A "practice portal" would be nice, but it's hardly realistic. So it gets a -1 from me.
And class results would be nice too, and would convince some people to drive other cars perhaps. I just hope it won't clutter the screen too much.

Quote from LRB_Aly :

So if the preload is set too high then the diff can't work as it should be? Is that right?

Then it would act like a locked diff if I'm correct

Quote from [TDRT] Spøgelset :

Changes made from W9 to W10 :

"Demo races limited to 12 cars (15 guests still allowed)"

:noob: What a bad idea this was.

You still get a 10 times more functional demo then most other developers make.
One good example is netkar pro....

Quote from ahmad0410 :

Of course I remembered you Driftqueen. The liar. I think you should grow up faster and be more mature, kid.

=D

Hehe, respect

Quote from Hyperactive :

EDIT: the new weight and restriction systems would be perfect for this!

Actually yeah. Making shifts slower and other things would result in a lot of code and testing, but just adding weight or making the intake smaller would make it fairer. Maybe an idea for the stcc for people with manual clutch?

Quote from Dajmin :

I would do (and have in the past), but when 10 guys simultaneously collide at T1 because none of them seem to have any brakes, which one(s) do you blame?

The one that is the highest on your shitlist

Quote from harjun :

so...you decided to buy s2...remember its completely different....no wreckers or spammers. You might know me as driftqueen

Time to follow up your own advice?

btw, welcome ahmad, this game is worth every penny

jimi hendrix - all along the watchtower

Why do you upload a replay of yourself drifting , and apply to a racing league? And if you want to join a league seriously, the least you can do is signing yourself up. But if you drive like I saw you drove on a stcc server last week, chatting and parking on the track during a race, then I don't think a league is the right place for you.

Great, another america bash topic, now where the hell is that unsubscribe button...

Quote from SLIDE WAYZ :

to me thats not so much of a hero... they could have used something else to block the door but as a result he blocked it with his body and was then shot to death.... what was to stop the gun man pushing the door open once he was dead...?

Perhaps he thought it was the only way to block the door. It's a shame you can't overanalyze everything when there is someone shooting in the hallway...

About all the gun talk here, they should only issue guns to people who are disciplined in weapons and have been screened well enough. That would keep the guns away from the crazy persons.

On another note, it's good to know heroes still exist:
http://www.digg.com/world_news ... s_Holocaust_Survivor_Hero
It sucks all that happened on yom hashoa though..

Quote from sinbad :

A BS opinion is what you are actually saying. Thanks for that, although I don't think using mouse and keyboard steering as an example of realism was the right choice.

"The people who prefer realism" "people who understand the anatomy of getting a car of line".

Remember you are talking about pressing an extra button on your wheel!

The button clutch argument goes on under a different name. Still automatic unless you have an analogue controller assigned to it!! You want a boost for having a manual choke control button on your wheel in the UF1000?

First of all, it wasn't pointed towards you, but I knew I would get flamed anyhow, so no prob there.
And to be honest, pushing a button is still more realistic then not doing anything at all.
And I don't really get you last point, and the BS thing I've said?

Quote from Ball Bearing Turbo :

Follow the logic: doing something you would have to do in a real car via a strange control, is still more realistic than not having to do it at all.

Well said

Sure, operating clutch and handbrake by a button is unrealistic, but so is steering by a mouse or keyboard, so that a BS reason.
But I guess it's needed to choose the middle ground. Keep the handbrake and clutch automatic for the people who want it, but make it work slower. This way people who understand the anatomy of getting the car of the line quickly have a small time bonus.
This way the n00bs (probably will get flamed for that) and the people who prefer realism can live happily ever after.

Hmm, I don't think enforcing the view is a good step. For example the seating positions in a gtr car is way too high, you'd know this if you ever sat in one. So what I do is make a custom view, the same as default, and put it lower.
So I hope the view enforcing doesn't make it through, because it "could "actually make it less realistic...

Quote from Hyperactive :

Phase 3: start
Green light - lots of skidmarks etc... Those who have not yet reacted in any way are put to spectate. This is to get rid of people who go fetch coffee/watch p0rn and are not physically present when the start is happening. Their car would otherwise be still on the grid causing havoc.

It's better to have a small pop-up box asking if your participating in the race, yes or no, and have the default answer be no (the box times out after 10 seconds to the default answer).
Auto spectating cars who don't move on the grid wouldn't be necesary then, which saves a lot of code to write. Also, with this idea there the occasional dumbass who doesn't have his car in gear, or stalls it (maybe future patch?), is still standing on the grid, which happens in real life too.
But I've changed my mind, I'm actually in favor now of getting rid of all the automatic crap.

The car sounds great, but it sounds like he isn't heel and toeing it. Too bad people let him rape the car

When I was driving on a w9 server earlier, and about 1/4 of the people were already messing up the start, and i guess making the handbrake manual too would even increase the number of dumb people on servers.

This is really the best production so far, especially the onboard and high height shots were nice. Commentating was also very good except for the volumes of the voices (maybe some volume normalization next time?)
But well done, I enjoyed every second of it

Quote from Racer Y :

And as far as rushing the attacker? School kids are indoctrinated to ALWAYS cooperate with the guy with a gun. even when it's to the point of watching classmates getting killed by the same guy, because they have it ingrained in their mind, if they cooperate, they'll live.
But you can't really train a kid to go gung ho on a guy either. I mean what if the guy was unsure about killing and just really wanted help and thought that running up to the school and grabbing a hostage would help? If the students were to rush the guy in that situation, it would probably get nasty fast.

True, but the situation was already beyond nasty. And they were hardly kids as the minimum age for college is 18 right?

Quote from Racer Y :

But speaking of school violence mikey, I did some work for this Israeli guy once. He was telling me about being sent to an alternative school there
for screwing up. well this palestinian guy thought he could just go rush a school and stab a few kids and he'd be a martyr. The idiot tried that stunt at the alternative school. LOL they had to call the cops to protect HIM from the kids. They put his ass in the hospital.

Well, indeed, why wait to be killed is my thinking

But the fact that the campus authority did not even warn or do anything about the first shooting incident 2 hours earlier is just beyond stupid, and I think some people should pay for that.

I actually love the RAC with the new preload setting

I read that on digg iirc

I hope so, it always looked weird having a locked diff in my setup

It's all written in the nfo file, just open it and read