Quote from Viper93 :

HAVE FUN!!!!!

Oh yeah... I'm even looking forward to the drive down, since its the first long journey out of London I've done for a while. Anyone need a lift from South London? Not sure what route I'll be taking yet, but I'm guessing ... South Circular, pick up M4 at Hammersmith, then M3...

Quote from Bob Smith :

nihil: 1:46.60 [at Reverse combo]

Yeah, I can get into the late 45s, but I'm still buggering around with brake markers, since I rarely drive on SO - consistency is not really a word I can apply to how I drive the course at the moment!

As for the FXO - well I'll just concentrate on leading from the rear with that one: 1.22 my fastest time so far...

wsinda has written a useful guide to Blackwood in the XFG:
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=229173#post229173

Quote from ShannonN :

but for the sake of realism, equality, and good racing Scawen must enable only in car views etc for actual racing.
Then and only then will LFS be realistic and simulate properly the immersion, fun that real life does?

Quote from The Statute of the Union of Soviet Writers :

It demands of the artist the truthful, historically concrete representation of reality in its revolutionary development. Moreover, the truthfulness and historical concreteness of the artistic representation of reality must be linked with the task of ideological transformation and education of workers in the spirit of socialism.

Realism is not a visual style. Immersion has nothing to do with pixelated decoration.

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=384483#post384483

Someone didn't search....

Quote from Dajmin :

And of course my favourite classic muscle car in the lead from the start - watching the Escorts (they were Mk1 Escorts, right?) catch the Camaro on the corners only to see it pulling away on the straights... Nice.

Ah... you need to see the drama of part two! And they are Mk1s, but with 3litre V8s (or something close...) under the bonnet.

Quote from deggis :

This is nice clip too:

Super Saloons! :headbang: Baby Bertha!

Was going to put this in the video thread, but, hell, it deserves a thread all its own. Not just for nostalgists, this should be required viewing. Its all here: close, nose to tail racing; blue flag conduct; clean passing. And its breathtaking...

In two parts:

PT1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY5zdnGvT0c
PT2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDAK4jBKmow

Last edited by nihil, Wed 11 Apr 2007, 23:28.

So is the plural of Prius, "Prii"?

Karts and karting:

On the Isle of Man
Gixxerkart
Michael Schumacher (apparently)

Will be very interested to hear the result - in another life I used Pure Data a lot... very similar to Max/Msp

Other: the plural of Lexus is "more money than sense."

Quote from LFSn00b :

PREVIEW

All I can see is the roof, the dashboard, and the driver....

Quote from Madman_CZ :

but thats exactly my style.. brake late as possible and HARD!!!

I only brake hard twice in the whole lap - And only touch the brakes five times in total. So I'm not going to make anything up on you there!

Yeah, that little return road can be quite fun, but to be honest I prefer djgizmo68's layout for it: http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=19907

I like the idea of adding the flat out straight however, and by way of improvements it'd be nice to have something that more clearly delineates that first hairpin. I've only had a couple of bashes at it, but I found the environment a bit bare and was struggling to find markers to use as brake or turn in points (EDIT: Actually, the problem is more that the barriers are the same colour on either side of the road, so the entrance is camouflaged)

Last edited by nihil, Mon 9 Apr 2007, 13:58.

Quote from Fetzo :

the following drivers see a yellow flag and they should'nt have any problems to avoid you,

LOL... I have never seen anyone on a public server (including STCC) slow for a yellow flag. Standard practice is to keep the right foot planted and blast through...

Quote from GruntOfAction :

lol seriously though the best thing to do if u lose controll and crashing press Shift+S.

It can mean the diffrence of having a 1st place guy lose or win!

If he couldn't be arsed to respond to a yellow flag he never deserved the win anyway.

Quote from Viper93 :

I had major stablity problems as well.

I found the set very easy to drive.... but maybe that's because I'm about two seconds slower

Quote from The Architect :

When I'm playing alone, I'm getting around 10-15 fps instead of my average 30. When on a crowded server, I can get around 1-10 fps.

I run LFS on a pentium 3, 1ghz, tablet PC (I dunno, 14" screen or something daft like that...). Frankly, you should be getting better frame rates than that. Online I usually get 20fps (+/- 5fps), except at the turn one bottlenecks, where I have to hang back because LFS becomes a magic lantern slideshow.

It depends what the competition is too: UF1s, XFG/XRGs - good frame rates; TBOs on South City - don't bother...

It is a pain in the arse because it does dictate race strategy - I can't even think about leading from the front, because there's no way I'll keep control of the car with a lot of polygons hogging the frame rate in my mirror. Pretty much every race has to fought from the back, picking cars off one at a time. But, hey, that's racing on a budget in a nutshell!

Quote from wheel4hummer :

I decided to remove my post. By posting that, I don't want to add to the America bashing.

Geezer, you can't pick fights with people and then get upset because they respond. The only person throwing insults around was you (in the post you have now deleted)

And then to turn it into "America - the abused minority" is just plainly manipulative. Turning a news story, in which innocents have genuinely been injured, into some kind of personal drama is distasteful which ever way you look at it.

Quote from wheel4hummer :

What qualifies as a WMD then? By the standards of whom?

I, personally, do not think its a very helpful term. Its used by various governments in the way that you used it: as a buzzword to shortcut any rational debate and make ideological assertions about the world appear to be 'facts'.

All liberals do is bitch, and all conservatives do is bitch about liberals bitching. Useless sacks of blood and bone. Now go and take your lithium...

Quote from Blackout :

Yes...that was what I was saying. The post was directed for the first post in sort of WTF way.
Notice the question mark wasn't in the end of the sentence :P

Sorry... I see that now... damn speed reading...

Quote from wheel4hummer :

Is it still a battle field weapon when it injures 350 innocent Iraqis?

Unfortunately, yes. Same way that a hunting rifle is still a hunting rifle if you shoot your family. This is low tech stuff. You want to make yourself a battlefield weapon? Just mix some acid with some bleach.

2HCl + NaOCl -> Cl2 + NaCl + H2O

To put it in simple terms, if you are attacked with chlorine gas, there is a strong chance you will survive. No doubt you'll be injured, but you can survive. There are historical examples from world war one of troops fighting on without gasmasks whilst under attack from chlorine gas.

Conversely, if attacked with Sarin, the likelihood that you'll survive is significantly smaller.

Last edited by nihil, Sat 7 Apr 2007, 13:34. Reason : "will survive" changed to "can survive"

Quote from Blackout :

What? Chlorine is not a weapon of mass destruction.

I know its nit-picking, but, horrible as it is, its a choking agent, and somewhat different in its effects to nerve agents like Sarin. Chlorine gas is not classed as a weapon of mass destruction.

Quote from wheel4hummer :

So much for there not being WMDs in Iraq..... The terrorists are using chlorine gas bombs once again! And here is the article from a liberal news station, just for you guys.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17659270/

Technically, Chlorine gas is not a WMD, its a tactical battlefield weapon.

Quote from garph :

If you want to say the same thing over and over when replying to people asking for free roam and drift additions then it's your time to waste. But surely thats much more of an addition of clutter, garbage and reiterating familiar things?

Actually, its your choice: LFS is not your property and its not your decision what people do with it or what gets posted here. It is however within your power to ignore what you don't want to deal with.

But while we're at it, why not list all the the other LFS repetitions:

When is S3 coming out?
Why is LFS so expensive?
Can someone give me a licence?
Can I share my licence?
Can we have more tracks?
Can we have the Nordschleife?
Can we have real tracks?
Can we have real cars?
Some n00b wrecked me/stole my skin!!
Why is LFS the best thing since sex?
When is S2 coming out?
Hey! Demo user! Get a licence!

Ok, I'm bored now, but you know the list is endless... I have to say that if the drift layout thing is the only request that drives you nuts, then you're probably more resilient than you think you are.