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joen
S2 licensed
Quote from BEEAH :
Unless they have commited to creating and maintaining LFS by themselves why not hire one or two more people to help the process out?

They have often times stated that they don't want other people on board.

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They would still have full control but knock improvements and gruntwork out much faster.

More people does not mean faster development.

Quote from RMachucaA :slowly and surely newer sims will come our way, more flexible, bigger, better, nicer looking, better physics, more customizable, all the meanwhile the 3 will be working on patching up s2 beta. So potential customers will flock to the newer better sims, its a fact of life... and lfs will die a slow death since we all love it so much.

These types of discussions related to the pace of LFS development have been around for as long as I can remember and a comment like yours is made everytime. Yet, where are these new and better sims?
joen
S2 licensed
Quote from hrtburnout :I'm on ur bl1, hax!ing ur WRz.

O RLY?
joen
S2 licensed
Quote from Dalek0220 :explain why it spins a helluva lot.

Because you don't control it correctly it would seem.
In my experience, the RAC for instance is much harder than the FO8. And the LX6 probably too.
joen
S2 licensed
Quote from Dalek0220 :The F08 is TOO HARD TO CONTROL!


NO IT'S NOT!

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Traction Control for the Formula V8 can help. But treaded tyres can help(i think) to help. More people will use it, and well, the tyres would be labelled.

The FO8 is basically a copy of an F3000 car, which don't have TC.
And how would treaded tyres make it easier to control?
joen
S2 licensed
It could be because of your processor update. LFS's unlock system uses a snapshot of your hardware configuration as a way of "identification".
It's no big deal as you receive new unlocks anyway.
joen
S2 licensed
You mean on the forum, your avatar? You can't, it's restricted to S2 accounts.
joen
S2 licensed
Quote from Vaillant :
2) The False Start!!!

See the recent test patches.
joen
S2 licensed
Invite sent
joen
S2 licensed
Quote from JohnUK89 :/me gets down on knees and starts begging for an invite

What's your email addy? If you don't want to put it up in public you can PM me and I'll send you one
joen
S2 licensed
I like it a lot I would say the length is just right, some nice action there and interesting music choice
joen
S2 licensed
I'd like my passengers to be able to moon anyone who gets in my way.
joen
S2 licensed
depends on what features you are basing it on. So far, very little, if any have been confirmed by the devs as a certainty. Most of what these days are considered to be plans for S3 have spawned out of the community's collective head.

Basically I think that required features for S3 are limited to LFS' primary goals, which (in my interpretation) are making this sim as realistic as far as physics go, and to represent a wide variety of motorracing. The latter is primarily content related, which should take much less time once all the key physics features are implemented and completed.
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joen
S2 licensed
hectic
S2 licensed

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Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 4


Oh noes!

congrats
joen
S2 licensed
Quote from radweld :It always makes me wonder how software houses can get away with writing such bad software, LFS is a testiment of what independent developers can do, I dont know how much TDU cost to write but once you scratch the surface of the pretty cars, you discover a clunky slow game thats not even really realistic.

LFS dynamics, TDU concept and GTA gameplay would be my perfect game lol.

It´s pretty simple really, the average Joe just doesn´t care about realistic physics. Sim racers aren´t exactly a target audience for the big software houses, so they just don´t bother.
Besides that, even if developers would care about quality there´s always the guys in suits that care more about deadlines than quality.
The mainstream games market is really competitive so speed is high on the priority list.
joen
S2 licensed
http://ftp.4players.de/pub/lfs/sonstige/s2manual.rar



yep it's probably outdated, but if you want to use it as a quick reference it's still correct, probably missing info on newer features.
joen
S2 licensed
Quote from stevewhite :Erik does have to wait for an incompatible patch to release anything. And if he did release anything every 3 months or so, the whole community would be pissed!

I seriously doubt that.

Quote :All the hotlaps and everything getting erased EVERYTIME he released something? Once a year is fine, Thanks.

Big deal about the hotlaps. The last thing that should slow down LFS development are hotlaps. LFS is not finished, so hotlaps will be reset plenty of times to come. That's something people have to deal with when playing a game in development. It certainly shouldn't slow down development or release frequency.
joen
S2 licensed
You just mean pictures of wheels right?
Take a look on manufacturers websites, they often have pictures.
You could also look around here: http://www.smcars.net/forums/wheels-rims/
joen
S2 licensed
Quote from Mr-Zin :Gamers/Serious Racers it's all the same.

You're gaming when you're racing within this game, so there.

There IS a big difference. Sim racers may be considered gamers, but gamers aren't necessarily sim racers. Most people who play LFS definitely have different preferences, priorities and mentality than people who mostly play games like NFS.

I agree the typical gamer doesn't really fit in LFS. LFS isn't the type of game that needs millions of players as it is a niche product.
joen
S2 licensed
Quote from Rish :and all the dirt and not so clean stuff that you've just washed off your upper body!!

So? It's not going to stick on your body halfway...it will just drip off your body taking more dirt along it's way.
joen
S2 licensed
This would only raise the workload for the devs which is high enough as it is developing one version. So it would slown down development of LFS in general.
Besides, no seperate edition is needed for drifters as drifting does not require special features.
Also, I think it would attract...the wrong kind of crowd.
So that would be a no.
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joen
S2 licensed
Drippings ftw
joen
S2 licensed
You should really try to find stuff out by yourself, you will learn much more and better from it. At least try to get an understanding of the interface and tools. If you don't know how to resize or move objects you really should find out that first otherwise you will keep asking EVERYTHING here step by step.
joen
S2 licensed
The point is, this discussion has been held....countless times. I suggest to look for those using the search and don't expect to find too many answers in them.
joen
S2 licensed
...not again...
joen
S2 licensed
Looks great Unseen, will be using this
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