Resizing to a lower resolution is a loss of quality IMO.
I don't know about filefront, but comparing youtube with google video, google video uses (or used to use, dunno how it is now) a slightly higher resolution than youtube, which meant a better quality (at least in my terms of understanding quality), but therefore longer download times. (Don't think, my definition of quality is only resolution though)
Youtube works fine for smaller bandwidth connections, such as mine. Of course, the more bandwidth you have, the better the quality can be, but I'd still prefer a low-res version anywhere, that doesn't needs hours of buffering.
First of all: very nicely done!
Second: I would approve of a version with those fake-belts, they may not look very realistic, but at least a bit better than drivers without belt
I go by that nickname in real-life too, so everybody who knows me should be able to recognize me. Also it's quite a bit shorter than my full name and makes it easier to type, so there's no intention to hide behind that name or to look cool by choosing my nickname instead of my full name, it's just to make it easier for me
You have your nice and short "Tim Ellis" oppossed to my "Michael Herkommer"; I hope you get my point.
It didn't seem as an insult to me anyway, more like an evil humor, which I appreciate, and seemingly Ian sees that the same way, not as a personal offence
It's practically only about finishing, just the drivers with the blue lights have real ambitions for the overall win, also mainly for the prestige. Because of the vast amount of classes they have there, a lot of people have chances to win their classes, but as I said - 24h Nordschleife is mainly about finishing, you can see that if Team A decides to push Team B the last 10km, even if they're rivals, just so Team B does count as finisher
If you wondered about the blue flashing lights: The 20 fastest of the training get them, so the slower drivers can tell more easily if that's a really fast car that is about to lap them
Something like the music addon pack, might be nice to see LFS' standard textures in high-res done by Eric. I'd rather have him do the car models first though ;p
I loved Olaf Manthey's comment just now:
"Now that the race is red-flagged, and the cars are collected at the start-finish-straight, parc ferme rules apply, meaning that nobody is allowed to work on the cars. And those guys in the blue vests are there to make sure nobody actually works on the cars." - some mechanic points at the monitor and says something Olaf - "But because they can't control it well, there are no parc ferme conditions "
What was basically told the last time: Some drivers got it in pits even before the race was red-flagged, because it was too dangerous to drive; there even were drivers outside who didn't know where they were (i.e. didn't know about the next corner) and stopped with hazard lights.
edit: 4:28AM - something happend ... Some kind of security car drove along the start-finish-straight