Quote from [DUcK] :

I agree with Forbin.

Yesterday my Dad came into the room asking questions like "howcome your wheel turns so fast", and, "why are you left foot braking instead of heel&toe-ing?".
I answered, "well, it's faster. If I could do them in my racecar - I would."

It's all about having that advantage over your oponents. Even if you find some wheel settings, that gives you hardly a noticible difference, you say that's an advantage.

And that's part of what kills LFS for me, unfortunately. The fact that so many people will use "unrealistic" settings to gain advantage instead of just driving the way the car is supposed to be driven. No matter how you put it, you'll always be at a disadvantage using H-shifter, clutch and 720° compared to someone using paddles + auto-clutch and 300° (with two drivers of similar skill, of course).

I agree there is little to nothing that can be done about it, but if there were an option like the OP suggested then I would surely be found in those servers, and I'm sure there'd be a lot more people in them than some of you seem to think. This isn't the first time this has been suggested, either.

Quote from andybarsblade :

(...) i've removed the mirrors (...)

Great looking bike, though!

Honestly, if it was me I would probably just not go there again at night. That may seem like a chickenshit move but at least that way you know you won't have to worry about them.

As for the baseball bats, I'm not so sure that would really help. You still have to get relatively close to a guy if you want to hit him and if they're somewhat quick they may be able to grab the bat before you swing - or dodge the swing and then grab it - and then you'll really have pissed them off. Some kind of spray or mace may be more effective but again, if you're gonna use that you better hope it works and they go down or run away, 'cause if they don't you'll just have angered them.

I suppose a firearm would be a safe bet to scare them off but of course that's much harder to come by. Maybe shoot in the air so they can tell it's not a toy. Hell maybe even in the leg, if the police aren't doing anything about that kind of scum harassing teenagers then they may not care about scum getting shot at, either

Quote from gezmoor :

Cold hands are going to loose feel. Not good if you're trying to control a clutch and more importantly feel the brakes on a slippery surface. So you'll need insulation of some form in the gloves for winter.

Or just have heated handles installed I just brought my bike to the dealer today to have a set fitted. No more cold hands for me!

Now I just need to find some heated footpegs...

Quote from Migz :

:O!
<3 <3 <3 <3
Oh no, i seem to have jizzed a little

Why, it's still a 50cc moped?

Quote from Minimaxman :

Gotta say I think this looks brilliant. One thing, in the original video when he scanned the patterned side of the skateboard, how did it know what pattern was beneath his hands?

X-Ray vision

Quote from Chrisuu01 :

You mean the garden house? that is actually partly a shed.

No you fool, he's talking about your bike Although I must admit I don't know what exactly he means with "chamber".

Quote from DevilDare :

Alot of us arent, and we are simply getting sick of this nonsense....

Simply don't click on the thread then?

Quote from niels1 :

I for 1 am self empolyed and I can tell you it takes long days and a lot of hard work to earn a living.
When you do come home you want to sit down and relax.
Or play a game like LFS for instances. But not developing something.

The difference is, though, that Scawen's job is developing LFS; that's where he gets his income from (at least that's what I've always understood to be the case). So that argument is invalid

I can hardly believe that there are still people who've been around for several years and don't know that

Quote from IlGuercio :

The weird thing is that i played the MTV Abarth demo flawlessly and i played the normal demo as well before yesterday.
Then i bought my license,downloaded the v1.1 from the site and suddenly it doesn't go through the loading screen anymore.
I will try to update the drivers,i'll let you know.Thanks

What do you mean with you "played the normal demo"? Which version do you mean? Because if you were already playing the v1.1 demo you shouldn't have downloaded it again after buying your license, just unlock it

Also, make sure you download and install the updates (marked in red below the normal download mirrors) to the v1.1 version.

Quote from zeugnimod :

Isn't that exactly what the second option says?

No, 'cause that says "a tad slow". It's not a tad slow. It's horribly slow

Quote from Shadowww :

So does the default method LFS site uses.

Which method is that?

Lol, a poll won't change a thing and you'll get the same arguments again in this thread Besides, I don't think there are anough options to vote. I, for example, think that development is too slow but I don't necessarily think it needs to speed up. If this is how long it takes to do stuff for Scawen then that's how it is, not much you can do about it Besides, I don't really care about LFS right now so it doesn't matter much to me.

Quote from Shadowww :

Uhm since when PayPal uses anything but credit card for payments?

What The Lupe meant was that if you use Paypal your credit card number is not revealed, making it much harder (if not impossible) to "steal" your credit card.

Quote from shaun463 :

Type Racer. www.typeracer.com

I always use it when I am feeling bored

That's what I linked to in the post right above yours. I didn't mention the name, though so yeah...

Also, that doesn't really help the OP with his question so your reply is rather pointless Typeracer is only fun if you already know how to type properly and fast.

Quote from blackbird04217 :

By the way; why does the middle finger on the left hand hit the 'C' key- That is very unnatural and hard for me to do...

It will come more naturally with practice. I can understand that it feels awkward at first, especially since you probably keep all your other fingers properly on the keys because "that's the way you're supposed to do it". But as you get better and start to type faster you'll notice that your hands leave their "recommended" position often but briefly when hitting certain keys.

For example when I hit the 'c' key my index finger will move down together with my middle finger, placing it above - but not on - the 'v' key. This way the movement comes a lot more natural.

Same thing with the 'x' key: my little finger will move down together with my ring finger, hovering above the 'z' key (at least on qwerty keyboards). I don't think about this, of course, I only just noticed it now when I payed attention to it.

An alternative is to just use Windows Speech Recognition It comes built in with Vista and Windows 7 and actually works very well. A fast typist will still be faster than someone using speech recognition in many cases but... you're not a fast typist Yet

EDIT: by the way, if you feel confident typing a bit faster this might be fun for you You get placed in a "race" with a number of opponents and you type the text shown to you as fast as you can. Whoever finishes first wins Apparently I type at a rate of 100 words per minute with an accuracy of 99.5%. I had no idea There's some insanely high scores on there, though. Makes me doubt if they are legit. 175 words per minute? That's almost twice as fast as me then... that really seems awfully fast to me. I wonder if there's some way you can cheat this system.

Last edited by obsolum, Fri 8 Jan 2010, 12:00.

Quote from Stiggie :

Crap :doh: Well, what i meant to say was.. the amount of S2 users is still going in the right direction (...)

And which direction is that? Up? Well d'uh, the amount of licensed users isn't exactly going to go down now, is it?

Quote from Shadowww :

Use this: http://www.silverex.org/news/

I have used X-Chat for a while before I installed mIRC + nnscript. That doesn't answer my question

EDIT: nevermind, just registered filling in nonsense.

Last edited by obsolum, Wed 6 Jan 2010, 19:14.

Alright, I've got a question, too. Today I finally succumbed to mIRC's "nagging" for me to register and since I get 50% off I thought why not. But on the register page it asks me for my phone number and my street address. Why on earth do I have to give that information to register an IRC client?

So my question is: can I just enter nonsense in those fields, or does he actually require my street address for some reason?

Quote from Scorpio12344 :

honestly, same graphics, cars, tracks, textures. year has gone by, no new car, 3 months, no physics, I am wondering if the developers are giving up.

You've been S2 licensed for half a year, done around 7000km online and haven't raced online for over 2 months. Seems like you're the one who's given up and rather quickly, I may add

Quote from pearcy_2k7 :

hm someone needs to buy an s2 account called all and get a 1 day ba on redline lol

Lol, that might actually be worth the 12 quid! (i assume you can join the server with an S1 license as well?)

Quote from 5tag :

Has anyone any idea if or when one or both of the episodes will be available for PC systems? I don't get why they are not available for at least Windows. There must be some contract with Microsoft to only release them for Xbox but why? MS also earns money from selling Windows.

They're Xbox exlusive It was announced that the game would get exclusive DLC worth at least xx hours of gameplay long before GTA 4 was released. So yeah... I don't think they'll be available for the PC anytime soon (if ever).

Quote from brandons48 :

I think most people have lost intrest in the 'rocco to be honest.

I could care less about it really.

I know I don't care about it but then again I've never been too excited about it.

After this long a wait, though, the Scirocco alone isn't gonna cut it (IMO).

Quote from jibber :

You need to play it with friends. And it helps if you have something called a sense of humour.

Hmm, I have neither of those...