Hello, I need you help good sir. Yes i do.

Here is the deal. I’m having a race tonight (21:00 – GMT -3) on the Brazilian League in which I participate.
We’re using the Formula XR (FOX) car and tonight we”ll be racing around the Blackwood GP circuit.

All of which is pretty cool.
There are lots of servers to practice on (you might have seen me racing on redline racing or somewhere else on the last 2 weeks) and lots of sets and stuff. It’s a popular combo. For better or worse.

I’ve been using “lately” (last 400 laps?) a really good set which Racin Jason sent me (thanks mate, before that I was using a set from Goop, thanks for that too pal). It’s pretty good for a sprint race. As a matter of fact the owner (which is a lot better pilot than me) regularly lands 1:07:7Xs and even lower on a 5-6 laps race.

That’s good.
With a lot of training (I’m not only a really slow driver, I just know LFS for a couple of months or so) I’ve managed to lower my time to 1:08:50~ with consistency or even lower if I “push” it a little harder (but still, under control).

All in all it’s pretty ok, right?

Yeah…

Well, the problem is that we”ll be racing two 22 laps batteries.
22 laps isn’t “too much”, far from it. But the problem is that my R1s surely don’t last that long.
Then I”ll change it to R2s, right?

Yeah, I did that. But I can’t seem for the life of me to get those sonsabitches to “function” properly on my setup.
I’ve tried a lot of changes on the tyres’ pressures and camber but nothing came of it.

Did I mention that I’m utterly oblivious as to how to make a good setup? Or any setup for that matter.
Well, I’m.

So, I turn to you my comrades :P, to help me adjust my tyres for this race.
It’s the second to last race of the season and I’m at second place only 2 points behind the leader (no no, the brazilian league really doesn’t suck that bad, it’s just that most of the good drivers are running on the other cup we’re running at the same time and the few fast ones on this FOX thing had some really bad luck on the couple first races), so please help me !!

Here are some attachments:

That’s my sprint setup settings:




And three of my attempts at a 22laps set:








Here you can get a sample of my crappy driving, if it’s needed:
http://www.lfsworld.net/get_spr.php?file=32155

So far I’ve messed around with the pressure and camber, as you can see.
But, especially my right ones, my tyres doesn’t even start to heat up (and that’s even with some serious low pressure) even after 10/15 laps…
And the bizarre thing is that i'm a "tyre waster" (it should help to heat up things), as you can notice on my hotlap. But even that doesn't seem to help me.

I can't get the temps on the right tyres to "match" too. The inside temps are a whole 10 degrees cooler than the middle temps.

Please help me on this one, will you?
It’s a FOX on BL1.

22 Laps.

It shouldn’t be too hard. I guess.
And maybe you could provide me with some more specific figures? (since its a fox and bl1 setup). But i"ll be glad to learn some "general concepts" too. If i can get to apply those in time, hehe.

I really appreciate any kind of input.
And I’ve got yet some time to test those so.. fire away your suggestions.

Thanks a lot.

Ps: sorry about my poor English, I’m Brazilian and the English language isn’t my finest asset, hehe.

Quote from glyphon :

haha, i have the restart limit set at 3 minutes, and 5 minutes for longer races

Yeah, i think those are better limits.
Also i think that if you could set some ammount of time, say whe there's only 20% of the total laps left, as some ground where restart isn't allowed it would be pretty sweet.

Not that the later happens too often but it would be cool to be able to prevent it. I've seen it happens quite a lot of times, actually (but since i race a lot that number isn't so important...).

It is something like Live Alert, yes?

+1

Quote from Gunn :

+1 for blue flag or blue light

+1 for double waved yellows

+100 for animated flags, flag icons, or flag marshalls! That way we LFS could visually represent the differences between held and waved flags both blue and yellow.

There's really nothing much to add than that.

Hello... we would like this question to be answered if possible...

Thanks.

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My name's Maarten too. ;-)

Anyway, thx for the help, figured it out and the game works perfect (so i bought it today...)

Welcome to S2, bro.

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err.. did you plugged the power cord?

I'm sorry dude but this banana is pretty rad

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Quote from Blackout :

Im sorry to tell that there isn't such feature.
It would be very usefull, but if I recall correctly it has something to do with physics and how they can't be calculated backwards, or something like that. But it shouldn't be impossible to make I guess

Oh Blackout, you!!
Even if the physics are little less accurate there can't be a backward function? Oh man, i'm in a world of pain!
Thanks for breaking in the bad news tho.

Quote from CSU1 :

lmao love your choice of words ". A backward function would be pure sex, to me. Please tell me that it exists.."I supose if you render the replay's then your medis player can play rhem backwards

Glad you liked it, by the way i'm brazilian and my english sucks (i'm sorry about that) but i guess that humour is an universal thing, eh?

I thought already about what you suggested here before, the problem is that... when i render a movie it will only "save" the camera at which i'm looking at the time it's being made (the movie).

So... it won't help me even a tad bit cause i need to fire up my delorean (i.e go back in time) to see other cars (hence, other cameras) at the "same time".

Well, if any of it made any sense to you.

It's really obvious and stuff but i can't word it any better (at least not now, but hey i just pulled an all nighter here, it's 08:37 AM).

Cheers from Brazil.

Thanks a lot for your help and suggestions!!

But i think that it could still be an improvement suggestion (as in an admin being able to do that a lil more easily, in a more user friendly way), what do you guys think of it?

It could still use some improvement, for sure.

Hello, i would like to know if there's any way to play a replay backwards.

I know that we can pause it and play it forward in a multitude of different speeds, which is pretty cool and useful but i really need a backwards function.
Please tell me that i overlooked which keys is used to do it cause otherwise i'm really screwed* heh.



* I'm reviewing a lot of long replays that requires my attention on several cars on the same "minute", so, yeah, i've been restarting a lot the same damn replays till i get to see what i need. A backward function would be pure sex, to me. Please tell me that it exists..

Quote from ru7 [SLO] :

Well, for start try to reverse (left -> right) camber and tire pressure (if its not simetric). If setup is totaly simetric is should be fine.

Well thanks, i"ll look into it.

Hello lads.

I will be racing at WE Int Re with some Formula XRs in a few days and ain't got a setup for it..

Do you guys think that inferno's we int setup (not reversed) would be good enough?

Or what should i change on it?
Or on any reversed setup for that matter.

Thanks

Quote from SamH :

I'll move the thread into Improvement Suggestions, since there are some suggestions here that haven't yet been implemented

That's cool.
Since the punishments are already doable i would like to get some feedback on the starting grid thing.*

*Which, by the way, is the main thing in this thread hehe.

Thanks

edit:

Quote from Tweaker :

AFAIK, you can setup a grid manually in the pre-race screen where you choose your track, laps, cars, etc...

+1 for the other suggestions.

Do you know "how", Tweak my man?

Yeah, we already have that:

/start=reverse

That's how it's being done nowadays.
When i said it wouldn't be practical for the pilots do it "manually" i was referring to use the qualify in reverse order as the starting grid to the second battery.

We're running into some troubles by using that start=reverse thing.

As i said, there are penalties and whatnot to be taken into account (people who spec, ie don't finish the 1st battery, starting in the front on the second one and stuff).

We've got a pretty good grid (at least 20 people, always, and that's a "changing grid" - only the best 20 hotlaps [we've got a lot more than 20 people signed up at any cup] are allowed to participate on any given race) and it's just not as fair as it could be or practical, if you know what i mean.

Well, so... there ain't any way to do it manually by an admin (or using a add-on or anything, really), today. Is that it?

That's too bad.

We would really benefit from such a thing.
An admin being able to set up a starting grid manually. It shouldn't be that hard to programn, right?

It would really make things a lot more easier and ineteresting.
It would give us a lot more of control over our league on a practical way.

Oh and while i'm at it, it would be nice if admins could set penalties on the go (we have race marshalls watching our every race in real-time) such as drive-troughs and stop-and-goes.

I hope my idea isn't stupid.
At least for us it would be really good, sincerely.


ps: And i'm sorry about my poor english, this is not my main language, you know hehe, thanks again.

Well hello there.

I would like to know if there's any way to set up a starting grid "manually".
I mean, as a server admin or using an add-on or something like that.

I'm asking this because i race on the brazilian league (http://instaseg.com.br/lfsbr/modules/news/) and we've got there the following setting:

We race two batteries each race.

Qualify + Race (1st battery)
Reversed Grid (reversed from the last battery finishing positions) + Race (2nd battery)

But it seems that it would be a bit more fair (and interesting) if we used the 1st battery qualify as the starting grid of the second battery (reversed, of course).

The problem is that is not practical to do it "manually by the pilots".
And i'm not even taking into account the punishments and other stuff that affects the starting grid.

So, in short, i would like to know if someone can deliberately choose and set up a starting grid "at will".

It would *greatly* improve our league.

If you guys have any suggestions, at all, i would love to hear them.


Thanks a lot,
Cheers from Brazil

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I would like very much the base metal paint good sir.
Really nice skin all around

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Thanks a lot, mate
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Quote from thisnameistaken :

or one of these weird "roleplaying" servers that have started turning up lately, where everybody drives around at 30mph using their indicators. illepall

LOL you've gotta be sh$#$#* me, mate...

Thanks for the help, guys!

So... how do you guys use those functions?
I'm a really noob driver and have no idea whatsoever as to what they do, and what would be best left on or off.

Any ideas?

I use a Logitech Momo wheel.
Thanks for your time and sorry for the dumb question.

Hello guys.
I'm from Brazil.

So far i'm loving this simulator and having one hell of a good time with it.
(Even tho i lose all of the race in which i take part in :razz.

You might have seen me online already.

I race clean all the time and i think that's the best way to race.
No wrecks, right?

Well, it's 4:00AM here and i'm really tired, i don't know what the heck am i typing here so illepall.. i wish to race with you guys one day!

Thanks for being part of such a great community.

I guess that's it...

Quote from Jakg :

upload a replay, manual, flatshift, trial brake etc

You probably meant trail brake, right?
But... what is a "flatshift"?