Update on my last post.

Now all 8 Redline servers are down and the Website forums.

If it's any help, Redline Servers 1 to 4 are still up along with Airio, and Servers 5 to 8 are down, as are the Redline forums.

If you are running Airio you can use the !pm command to setup private chat lists.
Not the best solution as it requires the guys who are spamming to set up the list and use the!pm command in front of every message, but it does allow you to talk to only certain people.

Just to fan the flames of speculation.

Victor was online in a Private server for a few hours over the weekend.

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Considering electric cars are the future, and smelly, air polluting, roaring and inefficient petrol cars

Who told you Electric cars are efficient and less polluting?

Currently a typical petrol engine is around 35% efficient, a Diesel around 45% and an electric engine about 20%. That includes the transportation and refining of the fuel and generating and distribution of the electricity.

What an Electric engine does is produce more pollutants but just moves them from the car to the areas where the electrcity is generated.

Bear in mind also, most of the Electricity is generated from burning fosil fuels and there are considerable losses in transmitting that power via the national grid.

Also currently most electric cars are much heavier than petrol or diesel cars and therefore less efficient.

And then there's the issue of the large amounts of energy used in producing the batteries plus the potentially toxic disposal or energy required to recycle the materials.

The only way you are going to make Electric engines produce less pollution is to make sure all the electricity is produced in Nuclear power stations. And in order to replace the current number of fuel based cars with electric cars you'd have to at least triple the number of Nuclear power stations that we currently have. And that won't go down too well with the anti-nuclear crowd.

I can't think of one reason why I would want to listen to the radio while I'm on a race track.

This is a race sim, you need your full concentration on racing.

You need to be able to hear your engine, the squeal of the tyres (one method LFS uses to give you feedback/feel that is missing from the real experience), you need to hear the sound of other cars near to you as well to help avoid contact.

So apart from cruising, which seems totally pointless to me anyway, I can't think of a single good reason for a radio feature.

I have seen this cheat used many times over the last year or so.

But it's not as popular as the speed hack cheat, I see at least two a week of those on Redline Racing servers.

Sadly the world is full of pathetic kids like this.

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great, so robin got a hold of batman :P

But the Joker is still keeping the servers down.

Welcome_To_Hell , try joining one of the Redline Racing Demo servers.

You will usually find someone to help you there, and RedlineGeorge is the current WR holder in XFG & XRG.
Many of the drivers in our servers are in the 1:32.xx to 1:33.xx times in XRG and XFG

I can usually help people improve their XFG times but I'm useless at XRG.

Just be sure to read the server rules before you start driving.

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There is nothing that indicates to other people in server that you use Aonio as far as I know.

If the server is using Airio you can tell if someone is using Aonio from the !pl (player list) command. You get an extra number after their name in a Cyan colour.

Not sure what the number refers to but it means they are using Aonio. And I'm also not sure if this info is only available to server admins or all users.

Same for Redline Racing Forums, very slow loading or times-out completely.

The Redline Racing forums were running very slowy this morning and now appear to be offline.

Yes I did read all of the post, and the bit about having all the 0.6 Vobs.

And no I'm not an LFS enforcer.

It just makes me sad that kids think they can do what they like to a game regardless of the rules/effects. Then they come on here crying that they need help to sort out the problems.

If a Reinstall doesn't help you then tough, you mucked about with things you shouldn't be touching.

You were never allowed to use VOB mods.
There is now extra VOB mod protection in the latest patch. It stops idiots who use mods from ruining other players races.
Vob mods cause collision detection problems.

Try reading the patch release notes.

http://www.lfs.net/?page=patch_6b

Sadly a large proportion of the last two generations of youngsters in UK seem to have problems with their language skills. They seem to communicate in a mixture of text speak and bad grammar.

A friend of mine runs a small business and often advertises vacancies in the local newspaper. This was part of a genuine attempt of one lad aged 18 to apply for the advertised job.

10th July 2010
i woz reading adverts in noospaper bout ur jobs. my mum sez i shuld apply i have the skillz u r wanted. Can u tell me wot i ned to do for to get job. i have put cv in this letter if u reads it u will see i have the things u need.i have dun stuff at school and Coolidge and got good grade. i work hard and hav not got any trouble wiv police except for stealing a car last year but it woz not me it was my mate that did it i woz just riding in passenger seat. i want ur job to earn money and to be good at it if you can teech me. i want skillz for other jobs too. do i have to cum to u and do an intervuw or do i just ask u for job. i havnt got smart cloves only trainers and stuff but if u giv me job i can get ware smart stuff like ties and that but until u giv me 1st money i will hav 2 wear trainers and stuff like that. Plese tell me wot to do so get ur job. yours sinseerly XXXXXXXXXXXX

Apparently he turned up the next day to see if he had got the job and was quite abusive when he was told he was unlikely to be considered.

I think it might be solved.

The Redline website forums are much more responsive and I was showing as having 0% packet loss on one of the Redline servers.

There wasn't anybody else around so I can't say what it will be like under any load but looks good so far.

Still unable to use Redline Racing servers, lag is too bad.

All players show as having over 0.5% packet loss and are randomly being kicked for lag. Airio keeps going off so we have no admin capabilities.

Does it really take this long to swap out a network switch or update it?

All of Redline Racing servers and website are down.

It seems that iRacing think their new tyre physics will be ready this summer.

I don't know how many of their team have been working on the physics but they admit it was the hardest part to do.

Here's a snippet from their press release.

In a major press release today, iRacing outlines its ambitious summer update. At the heart of the 2.0 summer-long update is the new tire model, which the release says “will revolutionize the way iRacing members race online, providing unparalleled realism and the most accurate racing experience ever produced for a PC.” iRacing’s CEO Dave Kaemmer said, “This new tire model is our best work ever. It was incredibly challenging and time consuming to develop an understanding, mathematically speaking, of a racing tire at the limit and under all sorts of conditions… The tires are clearly the hardest thing to simulate for any racing title, but I think we’ve nailed it! I believe it is going to bring simulated racing to a whole new level of enjoyment and realism.”

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You've been beaten by a few hours!

Sounds about right for me in LFS racing

Take a look here to see 7 of the LFS Rockingham circuits in action

http://www.rockingham.co.uk/ab ... kingham-circuits-lake.php

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Gener_AL (UK) I think he was racing Track AS3 - FBM on the FRL server Jacksun

Ah, OK I was replying based on his first post comments.

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Okay so i just bought the game a few days ago, and problem i have with playing blackwood DEMO servers is the first corner crash, even if i try to avoid 50% of the time end up getting cleared off the track... Mildy annoying.

jippyuk - Redline Racing currently have 9 Servers, maybe they were empty when you looked and you had Show empty Filter set to NO? (it's an option at the bottom of the ingame server browser list)

Or if you were looking at them ordered on name, they will not appear under R as the R character is made up from some symbols.

Have you tried Redline Racing Demo servers.

Whilst the standard there is fairly high, with many drivers doing Low 1:33.xx times in XFG and 1:32.xx in XRG we always welcome beginners.
I assume you meant 1:38 instead of 1:58?

As long as you want to race seriously and move over for the faster guys when necessary.

The server is manned for a large part of the day with Admins and marshals so the racing is generally very clean. Crashers and bad drivers are warned and removed from the race if they don't improve their behaviour.

You'll often find many people to give you advice on improving as well. I can usually get most people into 1:34's after a few days.

I'm on most days especially between 18:30 and 21:30 BST

I'm usually racing as RedlineQuinn.

Redline servers 1 to 4 down.

5 6 and 8 are up but have no Airio as that's hosted on the server 1 to 4 are on.

server 7 went down a few days ago but nobody has been able to get it running again as CP isn't working.

Try Redline Racing Demo servers.

We try our best to keep them crasher free.

There's an Admin or Marshal on for a large part of the day.

If there isn't an admin about you can post a replay to our forums and can be assured we will ban the sad little crasher very quickly.