Because it's not necessary.

Quote from St4Lk3R :

Good Joke Flo, Haha.

So we have no new lfs content? Yes, of course.

• It's no new content that collision detection was improved a lot in some T-Testpatch (now known as Patch U).
  
• It's no new content that the track selection screen has been heavily improved.
  
• It's no new content that the minimap is now better visible and you can actually see the driving-direction of cars.
  
• It's no new content that LfS now already has a nice-featured scripting systen.
  
• It's no new content that LfS has now an even better autocross editor with marshal objects, restricted areas and hidden checkpoints.
  
• It's no new content that Victor recently coded a SMS Live-Alert system so I was informed at once when patch S came out. The Hoster of the SMS-Server will "of course" let ScaViEr use their service for free.

I did not even take the patch S improvements into account, and you say we need more content? These developers named Scawen, Victor and Eric are doing so much for us. They are actually reading nearly all of our suggestions and try to put as much as possible of it into the game and the websites. The least thing they need are users that are bitchin around the forums, revealing PM correspondation to the public or even using 12GB of the traffic the devs pay for for just showing us a simple chart containing the count of demo-racers and s1 and s2 licensed racers. Please people, think about your behaviour on this forums.

With a big "thankyou" and greetins from school,
Stalker

I don't say we need more content, I just say that all that bitching would probably stop if the kids have something new to play.

And yes, these things you mentioned are NOT new content. These are some minor features, but nothing new. Don't tell me you sit there and watch the super new track selection screen for hours.

Don't understand me wrong, my post was not meant to criticise the devs. I'm happy with the cars and tracks I have and I totally agree with the rest of your post. This was just my explanation why there were so many ugly posts in the last weeks.

P.s. The last change of the collision detection was over a year ago when we tested the pre-alpha demo.

All we need is some new LFS content, so the people have better things to do then to bitch around.

Quote from Crazy Harry :

848 446,17 € :banana:

5.952 € minus vat and server costs per month isn't much for a top-class game developer. So let's go demo-racers, buy some licenses.

Scawen, can you please add three more characters to the string 3g_ob_marsh ? I just noticed that it's not long enough for the word Streckenposten.


Edit: Another request: There are reports in the german forum of start lags since the addition of the script system. I think this could be caused by harddisk access when LFS searches for the script files. Would it be possible to add a switch to enable/disable the system so we can test if this is the cause for the lags?

Last edited by GP4Flo, Mon 7 Aug 2006, 16:33.

I'm now trying again to contact the guy who owns the server. I hope he will reply to my (snail) mail or I'll have to drive to Berlin to ask him what's going on.

Back from holiday I finally had the time to test the patch. I really like the new track menu and trackmaps. Looks a lot better now.


One bug: In the lobby screen the noun order is wrong when set to na.

One requests: For my translation I need more chars for the following strings (number of chars):
3a_hli_wron (1)
3g_cfg_reve (2)

I have to correct you Tristan, Victor has been with LFS for some time before the first demo was released. Here is an interesting read from early 2002:

Quote from Victor :

Right after this, I got a mail from Alex Evans (We-all-love-him-Statix who now works at Lionhead and he said two ex-colleagues were doing a very nice racing game now and that they were searching for someone to do music and sound for it. So YEAH OF COURSE! That's cool! Made contact with the chaps, gave them all my music and fortunately they liked it! So that's my main occupation now. For all you interested, www.liveforspeed.com. In March there will be a demoversion available for all you peeps to check! But get a wheel, it's MUCH nicer that way Though, still no money... yet. I'm not on a payroll with the game since they don't have any money either.. That's why I still work at the bakery. Money will (hopefully in showers be coming only when the game is sold. There is a risk of course.. it may not sell at all and 'waste' a year on that...but well.. we'll see what happens later! It's a cool game.. I promise.. Alex has done some very nice things for it too

(whole text attached)

Is it possible to let more cars on the track at once? I think the current time interval is too big.

I just did some test runs and it works really well.

About the attempts counter: Does it count the attempts overall or only the attempts you did with the current laptime? In my case the counter got reset to one when I did my current pb (2:08.110).

Maybe you can try the autox layout Tweaker did for the MRT5? It's in the lessons directory (AU1_MRT_AutoX_1.lyt).

I doubt very much that this will be a physic update. A compatible patch is more likely because it's still "U".

Quote from 510N3D :

very nice hope you have some fun on autox beside your dev stuff with victor

Maybe they are just building "tracks" like this one.

I'd suggest to use F1PerfView, this tool has everything you need about telemetry:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsdi/f1perfview.html

It's no conversion.

Quote :

It is scratch built by myself but still represents Blackwood.

http://www.rfactorcentral.com/detail.cfm?ID=LFX%2DRS

Quote from thd :

Whats that supposed to mean? LFS news are posted on RSC just like news of any other sim (by Simbin or not). Lack of any posts lately are probably due to lack of any real news in the LFS world...

Sorry, I should have posted the following link:
http://www.rscnet.org/mambo/in ... ew&id=61&Itemid=2

This post was by no means intended against RSC. What I wanted to say is, that the reason why e.g. GTR is more popular in those leagues is, that it get's a lot of promotion by the publisher. Just read the news, prices with a value of 10.000 euro, spent by 10Tacle. No wonder this league will get more coverage in the FILSCA magazines than most of the LFS leagues which are "just for fun".

Just like you wrote in your post. There is also a lack of news in the LFS world. Simbin gives out press releases about every little detail which will be added to a new game, Scavier does not.

Just read the latest news over at rscnet.org and you know why LFS isn't covered like the other (Simbin) games.

Edit: The server has been locked (for whatever reason) and I have no way to backup the data. Unfortunately the domain name lfswiki.net hasn't been registered to my name, but to Ronny. So unless I get a reply from Ronny I can do nothing but wait.

I do have a backup of the LFS Wiki, but it's several months old.

Last edited by GP4Flo, Wed 5 Jul 2006, 13:37.

Quote from Phlos :

But thoses reactions make me feel so bad...it's like everything I do is in the "wrong way"...

What you are doing now is by no means "wrong way". You just have to keep in mind, that we don't forget what you've done in the past. That's why me and many other people are so suspicious about the password thing.

Just keep the good things going and your reputation will get better in the future.

Quote from Scawen :

Oh yeah I did the reversing test and indeed my speedo works in reverse.

I did the same test in my parents' Peugeot 307 and it works as well in reverse. Only did the test up to about 20 km/h.

Quote from climacus :

Scawen, can you please add a legacy shifting mode to allow the use of H-shifter in the formula cars? I vastly prefer rowing the gears in the formula car even if it is slower. I think most ex-GPL'ers would prefer the choice of continuing with the H-shifter in all but the Williams F1.

Thanks!

Why do you want a H-shifter in a modern formula car? LFS is a sim and it should try to simulate the cars as close as possible. For the GPL'ers there is still the LX6 with a H-shifter, no downforce and it's as rear happy as the old F1 cars.

Last edited by GP4Flo, Mon 3 Jul 2006, 19:23.

Quote from Scawen :

How about if instead of a list of "colour files" there would simply be a list of relevant skins in that left column. When selecting a skin XRT_ABC for example, LFS would try to load a colour file XRT_ABC.col.

Good idea. But you should still be able to create a new color file to use without a skin. :up:

Quote from Scawen :

OK - and that's how it should be, right?

As far as I know, in some modern cars with electronic speedos the reverse speed is displayed as well. Have you checked how it is in your car?

Edit: Keeping in mind that most of LFS's roadcars are '80/'90 style that's probably not a big deal.

Last edited by GP4Flo, Sat 1 Jul 2006, 20:22.

Quote from Pablo.CZ :

I have quite different settings for buttons. My suggestion is assing only axes and gear changes to paddles, every week someone ask me how to do it (axes), but other buttons better leave empty for everyones own choice.

Quote from bo-kristiansen :

...thats the most strange button settings ive ever seen


...actually i dont see the point in having a default button setting,
because we all more or less use personal settings. dont we? huh? hellooo?

Yes, we do have our own personal preferences. But what about users who have just bought the game want to hop in and drive? They will be disappointed if they cannot use the shifter or view buttons because they don't know yet how to configure them.

So what about posting the settings you are using? Maybe we can come to a reasonable default set.

This just happened on a XF GTI Fern Bay Club server (forgot it's name). Do you know if it was running on Wine as well?

Here is my proposal for the Driving Force Pro default setting. Please tell me what you think about it.

Last edited by GP4Flo, Fri 30 Jun 2006, 20:57.

Do you like to collect S2 licenses, Phlos?