LOL.

Classic.

Keep it up.

Does everyone know we are running W17?

Are we still hosting this Saturday?

Another couple announcements are in order.

We have another new Provisional member today.
Our 18th member and our second in two days, please join me in welcoming [LOTF] MEETOO (mee too).


My other annnouncement is simply that all of our servers are now on patch W17 and have the max slots.

Our servers are supposed to upgraded today sometime to W17.

Land Of The Free Racing is proud to announce another new member today. Our 17th current member, sure to be a great addition to the team.

|||JayHawk

Welcome to the team, Jay.

Three cheers for three years!

Congrats to you all.

... I haven't worked a day since I've had it.

jayhawk,

We could use a member like yourself.

Land Of The Free Racing is 16 members strong, all Americans form east to west coast. Many members have been members for a year now.

Check out our website and register on our forums to see whats going on.

http://landofthefreeracing.com

http://forums.landofthefreeracing.com


We're involved in multiple leagues and are preparing to present our own team series. You can usually find us on one of our |||LOTF servers weeknights and some weekends.

If you want to email me... [email protected]

Nice thread Grunt. Good to see you on our server last night. Troll some more US servers when you get the chance.

http://forums.landofthefreeracing.com

Maybe I missed it. But where was it ever said that the SC could be passed to make up a lap?

I tried to make it clear that we tried to ask about that before hand and were told not to. Now, show me where it says it's ok to pass the safety car... maybe I missunderstood.

In either case, the report makes us out to look like fools because we didn't pass the SC. Are we fools because the rules are not made clear?
For cryin out loud, we tried to do the right thing during the race.

Your report makes it sound like from the horn honking I'm supposed to know that means pass the SC? For all I know your just a horn happy fool! Indeed, I was thinking first.

I think the report is well written and the added quotes and all are cool but it is ignorantly biased on some of the reporting.

Last edited by MARSH2a, Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:53. Reason : "Think1st", indeed.

Three cheers for Nine and mr_x.

Quote from MadCatX :

I agree with you neglouseight. Particulary in Formula and GTR class cars it's a bit ridiculous that it is all done step-by-step. But on the other hand, it doesn't matter if there are four tyres changed in 8 seconds or one tyre changed in 2 seconds, but done four times. Time spent in pits is what counts, and that seemes to be quite real right now.
Maybe once when there is a pit crew modelled this should be changed, but now just +0.5

I have to disagree. Time spent refueling and all 4 tire changes takes too long in all the Formula cars. When was the last time you did an 8 second pit in the BF1 changing tires and refueling?

Quote from r4ptor :

SC can work, but it need some work and especially ppl need to think about what they are doing while being behind one - and that includes not staying behind SC as the first car, if you aren't the leader... that hurt us bigtime :|

We specifically asked about this earlier this week and were told not to pass the safety car.
I was suprised to see Sheppard do it on one SC lap when the SC came out of pit lane right in front of us, only because we were told not to.

@Jack, LOL I'm pretty sure I'm the hippy here.

Quote from BenjiMC :

TS wont be up for this round also sadly. although i can try n sort sumet out

We have TS, 20 slots or something you folks can use. We don't use it we prefer Ventrilo.

Quote from mrodgers :

All this talk of people spamming "Blue Flag, move NOOB!", generally calling people noobs, and general noobish behavior is truely surprising me. I see nearly everthing is being commented from over there where the main base of LFS is.

I've been racing nearly nightly for 2 years now with LFS. I am now pretty much exclusively on the STCC servers. I have to say, I rarely see folks doing all this chat yelling or noobish behavior. I can't count how many times I've run up on a guy a lap down or a midrace joiner who pulled over and let me by in the last few weeks. I have seen on occasion the "Blue Flag" spam, but it is rare. I also often see on the map someone just joined and is coming down pitroad when I'm coming by and I see them easing down the exit waiting for traffic to pass.

Yes, I do see this stuff, the blue flag spam, the blue flag ignorers, the midrace joiners entering the track in traffic, but it is very very rare. Another thing I don't see often is racers getting irate over being crashed. This is probably the one thing that happens more than the others, but it is still not all that bad. I will see someone crash another racer, the sorry pop up in chat, and a "np" or "no problem" follow. Lately, I have even seen the majority of crashes followed up with the guy who crashed the other waiting for the one he crashed to resituate himself and take the position back.

I do follow these topics that pop up on the forum and do comment sometimes, but it isn't because I see it as often as I'm led to believe judging from the comments of the UK/Europe based community.

Anyone else over here in the US/Canada base agree or disagree with this? I'm really curious.

We don't generally see this type of behavior any more on our servers or the other servers here in the states.
It used to be much more frequent but I think the majority of the currently active LFS users in the US have been around awhile and have gotten thru that what seems to be a typical growth stage within the community.

Quote from BenjiMC :

Good questions, not really outlined in the rules:
1) a large incident involving 3 or more cars requires a safety car. The cars invloved must have a significant amount of damage which prevents them from continuing the race with safety around other drivers
2) The safety car will pick up the first car immediatly
3) pitstops, etc are allowed under safety car
4)running order
5) minimum duration will be 2 laps

Let's chew on this some more shall we?

If a driver chooses to pit during a safety lap, he must join the grid at the back after pitting?

If a number of cars pit during a safety lap and have to catch up to the grid afterwards, do they maintain the order in which they left the pit lane?

In any case while re-joining the grid during a safety lap, are cars allowed to exceed the safety speed to catch up to the grid, without passing any other cars?

Very professional looking!

Quote from scotty37 :

hi im really wanting to join your team, i saw you in a race so im a big fan

I'm sorry. We only accept members who are 20 years old or older, and reside in the United States.

All is good, pjwon63 is back home now and expected to make a full recovery.

Thanks all for your kind words.

Quote from keithano :

U mean joining the forum or? Currently im participating in OWRL as I am mainly a FOX racer. I do want to join the FOX league of LOTA, but also the time is just back me off.

I cant say I am very good, just I should be a competitive one..

Well yes, registering at the website (it's more than a forum).
There are others that are league members but haven't registered for, or aren't a registered driver in a current series.
My point was that a larger population of LOTA members that are from later time zones would have a larger voice in future series presented to the league.

Quote from keithano :

sad that can't join .. it's quite hard for people locating in the west coast to join..6:15 is too early for us..still not off from school and work..@@

You still ought to join LOTA if you haven't. If more of the west coast (PST) folks joined, maybe LOTA would present a series more time friendly.

I need to add a reserve driver...

||| Stu (srdsprinter)

Is it possible to copy the current W installation and upgrade one copy to W9 so I can use either?

Quote from niall09 :

Im talking about how to edit lfs world profile details.

Only the member that created the listing on LFSW has the access to edit it. If that was not you, you need to contact the 3D member that listed the team with LFSW.

Edit:LOL, guess I'm a bit late...

Last edited by MARSH2a, Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:30. Reason : Sleeping while posting