Quote from Macfox :

Development has stagnated

Stagnation is not quite the term you are possbily looking for in that context.
Every development curve runs asymptotically against completion.
You do big steps in the beginning, the closer you get to perfection, the tinier your steps become.
All we can hope for is that the dev´s find a way to solve zeno´s paradox - but i´m positive about that too.

Quote from only.one.RydeR :

Did you know that in the Philippines that $10 is P500? Not sure how to get the rest of the P1000 for S2, though.

lol... a second contest maybe?
;o)

Quote from polepositiondriver :

Hey everyone,

www.polepositiondriver.com is currently running a competition.

Hi there,

nice page, keep up the work.
Just some quick notes (OT) concerning your LFS review, car comparisons:

LX4/LX6 - You probably mean "Caterham", at least I´ve never heard of a "Cattermeran".
FZ50 - I always assumed the flat 6 in the back is more like a hint for the Porsche roots of that car.
XF GTI/GTR - A Seat Fobra would be new to me as well?
FXO Turbo - Here in Germany the Honda Integra (like most Hondas) has always been an example how to extract power from revs, not pressure.
So I don´t think it´s been the template for the FXO at all.

But I might be dead wrong about that...

great fun indeed.. is there some sort of notification for the upcoming DDs?

(car99)

Quote from Darkone55 :

Well, since we're talking about road cars... :P

Uhm.. you´re right.
"Slick" was the wrong term, it´s supposed to be "racing tires".
Until now I assumed even on the LFS road cars the tires are racing tires at least, sth. like the "Michelin Pilot Sport Cup" we use in the GLP-Cup.
No slicks - but no regular street tires either.

Or are the XRT rubbers supposed to 25€/pc tires from the dealer around the corner?

If so - you´re right again - they do have too much grip.

Quote from Greenseed :

so as a good example of a good moderator user : CSU1 will be a very very very very very bad example of a good moderator

WTF??
Go racing, stop spamming.
As I will now.

Quote from Darkone55 :

the problem might be the grip of the tyres, when they're spinning.

Slicks(LFS) vs. road tires(reality)?
Or what´s the comparison?

Quote from f4sttr@ck :

To me is seems like at full power it should only do it about 5.8 seconds max.

Just tried your setup, and had 7,5s in automatic mode, 7,3 in manual mode (g25 stickshift).

Don´t be too disappointed by your beamer when you got it, but no stock 328 in this world will be able to crack the 7s limit for 0-60mph (0-100km/h).
I drove a E46 328i compact (lighter and shorter than the coupé version, n/a in US afaik) in racing trim (removed 120kg from the car, shorter gearing, racing clutch and diff) and it hardly made it under 6,5s - which was very good already.

With summer being gone, dark and rainy days coming up to stay for quite a while I started to re-discover LFS just last week.
To spice things up I bought a new G25 - back on track.

I like LFS the way it is - perfect for occasional racing and a semi-professional career alike.
And I do like the approach to not focus on shiny bling bling nfs-style graphics, real cars or real race tracks and to put everything into racing.
As soon as you start implementing things like real cars you will have tons of car forum-powered experts claiming:

"Ouch - major ****up - the ´98 911 steering wheel was covered with hand crafted crocodile leather instead of penguin feathers like you did it..."

Conversation is a nice thing.
Smart people are nice too.
But once you started it you will inevitably get away from racing more and more and your racing sim would have to turn into a 100% accurate car database with GoogleEarth based, freely roamable racing tracks / cities - duh - and shopping centres of course, where people would by hats, sunglasses and helmets with their nicknames on it...

As much as I´d love to take a LFS-powered C06 to a LFS-rendered Nordschleife, that´s not gonna happen.
And left with the choice between a fully licensed FIA racing game with a so-so driving experience or a LFS as it is today - well, we all made that decision long time ago, right.
So I could happily forego w/o a real "Scirocco", I bet it eats lots of resources and manpower and hope VW did support the development somehow.

Punkt.

Quote from AndroidXP :

but more money will NOT speed up development or magically spawn new features.

This seems to be a misunderstanding to you and most of the other posters - vf1 wasn´t intending to speed up development or to ask for features in the first place.
There´s not a single line stating that.
Read before bash.

All he did was expressing that he cares about the project itself and wonders how the makers can afford to keep it up.
And the whole subscription thing was just one idea of many possible,
so relax.

I can understand his concern, I wouldn´t wanna see LFS go away neither.

Who would ?

Registered LFS just 2 days ago, my first go on skinning, inspired by one of my other hobbies...