Quote from Scawen :

Hello Racers! Here is a new Test Patch U15!
Restricted areas and route checkers added to autocross

Finally!!!
Thank you Scawen! I've been waiting for this for a long long long while

I would like to repost my suggestion of being able to navigate through the F9-10-11-12 menus using mouse for wheel users.

Hi everyone!
Just a note for those of you who hang out here on the lfsforum, you have to check in for the upcoming NAL season.
That is done on our site of course. Also those of you who are not yet members and want to sign up can do so at the moment.

Let's get this thing rolling!

Have fun!

Got an idea here.
For that we would need to be able to cycle through F9, F10, F11 and F12 with one button only, but then it could work if that's possible.
What I'd like to suggest would be that Mouse 3 (pressing on scroll wheel) would be the cycle button, then you use the mouse wheel to go up and down in the menu and then mouse left for + and mouse right for - for the values.

Of course that would only work for people who don't use mouse. Still I think it could be nice.
Scawen, do you think that would be possible to do with scripts?

Got no idea if this would be a compatible improvement, but I thought I might let you know Scawen. Might not even be possible to fix. Anyways here goes:
- When I race on a server that is in the same LAN as me, in the present case NAL Long Run (which is a public server of LFS North American League), LFSW doesn't seem to see it. So if I drive 1000km on that server, LFSW will record my pb's and stuff but not on which server I last raced. I'll say I last raced on the server I raced before the one that's on my LAN.
Not sure it's possible to fix tho.
If post is irrelevant, sorry.

On a side note, I really like that option we have in the forum ATM to see in the future. It makes it harder to guess where each post belongs tho.

Quote from tristancliffe :

I think you'll find the M3, whilst undoubtedly being a good handling car, is nowhere near the top of the list, and thats before you take value for money into account. It's brakes aren't as good as a Porsches, the balance isn't 100% as it's too compromised by being a 5 seater, and the steering is ruined by BWM's electronic random steering ratio generator (optional I know).

Never ever let yourself blindly believe that BMWs are 'drivers cars' in the true meaning of the word. Good? Sure. Best? No way! And the owners, aprt from the single exception of a Scawen Roberts, are the worst scum in the world other than chavs and ricers. Even worse? A chavvy BMW owner who bolts on a bodykit, some phat rimz and a dustbin for an exhaust.

AFAIK, the BMW electronic random steering ratio generator is not in any M3 as of yet. Last generation of the M3 is the e46 and that thing you're talking about has first been implemented/shown/sold in the e60 5 series. Then I would agree on the point if you had told me about the SMG-II gearbox, but then again it's an option and in any case is light years ahead of Porsche's tiptronic. It's not got the balance of a more nimble car, but it's got 50/50 weight distribution. I would consider the M3 more like a 4 seater than 5 seater. Oh and here a 911 costs more than an M3.
Your argumentation does stand perfect if we replace M3 with e60 M5 tho

Point in here anyways being that we've got a 911-thingy in the FZ50 already. It would be nice to get a M3-thingy and a Corvette-thingy to go with it. Would certainly go with it better than LX6 and RA (which could form their own class). IMO it would be awesome. More so than a 60's musclecar that will have rigid axle suspension and be shit around turns.

I'm glad most seem to agree that a Proto is what we need
Hopefully the devs watch this poll....

Quote from ORION :

Yes, but in real life you will die if you wreck others
And someone who only joined the server to cause trouble, will rather unlikely obey the flag rules

Luckily, there are only very very few users like this.

Then maybe there could be a thing that turns off collisions on wrecked cars? That way, when someone has a broken car and is trying to go back to the pits if he looses control of the thing (or tries to put it in the middle of the road intentionally), everyone would go through the car.

No idea if that can be of any use, but I think the main differences between a real F1 and the BF1 are that in LFS some things about the differentials are not implemented (I'm sure Scawen want to do them) and the suspension doesn't have a 3rd spring, which I'm sure Scawen wants to have too.

Shouldn't a RWD be faster in turns than a FWD, even if it weights a bit more, due to its better weight distribution? (i.e. closer to 50/50)

Quote from Vain :

I'd like to have the gear-change-assist removed.

Gotta agree with that. If it's not gonna be a proper auto tranny, then I say no auto shifting at all.

Hi all,
I would like to suggest for this to be implemented: I will call them way-lines. I can't think of any other name right now.
So here goes: lines that you place along the way of the track. That would be a bit like split time lines, but they would not time anything and would be invisible. However, they would force the drivers to go through all of them for their times to be counted. That would avoid cutting for cheating and would make possible online AutoX competitions without the need for an admin to always be present.

Quote from ajp71 :

I see absolutley no point in the devs simulating automatic gearboxes when no car in LFS is automatic. I can't think of one car I'd like to see in LFS that's automatic so wtf is the point? What's wrong with simply having the gears shifted for you in a manual box?

Realism is what's wrong. I don't think there's any car that actually has a manual transmission that shifts for you as an "assist". Closest thing that exists is with the cars equipped with sequential-manual boxes, SMG/F1 types, which generally will have an automatic mode because it's more convenient to drive in heavy traffic or to talk on cellphone while driving.

A good idea might also be to texture the whole sidewall and not just the middle poly strip.

IMO it kinda sounds too "soft" or something. Not quite sure how to describe that.

Quote from sturje :

Personally i can see it being later, the release dates for new patches and releases always seems to be around 9pm (GMT) for some bizarre reason. Though the dev's might not be in the majority.

From memory, devs tend to release things around midnight GMT.

That could be called the "patch effect".
It's a theory that says that when a bunch of people are waiting for a patch, they will all eventually turn to retards and/or n00bs.
The effect is caused by the fact that a few people (generally serious posters) say something that is misinterpreted by someone less serious and then the wheel gets running and some people begin posting stupid things, which eventually gets more people to do the same........
......you people know that regardless of the age of each indivitual forming a crowd, the average crowd mental age is between 3 and 5 years old?

Let's play games while waiting for the patch.
Let's do the wave
:laola:

Quote from Tweaker :

Ahh great, people taking this thread seriously :rolleyes:

Well...I just went to LX6 on SO Long, which had been my testing combination between S1 and the 1st S2 alpha release also. I believe it's the best testing combination because the LX6 has always been somewhat tricky and the 2nd sector of SO Long is bumpy. If you're really pushing it's easy to spin at many places ATM, whereas I believe it shouldn't be the case. So we'll see how it goes in a few hours.
That said, since I had not driven LFS for a few months, I didn't get any closer than 3 sec off my pb. Could probably cut 1 off of that if I drove another 10 mins, but I just gave up since I've got better things to do (like waiting for a patch).

Updated my template from the previous page, if anyone's interested.

Quote from Bob Smith :

Heh, I thought you were gonna say we should say grace or something.

We could also do that.
I've just been disappointed at seeing the counter still shows 1, so maybe if we say grace the leet counter will disappear?

Here's a template I just made.
Got a bitmap wireframe, a vectorial wireframe (Photoshop path) and I did what I could with the shading.
Should make it easier to paint now

Updated with some sort of suspension mounting points and added the original shading on top of mine.

Last edited by Nick_ll, Fri 21 Apr 2006, 08:40.

Hi, my converter doesn't seem to work anymore.
It gives me an error. No idea why, but I'd like to be able to open up the BF1 in 3ds.

Quote from SchneeFee :

be aware that after the patch we are still in alphastage, so lets wee what the final release will bring us.

edit: i also though erik must have made more than 2 or 3 corners an 1 singleseater car in 10 month. oh, and i forgot the lamposts, so i still believe there will be something we dont know yet.

Ya I'm with you on this one, especially considering the FOX and FO8 cockpits have apprently been updated again between what, day 3 of the update and day 5 or 6? That's 3 days, don't see how other things of such nature could of taken 10 months.
Oh eh and the FOX and FO8 now have keels! (At least in the cmx viewer, that is), and they didn't in the screenies of the update.

Quote from Taavi(EST) :

He's driving around with cracked windshield?, that's retarded

Call that retarded if you wish, he still gets the pole.

Last edited by Nick_ll, Wed 19 Apr 2006, 08:26.

Quote from Tweaker :

It's both I'd say. Note the word "detection" and how lag can judge that.

Don't think that's the problem. The problem is more collision/energy absorbtion, which I believe is not there at all? Certainly energy in collisions is not absorbed by surfaces as it should.

But errr....the single seater dashboards have been re-updated?

Edit: I just wish they have taken into account the people who drive with steering wheel hidden.

Last edited by Nick_ll, Sun 16 Apr 2006, 18:27.