.... what shall we say? primate? that decides its fun to take the side out of your car but since the devs tweaked the the kick/ban its a lot easyer to send em packing...

as for the community ..........

i hate you all ......... NoObS

i need a kuddle

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hey ya johnpenn... ill be kicking ya ass again soon once get the missis to hand over the cash for me new wheel not easy i can tell ya
Gizz
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sweet marry your fast!!!
why we love LFS?
Gizz
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ok im sitting here with my wheel in bitts, thinking why do i love LFS so mutch???

i keep a pretty close eye on whats new in the gaming world, and they seem to make em by the boat load these days, i have a wordrobe FILLED with games, but i only play on what 4??? on a regular basis, so what is it?? whats the differnce between LFS and the other boat load i have..

i was just reading some reviews on LFS and although it was getting some grate reviews and remarks, the bad things they had to say i actualy like about LFS..

the devs have done somthing that 999.9% of dev's/pubs refuse to do and that is give the player quality CONTENT!...

GRAFIX..... maybe one of the biggest selling points in todays gaming industry, imo its a sutch a shame, is LFS cutting edge?? by no means! is it ugly/outdated imo again by no means, the devs hit it PERFECT!, this meansthe game gets more people able to run the game, everyone is expected to run alienware pc's these days just to run tetrus ..

one of the things mentioned in most reviews was the menu's/layout in LFS, call me nuts but i LIKE IT! most games these days have stupidly fancy menu's were some programer has spent weeks and IM PAYING FOR THAT, now all thats fine the first time you open up the game (this goes for grafix too), but after a day playing it means NOTHING!, ill admit when i first fired up and saw the menu's in LFS i thought "hhmm bit plain" but to be honest i wanted to grab a car and go for spin, not marvel at a awsome menu comfiguration... i spend milliseconds in that part of LFS...

what im saying is the above means nothing after 3x of starting the game, i understand some people like top notch grafix, but these games are constantly pushing what's possible, thats grate but 9x out of ten there very unstable, and thats ALL they are grafix...

i have tons of games that have insane grafix but i dont play em, to the masses grafix is the kiddie! but we simer's are a special breed and LFS is at the forefront imo..

i open up LFS now and i can picture the devs saying "yea i know its not the prettest but come through here see where we HAVE spent the time", considering LFS is still not finnished we still have one of if not THE BEST! technical simulation model out there, tires/suspension downforce, you name it its cutting edge, stuff missing yea we know there is but i sit here now KNOWING that the devs are spending the time on the things that count, upgrading the tire moddel the aero model, adding this feature ading that feature, and not spending MONTHS on killer grafix updates and menu re-shuffles...

when a patch is released we GET SOMETHING! sometimes thats small somtimes big, but the word "patch" to most game devs out there means "to fix what we stuffed up in begining" yes we have had a few of these here, but VERY few and far between, these mutli million£/$ outfits knock out games with no sound and you just shelled out 50 quid! well all those millions sure aint gone to quality control has it???

when S3 hitts we will probably have updated grafix and god knows what else BUT it will still have the awsome content AND those grafix wont kill everyones PC's ....

so to cap it all off i love LFS becasue for once the some devs decided to put there time and effort into CONTENT, not flashy this and blinging that, plus it works sollid, they worked on what counts, and thats WHAT COUNTS FOR ME...

i wont shell out for those grafix munchin mosters of games again ill just buy 20 copies of s3 so the ones who deserve it get my hard earned doe not some nancy sitting in a office bigger than my house saying " will it sell???? grate that will do"
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Gizz
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hehehe yup gota love the final turn one of my favourites in LFS....

as for the brakes!

im not so mutch talking about how mutch you apply, we all driver different and drive different setups..

what im trying to say is TO ME it seemed like a life time from comming off the gas and applying brakes and down shifting, as i say this MAY be lag but even with lag it seemed a little drawn out...

ill try and explain....
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you come to braking point

you come off the throttle
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you then apply brake
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then you begin downshifting...


thinking about the reason you think standing on the brakes feels strage may be because in that time (between comming off the throttle and braking) the car has already slowed down by some margin, so if you hit the breaks then you feel you are going into the turn to slow...

try-->

come to braking point
throttle off
brakes
downshift
turn-in


it all needs to be a bit more closer together, i hope ive explained it a little better now ... if you do that and you feel your going in to slow shorten your braking point.... dont forget the more time you spend on the throttle the faster you will be (unless your loosing traction all over the shop..) but you seema smooth driver by default anyway so shouldnt be to mutch of a problem..
Gizz
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carnt make this one but ive been watching your races GF and im somewhat interessted , need to get my hand back in with the F08 as ive been mainly FOX lately, but i just love the fv8 best car in lfs imo..

soo when i get my new wheel (old one died) ill be sure to sign up are all the races this long??? gota love the longer races
Gizz
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Quote from Dajmin :
I should patent that idea before Logitech come along and steal it

to late m8 i did last night
Gizz
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Quote from Riders Motion :Just set the tires at full pressure with damn *** long gears and you'll be able to pwn everyone

hehehehehe
Gizz
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ok took a look....

first few laps your lines are all over the place duno if was just you getting settled or what because last 2/3 laps ya lines wasnt that bad..

by watching that i think get a few problems sorted out you could be quite fastbut there are few things that stick like a sore thumb though, get this sorted you times will drop a LOT...

1. im falling to sleep when you start comming off the throttle for a turn, watch that again and see how long you coast!!!, you come off the throttle and do nothing for a good second then apply breaks and turn in, it all need to be speeded up a lot, off the throttle strait onto the break and start kicking down the gears this will slow you down MUTCH quicker shortening your breaking point plus the car will be more settled going into the turn in phase, you seem to have your foot hovering in mid air for what seems a iternaty, slow that sucker down!!...

2. near every lap in T1 you excelerate after making the turn (nothing wrong there mabe a bit sooner but that wll come) then you change into 4th gear VERY quicky, your loosing tons of time here that small chicane after 2 will make a good lap or a bad lap, and your loosing weeks in there, dont change so soon the engine is taking ages to puck back up those revs you just killed by changing to early, try changing just before the 1st apex in the chicane..

3. again chicane after t1, way to mutch lock used, your line is not great through there, remember the more you turn the wheel the more speed you scrub off and the time lost there you will carry all down that strait, find the line with as little turn as possible get that right its near enough strait though just 2 little KICKS...

4.final turn your drove me insane!!!! lol, your line was pretty nice through there on most laps but you keep comming off the throttle!!!,
watching ya line through there and how the car takes it you SHOULD be full throttle there easy, again another big turn as regards lap time, just nail it your line is good and so is the car so dont come off the gas!!.....

there are a few others but imo those are the main things, your not full throttle on some of the places you should be but that comes..

but for the love of god speed up the breaking procces i dont mean flick down the gears like a nutcase but your slowing down WAY to slow, i dont even know how you get those times by doing that lol..

last tip... if you post a replay again as regards to ya driving post a SPR not MPR as its hard to judge what lag and whats driver!

hope that helps a tad
Gizz
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well fair play to ya m8, just goes to show ya aint gota shell out shed loads of doe to have fun in LFS
Gizz
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Quote from J.B. :IMO using LFB to catch oversteer only works in LFS because the setups all have unrealistically far forward brake balance.

not sure i agree with why LFB works and its conection to setups, but i do agree brake balance in LFS is way to forward biased, this causes untold problems with front tires, but we have the best team working on this game so i have no dout it will be sorted one day
Gizz
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hehehehe i had to post it, i was just milling around on the hunt ad stumbled on it, i nearly choked to death on my sandwich...

john are you joking??? surely you didnt really race wit that?# it looks like it couold be fun though
G25 owners.... think ya good now???
Gizz
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justs put in my order ill show u u G25 guys what a wheel really is

http://cgi.ebay.com/HOT-WHEELS ... ZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

no drooling please
Gizz
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Quote from thisnameistaken :I'm not interested in sitting on a plastic cushion that pokes me in the arse. Not for $500 anyway, when I can get the same thing for £20 down by the docks.

well thats my new sig sorted, when i read that last night i nearly clapsedwith laughing and was still titering this morning... priceless i tell ya...
Gizz
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Quote from deggis :FIA's IQ has finally reached a state where it is 1% higher than a monkey? .

do you know anything about monkeys deggis??????, they are actualy clever animals!, i find your selection of words very worrying, the only thing they have in common withthe FIA is that there both a protected species ....

but really i agree with blueflame here, although its step in the right direction how they gona police this??? imo this whole moving aero is a bad idea but i supose its still in early talks sowe await with baited breath
Gizz
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LOL i dont post mutch really, but when i do i usualy bring the server down .....

besides my wheel has broken so i have nothing else to do LOL
Gizz
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arrrrrrrrhaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrr.... you finaly sucomed to my constant drivil and woffle hehehe...

no but really.... how come come you manage to say the same thing as me in 3000 less words?? i think i know what the wife means now
Gizz
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hehehehe again i agree with part of that....

lewis is fast yes but the media have made him out to be some kind of god and its wrong, the only thing hamilton has done here is be bloomin stupid when it comes to the MEDIA, has he done extreamly well in his rookie year?? i dont think anyone can disagree there, im not botherd what team or car he has done awsome!, BUT!!!! putting him against the like's of MS and most of all SENNA! i mean ok the kids done well but hamilton wont show if he has better pedigre in racing than the like of senna and MS for a LONG time yet so i wish the frigin media would stop this BS, they do this with every sportman that does well, they make em into a god and destroy em, i know if i was lewis i would want as little to do with these clowns as possible they will destroy him if he dont learn and QUICK, take a leaf outa KIMI's book...

ive always thought kimi was the fastest guy for some time with the right car he just hasent been very lucky imo, begining of this season he struggled but overcome this midway and im pleased for him because keep being held back by one thing or another he's never really had the chance to show what he can do, alonso has got to be the luckyest guy on the plannet imo LOL, i think now kimi has his WC now next season if he has a car thats racable i think we are gona see somthing special, alonso?? well this season he naffed it up big time its gona take him next season atleast before he is ready to go for the WC again imo..

i also agree with the past f1 BIG MOMENTS, again the media bigging up this hamilton thing, i think lewis is grate, but again (yes i hate the media LOL) the media make me sick, all season i may as well have been watching 3 sometimes 4 drivers race, race buildup is a farce, listening to them 2 tell me how grate lewis is is not my idea of a race build up, if ya gona do that make a friggin documentry on the man then i can choose to watch or not, but i wana know how how the midfield is doing, as i said LOADS of new tallent this year, shame we havent seen em, only time we do is when there's contact or an off...

the whle lewis story i dont agree on so mutch, yes i agree it takes a lot of support and extra money to be competative in karting, but one thing is that he KNOWS he is where is is becasue of his dad, thats a heII of a lot more than mr alonso will admit to (i did it all alone man {jerk})...

again we have to take into acount how lucky lewis has been, most folks nock him for that (thanking that guy thanking this guy, team bla bla bla) but you dont get that very often in our day, but he HAS been VERY lucky! he was sponsoured by mclarean VERY early on, thats him basicly sorted upto F1, all he had to do was keep showing he had the tallent and keep winning, not many F1 drivers can say that they have had tat kind off backing from such a early age, fast forward a tad to F1 he gets a seat in one of the fastest cars on the track, again not many (virtualy never happens) f1 drivers have had this luxury... so THATS why lewis has had sutch a start in f1 and everyone is talking about him, if he HAD landed a seat at spyker we wouldnt be talking about this now cus yea he would be doing well but would all the media be pitting him against the likes of MS and SENNA (grrrrrrr) because he is looking good for the WC in his rooki season???? nope....

all im saying is there are 3 types of fans IMO

1. hamilton is the best thing to sit in between 4 wheels
2. hamilton is quick tallented young and lucky but (as of yet) not senna material..
and 3rd. lewis is a jerk slimy arrogent pip-squeek..

those in class 1. need there heads testing and need to look at the bigger picture
those in class 3. again bigger picture (but not nutts )

people carnt be in the middle here, like marmite love him hate him lol, 2 sides to the story here but classes 1 and 3 refuse to look at the other side...

1. the kids had a string off breaks that have lifted him to where he is, weather that be a supporting farther, or mclarean taking him while he was near still in nappies, he's been VERY lucky

2.the kids got tallent in a race car, he's bloomin quick..

put em together you get a class 2 badge .... hes quick but lucky, time will tell if he is MS/SENNA material..

finaly the media have already started killing him, lewis this lewis that, im british would i have liked him to win hhhhhmmmm the patriotic side of me (not a lot there really) says yes, but for f1 AND for lewis as a driver ??? NO i think it went to the right driver imo....

its pretty simple really he did well got a few wins/podiums awsome way to go but the media blow it all out of proportion.. i like him but if i hear that guys name one more time im gona crack!!!! this season shouldnt have been called F1 instead it should have been "go lewis go", again TIME WILL TELL if he is MS/SENNA material not the blasted MEDIA
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Gizz
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blueflame!...

i partly agree with you on hamilton, its all paned out very well for him, and lets face it MOST drivers that come into F1 have to prove there worth first in the other slower teams e.g spiker as you said, that i agree with... i also agree that there are a lot of other good NEW drivers come onto the scene vitel included... would they have done as well as hamilton or better maybe???? iiiim not so sure, and nothing sarcastic there just my opinion, am i saying in comming years one of these said drivers wont be in the title race with hamilton, no way there are a few new drivers that for me are showing awsome promise, best year in many seasons for new tallent (forget the whole hamilton sarga in that remark)..

and yes vitel is doing grate and i also think kubica has done a awsome job this season, but your remark "whilst hamiliton is crashing out in a good one" is imo a bit far fetched.. i admit i think he was not as composed in the final race as he should have been and the pressure got to him, but geeeez loosing the WC by 1 point in his rookie year and beating the WC alonso is IMO not crashing out...

although i did think that was not nice when he said that about the slower cars, but as i said hamilton is crap with the media
Gizz
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Quote from SamH :I'm definitely coming out of this season more disparaging about F1 than ever before, while being more polarized about the drivers I like. I've always liked Kimi, most especially since he missed Michael Schumacher's leaving presentation because, as I recall he said, "I was having a shit".

I also like Hamilton. I don't sense that he's arrogant at all.. he always thanks the people who help him achieve - something I rarely hear other drivers do - and I can see he has a really good relationship with the engineers in the garage. I think he's a team player, and that's endearing.

I've also very much come to dislike Alonso intensely. I am surprised Briatore's ready to have him back at Renault. I remember Alonso complaining, towards the end of the last season, that the Renault team and engineers didn't want him to win the season. Alonso said he thought it was because it would give a McLaren car a champion race number. In short, I think Alonso has issues of paranoia, that have done nothing but get worse over the last 15 months. He needs a year out, to check himself into an institution.. I hope McLaren bench him.

agreed!... i also remember sometime last year how he was harping on that NO ONE had helped in his racing carrier, he had done it all himself and how hard it was and all that BULL!.. racing/karting isnt somthing you can do on your own, you need finantial backing of some kind more so as a kid in karting, plus all the rest of the stuff.. travel and all that, when he said that in a interview i must admit my opinion on alonso dropped and hasent stopped dropping ever since...

everyone else in F! has someone to thank, you dont end up in F1 while doing it ALONE, i thought that was very selfish...

i like hamilton, and let me tell ya its not hamiltons fault hes disliked by so many fans, its the media...., i love hamiltons story grate thats it, he and his dad pushed and pushed through hard times and bad, we all like to here those stories but bloomin heck the media have made him look like some sort of god!, ive heard things said in F1 coverage like "hamilton USES the media very well!" ?????????/ hamilton is usless with the media, i like him but he doesnt know when to keep it shut somtimes, im not flameing him he's still blo0dy young in the most fiece of sports, but sometimes he says a bit to mutch...

Now KIMI!! knows how to play the media, just watch him, he's an artist, you have never heard kimi complain about his team/tmate he does it all behind doors, i think hamilton will learn a lot from this season...

alonso made me laugh so hard when he said on the final weekend "i dont think a scruitineer was necessary" ???????????????/

put it this way if i was a f1 driver in a team that i REALLY did think was playing games and tampering with my car, i would be over the moon that the FIA had heard my cries and sent in a guy to make sure nothing was being done underhanded to jepadise my WC....

alonso dont have the pace one week, mclarean are tampering with his car, tire pressures low, made him peddle round... the week we have a scruitineer in the mclarean gararge we have a different view from alonso...

"it was my fault"
"the changes WE made didnt work in the way WE hoped" funny that cus its been " me me me" all season,

if you watched the whole season in one go now (or just think back) he started doing <funny> things after the second race, he (nor did we) expect this kid (hamilton) to be handing the 2x WC his rear on a plate,..

alonso is no strager to WC's going to the wire, did u see him drive like this season against MS? or KR the season before??? nope he was madjestic, this season he lost his head big time,
and as we all know here push to mutch and you go slower and imo thats what he did this season, but he let hamilton rock him.

On the podium in brazil he had just missed out on his 3 title and he was pretty happy why?? because he didnt mind loosing it to kimi but he was dreading the day he had to stand infront of a tv camara and "congratulate" this kid team mate in his rookie season for beating the him the WC who is driving the same car!!,

i can understand that in a way its the way sportsmen are but no need for all that this season, alonso could have had 2000 point and himilton only 1 but hamilton shown him up this season , and not on the track either, IN THE MEDIA and alonso has noone to blame but himself this season, shame cus he's one hell of a driver when he does what he is best at and thats NOT spinning yarns LOL
Gizz
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as im surfing these boards due to my wheel going for a burton

BUMP!

wish i could be there mate i REALLY do

good luck with it
Gizz
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Quote from tristancliffe :The FOX has the engine out the back, so you've got to be quick. Most people, in both games and reality don't realise they need to correct for ages into a slide. You need to sense the slide MUCH earlier - even predict it.

Then the best way is to come off the throttle slightly, and apply opposite lock. Make sure you remove the opposite lock when the grip returns, else you'll overcorrect and spin the other way. Don't floor it (won't help in RWD 99% of the time), and don't lift off (last thing you want to do is reduce load on the rear tyres!).

The FOX is, in my opinion, by far the easiest car to drive in LFS, including the XFG, so it shouldn't take you long to drive.

dont think there's anymore to add, things just happen faster and a bit more savage, but as said above you carnt get a easyier car to drive/race, the thing goes round on rails, thats why i like the FV8 still better than F1 car..... in the S-S class cars though if you dont catch it in time your going off or gona spin, with the other cars i find you can leave a imanant slide for what seems weeks and still be able to correct it but i only drive S-S cars, so its probably just me practice practice practice
Gizz
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Quote from GoodKraft :In McLaren We Trust. :trophy_si

i hope, next season will be more lucky for us [mclaren's fans]

amen to that cough/ bye alonso bye cough/
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