Firstly my sincerest apologies for the extremely uninformative title but that was the first thing that crossed my mind.

Anyway, I got this email from MTV3 that redirected me to this news article. The most interested people can look it up with google translate.

Quote :

MNK muuttuu 31.12. MTV Oy ei jatka MNK:n palveluntarjoajana. Tuotteista ja ylläpidosta vastaa muutoksen jälkeen Dodreams Oy. Muutoksen yhteydessä palvelu saa uuden nimen: 5laps.com - "5 laps is all it takes to tell how you race".

5laps.com on palkintoja ja mainetta keränneeseen Live for Speed -ajosimulaattoriin perustuva helppokäyttöinen pelipalvelu. Luvassa on virtuaaliajamisen huippukisoja entistäkin monipuolisemmilla rata ja auto -yhdistelmillä. Tule ottamaan muista mittaa ja kisaamaan upeista palkinnoista. 5laps laajentaa verkossa käytävät kisat Suomen lisäksi myös muualle Eurooppaan. Nyt formulan rattiin pääsee ajamaan halutessaan myös televisiosta tutulla kansainvälisellä fiiliksellä.

Toivotamme sinut tervetulleeksi mukaan myös kaudelle 2011!

In short, MTV3 will no longer continue with the MNK shite. Instead it'll be run by a different company who are going to make it available for the whole of Europe from the beginning of next year.

So what do you reckon? Good or bad? Will all the mainstream wannabebawbags come crashing in traditional lfs servers like happened with MNK or will they just stick with the new-born 5laps competitions? Or will we see no change to anything?

Quote from Kalev EST :

I got the rank of Junior Sergeant in the Estonian Defence Forces.

Care to shed some light on that? I looked up Estonian military ranks and all the NCO's make no sense what so ever...

Anyway, 2010 eh?

+ Started uni.
+ Got out of teh army.
+ Bought a car.
+ Got a roof over my head.
+ Somehow managed to get a perfect score in my programming exam(s)

- Spent a bit too much.
- Managed to fail the easiest math course there is
- Failed the army, 12 months and mustered out as a private
- Insulted people. This should be among the plusses now that I think about it.

Quote from Gills4life :

"Y SO SRS?".

That white stuff isn't make-up, is it?

Quote from JackDaMaster :

Surely on restarts and on lap 1 it would be more benficial to run the standard chicane instead of that 'thing' :P

^^ That. If it was AS6 the right way round I'd understand the chicane (though arguably making the turn easier wouldn't always be considered good) but reversed you have probably managed to make a dangerous place worse.

What happened here was two yanks went to get engineering help from an aussie and predictably ended up with something that's completely the wrong way up...

Quote from E.Reiljans :

trivial

Well, taken into account Scawen was driven (by the devil probably ) to make a lousy installer a while back for no good reason, it would only be logical to go with the Microsoft way.

Realistically speaking this limited access for programs thing is probably the smartest way anyway. Plus it makes people think they can safely go watch titties on the interweb.

You know what they say, you can lead a horse to water but you can't eat it as well.

Like this? Apologies for the mess in the preview pic, I forgot how to press ctrl+s... fp

Here's a simple way you could do it with pyinsim

I'm still hating it.

I hate christmas :|

Whilst I'm impressed about the guys ability to do social phishing (or whatever it's called) I still think whoever it was is a clot and deserves to have his lungs eaten by a rhino.

So why would anyone here hack your account? Have you made enemies on cargame Or maybe you've got a stalker who knows how much time you spend whoring this forum.

Quote from JackCY :

Little question, how do you order teams with the same total points?

The ordering is probably done whilst high so it won't make any sense.

Quote from BlueFlame :

I would disagree.

Quote from BlueFlame :

You don't 'learn' anything in poker from other players. Play your own game. Don't second guess people. It's not a big skill game as people seem to think it is, which is what annoys me about it.

Yes and no. Why everyone (especially with funny money) go all in all the time is because the tactic works (sometimes) (if your hand is good enough.) The tactic is based on the fact that as an inexperienced player it a) eases your play from that point onwards as you don't have to worry about probabilities and it's impossible for others to make any judgement about your hand, other than it's a relatively good one and you're an inexperienced player b) it's to your advantage if you can scare people with equal or even better hands than you right at the beginning c) more experienced players don't want to go along with it and you end up with quite a high probability of robbing the blinds / ante.

Now because everybody does it, everybody does it if you see what I mean

Quote from J@tko :

Maybe he means it handles like shit when you add weight?

He might. Unfortunately they don't teach Hillybilly in European schools so I can't tell for certain.

I do know Phil lives in Florida ftr.

Awesome

That helps a lot. I get confused when I see a bunch of functions with operands that don't exist...

Last edited by hyntty, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 10:56.

Quote from Victor :

Actually another thing could be that your account balance at paypal is insufficient. In that case, paypal will ask for your card details, so you can add the remaining amount. 29 euro _might_ be just a bit short.

I'm not sure about this but don't you first have to convert your funds to the right currency? As I said I'm not sure if that's something paypal does automatically.

Also, why don't you (=Vic) accept payments in €? Last time the Pound plummeted 1,00 € was worth about £500,000.00

Still, 650?

Hi.

I'm really struggling to understand how receiving packets work. I would be interested in timing (lap-and split times and positions). I'd appreciate an example on how to retrieve that data if possible.

Well, you do have options. For example, go to http://www.lfsestonia.net/, register for the forum and ask if anyone would buy you a voucher code. Then you can send to money by bank transfer. I'm sure someone still follows that forum.

Last edited by hyntty, Tue 21 Dec 2010, 09:18.

You should be able to transfer money to your bank account, yes.

There also shouldn't be a problem with buying lfs with paypal. So what you should do is contact paypal and ask them (if you wish). There could be some issue at their end. It can also be a user error from your end. Bottom line, someone is doing something wrong but it has zero to do with lfs.

Quote from Raunokas :

im already registered, and i log in with my email and password. But, now i see one thing in paypal , that im unverified... , maybe thats the problem ?, can i use my bank account to verifie paypal account ?

No, being verified or not makes no difference (I had to check myself now )

Quote from paypal :

For security and legal reasons, there are initial limits on how much money customers can send, receive, and withdraw using their PayPal accounts. Confirming your card raises some of these limits and makes you a Verified PayPal member.

The limit I think is 1500 €

Well, this would be the utmost wrong place for that question since I don't believe anyone here works for paypal... It's a completely separate service provided by paypal and has nothing to with lfs.

Are you sure you logged in with your existing paypal account and you're not trying to create a new one? That's about all I can advice. When you leave lfs.net for paypal, you land on a page where on the left side you have the registration form for a new account and on the right login for existing customers.

EDIT: You don't need a credit card to use paypal! Especially if the account already has funds.

Is this lfs or paypal?

Or do you not get this (see attach.) when selecting to buy lfs s2 / s2 voucher?

You're trying to get a voucher code, right? At least that you can buy with paypal.

https://www.lfs.net/?page=shop

Quote :

Available payment methods are : credit card (VISA, Mastercard and UK debit cards), PayPal, Moneybookers, UK cheque and international Money Order.

JackCY: It's not the most constructive thing calling everyone crahsers. Nice pics tho.

So whilst I still have some influence in what you can and can not say around here, let's leave it be. You're just waiting for flaming to start.

Thank you, come again!

Fooled us all right. It was twice as convincing as she's fugly. No one doubted.