I have been planning to get a license for quite a while now and it looks like i can afford it after all

So how racing is done on S2 servers? I mean in demo every server is running a 5 lap race (i have had an 8 lap race only twice) and it would be fun to participate in a longer race (not talking about league racing )

Speak about your feelings when you bought an S2 license and entered an S2 server too!

Quote from nikimere :

you need to be more specific then, i was talking about the racing sense. considering it is a racing sim after all.

even the hot flatspots are smoking only when they touch the tarmac and you get this little ball of smoke from time to time depending on how fast you are going. It should be smoking all the time untill it cools down.

Quote from nikimere :

thats not true. when a tyre is locking up smoke only comes from the patch that is contacting the tarmac.
if you got your tyres hot enough to be smoking all over then your in trouble! lol!!

while drifting or spinning wheels all tyre heats up. (lololol!!!)

the only thing i don't like about the smoke is that it comes only from the tyre part which is on the tarmac. In reality all tyre is burning (if it's all hot enough ofc).

Quote from Frankmd :

I think the speed displayed on speedos in cars should be in m/s from now on. It will cause some awareness of how fast you are actually going. 100kmh doesnt sound that fast, but 28 m/s does. Especially if you are 2m behind the car in front. That means that you are only 0.07 seconds behind him.

when your are THAT close to the car in front you don't really care how fast you are going i think, it's more like you are fighting for a position and you simply don't have time to look at the speedo

more exact values
10 m/s = 10 * 3.6 = 36 km/h
36 / 1.6 = 22.5 mp/h

Quote from wE1l :

Nice video, well although I never drove a car that frantically I guess in the vid it DOES go sideways a tiny bit. It's worth mentioning that the sound only happens when the driver takes slow corners, which means that the sliding might be too tiny to be noticed.

You should try so you'd get a view what it's like. AND it happens at higher speeds (in this video) too. Just other sounds are much louder so it is harder to hear.

edit: Physically still friction force is much stronger than a 'sliding' friction force. Strange thing but tyre has most grip when it's sliding a little bit. Other surfaces lose it as one of them (or both) starts to move independently. I guess rubber features push that point a bit further than that.

Last edited by marsaz, Wed 19 Apr 2006, 19:17.

http://video.google.com/videop ... 167&q=car&pl=true

This is not an F1 but still. Tyres DO sound even if you can't really see car going sideways. Looks like tyres can slip a little bit before they lose traction (still friction or whatever it is in english)

It is my birthday today too, i am 19 now

Quote from JamesF1 :

Aha, but I wasn't talking about conifers Anyway, confiers' needles are classed as "leaves" anyway

they aren't "leaves" tho
and what you were talking about then?

Quote from JamesF1 :

There are if they're evergreen

a pine, a fir.. Those do not have leaves (but they are evergreen, yes)

Quote from Cipher :

maybe but it looks like Night time in the winter there so it could mean ice on the roads (that could explain the riddle) and night racing maybe :jawdrop:

There are no leaves on the trees in winter illepall

Quote from ajp71 :

Maybe they'll be colder weather (ie. the fog)?

When it's colder the air is denser and therefore you do get a large increase in power. With the long straight at Blackwood 10 bhp more would make a large difference to lap times and could mean laptimes under a minute.

it would turn down the grip tyres produce too
so you may be faster on straights but more caution would be needed during cornering.

If you get off the racing line the old blackwood guru knocks you off the track. So better waste a minute for braking and you wont get wasted in a minute by the guru

I mean look at the guru.. Damn, he's big!

tried the same with http://www.blackwood.com/
i bet that explains what devs have been doing lately: drinking and posting clues (teasing) illepall

Quote from Madman_CZ :

would the fox and fo8 really have lights tho? bit unrealistic to have lights on single seaters

they have red light at the back which is used when visibility is bad (rain, fog, etc.)

dunno but for me it doesn't look like a totally smooth fog
looks like some particles are hanging in the air.. i may be wrong tho

The fog looks like rain i mean you can see actual raindrops. That can be just an ps effect tho

Quote from Aegilops :

This is where Joca, Spikee, Homie, V17, Vito, Speedyboy, Evo Elec all hang out...

Low :23s are common, apart from when Joca comes down from his sacred mountain and blitzes everyone with a 22. Watch out for their last-corner-last-lap shenanigans, too...

Sadly for me, my pings times are too high so after a while they start grumbling and I have to skulk off, left to endure the endless drift servers in Australia...

Rakhsh

I've just got back from it to check the forums
I have been racing recently in that server. Pings are under 100ms since i live in europe too so i think it is quite ok. It isn't safe from wreckers. They are banned on sight tho and people who race there are quite fast and clean. I like it

Count me in! I like to drive safe

I think i would drive some faster car for more tight competition if i had S2

Thx for those suggestions about servers, i'll try them later
Yes, i have tried ghost mode and i like it. It is good as you can actually see in which parts of the track you can(should) improve but it is no match for the online fun you can get with nice and clean competition

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As i see there is no other real solution to this as buying a licence.
This was quite expected i must say but i had a hope

Thank you who replied for the advice

Quote from Vain :

But the best racing can obviously be found in league racing. The longer the racing distance the lower the risk that people will take, because they think: "Eh, better not crash here and wait for another opportunity"
Vain

Heh, well said. I don't think i am experienced enough to participate in a racing league tho. No hitting on purpose and a little bit more responsibility while making manoeuvres is all i ask for

Setting up a server on my pc wouldn't result in a good ping i guess. I've tryed it a few days ago and nobody joined it

Yes, T1 is always dangerous but if there are no wreckers nearby it is quite ok even if some soft contacts aren't avoided you can continue on.

thx for advice

I've been racing my XFG for months in demo servers just get hit by some wrecker or another i-can't-see-further-than-my-nose driver. Then i stoped. And here maybe a bit more than a month ago i reinstall LFS because it is a great sim and i like it. Tried XRT and found it much more challenging as it has rwd and more power to handle. So i start to tune my setup, run endless practice laps to get it right and to get used to the car and the sim. So when i decide that i can handle the XRT i try to play online... just to get hit by someone on each lap of the race

Is there some demo racing legue or private team or whatever servers where more serious people race who cares about racing, fun, competition and so? I am nothing in this community so far and i am not asking to give me some private team server password but i believe there is a way to get into a team or to become familiar enough for that.
I am not super-fast in the XRT, my PB on blackwood GP is 1:24.43 (online race) and i do drive smth around 1:25~ most of the time. I have been improving it lately tho.
I know that getting S2 license should be a solution for this but... it's just not so easy to afford for me (my bd is on Wednesday so this may change :shy

any help would be appreciated, thx