Hi

I am looking for an FZ5 setup for oval that can do a race. Maybe 20 laps without tyres exploding.

I have great hotlap sets, and we spent hours trying to design a race set, but failed.

An advantage of uploading a lot of wr's at once, is that it is difficult for the previous holder to regain it, especially if that person lost a few.

I know exactly what is going on.

Quote as an example: "They are working on fixing this problem though. I expect it to work again soon, at which point the delayed emails should be delivered switfly"

A known issue, but no notification to users about it, only when people start to complain.

My complaint is not about DDos attacks or unavailibility of servers or issuesd relating to this.

My complaint is

1) No notifications about issues, but a pm "sorry, we are aware that the LFS Master Server has been down for the pas t4 hours, it is out of our control, but we are working on it" would be nice, or a note put on a back-up server, or even a note on an active server like cg.

2) In this case, I suspect my connection problems, like the email verification problem, is due to attempts being made to prevent or minimise DDos attacks.

Last edited by Jettascuba, Wed 17 Apr 2013, 16:00.

and since last night I constantly get the 'did not receive track info' message, so I cannot connect to any server. I never had any problems.

I am seriously getting fedup with all LFS's problems.

Since 0.6E everything got worse

Note: and now suddenly I can connect again, took 30minutes of trying, same as last night

Last edited by Jettascuba, Wed 17 Apr 2013, 15:34.

Full Name: Gerrit Conradie
LFSW Username: Jettascuba
Requested carnumber: 45
Teamname: Fast and Crazy
Teamtag: fnc /
Nationality: South Africa

Yes, the Storm250 was great, though my race snowballed into a huge mess.

What are the requirements for this event?

Lap and skin?

Full Name: Gerrit Conradie
LFSW Username: Jettascuba
Requested carnumber: 45
Teamname: Fast and Crazy
Teamtag: fnc /
Nationality: South Africa

Thanks for the advice, guys.

I got totally fedup with my wireless connection, that is 80% of the time okay, and then randomly it goes to the pits like this week.

Now on a landline trial, ping down to 170ms, with 3ms jitter. Yippee!

Hopefully I will now cause less frustration to other drivers . Will see tonight at the RN Club series practise.

Am now evaluating different broadband suppliers, most here gives out a 7 day free trial.

yes.

BUT, I just connected via teamspeak to the RN server and my ping and jitter are like 450 ms ping, with 460ms jitter!!!

Connecting to any other European server (apart from LFS servers), my ping is half and jitter low.

Except if my ISP is limiting my game server access ATM - never happened before though.

Quote from CodeLyoko1 :

well thats high, how about speedtest?

same, but that is normal and okay and I can drive okay like that normally. Just got spectated due to lagging again from an MRc server, last night from FM Oval and also ETCC GT1. This is not normal.

Quote from CodeLyoko1 :

whats your ping to the average lfs server?

About 210ms with a 5ms jitter, no packet loss

Just wondering, my pingtest and speedtest results are normal, but my lag the past 2 days on lfs servers makes it undriveable - ping a bit higher, but jitter is galactically high. Any ideas, anyone found the same?

Quote from beckyanne19 :

Thanks again for all the advice - lots of friendly folks here. I started LFS as a way to get some autocross practice - looking to try out autocross this year, but I got hooked on the GP racing. Started with the XFG, but moved to the XRG since most of the other cars are RWD and I learned to drive on RWD cars.

It looks like the consensus is I need to watch / follow better drivers to get a better picture for what they do, and where I lose time.

BTW, 2 glasses of wine after work do not seem to help the lap times for XFG or XRG much at all.

Thanks again, and happy racing.

Drove some of my best quali times after a glass of wine

btw, as long as you do not mess up other drivers' races, being courteous and cautious, you will be welcome on any racing server, never mind your times.

and the best way to learn is to just take the leap and sign up for a league!

I signed up for the OLFSL 2011 league 2 months after starting with LFS, qualified dead last, 95 out of 95, for the first race, but darn, I learned a lot during that season!

Hi

Just get onto a server and start to drive with other drivers. The AI's ignores the Clean Driving Rules and you will not learn a lot getting by them as they will stay on the racing line never mind what. Exception is when your AI's drive a lot and gain experience.

Anyway - first get yourself up to speed, learn to drive good lines, try to stay with other drivers, how to get out of the way of faster drivers.

Passing other drivers... first see whether it is really something to be bothered about at this moment.

Drop by at the Gentleman Drivers Club server when it is not private, you will learn a lot and get lots of help.

Good luck and welcome!

Cool video, nice syncronisation with music

ok, master server is down, waiting... with 38 laps to go

Session of Incident (Qual / Twin 115 Race 1 / Twin 115 Race 2 / Kyoto 250 Race): Twin 115 Race 1
LAP AND TIMECODE of Incident: Lap 14, Time 14:70.90
Car(s) Involved in Incident: #46, #45
Brief Description of Incident: #46 lost control after bumping #45 in T3, #46 skids to the left, regained control, returned to the racing line in an unsafe way, hits #45 on the side, slamming #45 into the wall, costing #45 a pitstop, loss of nearly two laps and any chance of quaifying

Last edited by Jettascuba, Mon 25 Mar 2013, 11:32.

'how qualifying works' correct link, had some html typos

http://newdimensionracing.com/ ... 0-qualifying-how-it-works

The 'how qualifying works' link is invalid

#45 G.Conradie

Last edited by Jettascuba, Sat 23 Mar 2013, 19:33.

I am unsure where to ask, but this is about pit lane use:

The Clean Driving Rules states:

P-3: Cars on the pit driving lane have right-of-way over cars in, and coming out of, the pit stall lane.
P-4: When leaving the pit stall, drivers must join into the pit lane immediately unless there is oncoming traffic.

Last night I have seen drivers finishing their pitstops and then driving on the left of the pit parking spaces, passing drivers on the left while they are stationary doing their pit stops. In one instance I was hit by a car passing on my left while I was stationary.

In my opinion:

Proper use of pits:

1) Stay in the pit lane
2) Turn sharply into your pit parking space, do your pit stop
3) Turn sharply out of your pit parking space into the pit lane
4) Fill up pit parking spaces from the front towards the back - especially when 15 cars try to pit simultaneously.

Quote from ZanBarBone :

Basically whenever i turn the wheel and then release it, letting it spin back, it only comes back to the center, and not to the other side.

??

Quote from ZanBarBone :

Hello guys.

I'm quite new to this game and wanted to ask something. Whenever i try to drift, my Logitech g27 acts weird, i think.
Basically whenever i turn the wheel and then release it, letting it spin back, it only comes back to the center, and not to the other side. That way the car doesn't really counter steer.

In all the youtube videos, of people drifting in lfs with a g27, i've seen, the wheel couter steers, while mine stops at the center

In the video below, once the guy releases the wheel it spins the other direction.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugLuqipotL8

Another example of what i want to have

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kuy7Xnt8YN4

Is there a way to get mine to do the same in the setups somewhere?


Thanks.

Well, a real car's steering wheel will always try to go back to center when releasing it. You have to do the countersteering, the G27 won't.

If you disable FFB and center spring, you will get what he is doing. But he is using the wheel's momentum to throw it in the other direction, the wheel isn't doing it by itself...

You can also just pull the power plug on your G27, will do the same.

Don't practise too long offline, online is different and you will improve rapidly.

Play it safe, wait for race to start and join the grid late to be positioned last. If you get blue flagged, spectate. Saying if these are some of your concerns, but go online and have fun. If you drive really bad, but carefully, you will be respected and assisted. Try not to ruin someone's race, study and follow the clean racing rules, and you will find the online experience great.