While it wasn't certainly 'awesome', I admit I can rarely handle those drifts on the damn XRT. Plus, you came out of the corner with good speed it seems. Good move!

Quote from lilsh4d :

But why not? You dont have to play it if u dont want, so it doesnt matter. I say we need them : )

Get S2 first, then after knowing ALL the tracks and configs available it might be feasible to ask more.

Plus, most drifters have a field day on the tracks available already.

It would be SICK to have an Ariel Atom!

Tristan, send the e-mail again. Please.

Still don't know why I read that he wanted Supers or Slicks on multiplayer.illepall

Nope.

Quote from Nick_ll :

HAHAHAHA!!! He can't get #2. That's already filled with Fisi! It's the #1 seat at Renault that is left empty.

I don't what's worse. The inconsistant, underachieving, I-barely-overtook-MS-at-Hungary-with-way-better-tyres Fisichella as #1 backed up by a rookie, or Fisichella as #2 supporting the rookie. Honestly, both scenarios look BAD.

I hope for the sake of Renault's competivity that Heikki doesn't land a drive there.

Villeneuve-Fisichella would be cool! Remember that Renault got Jacques out of his sabbathical to drive for them when they dropped Jarno Trulli... so it isn't so far fetched after all!

The Red Bull image sure suits the outspoken, relaxed, good looking Aussie, doesn't it?

Newey designed, Ferrari powered, cash strapped Red Bull Racing ride? That can't be bad. The only problem I see on the horizon is the switch from Michelin to Bridgestone. Thankfully, Webber will have a full year of experience with Bridgestones!

Hey, that Blackwood International layout is SICK! I'd keep the inner section after Castrol though... Too many straights and you lose some racing.

Quote from Knight_Atack :

You can't compare F1 to NASCAR or IRL. It's too different, So you can't say which is best, which is worse. Oval racing has as much advantages strategie, and thrill as any other racing, it's just another type.

And who is the second F1 driver moving to NASCAR apart from Montoya?

I say it will be the son of that unbeatable S.O.B on your avatar.

"Oval racing is shallow".

What an ignorant statement.

In ovals there's more than one "best" line, unlike the "follow the leader" circuit layouts. So there's more than one 'optimal' line, according to the situation. Hardly shallow. Being good at oval requires a very different mindset than racing a normal circuit. And of course, there's the different types of ovals: Heavy banking, light banking, no banking at all (Milwaukee's mile oval has ZERO banking, you need downforce there), number of turns, length... and of course, the close racing is unmatched. But nevermind, it's shallow.

*sigh*

I wouldn't have a ChampCar on LFS though. I'd rather add a different type of car, there's 2 high powered single seaters already. Another single seater on that category wouldn't be too different to what's on tap already.

+1 to Electric Kar, to counter attack the recent nepotism.

Quote from Jakg :

if you can think of a reason why ill add you to the poll

Heh, nevermind. I don't have a wheel, my Internet is subpar, and I'm a full time college student.

Plus, I haven't done much for the community, besides not being an ******* on the forum, and a couple of improvement suggestions here and there.

I'm pretty sure there's people around here who deserve the S2 license much more than me.

Thanks anyway.

Marty502 gets my vote.

Another cool aspect of GT4 is playing with your buddies, rather than just pick up eveyr damn car in single player. Although that could be said about LFS too...

Anyway. If we had a game with the cars and tracks of GT3 and GT4 with the physics of LFS... *dies*

Whatever you choose, please don't do ATI.

I've had more than enough problems with their drivers. Mysterious slowdowns, the Control Panel is shit and doesn't work 7 out of 10 times, etc.

NVIDIA has their drivers much more developed than ATI.

Quote from XCNuse :

the bull fight?

lol where is that put in the translation?

Nowhere, it was an exaggeration.

Only gripe I have with the Spanish translation is that it's very... spanish. Scrap that, TOO spanish!

I can't help but laugh at some of the terms used. Straight from a corrida de toros! Joder! Que ostia tio! Real Madrid!

There should be a Latin Spanish option me thinks.

I could hear Jaguar's Formula 1 car in 2004 at about 5 kms.

In the middle of Sao Paulo!

So those buggers are loud as hell... food for thought.

Quote from SparkyDave :

have you by chance installed a router with a firewall ? sounds like you need to check the ports are open required for LFS

Use a program like "pingplotter" www.pingplotter.com and this will show you if you have packet loss or not

Any other changes to your connection or HW that you know of ?

Are you connecting through a wireless device?

SD.

What ports should I forward?

I'm having serious problems with LFS online too, and I can forward them so...

Thanks.

I crashed a huge pile of **** so I could make friends!!

Dude this is sad!

I do believe this has been suggested before.

I think you mean disabling the Shift+S command, so if someone gets his car damaged he could stroll to the pits for repairs if his car is damaged but driveable, but if the car's definately destroyed, he could stay on the gravel or just spectate, but no rejoin. This could be delicate to manage, since a wrecked car on, say, a chicane, would be dangerous.

However, if worked out, it could be a neat option to add to servers. People would be much more careful on their approach, just like IRL.

Quote from ayrton senna 87 :

there is no damage from a tap in the FOX

and im sorry but most of you are total idiots, why dont u read whats being said? My statement was, if a backmarker is blocking and weaving ill push them wide (fire) not i fire every backmarker i come up to.

Straight from Ayrton Senna's school!

I have to agree though. I read that once in Formula 1, in Estoril 1990, Philippe Alliot was about to be lapped by the much faster Nigel Mansell on his Ferrari.

Alliot held Mansell for like TEN laps. No joke. Alliot was well known as a mobile chicane, plus he didn't know what a blue flag was. And he was throwing chops at Mansell!

Mansell got angry, and took Alliot out of the race! Apparently he intentionally tapped into one of his rear wheels when he was going for a corner and made him spin out. The stewards didn't punish Mansell, and with good reasoning!

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Well, I just did some quickie tests and realized I have an ungodly packet loss. (over 40%)

I'll be calling my ISP tomorrow.

Thanks anyway!

I'm going nuts.

LFS used to work beautifully on MP for me. Now I can't stay on any server, not even on those below 100 ms without a 'Lost connection from server' message and kicked out. WTF?

It could be a port issue.

Quote from DEVIL 007 :

Well the DDR200/266 memory would be holding A64 processor back really badly.

I dunno if that's so. In gaming you don't use much memory bandwidth.

However, those value DDR400 ram sticks are pretty cheap.