You mean someone on the internet pretended to be someone else? :eek:

I bet that's never happened before

A 10 second google search gave me this

http://forum.team-fortitude.net/viewforum.php?f=1

Prehaps there you will find a quicker answer than here

cool, thanks void I shall check those later when I get home from work

were they taken from tuesday nights racing? If so I think it could be the race I mentioned above. Epic!

Thanks for your reply. So it is possible that it was lag. I guess I won't be able to tell from my replay as someone who hasn't braked hard enough and what you describe "zoomed into the back of you" would look the same?

It's not worth worrying about, it was one knock in one race. It just intrigues me and I'd like to see his replay to see the differences.

I guess I'll just have to wait and see if he sends it to me.

Would it be best to see a replay from someone who wasn't involved in the incident? Something I won't be able to get hold of now though.

I'll post this here becuase it's a question.

Last night I was racing on BL1R and 3 of us were entering the chicane together with 1 behind. Now as it was three of us entering together we obviously couldn't all enter at normal speed for the chicane so we had to slow a little more.

The lone car behind us then caught up and hit me from behind, knocking me off the track.

Oh well thinks I, s*** happens, but I am a little annoyed that the guy who hit me didn't say sorry so I tell him so. He's still racing and so doesn't reply so I go off and take a quick look at the replay before I say any more.

In the replay I saved it clearly shows him not braking enough and hitting me.

So the race ends and I ask him why he didn't bother to apologise.

"I didn't hit you, you lagged" is the answer I get back.

"My replay shows you clearly hit me" says I

"Not mine" says he.

So I ask him to save it and say that I will apologise if this is indeed true.

I've also PM'd him on here with my email address asking him to forward the replay to me but so far he hasn't. Though it was only just over 12 hours ago I asked for it so I'm not saying he's refusing/ignoring. I'm just interested in the answer and a litte impatient.


So my question: Is this possible? I've not come accross it yet.

I don't have the replay here at work and see no point in posting it anyway as I'm only asking a general question and see no need to get names involved.

SparkyDave, I did a quick search but saw no recent discussions on this issue. Maybe it's one of those things that the we're glad it's more realistic club ignore!!

danowat, I was at the back of a line of 27 cars all finishing the race together tonight (well 28 seconds apart but a line of 27 cars with an average gap of 1 second is rare in my experience so far).

NotAnIllusion, yeah I don't think a marshall is the answer. Like you say if you go wide by accident it would be really annoying to be spec'd for an error that is going to lose you time anyway. It's just a shame that these "fast" drivers feel they need to cheat to be "fast". I watched a couple of drivers do it EVERY lap. Maybe LR can bring in a rule for this and make it reportable? The forum for reports doesn't seem too full, or is it heavily edited? Or am I being anally retentive? (sp?)

Last edited by menantoll, Tue 14 Jul 2009, 20:54.

Last night at one point we were on FE3R and after rolling my car at the chicane I decided to watch the leaders for their lines rather than rejoining.

I noticed that at both the chicane and T1 they were cutting the corner, ie up on the grass and all wheels inside the white line at the side of the track.

Is this generally accepted as ok? I've always believed that the rule is for 2 wheels to be on the track (the track side of the white line).

If this is accepted as ok it's hardly realistic and simulating racing or is it a case of most people do it and to be competitive you have to follow?

Or the original account holder decided to take it back again as it is linked to his email address

Quote from logitekg25 :

i already tried advertising myself on THE WHOLE ****ING STREET...humiliating as all shit!!! nobody called except for one guy who ended up doing it himself :banghead::mad::arge::gnasher::irked::ashamed:

Hi mate,

Don't feel humiliated that you have got off your ass and looked for work. Decent people will see it as a positve thing. The only people who will laugh are the lazy and you are already better than them.

Good luck with getting the internet on your gaming PC

Quote from hyntty :

Sorry, but with the current system I cannot be arsed to occupy the server as I don't like xfg/xrg so much (of cource for a change sometimes, they're fun cars after all). I just cannot be arsed to spend weeks gathering points just to notice some day that it's all for nothing as inevitably the organisers will get fed up with this and shut down the servers.

Besides, 1500 points to drive UFR? that would mean that if you scored 10 every race (which is quite optimistic for me as there is always at least two faster guys than me online) with the rate of 10 races per day (which is quite many for casual pick-up racing anyway) it would take 15 days. I think I let alone many more or less talneted people could be trusted with an ngt immediately and not in 3 weeks.

Don't get me wrong, ranking system is a fine idea but I do not have all days to spend collecting points in a car I wouldn't want to drive when I could be on the other server having fun. Presumably this too is going to be like ctra where the entry level server is going to be an epic crashfest, and people who would like to drive the entry level cars rather go elsewhere because it's the entry level server.

You make a big assumption there considering you state that you "cannot be arsed"

One major difference between this and the old CTRA is that this has active online admins, well it has Void , and doesn't solely rely on a reporting system.

Anyway, it's your choice and your loss if you "cannot be arsed". Personally I've had some great racing there. Why you could be arsed to make that post though is beyond me but who am I to question your motives.


...and while I'm posting in this thread...

Void, any news on that website that was mentioned at the beginning of this thread? Or have I missed something?

Quote from STF :

Great stuff man, great stuff.



Those 550 miles or so.. You`re sure they weren`t in the direction of your new home?

haha no I only live about 10 miles away from the old man.

If she didn't have a chip she'd have never been traced back to us, so it's a to chipping pets

Thank you all for your kind words. I haven't actually seen Lucy since she got home as I no longer live with my old man, haven't done for years, but I'll be seeing her at the weekend.

I thought I would post this here as I seem to be spending more and more of my free time on LFS and reading these forums at the moment.

My dads dog went missing back in February and we'd given up on ever getting her back.

On Saturday she was found.......550 miles away!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sco ... urgh_and_east/8115122.stm

Quote from Trekkerfahrer :

i think its better as it is

competition keeps the guarantee that the server owners try to get them better as the others
and you cant really compare the servers to each others because:

- LR has licence based servers with tin top cars
- FM has single seater servers
- SR has championship based servers (btw what happened to them?)

and not to forget CD 1, they provide really hard GTR racing with a championship sometimes (dont know really how it works there, but you can read alone i think )

I think you missunderstood what I was getting at. Becky knew what I meant and has obviously a similar vision for a while.

I wasn't talking about comparing the servers.

You asked what happened to the SR servers? I think LR happened to them. SR has points being reset every month while LR keeps the points going. Just my opinion, I could be way out.

Say what you like about the racing being the most important, people like to collect points, they like to see that they are gaining something over time, me included.

My thoughts are that SR could carry on their monthly points thing but also every point you earn at SR could count towards your "career" points. This way "points collectors" would have more choice of where to drive. Same could work for the Driving standards and bans etc. Get banned from one, get banned from them all.

I'm not saying any of this is easy to implement, it's just an idea. What I am also NOT saying is they would have to become the same.

Personally I'd like to see Teams like SR, LR and FM get together and share a database of points, agreed driving standards etc

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Isn't that the point of how turbos work? As they spool they create torque.

Quote from wheel4hummer :

Turbochargers don't create torque.

Are you a member of the pedantic society? Or should that be society of pedants.

Quote from jaxx751 for the pedantic amongst us should have written :

Isn't that the point of how turbos work? As they spool they indirectly create extra torque.

Quote from bunder9999 :

filing reports on an offsite forum sucks... just my 2 cents.

How about being a little more constructive and suggesting an alternative?

Quote from Citizen86 :

Have you passed your resume out to every store and business around your area?

I couldn't agree with this more. Both me and my wife to be have our current jobs because we sent out cv's with covering letters to the type of business we wanted a job in asking to be considered if a vacancy comes up.

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And no I never noticed the streaming? chat things.

Yet earlier you wrote

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if you were in the server at the time you probably saw me ask what's revenge wrecking right before I got banned

Whats that I can smell?

Short bans are handed out to give people time to reflect on their actions and come back with a better attitude. Personally, after your weak excuses I would extend your ban as it is plain that you are unable to do that. Luckily for you I have nothing to do with [SR]

New to lfs? 20 months, you consider to be new? Or did you first get the demo 20 months ago and only recently came back and bought an s2 licence?

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I wasn't aware of the website/forum and the ability to report people

So you noticed the chat in the top left, you even know how to add to the chat in the top left but you failed to spot the reminder of where to go to report people which appears frequently in a different colour!. Pull the other one.

Man up, accept your ban and learn from it.

Great topic

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If you don't want to hear mine smartass comments, click here

Warning! Warning! Irony overload!

Dude, why don't you take your own advice?

Quote from HavocS :

About the crashers: that's why I really don't approve of the destruction derby server. It's practically a crasher factory even if I try to tell myself that crashers will have their fun there and will leave "serious" servers/racers in peace.

There will always be people who want to spoil other peoples fun in life. Crashers in lfs, bullys in a school playground ruining smaller kids games, etc. The fact that there is a destruction derby server will not encourage or discourage this behaviour in my opinion.
It is a place that people can go where they don't have to be serious. Personally I like to log in there when I've had a drink or 2 so that I don't have to worry about my poor driving ruining other drivers races.
People who wish to spoil other's fun will not bother with the DD servers because their actions will not get the desired result.

OT I know but my 2p on DD servers and crashers.