Its just "new people" setting up and hosting a league(not the same guys!! just everything under one roof, there were DTM drivers entering F1 and F1 drivers entering DTM last season, that was a very good thing about DTM and F1 running under same website!! But the hosts of the events are totally different!!)! get server support and a place to share stats and results and a place to meet!

And a GP2 league would fit into the concept of SimFIA

Last edited by Nobo, Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:35.

I really think a FO8 league should be started! Maybe under the roof of SimFIA if we get the license. They could be support races for the SimFIA:F1 league. But organized by a different admin team.
And it shouldnt be a Spdo FO8 league against an other Fo8 league... it think we sould work to get something up together instead of everyone doing his own stuff. To set up a good league for close racing with many drivers! Just to think about! Sometimes little working together is not bad!

Sorry Ice for the slight bump at your rear...but Laudi came on my inside and you came down to my line, nothing i could do....sorry dude!

No the site works for me, but with new advertising....maybe your browser blocks some. I'm sure Fischfix will fix that when he comes home from his holiday!

Quote from thisnameistaken :

I suppose the downside is that, upon arriving at a server running ten laps, you might have to wait twice as long for the next restart, but I can't think of any other downsides.

Yeah i think the downside is TIME...not everyone has the time to play 1 hour LFS, some just get ín quickly want to do some races.
I wanted to hop in for some quick SO Town Reverse races yesterday, it was 10 Laps, which was around 12-13 Minutes of distance. I cam e in after first race was in lap 2 or 3 had to drive 10 minutes watching for blue flags. Then next race i crashed and the same thing again. The next race i could compete with the pace. But finally i spent 40 Minutes for 3 races. Not everyone has that time, so i understand why many servers have just 5 lap races!

Somehow i feel we had this discussion in the past, might be wrong....

Everything said already....people stay on there opinions like unmovable rocks...its in this great game...so i love it, too

Isnt there allready a welsh team? Tongey? Tongeyyyyy?? Tongeyyyyyy??? Dont know but i dont think they are actively recruiting, dont know

When you dont know exactly how to start up with a team, why not joining one of the other hundred teams...there are a lot out there for every taste...

Nice skin I'm sure Tongey will like it

Hey! I think we met on track some days ago, and i told you to look at LFS-World....

Just to introduce our Team again. We are the Factory Phantom Racing Team. We are mostly driving the OWRL with success and are searching for drivers. We are mainly driving the Formula cars. Due to the fact that we only have german useres at the moment everything on our page is on german. Plans are going on at the moment to translate everything in to english. Our website is: www.factoryphantom.de

I really can say the team from Thor is a nice one, so i can tell you to search for their usernames and hop in to one of their servers:
Their usernames are :
thorvertonian ([SR]Thor)
boyracer1981 ([SR]Missing)

together with other known cheaters....lol

Let me make a comparison. I am a big cyclíng fan, at the moment there are hard discussion about drugs. Cyclist take an advantage towards the others with illegal drugs. If they get catched they get a 2 year ban of every race and a 4 year ban of every pro race. Then he has the chance to return, if he gets catched again he gets a lifetime ban. Why not using some similar thing for players in LFS who get an advantage with cheats. Maybe if they get first catched give them an immediately 2 week ban. If they do it again then give them a lifetime ban or a maybe a 1 month ban....for a online game a 1 month ban is a long time....totally ban a user when he first gets catched is not good in my eyes everyone has to get a second chance....if he miss it then ban him from LFS for longer or for life!

Hey thor! Unfortunately its the same day, as the 2nd owrl pre season race.... I would have participated.....
FPR is planning to do warm-up races for the owrl-season-races just wanted to tell you, we will begin next wednesday 18:00 UTC, so if [SR] any SR is intersted....

Hope to see mor [SR] events not conflicting with the OWRL!!

Greetz ALDI

Maybe its a little language barrier here....i mean, if tyre wear would be turned of, it would be for everyone on the server. But when i change view its just for me to make the game playable for me. If you compete in races you'll always choose the way you are fastest with.

@ Tristancliffe: This thread has absolutely nothing to do with the Oval. Just that we chase view drivers finally want to have our mirror....for oval or not for oval...Crazy Harry just explained why he started that thread, because hes going to circuits now and discovered again how desperately he needs that mirror....months ago he allready posted he wants that mirror finally (just use the search function / its not just now where he goes to circuits that he needs it).... have you only read first post....maybe then you shouldnt go into dicussion...

But to say something to what you said, its not "difficult" to drive without chase view, you just have to be really careful, which often costs me a lot of places in races, but thats the same on the oval.

lol noone said its needed on the oval illepall

to be honest it would be more needed on every other track.

+ switch on the opiton: use wheel only
+ switch on the option: dont use crappy plastic wheels
+ switch on the option: only allowed to join if the player has a full cockpit at home


much better driving experience with that ...lol

Last edited by Nobo, Sat, 29 Jul 2006 14:51.

hehe, i can send you a lot of replays , so i can show you what is worse

We wnat to see behind, thats why we want the mirror :P

Not really, because that are basic game things which take effect to everyone. Like you said, that would be a step in the wrong direction. That what i meant with realistic physics, that has to be realistic.

Which input the players uses (Wheel, joystick, mouse...) or which view (cockpit, tyre or chase) should be down to each single person, because that only influences his way of driving.
If i drive chase view it doesnt affect others simulation fun.

Last edited by Nobo, Sat, 29 Jul 2006 10:06.

Quote from Whisper :

I thought the whole point of a simulation was to get as close to reality as possible, so driving in a chase cam view seems like a step in the opposite direction.

I think first of all the developers would have to make the cars behave realistic in any way.
The choose of controller and view is down to the player how much realism he wants and how he can controll the game. Forcing people into cockpit view and using wheels is not the right way to treat people. As long as i have not the same feeling in this virtual cockpit like in a real car its unrealistic. There are certain things i need to see or feel while driving.
If there wouldnt have been the chase view i wouldnt have touched the game after one day of use....and that would mean , that i wouldnt have met a lot of great people in the lfs community
So i dont understand the realsim discussion, adding the mirrors to the chase view wouldnt affect anyones realism, I will drive chase view if there is a mirror or not. It wouldnt be bad for any cockpit driver (wouldnt affect your realism) and wouldnt affect your racing. It can only be good if more chase view drivers are aware whats going on behind them!!

Last edited by Nobo, Sat, 29 Jul 2006 08:17.

I just found out why i drive chase view.....anyone remembers Re-Volt :P
Just found it in my old discs

so take away all the other views and make the other views only available in replay view, then we are all happy, but as long as you can choose the views, the chase view should have the same right as tyre view for example.

And please take away the support for keyboard, gamepad and mouse , becuase thats unrealistic.....
ah yeah and please let only lfs drivers race who have a full cockpit at home.....illepall

Quote from wark :

Can one really drive competitively from the chase view?:duck:

Look at the OWRL results, www.owrl.de search for FPR|ALDI#13 and make your opinion yourself

I have tons of replays to show you, that chase view has a lot of advantages...yesterday i have been banned from a server because one of the admins hasnt seen me on his inside...lol :P

Last edited by Nobo, Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:08.

You know you have my vote! It makes it difficult in league races! But with the time you get used to it!

Its allready in noted requests (finally): http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=9869

But i dont know if they'll work on this in some time....

have you edited one of the default skins, because then, if another car uses a default skin, its shown as yours!!!

When i begun LFS i edited on of my skins in my skinsx folder and i wondered why everyone had stolen my crappy ALDI -skin!!

The sign up goes over the forum. There you can sign up for a team. For example, my team Redbull Racing, we always had a free spot in each single race, except the first one. Post on the forums that you are interested to race, there are some teams searching for a driver.
Greets
ALDI