It must be a warm feeling for Eric to see that all of his creations are getting some love.
Some personal favourites:
Rendesvouz
Le Mans
The Driver
Taxi
Mad Max
Rendesvouz
Le Mans
The Driver
Taxi
Mad Max
+1.
I know it's been discussed before very often.
I'd like to see oval racing because I enjoyed NR2003 so much. (Which was a big surprise, as I had never been an oval racing fan before I played that game.)
But an extra reason I'd like to see stock car racing on ovals in the game is that it's a great way to highlight the brilliance of the LFS physics model. It seems to me that a poor physics model, like say GT4, can fool people into believing it's realistic when they're driving a car around a track with plenty of corners, because they at least have to make some braking and steering inputs. But when you put a GT4 car onto an oval, it becomes plain even to credulous players that the physics are awful, because the experience is just so dull. (Rubber band trick anybody?) What made NR2003 great, from my point of view, was that it got me to appreciate that there actually is some subtlety and car control required for oval racing: it's not just mashing the loud pedal.
Trying to keep a heavy, high-powered stock car out of the wall on an oval perhaps a bit more interesting (i.e., shorter) than the Kyoto Ring would be one more demonstration of LFS's physics supremacy, I think.
I know it's been discussed before very often.
I'd like to see oval racing because I enjoyed NR2003 so much. (Which was a big surprise, as I had never been an oval racing fan before I played that game.)
But an extra reason I'd like to see stock car racing on ovals in the game is that it's a great way to highlight the brilliance of the LFS physics model. It seems to me that a poor physics model, like say GT4, can fool people into believing it's realistic when they're driving a car around a track with plenty of corners, because they at least have to make some braking and steering inputs. But when you put a GT4 car onto an oval, it becomes plain even to credulous players that the physics are awful, because the experience is just so dull. (Rubber band trick anybody?) What made NR2003 great, from my point of view, was that it got me to appreciate that there actually is some subtlety and car control required for oval racing: it's not just mashing the loud pedal.
Trying to keep a heavy, high-powered stock car out of the wall on an oval perhaps a bit more interesting (i.e., shorter) than the Kyoto Ring would be one more demonstration of LFS's physics supremacy, I think.
Man, what's with all the Kev-bashing lately?
Kev, I promise to try to get out on track more often so there's someone you can beat.I know, I know, it's already been sorted out. But can I be the film noir driver?
Detroit eh? From the way you pronounce "beer", I thought you were from Boston.
Looks to me as though you're apologizing for apologizing too much.
I think you should not be so hard on yourself.
Well you just made about 26 new friends in a hurry.
+1.
I think this option worked extremely well in NR2003 and I don't see why it wouldn't work in LFS. I agree with Sinbad that you would probably want to exempt a few settings from the "fixed" condition, such as brake pressure and max wheel turn settings, but I think the principle of a level playing field (as an option, of course) is great.
I think this option worked extremely well in NR2003 and I don't see why it wouldn't work in LFS. I agree with Sinbad that you would probably want to exempt a few settings from the "fixed" condition, such as brake pressure and max wheel turn settings, but I think the principle of a level playing field (as an option, of course) is great.
Gimpster, it sounds like you're more angry at crap driving and sportsmanship than you are at the specific practice of binding a chat key to "sorry".
I have a key bound to "sorry" but I still try very hard not to put myself in situations where I need to use it.
I disagree with your thread title. Mapping "sorry" is not bad: running people off the road and thinking you can glibly excuse yourself is bad.
I have a key bound to "sorry" but I still try very hard not to put myself in situations where I need to use it.
I disagree with your thread title. Mapping "sorry" is not bad: running people off the road and thinking you can glibly excuse yourself is bad.
Yes, you can certainly have zero. And that would make ten.
Here's a helpful chart:
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OK, I'll bite. Where do you get 1060? It's 36^^4 = 1679616 isn't it?
Someday somebody will come up with some great video of senna87 driving around a supermarket car park and "firing off" Volvos that don't yield quickly enough for his taste.
Scary huh? You'd think this group of people would be naturally interested to educate themselves a little.
Edit: that came out wrong. Obviously lots of people here are highly knowledgeable about motorsport. I'm just wondering why there's a minority who (for example) don't know what a blue flag means.
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What about something like NR2003's "laps per incident" statistic? Obviously you sometimes got credited with an incident that was not your fault, but if after thousands of laps one guy has an LPI of 60 and another has an LPI of 5 then you know who is cleaner.
(For some people of course, the true measure is "incidents per lap").
(For some people of course, the true measure is "incidents per lap"
).I don't know about unsolvable. How about limiting people to 1 chat binding message every 2 seconds, and no more than 10 per lap unless they've got admin status?
According to our friend George B., the French have no word for entrepreneur.
Android, I missed that thread the first time around. Great graphs, thanks very much for the hard work.
I enjoyed it a lot. It was the only PS2 game I've bought in the past 24 months or so. It's not perfect, but it sits at a happy medium somewhere between GT4 and LFS, and it has a nice version of the Ring in it. I find it most enjoyable with the medium-power RWD cars. With the faster race cars I don't find it as convincing.
So Tristan, does it follow that you use 15-25psi in your FOX sets in LFS? Would you go as low as 14 as in the Reynard?
Dan, I think he's referring to the fact that you got about 2.5% worse fuel economy in the test that you did. Don't know if that's enough, but it looks like a difference.
Wow. Thanks, Don, that video is a thing of beauty.
To the original poster, yes, the guy sounds frustrating, but you'll probably be happier if you just ignore him. You know he's wrong, and that should be enough.
To the original poster, yes, the guy sounds frustrating, but you'll probably be happier if you just ignore him. You know he's wrong, and that should be enough.
Clownpaint, I find your rhetorical wriggling disingenuous in the extreme.
Sure, white people have been enslaved on occasion. That's a matter of historical record. Your point in bringing this episode up when the more recent and more extensive issue of black slavery is in the news can only be to deflect attention from the culpability of European nations in what was done to Africa. One can only speculate about your motives for doing such a thing.
I apologize to the rest of the readership for dragging this sort of political issue into the forum, but I could not let CP's original comment stand unchallenged.
Sure, white people have been enslaved on occasion. That's a matter of historical record. Your point in bringing this episode up when the more recent and more extensive issue of black slavery is in the news can only be to deflect attention from the culpability of European nations in what was done to Africa. One can only speculate about your motives for doing such a thing.
I apologize to the rest of the readership for dragging this sort of political issue into the forum, but I could not let CP's original comment stand unchallenged.
Bah, you got me. It seems I am the closet racist, not respecting BA's achievements.
So presumably you get my point, right? When Lars Ulrich of Metallica wants to come down on Napster and Napster users with legal action, he is a whiny bitch who is attacking your internet freedoms, but when some guy does you the enormous compliment of stealing your skin, this is up there with Operation Barbarossa in terms of great historical betrayals?
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