For a while Racer was all that I drove, but... Christ, where do you start with the list of problems?
I'll probably never even try NKPro unless my financial status magically becomes 'solvent' and I can afford decent hardware, but if erratic online play and mediocre circuits are all that everyone is bitching about... Just consider yourselves lucky.
Its a shame, because I really like Racer's open and cross platform potential. So long as it remains marooned on RSC however, I won't be bothering with it. The whimsical development pace isn't so much of a problem to me - I quite admire that kind of amateurishness (amateur, in my dictionary, is not a term of abuse) - but I think there is a problem with its attempt to find an all-encompassing driving system.
Race cars just aren't that interesting to drive in Racer. It simulates road cars quite well, but the available parameters just don't seem to gel and provide 'feel' when pushed to extremes. I think this is a problem for all simulators (its been mentioned in another thread that the GTRs in LFS just don't have the same quality of feel that the road cars have, that they are missing something)
There's an assumption that if you can simulate physical laws, then these processes will be translatable to all kinds of vehicles. It sounds logical but I haven't yet seen this to be the case. It may just be that current technology doesn't yet provide the 'resolution' to embrace all circumstances, or it may be that, since simulation is nothing more than a form of representation, then different circumstances demand different forms of representation.
For the moment, specialisation just seems to mean a better drive.
I really like it as it is. Maybe just add a doorpanel or bonnet number plate, just to emphasise that its a race car. Maybe add some dirt around the wheel arches, and paintchips on the front spoiler
But its a nicely balanced geometric scheme - no need to clutter it up with sponsor crap.
Once the Cortina mod is released, adding saloon cars to the already generous array of open wheelers, Live for Speed will really have to work hard for its place on my laptop.
(actually it probably won't 'cause LFS is way more fun online for me at the moment...)
But Vain's statement was worthy of total ridicule. The suggestion that sport's only purpose is technological research, that its only reason for existing is to serve industry, is more than vaguely totalitarian.
Of course! Enjoyment, spectacle, passion, the ritual exploration of boundaries... all these things amount to an unproductive consumption of resources and should be chased into obscurity until everything resembles work.
Anyway, I think its a red herring... I want my race cars to scary things that only people with a blind spot for imminent death want to drive. Not frigging MPVs...
No, I would guess you are using netGuard or PCGuard. Several people mentioned this yesterday. The database in this scanner recognises the patch as having the signature of a worm called W32/Downloader2.TZ.
I'm assuming its a fault in the database of this particular brand of scanner, since no other scanner seems to pick this up.
I have to say that I really hate LFS's Vote ban mechanism. Its so open to abuse of this kind (by the way you describe it, no one else saw the incident)
Without seeing the mpr I won't comment on the crash, except to say that unless its very clear on the track (ie no other cars around and on a straight piece of road or a very wide corner), I try not to move off line. I'll slow down, make myself as narrow as is safe, and if he can't make the pass - tough. I'm sure he'll do well in the next race.
Its pick up racing for christ's sake - crash out of this one and there'll be another one in ten minutes. And its Conedodgers - so the next race is going to be GTRs at Aston National. Its not like he missed out on anything. In fact you probably added a bit of variety to his life...
That's not really how virus scanners work... There is something in the code of the downloaded patch that matches a virus signature in net/pcguards database. That is all.
Scoobyrbac - just turn your virus scanner off and allow the autoupdater to get on with it. Its a pain in the arse, but its not a virus.
If you have netguard or PC guard, then for some reason the LFS patch is recognised as a W32 worm. Its up to the devs to sort out why that is, but they'll have to contact the company involved.
Ah... I have netguard, which I think is the same as pc guard - the problem must be with their database. See, information flows once the fanboys shut up.
OK, but there is a problem somewhere. Please do not dismiss it just because the autoupdater is working for you. I'm not an idiot, but without an alternative to the autoupdater the patch is not retrievable for me.
Please don't give me the 'enough already' shite...
I'm not saying that there IS a virus, but my system is clean and well maintained. My software is recognising the file as a threat. That is all. The autoupdater is not working for me.
I have the same problem - my virus software recognises the file as a threat (same file name W32/downloader...) and immediately deletes the downloaded package. I'm using the autodownloader.
Respect is something that only gets offered with familiarity - otherwise its just fanboy shit and I don't do that.
So, as I haven't been around here very long, the asnwer to "when does it begin?" is "Not yet." But my respect is available to anyone who cares enough to articulate what they do without arrogance or assumptions, and who cares enough to compete from start to finish to the best of their ability.
But there are already adequate nuisance laws with which to deal with that problem. But to use them would be too simple. Oh no, we need something else. Quick, let's see what we can cook up...
That is such a dangerous idea - in more ways than one. Anyone who's actually ridden a bike (rather than looked at one and thought "oooooh, that looks scary - need to find a way to tame that...."), knows that accelerating out of harms way is one of the best defences a rider has.
But its dangerous in other ways - we, as a society, are sleepwalking into an era of delusion: we seem to be under the impression that the more we legislate, the more we control the world, the safer it will be.
Has anyone considered that the repair bill to the Enzo is probably a lot cheaper than advertising this popcorn movie worldwide by normal means? That's what I call clever....
Since the idea of actually passing someone is a fairly optimistic one from my perspective, I'm rather more interested in the technicality of FE gold. KY national is likely to produce some flat out fun, but, lets be honest, is coming off that section of oval at 160mph into the fairly technical series of esses (with an unfamiliar controller...) any less likely to be free of dust and debris?