Team Name: spdoRacing
Car Number: 19
Drivers:
T.Hirvonen [Misan] FIN
J.Mattila [.deFINe.] FIN

So, it seems that the plan is to start in a little over a week from now. Do you intend to actively advertise the league this time around? I remember that last time there were only a small handful interested, and I personally PM'ed about 50 British members of this board, so I'm still quite sceptical about numbers this time around.

I don't really want to sign up myself until I see a few other names on the list, but obviously if everyone is doing that then there won't ever be any. However, I don't really want to risk paying to race against 3 or 4 other people every other week, and I'm sure there are others who share that mindset.

Edit: Also, according to esport-racing.com, the first race is on April 1st. The opening post of this thread states April 4th as the date of the first race.

Last edited by joshdifabio, Sun 23 Mar 2008, 01:23.

Well done .

You can't Alan, you can't!! (In a Seth Efrican accent )

What program are people using to watch the video Bawbag posted? Using VLC the video is extremely choppy and pretty much unwatchable. My PC is pretty crap, but I don't usually have any problems watching videos on here.

We want to see the controversial pass!

I'm afraid I'll have to miss this.

I'll certainly be down in Sussex at the time and, it being such a long way to travel, I can't really commit with any certainty.

Quote from Worm :

I completely miss that.
I havent seen there were some activities on this

I guess its too late for the france.
I was not worry beacuse i read this at the beginning.



And i didnt read the news, i was thinking it was still a project.
Applications is close or not?

Yes, I'm afraid it's too late now :/!

I added myself to our driver line-up as it seems likely vincper will be unable to race due to connection issues.

Quote from Victor :

ok that's done.

Thanks Victor .

Quote from Victor :

Can you guys have one voice please? You're both saying different things.
Should they be deleted or moved to an archive? I'd prefer the archive. We don't generally delete whole subforums. Our rubbish bin also contains no forums.

Typical Arrow contradicting me in public! If it's easy for you to move all of the current sub-forums into an archive sub-forum I think you should do that. I'll deal with Arrow next time I see him on MSN!

Quote from Arrow. :

Or Victor if you can create "Archive" subforum we will move threads over. thanks

We'd still have all the nation sub-forums though which we need to get rid of! He could delete those afterwards I guess...

Hi Victor,
This is a bit of a nasty request I'm afraid... could all of the sub-forums in LFS World Series possibly be moved into a new sub-forum, called "Archive"? We aren't using them anymore and they are a real pain when you just want to read the threads at the bottom of the page! So the new structure would be LFS World Series > Archive > Argentina, LFS World Series > Archive > Australia, etc.

Cheers,
Josh

Quote from Thommm :

I think its only for the flag before a name in the tracker

Yes, it is. But, if they are copy & pasting this somewhere for it to be parsed by a script, it seems likely that only one of "Holland" and "Netherlands" will work correctly .

Quote from BURN :

what is that information for?

To me, it says: I´m still dont care about the work that was needed to prog this great Sim, but i want all my stats counted and hosted by the dev`s website for free!

Is "Demo racer" something you are proud of?

What a completely stupid reply!

#16 spdoRacing
GT1 XRR

Vincper, Ho Feng Wong, Netherlands
MarcG, Marc Gassner, Germany
.deFINe., Jari Mattila, Finland
joshdifabio, Josh Di Fabio, United Kingdom

Edit: Looking at Thommm's post, I'm assuming we should use Netherlands and not Holland? I ask because afaik you copy and paste these posts somewhere, and I wouldn't want to bugger things up :P.

Last edited by joshdifabio, Fri 29 Feb 2008, 21:26.

Please can team managers confirm their Nation's attendance in Saturday's Qualification round here.

Date: March 1st @ 19UTC

We expect the following 16 Nations to attend the Qualification round (countries in bold have confirmed):

• Austria
  
• Croatia
  
• Czech Republic
  
• Denmark
  
• Estonia
  
• Finland
  
• Germany
  
• Great Britian
  
• Ireland
  
• Netherlands
  
• Poland
  
• Russia
  
• Serbia
  
• Slovak Republic
  
• Slovenia
  
• Sweden

There will be three seperate races running at the same time, on three seperate servers. Each Nation is expected to enter two drivers into each race; which means that 6 drivers in total will be needed from each Nation.

Race details below (server names in bold).

LFSWS EU Qual 1
Car: UF 1000 (UF1)
Track: Aston Cadet (AS1)
Qualifying: 19:00 UTC for 20 minutes
Race: 19:30 UTC for 35 laps

LFSWS EU Qual 2
Car: FXO GTR (FXR)
Track: Aston Historic (AS4)
Qualifying: 19:00 UTC for 20 minutes
Race: 19:30 UTC for 20 laps

LFSWS EU Qual 3
Car: Formula V8 (FO8)
Track: Westhill International (WE1)
Qualifying: 19:00 UTC for 20 minutes
Race: 19:30 UTC for 30 laps

Passwords will be sent to team managers several hours before the qualifying sessions are due to start.

Please post your confirmations in the thread located on the offical LFSWS Forum.

Last edited by Arrow., Sat 1 Mar 2008, 03:58.

Thanks to the admin team for getting this done, I certainly don't envy your jobs at all!

Me and my housemate picked up a couple of bags of pork-scratchings from the local petrol station on our way back from town tonight... we bumped into some chavs who told us about an earthquake in the area. I commented on how blatantly the chavs were lying to us, but they were infact telling the truth!! Who'd have thought it?!

Anyway, I'm thoroughly disappointed that I missed this. Hopefully next time we'll get some sort of warning so I can pre-emptively load up Call of Duty.

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

Do you think this needs to be explicitly written in?

Possibly, I do think that it was a problem during round 1. Maybe just add that attempting to immediately re-pass a car which has just lapped you is seen as defensive driving.

SamH: I think that you need to realise that "hotlapping", as you call it, is probably the main part of endurance racing. Look at the results from any IGTC or MoE race and you will see that the teams posting the fastest times are at the front! If a team is more aggressive than others at passing backmarkers, and gains 0.2s per lap because of it, this adds up a lot over a period of four hours. 0.2 per lap would equate to around 40 seconds in the race just gone.

It's not fair to keep critisizing teams for wanting to lap as quickly as possible; if a team wants to challenge for wins then they can't possibly give away a few tenths every lap. Remember that in an endurance race you aren't constantly battling for position with the cars around you, gaining places is achieved by being quicker over a long period of time, which means being fast lap after lap.

I also want to add that hotlapping means being fast over 1 lap, being consistently fast over a sustained period of time is a different skill entirely. People need to stop bashing others for wanting to win races!

The most annoying thing is when you lap someone, and then they draft you out of the corner and you have to yield to them into the next turn to avoid an incident. This just loses (note the correct spelling nubs) both of you a lot of time and is completely pointless, especially when you are clearly quicker.

It should certainly not be allowed imo, it's basically the same as defending a pass if you continually attempt to repass a car as soon as it laps you. This is especially common with the GTR class as the FZR is a lot better than the others under braking, the FXR accelerates more quickly from the corners, and the FXR and XRR both have a higher top speed than the FZR.

The only PM I received was one that was sent to all of us! So no more that I can tell you about .

Uhm, 1:07.49 for 19 J.Mattila (.deFINe.) .

Well that really sucked for me. Has anyone else had unusually low FPS with this weather setting? I had below 20 FPS with mirrors on, and no higher than 30 FPS with mirrors disabled. I could barely keep it on the track. When the safety car came out I tried to tweak my graphics settings... changed texture setting to low and the game just froze for ages :/. Then I was kicked to the main menu, lost us a lap I think.

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

The problem would be that the car in last place would never cross another split line and hence the gap would never update.

Ah, I assumed you'd be using x.y laps instead of time to show large gaps, but actually showing the time difference does sound more attractive. Personally, I'd flag a car as a DNF if it hadn't crossed a split line in more than n minutes. This could automatically correct itself if the car resumed racing more than n minutes later. For me, n would equal 5!

Anyway, I look forward to seeing the finished article some time in the future, it sounds very promising.

Edit: One other point; it would be good if the tracker could be mirrored on other servers to spread the load. It's output could be made available in XML format on the host server, with a generic PHP (for example) script publicly available which would parse the XML file and creates a proper HTML output. This way, anyone could create a mirror without needing to be given direct access to any database.

Last edited by joshdifabio, Sat 23 Feb 2008, 04:39.