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I mean the consistency of the arguments again this suggestion is paper-thin. Nobody ever came up with something that didn't sound like an elaborate way to say "I want LFS to stay the same for ever and ever"

Last edited by NightShift, Thu 16 Jul 2009, 00:51.

New old stock is definitely an option, but you can't honestly expect to find each and every possible replacement part for 50 years after the factories shut down, can you?

One of my ex-FILs used to be a motorbike collector, once in a while it simply happened that no fitting and/or adequate replacement could be found, in that case the only option is to have it built from scratch.

Quote from troy :

I'm not sure if you can get to a proper conclusion if you test it like that, there are to many variables playing a part if you just compare laptimes:

Agreed, the only meaningful way to test is to extract rafs for every lap, measure shifting time and then average out.

Quote from JeffR :

The effect on the SRF in iRacing seems to be exagerrated beyond reality.

Open diff is a bit exaggerated in LFS too IMO, but that probably is something that has to do with tyres rather than diffs in both sims.

Quote from tristancliffe :

Nobody is disadvantaged by it, nobody has to stop. It's exactly the same as wanting to join a server and finding that it's set on a track you don't want to race - you find another server and have fun there instead.

Sounds like plain common sense to me

Quote from MadCat360 :

It's like sitting in 40 years of pure motorsports spirit.

I'll just say one thing, when I was a kid, I used to have a die cast 1:18 model of that car. That and the yellow Testarossa, like this.

Quote from SidiousX :

What happens when ya need to replace a part that got worn because you drive it everyday?

AFAICT replacement parts are manufactured specifically for historical cars. But I'm sure Tristan can tell you more about that than I could ever do

Now if only the right people would bring this to Scawen's attention

Please 'Nuse everybody has got your position by this time, some will agree with you, some will not, but don't just drown this thread in your posts.

Someone might be interested in other people's opinions as well

What I find alarming is the ever increasing number of people thinking it is OK to be a dictator if you 'get things done'. History goes along in cycles, inside every cycle things are born, grown and finally they collapse. Democracy always stems from witnessing the horrors that dictatorship brings along when the wrong people seize absolute power.

Take this, a post without the word Hitler... oh wait

Quote from petervsp :

This signaling (light and PIP) should be activated at every new starting of engine, when fuel is on reserve - as in real car.

What car? Never heard of a low fuel alarm before.

BTW the sequence with the POV gun is pure 100% finest DNA IMO. Don't take the book as "canon", every single version of the Guide is different, he wanted it to be that way, if I had to take a guess, this is partly in an attempt to have the fans keep an open mind about it and not become the dumb, single minded fundamentalists that are so common in the fandom of other cycles, and partly to sell more copies of each version

Quote from bbman :

@NightShift: That's the sidewall, not the rim...

I know where the sidewall is

Take a look at the attached screenshot, you'll notice there's an additional part under the sidewall, the temperature is different as well (this you'll see well by taking a look at each wheel) - if that part is not the rim then I don't have a clue about what it is, the shape looks correct to me.

There are some cars where you can end up with a blue outer band while the inside is green, surely restricted ones where the tyre is supposed to withstand much more power and speed, as the Baby-R which I was practicing with yesterday but I think there could be more.

My guess is the inside of the tyre provides heat inertia to the tyre, e.g. it slows down contact patch heating in the warm up phase and then slows down its cooling in later stages. The same could be said of the rim too (if you look closely on some cars that warms up too) though I suppose to a limited degree.

The XFG is a great car to do some testing about this, it's easy to bring the patch up to temperature and then the inside will come up as well.

NB: in LFS there's no such thing as 'cold' tyres out of the pits. They're already above ambient temperature, and an easy way to check this is to let the car sit parked along the track for some time, the tyres will cool down to about 20 °C IIRC.

This has been the source of some arguing since tyre blankets may only regarded as realistic for the faster race cars.

Quote from amp88 :

What was the point of this post?

As I read it, he's asking the difference between having the inside of the tyre heated up and having green on the contact patch.

While it's quite easy to bring the contact patch to optimal temperature, the inside of the tyre (which I suppose represent the temperature of the air, color coded wrt the optimal temp of the compound) can be harder to warm up. E.g. in the LX4/LX6.

His problem is he can't feel any change in the handling.

The most often recommended rule of thumb is to try and get the temperature on the inner 10-15 °C higher than the outside, and above the optimal temperature for the compound used.

Just yesterday I was perusing the first volume of HPL's Tutti i Racconti (an italian antology of all the short stories written by Lovecraft). Before that I had the pleasure of reading The Remains of the Day by Ishiguro in english.

Good find

Sliders IMO are overkill, the screen borders could be divided in 8 zones and then let the user/insim select which one. However only some positions are viable so maybe even less zones.

Master & Commander is one of the greatest film released in this decade IMO. I have watched it countless times. And would eagerly wait for any sequels if only they made them (unfortunately the film was marketed as a naval gladiator while ideally it could have been called a sequel to Dead Poets Society... so it fared poorly at the box office and the producers won't prolly put a dime more in that franchise )

The flipside is you won't find anything that can match it. However, Hornblower is enjoyable, and set in about the same time period, it follows the adventures of a young midshipman who will become a skilled officer in spite of the odds being against him.

As a demo user you can only test 3 cars anyway, and AFAICT all three come pretty close to their top speed on the BL1 straight.

I would welcome a clearer indication about the mass of fuel loaded (though as w4h points out you still have some clue about it, it's not really straightforward)

But even more I'd like to have it in liters, percentage can be misleading when changing cars, volume like mass has a meaning in RL and thus is easier to relate to than just a ratio.

Quote from Matrixi :

That's only a part of the story. The problem in all this, was giving a release date, which wasn't met. Nothing else was given except that release date, no info on other progress in the upcoming patch. As has been said many times before, a release date does not equal a progress report.

And as far as I have seen, this forum took the release date miss fairly well, comparing to what might have happened on other gaming forums. The amount of moaning and whining was minimal in the beginning, then it started getting gradually worse as the months passed without a peep from the dev(s). I think some this moaning could have been easily avoided with the correct antidote; some development news during these 6 months.

The denying of further progress reports because of moaning and whining sounds fishy to say the least. It feels like an excuse to avoid any possible negativity from the community, but with the wrong methods, if I may so put it. This chosen method is what most certainly will bring the negativity out, if not immediately, but definately in the long run.

And for the OP, well, you are basically asking them to change they work to be honest, even if it isn't your direct intention. Writing dev news is part of the PR, which is a part of the whole work. Therefore I very much doubt we will see any change in this situation, knowing the style of scavier.

All he said +1.

Quote from Matrixi :

Edit: As what goes for the near future, I know Scawen isn't the type of person to bullsh*t the community. If he says we will get good releases this year, I truly believe that will happen. The time before we get there could be a bit more pleasant though.

While I don't share the same fideistic view, I do hope he's right, early 2009 is over for everyone now, failing to deliver at least one substantial patch in the next few months, in the current "shut up I'm working" situation will only lead to increased speculation as to what may be happening behind the scenes.

This is not to pressure Scawen (I'm pretty sure he's not reading this post anyway), but merely to point out that a non negligible part of the LFS community, despite not showing up on this forum (and hence not accounted for by the popular vocal minority theory), is only taking the news from Scawen at face value.

Quote from zeugnimod :

I don't get you, though. Just ignore him and he will stop. But go on if you want; I won't complain. It's quite entertaining to see you getting all worked up.

Zeugni-theLFSforum-mod

Quote from Matrixi :

Reading some of the posts in this thread makes me realise how easy it really was for Scawen to make this religious following put all the blame and hatred on the moaners/bored people instead of the actual lack of development/progress news.

Yes, it's sort of funny in a wicked way. You see members of this cult routinely put together lengthy posts that would almost make sense if for a moment you would forget about some absurdities that lie at the core of the whole thing.

But someone was mean enough to put most of their arguments in the LFSforum bingo, and turned the whole thing into a joke. It was an evil move but maybe for a greater good