Quote from boothy :

Here's the full list of peoples' usernames on the group pic - you get a chance to compare it to the last time!

And yes like everyone else has said thanks to SR for hosting the event and to everyone else for turning up and making it a fun weekend!

Some action photos, caption the images if you wish!

Just noticed Joe Keaveney has lost loads of weight

Quote from danthebangerboy :

LOL nice one becky

I finished making a layout of the track on the BL carpark using google maps images and calculating the distances in LFS which allowed me to make the track as near the exact size it is IRL as possible, however, there is a problem...

I failed to take into account the fact that an MRT is significantly larger in size than a go-kart, so i am going to have start again but up-scale it in some way so the MRT fits the track properly, as at the moment you wouldn't be able to get 2 cars side by side anywhere. :weeping:

Maybe this will help?

Had a phone call from the Kart Centre, apparently some clothes have been left behind, and also someone left a rollmat in my house. If you think you have lost some clothing let me know. I will pick them up as soon as I can, and will post them to you if they are yours I will post photos of the clothes when I get them.

Quote from franky500 :

just got back in now... Bloody london! !

FTP incase people who took photos need space to upload on:

ftp://[email protected]

username: [email protected]
pass: wales

Feel free to upload all videos and pics.

Will catch up with you all later... i need the pub

It's run out of space I think Dean

LFS usernames

KayJay, Joe Keaveney, kiyoshi, Becky Rose, danthebangerboy, felplacerad, brood, Dru
Middle row: Boothy, McGas001, count.bazley, JasonL220, nihil, Andrew Lovett, jasonmatthews, Victor, Franky500, macker, adamlfs
Top row: Peterules, Mackie The Staggie, krslim, ferret, Bob Smith, [SR] Pablo, pswillies, [SR] keith , nigelpm, Tongey, Nick_A, Mp3_Astra

In game names

[SR] KayJay, [ICON] Joe, [SR] Kiyoshi, [SR] Becky Rose, Mr Barcrest!, FLP/r FEL, brood, CR|J.Parker
Middle row: Boothy, McGas001, SRS CountBazley, [SR] J Lovett, nihil, Andrew Lovett, [SR] Turkey, Victor, [ATC]Franky500, macker, CR|Twinflow
Top row: [SR] Pete, SRS Mackie The Staggie, krslim, [SR] Mark, Bob Smith, [SR] Paul, vMaxPaulW, [SR] keith , nigelpm, [SR] Tongey, [XOR] ((Onion)), SRS Passo

Some of the ingame names I am not sure about, but I have done my best

Last edited by jasonmatthews, Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:43.

The one with the ? Is [sr] kiyoshi, lfs username kiyoshi, real name ed

Sure will do when my pc gives me my net back from uploading 3gb of pics

OK, everyone has left now, WHAT A WEEKEND!!

Thanks to everyone for coming and making this a great weekend. Everyone got on great and mingled, and I hope had fun. Hope you all get home safely. Hope my facilities were ok?

The results

Race 1 (mini endurance)

1. [SR] Mark, [SR] Keith, [SR] Turkey - 107 laps
2. Adamlfs, Dru, Boothy - 106 laps
3. Passo, Mackie the staggie, Count.bazley - 106 laps
4. Nihil, Brood, [SR] Kiyoshi - 104 laps
5. Bob Smith, Joe Keaveney, Franky500 - 103 laps
6. [SR] KayJay, [SR] Paul, [SR] Tongey - 102 laps
7. NickA, Nigelpm, Pswillies - 102 laps
8. Becky Rose, [SR] J.Lovett, danthebangerman - 101 laps
9. Victor, Felplacerad, Andrew - 100 laps
10. Macker, [SR] Pete, krslim, mcgas001 - 99 laps

Race 2 (full endurance)

1. NickA, Nigelpm, Pswillies - 285 laps
2. Passo, Mackie the staggie, Count.bazley - 282 laps
3. [SR] KayJay, [SR] Paul, [SR] Tongey - 280 laps
4. [SR] Mark, [SR] Keith, [SR] Turkey - 279 laps
5. Bob Smith, Joe Keaveney, Franky500 - 278 laps
6. Adamlfs, Dru, Boothy - 278 laps
7. Victor, Felplacerad, Andrew - 276 laps
8. Nihil, Brood, [SR] Kiyoshi - 273 laps
9. Macker, [SR] Pete, krslim, mcgas001 - 271 laps
10. [SR] Becky Rose, [SR] J.Lovett, danthebangerman - 270 laps

A few pics attached.

Victory Photos from race 1 & 2

And All the karters

Last edited by jasonmatthews, Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:15.

Ok guys, we have setup 3 pc's for some racing tonight. We are in [SR] Tintop racing and we are [LFS] Kartmeet 1,2&3

So if you want to chat with any of us you can talk there

Ring me just incase I am busy/forget

Got the marquee up, it's quite big, 9 x 3 metres!

Quote from franky500 :

I will need picking up if possible from Ebbw Vale Parkway.

either 16:31 or 17:31 (should be 16:31 providing coach gets to cardiff on time)

Dean, why don't you get off at Llanhilleth instead. It is closer to my house, easier for me to get to, and less journey time/cost for you Just give me a ring when you are 15 minutes away

Scawen did post that he expected good things for LFS in 2009. Seen as we are far into it, and the shiccoko was first in LFS about a year ago, I think it is safe to say the shiccoko is only a small part of the new patch. This would lead me to speculate (also based on that german gaming thread here), that major physics changes are in progress.

This will mean that if they are major enough, then that means every car we drive in LFS, every track, every laptime etc, will be completley new to us, which would make me (and a lot of others IMO) very very happy and breathe a new life into LFS

Sounds good Deko, hopefully you can get a interview with me, passo & victor at least

Just thought I would post my plan for the weekend. I know we have one by Mark for the Karting but I thought it would help to also show you what I have planned for the rest of the weekend

Friday



18:14 - Pick up Boothy from Abergavenny Station

19:05 - Pick up CountBazley from Abergavenny Station

People will be arriving by car all day up until early evening.

So friday will be about taking all the arrivals. There will be snacks and sandwiches etc for the day, then I think we should order take out (chinese/kebabs/pizza's etc) for the evening. We should go over the team pairings also then.

Activities - Pool, Darts, Wii, LFS, cards, chess, getting to know eachother, drinking, eating etc...

11pm to 1am sleep (we need to be up early!)

Saturday

07:00-08:15 Get up, shower and get ready, coffee!! (4 bathrooms so we should be ok)
08:15-9:15 Breakfast at the local Cafe.
9:15-18:00 Karting (arrive at Kart centre between 10-10:30)
18:00-19:00 Showers/change clothes etc
19:00 onwards will be BBQ, watching IGTC (maybe we can get some people to talk on the live stream) and PARTY!!
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I have bought plenty of cereal and orange juice so that should send you home OK

[B][U]House Rules[/U][/B]

Smoking is allowed downstairs, but no smoking upstairs at all, and also no shoes upstairs. There is a bathroom (if I finish it in time :P) downstairs so it shouldn't be a problem. There will be a fridge and freezer outside in the marquee so hopefully we shouldn't need to go to the kitchen side of the house too much on the Saturday.

I have 6.5 mbs wireless internet and have taken my password off for the weekend and a HUGE (300 GB) limit so if anyone wants to bring laptops etc they are welcome to use my connection. I also have 4 ethernet ports spare for those without wireless.

[B][U]Flickr[/U][/B]

There is a LFS flickr group here - http://www.flickr.com/groups/lfs/

I have setup an account for you to use to upload photos and videos, the account id is - lfskart and the password is kartmeet

Photo's from the event will be uploaded to here throughout the weekend so those not attending can follow us

(Obviously please other people please don't start putting crap in there and using our 100mb allowance, this is for the community so don't take the piss)

Does that sound OK to everyone? And also have I missed anyone out who needs picking up?

Last edited by jasonmatthews, Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:48.

[SR] BreadC is working on Saturday but will come up for the BBQ

Left

tbh I think that there might be more than a few, that is alot of karting and it is going to hurt on that small and windy track

Ok problem solved, now we have another one

[SR] Pete and krslim are coming now, but this will mean one team will have to be 4 drivers. I assume this shouldn't be too much of a problem as some people might not want to do as much karting as we have planned. So if anyone would like to do slightly less karting and join a team of 4 let me know.

ATM we have a problem with only 29 drivers. That means I am short on the money for the karting and 1 team will need to be 2 drivers instead of 3. So me & Mark might be in a team of 2 and pay extra. If someone else turns up by then we will be alright. A few people said they might but we will have to wait and see.

I have pm'd everyone with my phone number, so when you get lost, just give me a ring. Also, give me a ring 30 minutes before you want picking up for those coming to the train station.

Quote from need :

10 day forecast

Yeah well that is wrong completely. It says rain for today and it has been sunny all day

[SR] Pablo will take this please

He couldn't afford it and wouldn't let us pay for him.

OK, besides the curbs, can someone explain to me why in every car in iracing, if you release the throttle, on a corner, or whenever, under braking, your car spins out?

Now I am sure, in real life, if you lift the throttle to change gear or brake, without giving it 30-40% throttle, your car doesn't suddenly go into physics meltdown and spin out?

Is this an iracing thing, because I have never seen or felt this in any other sim except gpl, or in real life... I am more than happy to accept that I am completley wrong here, but I don't want to learn a skill in iracing that is nothing like real life, it could kill me one day

Can someone who has driven any of these cars for real, please confirm that if you lift the throttle to < 30%, your car will go into uncontrollerable meltdown.... Even when you are braking for a bloody corner

You HAVE to always have a certain amount of throttle in iracing, ala trailbraking, to even keep the cars under control. I am willing to accept that some cars, maybe the skippy, need this wierd kind of control, but I cannot see why every car in iracing exhibits this same behaviour?

Surely, each car should need different styles/methods, but it feels to me like that if I learn the iracing way for the skippy, then i'm good to go in any car in the game...

Maybe I am being pedantic, but I simply don't feel that what is going on, and what I am learning to play the game, would translate to real life....

Quote from PMD9409 :

It's the curb, I'll repeat it until I am blue in the face.

Something about curbs in iRacing will just make you lose control rapidly. I never liked how the cars seemed to react over 80% of the curbs, so I just stay away from them now.

Would the curbs to that in real life?

On a side note, some of LFS's curbs are also ridiculous,which are obviously bugs, but not the majority