Quote from obsolum :

Hey, no court has decided that Freetrack is illegal so...

I got my cap in the mail yesterday (too lazy and not enough patience to try and build one myself).

Are there complete caps available? I"m not that handy with electronics and thought about abusing a 3-led bicycle light for this if there are complete caps somewhere then that could be a better option

Nobody drives the dragstrip so why do we need a special car? If you like a drag car try something with LFS Tweak (you can change tires and engine, i tried it and it is fun for only 5 minutes).

Quote from NoYPiDRiFTER :

Try Mozilla Firefox, its awesome!

www.mozilla.com

Eh? i am using Mozilla (it's always Big Pimpin on my pc with Firefox and the Pimpzilla theme)

I've never used Internet Explorer, but i do use [b]stupid software relying on Internet Explorer[/]. Me and stupid software are two different things)

Last edited by marzman, Fri 25 Jul 2008, 16:08.

Quote from dev :

Thank god there are alternatives to those crappy peaces of software

There isn't.

Works perfected. Only stupid software relying on IE6 doesn't work anymore properly on my PC.

Congrats. Have to say it's a really good LFS movie. Like how the cars come back again with full sound and speed after the softer part of the music.

Quote from nihil :

Laser scanned? I would like to have higher resolution elevation data available from a google earth type application. I would then like to be able to select an area of land, trace out a track or route, and then import it into the simulator of my choice. The sim would then automatically generate a track, which could then be elaborated on by hand if I so wished.

It would help if sim developers would actually start sharing tracks rather than reinventing the wheel (so to speak...) everytime 'Joe Simcrafter' fancies creating the next gen driving experience....

Buy SimCity. You can even drive around in your city

Quote from Chaos :

I drove all the corners too many times already and when I organise a league I just have a strong feeling of deja-vu when selecting the tracks for the next league... I don't know the intentions of the devs, but letting such an opportunity to slip through their hands is a bit sad... I just hope they will awaken soon and realize that
LFS needs some new content (tracks especially) to keep the people interested.

Isn't that normal in racingleagues? Schumager didn't moan he had to drive Monza year after year (not saying i would not appreciate new content)

Last edited by marzman, Wed 23 Jul 2008, 20:51.

Quote from Dac :

im still not with you. i dont know how the patch system works?

tweak?

A program that changes values of the car (engine/driven wheels) so you can drive other (faster/slower) cars.

Strange effect. The AI should be slow on oval because they slow downt at points where you don't have to. Have you tried hotlap the oval hotlap and race setups?

Since when is a cheap wheel with low wheel rotation an advantage against a G25?

Quote from MonkOnHotTinRoof :

I guess there are more farmers than racers. Also farming is a bit more useful to human kind than just polluting air and burning fuel for the sake of it .

Farming is indeed more useful, but sim-farming isn't

Quote from frokki :

You really don't need to know what gear you are in (At least I didn't when I used paddles).
But if that's really necessary, I think we all can count to 7.

If I had a paddle shifting race car IRL, I would not miss the gear indicator...
How often do you check what gear you are in when driving a road car?

Wel, you need to count and sometimes i miss a gear (don't know if that's my crappy wheel or if that's simulated, but i'm happy when i have a visual on that in the roadcars because that's quicker then noticing you revs are all wrong. You could replace it with a visual shifter, but i think this is ok too.

Quote from Equinox :

Option to enable/disable it on the HUD

Then if you are driving in interior view, and want a gear indicator, you can enable it on the HUD and it appears somewhere onscreen, or you can turn it off, so none shows !

There we go, debate on that

Sarge.

I agree, but then you have people whining because it's unfair that they don't have the visual because the choose not too and other do have it what gives them an advantage.

Last edited by marzman, Wed 16 Jul 2008, 17:17.

Quote from Intrepid :

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=X8p_04gYZiU

Farmer Simulator



please

If LFS is for a "niche" marked, i wunder how they call the market for this

Quote from 5haz :

People here will always tell you that rFactor isnt a sim, because they are hellbent on bashing rFactor, most of these people have probrably never played rFactor, but just follow the 'ringleaders' because they are unable to think for themselves.

rFactor is still infierior to LFS though.

I have tried, but i still don't like rFactor. There is no feeling with the cars (did not try that realfeel plugin, but basic stuff like that should not need plugins). Too bad, i like the fact that there are a lot of mods for it (pain in the *ss for pickup racing but great for leagues), but i can't drive them. I have the same problem for GTR2 and Race07 (wish i had a money back offer for those, i never play them).

Quote from Jamesisinthehouse12 :

Turismo Carretera - link doesn't work... please give me a valid link

It's slow, but it works.

Not everyone has a G25 with shifter where you can see what gear you are driving. I'm against

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Last edited by marzman, Thu 10 Jul 2008, 19:17.

Quote from kamilek12 :

yeah i want someone to make a new one because i have a old one and i did a quick lap in the xfg and i got a 1:09 seconds which is frankly quicker than all the cars on top gear they actually test lol

There is not enough space i guess for a 1:1 scaled circuit.

Quote from marzman :

I now play on:
XP 2000+
Radeon 9500
256 Mb ram
380 GB diskspace.

Ow, most important part: Formula™ Force EX

A year later i play on:
Athlon X2 6000+
Redeon HD 2600Pro
2048 Mb Ram
250 GB Diskspace

Also i replaced my 17" TFT by a 22" widescreen. The steering wheel is still the same Formula™ Force EX and the OS is still Windows XP.

Quote from Cue-Ball :

I think the main problem is that LFS relies so heavily on the three letter acronyms for cars and tracks. Someone who is not very familiar with the game doesn't know what track FE2 is. They don't know an XFG from and XRT. LFS needs to move away from these acronyms and give users more visual clues about what is going on. Three letters works great for setting up a server configuration file, but is just too damn confusing to the average user (and especially to new users).

This system has a lot of advantages for people that do know where it stands for. But I agree with the first post. Some information of trackname and short trackname in setupscreen would be nice

1. Feeling. I've tried Race/Race07/GTR2/Rfactor but i get no response in that from the car (not like from LFS).
2. Community. I like the forums and organized leaks.
3. Development. I like to watch this game grow with every patch.
4. Of course the online racing. I'm not the fastest on the track, but it is always good racing for a place in the midfield.

What is the difference for an ingame electric car? Don't you have the same when you drive the current raceabout and turn of your speakers?

Quote from danowat :

I am not fussed about hotlaps going out of sync, but obvioulsy don't want to be refused entry to non test patch servers.......

Then don't install the testpatch, or make an other copy of your LFS install.

Testpatch of today looks great. I wunder what naming will be used after Patch Z

Quote from Hyperactive :

None of the updates on both tracks has made any difference on how the tracks feel or how I drive.

That's strange, because on blackwood not only kerbes are different but also the corner after the straight. It's sharper and the track is less wide there (also on some other parts). If you drive the same as before, you can't get trough that corner.

Quote :

Not that it isn't good to see the stuff getting updated but looking at how long it takes to get something done I wish all that time was spent into new content instead of refining the old. There are no significant improvements that I can see. It will be interesting to see the Westhill stuff though. There doesn't seem to be any old roads to use as "new" configs so we may actually get something that is actually new! But as it is the westhill I have quite low expectation of it being fun, challenging or much different...

And if anything it is a total mystery how people can get so hyped up about simple cockpit updates? They basically change nothing else but how the cars look. For me cockpit updates are the small things on patches, kinda like nice to see that those have been updated too, kinda like in a "nice touch"-way.

Where is the essential stuff? Stuff that makes LFS go forward, progress?

I think you expect to much out of it. The new testpatch (Y30 has lots of graphica changes compared to Y). The essential stuff is what you allready have, not an extra track that may or may not be added to S2 (I think that if there are extra tracks in development they will be part of S3 if development will continue after S2 final).

I use them, they are reliable (much more then wireless) for gaming (even when you turn on your dishwasher or vacuum cleaner) but it isn't fast in my home. The homeplugs think they can comunicate with each other at 40 mbps (out of the 85, but with 40 i would be very happy) but i can only get 5 mbps out of it when i transfer data over it. But i don't really care about that, it's reliable and better then UTP cables lieing in my home.

Quote from BAMBO :

What I meant was that an MRT can only beat other cars on Autocross tracks. Put it on any other track with another car and it would loose badly.......excepting the UF1, that thing is slow.

Eh, check FE1. It's faster then: XFG, XRG, XRT, RB4, FXO, LX4 and LX6, UF1, RAC and FZ5. But why would you want to race it against an other car? It's a class of its own.