Quote from ATC Quicksilver :

On a more serious note, everyone knows the MX-5 is the best small sports car on the market and it has perfect 50-50 balance blah blah, but...

You can stop right there thank you.

Quote from danowat :

Or do I just bite the bullet a have a few months break from LFs to see if the motivation comes back on its own?

I say step away, and step away completely. Including not visiting the form. Don't set yourself a time frame for "coming back", but instead pick it up again whenever it happens to interest you.

I get these fits of jadedness all the time. "I'm so damn sick of thinking about cars", and then I move onto something else like airplanes or digital arts or whatever. Gotta take breaks.

Quote from _--NZ--_[HUN] :

I like FZR even better than before because the gearbox, it's more interesting to drive (if you have the right equipment).

Kinda odd that it uses H-shifter though.

Quote from Linsen :

No, I am only talking about driving shitty tyres on the limit, like tristan obviously does. I would never drive my Goodyears to the limit on public roads. And tristan wouldn't either, as he stated. So your comparison is not valid, really.

The only way tires should be exceeded the limit on the street is under full emergency braking. I think even the shittiest tires provide plenty of margin for evasive maneuvers when you're only driving at 0.000001/10ths on the street. In decent weather conditions.

Good tires for bad weather is way more important. So those Azenis which are great in the dry and can brake 2 metres less to save that child would probably be a lot worse if it was in the rain. Better get RA-1s, I hear they're great, wet or dry. Let's not even get started on snow. If it's snowing, you can reach 10/10ths just trying to get out of your driveway, and yet people still manage not to kill themselves.

Quote from danowat :

Sounds to much? yes, it does,but it works out at about £7 a month, or £1.60 a week, heck I spend more than that on magazines......

Don't fall into the "it's only xxx per month" sales trap. Very easy to piss away money that way.
And.. that's a lot to be spending on magazines, get a subscription.

iRental from the other thread is the perfect name for it.

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Quote from Christopher Raemisch :

I think people need to look back at last year this time, we were lucky to hit 900 racers online, we are not double that but getting closer (1500 racers online at a time during the weekend)

IIRC there was quite some time when there were twice the number of Demo users as Licensed.

Quote from wien :

That's not to say turbines don't have an environmental impact though. They kill a lot of birds and other wildlife for instance...

Killing wildlife is a pretty obvious answer, but what I want to know is what are the effects of taking energy away from wind?

Changing rotations is a bit of a pain in the ass, because the profiler uses the damn sliders so you're always +- 3 degrees, and then you have to change it again in LFS.

Nevertheless, I always use the rotation that the cars are.

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

NCIX was where I bought mine from, was tons cheap too.

Hmm, currently $222. Good price, good price.

Try NCIX? They're in around Vancouver I think.

I got mine from Canada Computers here in Toronto.

Quote from dontsimon :

No one's forced to buy this, why is everyone so outraged?

The DFP is/was the GT4 wheel, and now this, which I will call the DFP2, is the GT5 real. Makes perfect sense really.

The G25 is their high end wheel.

Quote :

Enthusia the true console sim

Yes it is damn it! Yes it is.

I got myself a copy as soon as it came out because of this physics demonstration video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPunK-sJIac
(that and because the car in the video looks exactly like the one I drive in real life)

Every single car in Enthusia feels different, and the handling sorta corresponds to what you read about in the magazines. Cars oversteer when you expect them to, weight transfers like you expect them to. You can view forces on all 4 wheels real time like in LFS. Even the behaviour of automatic gearboxes with a torque converter are simulated.

Enthusia is the best driving sim for the PS2. Not the GT series, not Forza2 comes close to the driving.

I use 65 degrees... then put my monitor as close to my wheel as possible.

The distortion of higher FOV numbers kills the immersion factor for me. Kind of like how some ( a lot!) people buy a 16:9 TV and then watch a 4:3 feed stretched to fill the screen, and then doesn't notice that something is wrong with the picture. Just letter box it damn it! The TV thing is kind of a pet peeve.

Dig deeper into that SD card. The pics must be in there somewhere. OMG I wanna see pics!

Quote from niels1 :

Embarrased ??? About a wheel ???.
Why in earth should I be embarrased about the Porsche Wheel. I feel its a honour to be a tester and trying out the wheel. Sorry I dont quite follow you on this 1.

I was just responding to ajp71 who said:

Quote :

This wheel might actually be something you wouldn't be embarrassed to be seen with...

I'm not embarrassed about my wheel at all. In fact I always encourage my guests to try it out.

Quote from ajp71 :

Good question, it is a stylish item, which is more than can be said for the G25 and most of the high quality wheels have always either gone for red and rather geeky G25 style or gone down the purposeful real racing/carbon fibre look. This wheel might actually be something you wouldn't be embarrassed to be seen with and don't immediately try and hide the minute anybody walks in.

And the market doesn't need a G25 clone.

But um, are most of you really embarrassed about your wheels? Simulating is better than pretending, so I'd think something that looks hardcore and mechanical would be less geeky that something that pretends to "an expensive car you wish you had but don't, so I have this wheel instead".

Can you imagine a basketball dunk artist calling everyone else "dribblers". Bwahahahahhahahahaa!
:uglyhamme

"No". I cringe whenever I see someone use it, and then skip the rest of the post.

Do you think people will read the poll results, pause for a moment of deep self reflection, realize the reason behind the animosity, and then stop using the term?

Quote from mattmac83 :

Can't wait for the next one! I *WILL* make it down there to see one in person before the shuttles are retired. Might even be able to catch one this year!

I vow to do the same. My girlfriend on the other hand, has been there during a vacation to Disney. I was (still am) very jealous of that.

I'm reading with great interest.

It's nice to see more "G25 class" of wheels coming out.

Quote from Jertje :

Well, next launch is scheduled for the 11th of March, and that's planned to be a night-launch (way prettier ;>)
I'll make sure to bump this thread 3-5 hours ahead of that one anyway.

Yeap, I just found STS-123 on their calendar. Looking forward to that one!

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo I was 6 minutes too late to this thread. I've always wanted to watch a live launch.

Quote from zeugnimod :

Being within 3 seconds of a fast lap time isn't fast.

Maybe not for you it isn't.

Quote from AndroidXP :

There are plenty slow racers in S2 - probably even more so than in the demo, if you consider how the skill gets spread out on all the different available track/car combos.

Lies! People are fast in S2. It seems that usually you'll have 80% of the field within 3 seconds of a recognized fast lap time.

Quote from mattgignac :

...good stuff...

Well there you go! Straight from the horse's mouth. Thanks for the insight.