PM's sent.
Sorry to everyone out there not getting the used licence. I am sure there will be a next chance in the forum to get a free one. At least i hope for you. I just have one sorry.
Request @ Mods: The thread can be locked now. Since everthing else will be made by PM's.
All the best
ALDI
(Mike)

Last edited by Nobo, Wed 29 Aug 2007, 21:08.

PM but didnt yet

If we get a fast change the biodiversit of the planet will decrease by a huge amount. We know that from earth history, fast changes always resulted in mass die of species (not only speaking of climate changes). If we had slow changes the number of species, stayed constant or just decreased by a bit.

+ if we slow down the process, that will also lead that the maximum global warming will decrease.



This graph is showing the diversity of marine species since paleozoic. There we have "the big 5" events and some minor events, where we always had rapid changes in climate and living conditions. If we had slow changes the effects werent that big.

I could be rather relaxed sitting in an industrial country which will not have the biggest effects of global warming. But i think thats selfish. because the most affected are the poor of the poorest by harvest failure, droughts and diseases. The forgotten continent Africa, South America, Asia...
Already today I would love the 10.000 hunger death a day because of the agricultural war between industrial countries would get the same publicty as those dieing by terror, but thats another topic.
But i also understand people wont change their living behaviour on their own if they dont have an incentive to change it which can only be made by governments, since money rules the world and the industry wants us to consume a lot to earn a lot of money.

Some people said in this thread or another i dont remember right, that we "chase view"drivers miss something of the intense simulation feeling´. So let us miss this "intense feeling"and this one thing about the simulation and give us the mirror to be more safe for everyone else. You said yourself we will miss sth...i can live with it. A lot people miss sth because they dont use wheel, but kb and mouse is still supported.
I dont have a prob with people using mouse or kb, since i can understand that not everyone can afford a wheel.
You should do the same and understand us chase view driver that our tiny monitor doesnt give us the surround feeling as when we are in a car. I need to know whats going on around me without pressing a buttom and my monitor will never reflect the real feeling i have in the cockpit. We just want to race proper and safe for everyone else. The only thing missing for us is the possibility to know whats going on behind us.
Why not just add this tiny mirror there? Does it hurt you in any way? It would make the racing on public server even better, so why are people agianst it? "It doesnt help me! Its not made for me! So i dont want it. No programming time should be invested there."

Evaporation is just a buffer and the amount of water that possible evporates is limited.
I know you dont believe on global warming, but there are enough measurements that already show GW is happening. I know its easier to close the eyes and dont be affected by the problems which our planet has and live on the cost of the poor, our children and following generation. Thats the easy way (After me the sense flood).
There are by far a lot more environmental problems which our earth has, i know you will hide your eyes by all this problems, too. (A good report http://www.na.unep.net/OnePlanetManyPeople/index.php2005)
For Example:
Ressource question, energy question, biodeversity, forrests, soils, smog, ozone hole,
Aerosols and pollutants...

Temperature increase is just one thing caused by humans, its happening, its measured and first effects already happening, people dieing. We should start to take measures to slow it down. Here is a chart which shows effects of GW, we are already completely in the first step. Even if there would be a 1 % chance GW is not happening. I wouldnt risk the consequences.

For scientists sth like a wonderland, they see things happen they prognosed 20 years ago.

Quote from BlueFlame :

Put ice into your Water, or Jack and Coke, you will see, after the ice has melted, the level of contents actually drops.

What happens is the Ice has less water in it, than its actual mass, Ice is just O2 frozen with Water.

Regarding plants? ... The sea level rising (which won't happen) is going to change the fact there are Sea living plants and they will all die? are you for real?

Of course not, they are gonna stay, and eventually, some sea weed will make its way to land, and be able to live out of water, etc etc etc

The seas level will definately rise, it already did because of GW and is measured very precisely.
Like you can see for example in the alps or himalaya not only the ice floating on the water melts + antarctica is a continent and most ice there is not floating on water. There is an ice shield several km thick which already starts thinning, first time in several hundred thousand of years.
And the sea level rising happens not only because of the amount of water added, the other factor is thermal expansion. Which is if we take the amount of water into account much bigger then most usually think. Didnt find the exact numbers right now in my notes but if you need them i will have a closer look on my desk.

7 days ended. I will contact 3 people later today to make a date on a demo server.
Thread can be closed now.

The launch mail from the stcc forum went directly into my spam folder, both! Maybe the fact there were 2 or some word inside (maybe "pleasure"?) let my mail program do this. Lucky enough i saw a quick stcc appearing and disappearing and went to the folder. Now enjoy watching

Quote from Becky Rose :

Are you implying that CTRA drivers are self gratification junkies?

Erm....yeah...we are...

Quote :

Michael has caused 112 yellow flags, which is a ratio of 8%. This is a really commendable yellow flag ratio, typical of only the best racers to be found on the CTRA.

I have to be honest. I did ask me the same question yesterday. How save is LFS?
Or is this Phlos guy just a damn good programmer/hacker? Why cant one just get hold off this guy? because if its easy stuff what he did and what he did in the past, like you said, that means everyone who has basic programming/hacking knowledge can come across the road and do that ?
Just want to be clear on that WHAT exactly happened, and why my online-icon still shows me that i spectate. I dont want to overreact. I sit here relaxed in my chair. I am just curious what happened.

Good luck with the team m8!! Thought you wanted to start your own

Its known as the capital of professional women in germany

@Becky: You are talking of professionals before or after you know he lives in Hamburg

Quote from amp88 :

Hands up who else sat there refreshing 20 times just to read about themselves?

errr...tbh


Edit: F5 key broken

Because not everyone is a good engineer there is the possibility to share sets on the server and there are sites like Team Inferno who offer setups.

But a "forced setup" option for special races/servers would be cool.

Good luck with you new team sully!

If you would like to do open wheel racing with the Fox in a series environment i could recommend you the Open Wheel Racing League. The season starts at 08th of september. There are always several grids for the races which are sorted by personal best time (which are grabbed from your LFS-World profile). So you race people with your skill. Race usually start at 08 pm central european time. Which is like 2 pm east coast time. There are a few drivers from the US involved there, but the main part of drivers come from europe there.

Tbh its no masterpiece of television entertainment but does that really count to compare the FIRST episode with high budget real life programs with educated commentators? It wasnt to bad to be honest. A bit to much american style for my taste but you can see that the guys making the program are as addicted of sim racing as we are and trying to be a forum for simracing and thats pretty cool and thats what counts.
You could even say a lot of bad things about Mika's live coverages at www.game-tv.com but yeah in some way they are pretty cool and he is near the community, self a part, even if he tries to speak in english its not perfect but he still gets a lot of sympathism from my side. Becky's STCC broadcasts are really top notch but the format is a lot of different then that offered by SRT and i think a multi-topic, multi sim program is pretty hard to do (not putting down your work petty, your coverages were always just awesome and there is as well a hell lot of work in it) and they show their faces and not just lending their voice.
So keep on guys, maybe take something of the criticism mentioned here and go on with the style you think fits the best for you, the perfect cleanest program doesnt fit for all moderators! Would be looking forward to see something about LFS!

Lets say congratulation to the 9th and first german who reached Titanium licecence!
You all may want to guess who it is? Its the famous Lord

Congrats m8! Consistent driving over month brought you there!

@ MrSkill: Testdrive the wr? Or watch what the fuel indicator on the bottom left says

Edit: few mins to late...happy Birthday mrskill

Last edited by Nobo, Fri 24 Aug 2007, 00:14.

Quote from U4IK ST8 :

Ok, I am obviously no scientist and I have no qualifications in this field but it is clear to me, from some of these graphs, that the Earths temperature has been higher and glacial ice volumes have been lower than they are today. Obviously the carbon level is higher because of the industrial age but the temperatures and glacial ice volumes don't seem, to me anyway, much different compared to previous times.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleoclimatology

I think there is no scientist working on global warming ever doubt that the temperature in earth history was hotter then today or there was more CO2 in the atmosphere. It certainly was.

Speaking about Global Warming we have to ask ourselves where exactly lays the problem?

The degree of temperature change we experience at the moment is NOT natural (speaking we have no extraordinary events for example, big volcano eruptions, meteroitic impact...) and can hardly be found in earth history without those extraordinary events.

Whats the problem and the result if we get higher temperature?

Just some of a long list of examples:
Rise of the ocean
less glacier
higher temperature
more extreme weather phenomens
desertification

In countries which are affected by those things you will probably have high migration (in humans history always led to wars, cultural, racist conflicts) or the agricultural sector will have big problems and more and more people will not have something to eat at the end of the day.
Finally those effects that will cost us more if we dont do anything to slow down the degree of global warming.

Not speaking about the effect on all the plants and animals. Dieseases, political problems, detailed economic problems. Water problems....

For detailed analyses my writing knowledge of english language is not good enough.

But the main thing is not of we have global warming (everyone can see it at the glaciers in the alps) or not. The question is what will be the effects if we get a high temperature change over a short period. People should just start learning out of humans history.

Quote from Nobo :

P.P.P.S: Pleas no spam from licenced racers nor bashing around who is the best, thx alot

Thx alot guys!

I registred the other account yesterday on the forum and is shows the "2005" join date here.


@Mods: thx for editing the topic title, should have included that.
@demo users: 1 x spr and 3x mpr is the criteria pls / stated it clearer now in my post

I just did read a thread about someone wanting a S1 or S2 licence. That just remembered me that i have a second S2 Licence. It maybe didnt have the best name and was banned from 1 or 2 servers 2 Years ago, i started in July05 with it. The reason why i have been banned was that i started playing serious racing games for the first time and have been so annoyed that it was so difficult and i have to admit i crashed alot . Long time has passed now, a lot of miles on my side since i touched that old licence and i dont think its in 1 single ban list. So i think it shouldnt just lay there useless for me (i dont know a single moment where i could use it) i think we should all be happy if we have one more S2 licenced active racer. But i dont want to give the licence to someone who just got into this forum wants to play NOW and never touches the game after one week.
It maybe sounds a bit godlike but i have some criterias whom i'll give the licence. See it as a competition or whatever. Please apply either here or by pm if you want the licence.

Criterias:
- Forum registration before 01.06.2007 (the earlier the better)
- give reason why you cant buy the licence yourself, you dont need to go much into details (for example: you live in a country where its hard to buy it/you dont have the money/ you are just a student and your parents would never allow you to buy something over the internet/...)
- post some replays which show that you are clean driver (Put a red dot behind your name)/ Replays: 1. You driving alone some laps/ 2. You driving on a filled demo server 3 different mpr replays!!! (you dont have to be an alien fast just capable to hold the car on track and race fair with others, you dont need to win the race on the replay from the filled server or so, thats not giving you any plus point)
- time after application time has ended for a meeting on a demo server where i can see that it was really you in the replays

Not needed but a plus point:
(-helpful, active part of the community)

Application time:
starting from the post time exactly 7 days. No first come first serve basis.
If there isnt anyone who fullfills the criterias i'll think about what i will do with the licence.

Either Post your application here or pm me.

The lucky one will be announced by a post in this thread. Those who pm me will get a message after the 7 days if they are in the closer circle.

All the best,
ALDI
(Mike)

P.S.: i dont want that people prostitute themselves so i havent given any tricky tasks or silly quiz or sth here like in other S2 licence giveaway threads/ just want to be as sure as possible the licence will be used

P.P.S: for the replay links. DDL preferred but not necessary, at least if there are no 3h waiting time

P.P.P.S: Pleas no spam from licenced racers, thx alot


Edit: 9 Applications

Last edited by Nobo, Thu 23 Aug 2007, 15:22.

I really do like the weather conditions on CTRA-X servers! If its low or high wind, if you want to call yourself a good driver then you have to deal with both! I dont understand why not more high quality leagues use the wind even if the wind is not 100% realistic, but zero wind isnt 100% realistic too, but its a real challenge with wind.
Yesterday i really did like the high wind sessions on FE Gold and WE Int. and was kind of disappointed that all people startet to "vote end race" In the end i did vote myself but just because i didnt want to have that happen in the middle of the race and to shut all that moaning on the server. Maybe you could take up in the rules its forbidden to vote to end the race just because of weather conditions. Its sad that people leave the server just because they dont find perfect hotlapping conditions. And that are most likely the drivers who are crying for rain weather or tracks like the "Nordschleife" 5mins later in the forum

Points/Time/wind is sth else and you already said the point system will get a rework so its fine


Maybe an option could be to have all wind options on the SS2/Race2 servers and on the SS1/Race1 server to have just low wind. So the inexperienced drivers can learn how to drive with wind in LFS before they get the full load of wind
Already suggested by Flip i think.