Quote from Macfox :

It might be better to weight restart votes based on laps. So someone who has completed 6 of 10 laps has twice the voting influence of a driver who has completed only 3 of 10 laps. Does that sound like a better way?

Yes that or a simple option to block all restart votes after lap x untill the end of the race where at this time the /rstend parameter enters in action.
So we could have three /rst commands:
/rstmin=30 (in seconds, no change)
/rstrace=2 (in laps, votes allowed for the first two laps then blocked)
/rstend=60 (in seconds, no change)

Quote from Macfox :

This kind of thing would be perfect for an InSim addon.

Yes, we are actually working on that but the idea is to have it as a server option, hence my post in this thread and not in the Insim requests one

Update to U30 which is fully compatible with U:
http://www.lfs.net/download/LFS_U30_TEST.zip

Now you can unlock it

CD1 is our very first server and it's still very popular, so yes it'll stay like that (GTR's @ AS3, and most important Free For All) as long as possible.
Of course there are good days and bad days, like any other servers. But I'm proud, yes proud and happy, to say that we got many beginners on this server and some of them are now in well known established teams. We always try to help and teach anyone who is showing efforts for doing good. This is also a place where you can see some aliens in action hence you may get good sets and good tips.

However the drivers who got a CD license can select track on the entry screen of CD2 (GTR's only).
You can also select track on CD4 for all GTR's (Big GTR's + XFR + UFR, FFA).
And CD3 is set to XFR+UFR @ AS1 and it's also FFA.

And much more to come soon

Quote from nihil :

No race servers? Then start some

Good point, but most of the time people want to join servers which are already populated. So they expect the other ones to do it whilst they just had to pick one or two mates and start a combo they like on any of the loads of empty servers and wait for people to join.
For instance on ConeDodgers 4 you can drive the GTR's and select the track you want on the entry screen. There are plenty of other servers allowing track selection on a specific car class. People just need the will to do it

Quote from nihil :

don't let it be GTRs on AS Nat... or indeed anything AS club... Fine as these tracks are, they are little more than drag strips with corners at either end.... So very popular. I wonder why?

Because these tracks are good for populated races. They are wide and quite forgiving which is good for beginners so they can learn many things with a reduced risk to create a mayhem. Have you ever seen an absolute beginner at South City ?
They are also good tracks for experienced drivers because they are not as easy as they appear to be and it's all about the finest details when you want to get more speed.
So at the end they are good places where experienced drivers and beginners can meet each others thus making them popular combos.

Quote from X-Ter :

Tracks, tracks and tracks... The cars we have in Live for Speed are great.

I second that

And also fix the stupid collision bug which is making some cars flying miles away for any little touch.

I think with more tracks and no flying cars it would be much better

Yes +1, we really need that.

Nice one, thanks for this tool

However do you think it would possible to use some parameters in a future version, for instance allow restart votes for 2 laps and then block restart votes untill the end of the race ?

Quote from the_angry_angel :

There are 2 commands built into recent LFS servers:

// no restart within X seconds of race start
/rstmin=60

// no restart within X seconds of race finish
/rstend=30

Whilst these don't do exactly what you want, they will prevent people restarting the race inappropriately, if you get it setup right.

For both the limit is 300 seconds.

I agree it's quite annoying when a race is restarted in lap 9 of 10 and admins can't be about 24/7, hence my suggestion:
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=588311#post588311

I like this one:

http://nismo.1g.fi/temp/lfshdtv/lfshdtv.avi

Here are two sounds for the FZR, they are not meant to be accurate but it's only a desperate attempt to give some balls and growl to the FZR. There is not much gear whine, I hate gear whine it's giving me a headache.
Both sound better in chase view mode, there is nothing much we can do to the on-board sound because of the pseudo stereo issue.

Sound 2 is really on the clipping limit, that's the reason why I suggest you to use it for on-boards views only because it may create distortion if used when spectating in some cases (e.g. a populated starting grid on the oval or South City where there is a lot of echo and early reflections). Sound 1 seems to be OK in all cases, although I find it a bit 'weak'. Of course it depends on your sound system and settings.

Anyway, here there are:

Quote from Lotesdelere :

BTW the space shuttle Discovery's first landing opportunity in Florida comes tomorrow Wednesday at 1:01 p.m. EST, with the deorbit burn coming about an hour before.
1:01 p.m. EST = 18:01 GMT/UTC = 19:01 CET

You can watch it live here:
Real player: http://www.nasa.gov/ram/35037main_portal.ram
Windows media: http://www.nasa.gov/55644main_NASATV_Windows.asx
Quick Time: http://www.nasa.gov/qtl/151335main_NASA_TV_QT.qtl

Landing opportunity #1 taken, Discovery is on her way back to Earth.

Quote from Gizz :

why do i love LFS so mutch???

Because of the online experience

Quote from Jertje :

It's possible to see with the naked eye, quite easily actually

But he wants to see details


BTW the space shuttle Discovery's first landing opportunity in Florida comes tomorrow Wednesday at 1:01 p.m. EST, with the deorbit burn coming about an hour before.
1:01 p.m. EST = 18:01 GMT/UTC = 19:01 CET

You can watch it live here:
Real player: http://www.nasa.gov/ram/35037main_portal.ram
Windows media: http://www.nasa.gov/55644main_NASATV_Windows.asx
Quick Time: http://www.nasa.gov/qtl/151335main_NASA_TV_QT.qtl

Quote from Bladerunner :

Does anybody now if it is in a geo-stationary orbit, or what?

Nope it's not.
Here is the tracker of the ISS (requires Java):
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/tracking/index.html

Average altitude is about 350 km so it should be possible to see it with a good telescope

Last edited by Lotesdelere, Tue, 6 Nov 2007 17:40.

For those who are interested, here are high resolution pics of the International Space Station with the new module Harmony node 2 brought and added by the STS-120 mission crew (click on the thumbnails):

Quote from mcintyrej :

Setup is an internal Fusion Racing one, sorry guys.

Oh, do you mean there will be a "Flying BF1's" league soon ?

Nice video though

Quote from e2mustang :

here is a pic,always from herei get: CiD

I just checked nod32,it checked many tousends files,no virus,no spyware,nothing

Good morning, Mr. Phelps.

CiD windows are generated by the infamous adaware Lop which is installed by programs like Messenger Plus!, BitDownload, BitGrabber and many other ones...

If you're lucky you should have a 'CiD Help' entry and/or a 'Messenger Plus! Sponsor' entry in Add/Remove Programs. Uninstall them all and reboot.

Then check if there are still some bad items on your computer:
Download and extract clean.zip into its own folder
Run clean.cmd and select option 1
A report will be created at the root of disc C: (C:\rapport_clean.txt)
If infected files are detected in this report then reboot in safe mode
Run clean.cmd again and select option 2
Reboot in normal mode when it's done

Feel free to do more scans with Spybot and Ad-Aware Free.

Good luck, Jim.

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Yes, fear him!

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An option to manage Restart votes.

Problem: after a chaotic start about 40% of the drivers have voted for a restart. Finally the race is going on but during the race some drivers retire. And suddenly the 40% of the drivers become 51% and the race is restarted in lap 8/10. Because the restart votes have never been cancelled. Annoying.

Suggestions:
Ability to set a duration after which all restart votes are automatically cancelled
Ability for admins to cancel all current restart votes
Ability to disallow the drivers who join mid race to vote for a restart if there are still x% of the drivers on track who have done the whole race from the start.

Quote from DaveWS :

Unfortunately like Bob says, you need to put the exhaust volume right down, even though this makes its rediculously quiet in comparison to the other cars.

Quote from thisnameistaken :

Thanks guys. I seem to have got rid of the clipping now, but yeah it does sound a bit tame.

That's the reason why we need a master volume per sound because if you change one of the settings the global sound balance doesn't sound the same anymore.

Quote from ATHome :

But, the BF1 was once the best sounding car in LFS in my opinion, before the sound update...

Yep, at least it sounded more like a F1 than it does now

Congratulations to everyone and especially to the winners, well done

Quote from Arrow. :

All Teams/Drivers Must Read the Supplementary regulations and confirm there entry for Round 5.

Cars: GTR (XRR,FXR,FZR)
Track: Kyoto Ring National Reverse

Cough, erm, cough, isn't it round 6 with FOX @ AS6R ?

Quote from SamH :

Who in the world could gain from doing such a thing to Hamilton's car??

Ron Dennis.