Quote from mrodgers :

I think I say sorry quite a lot. I say sorry for taking someone else out. I say sorry even if it was the other person or it is too close to find fault.

I've t-boned others who spun ahead on the track and have gotten sorry from them. Sorry for what? Sorry because I crashed into you when you spun? Some folks think that there shouldn't be allowed any spins or accidents for some reason. You spin ahead, I tag you, it's my fault, not yours. All you did was spin which is perfectly ok by me. It was up to me as the following driver to avoid you. This point is not concidered very well in public servers.

Well... When I am experienced on a track and spin and if that causes some accident, then I always sorry, because... well... I really see no excuse for spinning when I've done 300 laps on a track...

Also, we are all just humans. When it is a 8 lap race and you have been crashed out once in the start and twice in the first corner, it means 30 minutes of no racing... That does agitate me - and I'm sure a lot of people.

Quote from Adam Sparkes :

when S3 comes out, does that mean i have to pay 4 a new license??

No, you don't have to...

Quote from Gabkicks :

some people say its up to preference on wether rfactor has better graphics than lfs... but if you've seen the 2005f1 mod... you'd have to be a pitiful fanboy to continue say LFS looks better. overall, rfactor has much better graphics. i posted unedited screenshots. http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=211183#post211183.

I'm no pitiful fanboy, but believe me, compared to LFS, rFactor looks really awful on my PC. Races with other cars are quite impossible.

On other news:

PLAYLIFE raced today (alone) on Mount Panorama, Laguna Seca, Elkhart Lake, Brands Hatch and Nordchleife... with the help of rFactor:banana:

Quote from richo :

Jesus you guys can get into a hissy fit over anything,how you enjoy your sim of choice is entirely up to you and no matter how many ways you argue the point you will never change or should you change someones opinion on how they enjoy there simming experience...

For me i use bumper cam (1st person for want of a better word) because it suits me and i cant for the life of me see why i should go on a crusade to CONVERT others to my cause

Here you made good sense...

Quote from richo :

Please fellas can we just enjoy the game and leave measuring our e-penis's to another forum...

...and here you just ruined it all with trying to ridicule everybody who ever had an argument.

Perhaps you should take your own advice and not try to convince (whilst taking cheap shots) everybody to use this thread the way you like it. Please can you just enjoy the game and leave measuring your e-penis to another forum...

"+ Deleting mprs/sprs ingame"

That's in the test patch already isn't it!?

rFactor just got the Shanghai track

Quote from TyresHot :

Hi racers !

First of all i want to give my thanks to Scawen , Eric and Victor.Really thanks for giving this Live for Speed online racing simulator to motor games life.Congrulations.

i am a new racer and i want to buy an online racing simulator.First tried live for speed online racing simulator and i liked too much.Then i tried to TRY () another game named rfactor or something but it messed me up.i succeeded a download of 688 mb hardly then tried to install it but nothing helped me.No one in the technical service also anyone else.the game named rfactor or something cant be installed and i dont expect any racing realism from it.

That experience showed me live for speed online racing simulator is a intelligence game.Very succesfull at every are.live for speed online racing simulator is a very small sized game with its large components.Very Very small issues that easily solved with the next patch are only in live for speed online racing simulator.Now i am at the point of buying this great game in some weeks.My decide is to buy Live for Speed online racing simulator clearly.i will buy it in some weeks when i get the money.

Man, your country is twice as small as mine :P

Hellos

Quote from timkiller :

I have noticed a lot of people say when someone suggests there is more for drifting in the game that it is a race sim and not a drift sim. Maybe the developers should change it into a drift sim. Have only cars like nissan 180sx's, Skyline's andtracks designed specifically for drifting.

Would be fairly popular as there is no actual drift game on the pc that i can find. Could call it live for lack of grip

-1

Pits related:

Option to set "pit windows" like in DTM, where you have to pit between laps a to b and the second time between laps x to z. At least they used to have this system. So there is a predefined laps when you are allowed to pit...

Quote from Joris :

I'm currently a demo racer. I'm staring to get irritated by the general mentality of my fellow demo racers. (not all of them of course)
* Mass destruction in first corner
* Banning just because others accuse
* Calling for restarts when race is in progres

Is this just the demo-way? Does buying a licence ad some dignity to the racing?

Yes!

+ If you really like the Demo, you'll absolutely love S2


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Some months ago I ventured back into demoland... After four races on two servers I had had enough. There is so many guys with no etiquette and no skills - It was just carnage all the time...

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Quote from Scawen :

Hotmail uses a lot of different servers around the world and a lot of them just don't work properly - unless MS really wanted their users not to receive mails from LFS - but LFS has never sent a spam in its entire history... so we must conclude that it's unintentional. Most of the new users on our "awaiting activation" list and who never get activated, are hotmal accounts.

Can't you contact MS about this?

Quote from MoonForce :

thats a far ranged subject...

does it mean loads of cars 2 drive?
does it mean huge tracks or citydriving?

what u think does it mean?

thx to lfs.norway for that!!!

I think it means we get a mall environment with various configurations of isles and you have to race around on shopping trolleys

Quote from birder :

I see some of the LFS Demo driver are doing Trackdays illepall

That's some pretty bad driving with some a**h*lish attitude. Shouldn't they realize at one point that if they make the same mistake in the same corner 5 times over, that they should take a different line !? It also looks like some drivers were forced to give up position simply due to some banzai moves - very typical of what you see on Demo servers. Only thing stopping them from totaling the car seemed to be the slow speed the car was capable in the drivers hands...

Why don't the AI's just come "trained beforehand"?

Quote from Yoboy :

Sorry I noticed this Irl car looked similar to an LFS car and I couldn't let it go with out mentioning it.

Some times it's better to let it go...

Quote from z3r0c00l :

Correction:

Some cars measure the speed at the differential, some at the gearbox, some at the driving wheels, and some from the non-driven wheels.

I have a GPS speedometer which measures the speed without being mechanically attached to the car.

Please research and reference before making generalised claims.


Additionally - if you want to win races, you have to be both smooth and fast, neither of which are attainable by consulting the Speedometer. Driving should be anticipated control, not reacted responses.

I may check my pressures, temperatures and fuel on the dash once per lap on the straight to check for mechanical symptoms of failure, but gear changing should be done by anticipation and listening to your engine.

Speed is not important, what is important is when you accelerate, when you brake (and how hard), and how you turn (while braking and accelerating), if you do all those right, you'll have the shortest lap time, regardless of what your speedometer may "tell" you, wherever it gets its information from.

And what about observation of effectsand comparing to others!?

Quote from filur :

There will be a link available pointing to a winamp playlist containing the stream, you could also paste the stream address into Winamp's "Open URL" box (CTRL-L).

Where? On the forum or on the website?

Why is everybody saying the second car was overtaking. He just pulled along side. Might be because the car in front was sloeing down and he was avoiding him (I did not watch the mpr)

Why don't you use torrents or eMule for sharing the replay?

Was it ever on the cards?

In any case:

+1 for new configs (more is still more than less)
+10 for new tracks (a lot more is more than more)

Quote from tristancliffe :

The Intrepid account is one that Will Dendy bought to get back into OWRL after was banned. He was banned again as Intrepid. Since then the account was passed to Swifty (the foolish looking friend of Will's), Alan and probably quite a few others.

What he do to get banned twice!?

And why are others using an account not registered to themselves? What's the benefit?

Quote from Alan Dove :

Also, how on earth can people be so quick with mouses and keyboards. that's just wrong. The reason why is because the game relies upon visual feedback more so than proper feedback.

I gotta say my PB's have dropped a lot when I went from ks->wheel. Before I worked like hell to know exactly when I had to press the turn button, otherwise I would take the corner wrong (I used ks for a year). However, I did have the benefit of being able to steer the front wheels a lot quicker than wheel users. Perhaps you should look at the hotlaps section and then come here and start telling keyboard users are quick. It's not "that's just wrong" it's more like "you are just wrong" or "you are just slow".

I don't get how people don't like long tracks. For me it's: the longer, the better. In Fe Club you have like 5 corners. How many do you have in FE Black? It's a fantastic challenge and yet almost noone plays it...

Quote from Alan Dove :

If LFS had more bumps, more feel, and better tracks then we would have a good game. For now we have an 'idea'. the base is there, but the devs, imo, need to turn the amp up to eleven! They should stop fannying around with the raw physics, and get working on making the cars sound lush!

Lets get the circuits smaller, more detailed, and get some nice surface changes with bumps.

People can go on about code and so on! I don't understand how it all works, and it doesn't interest me. The game needs to go full throttle.

I think the devs shot themselves in the foot with the circuits. SOOO LLOOONNNGG and wide! You play a circuit for long enough, and you find 95% is at full throttle.

Too much code can be a bad thing. And there is no point in a having a realistic physic engine working on tracks that no one would drive in reality, let along in a game.

It needs that wow factor, and if it implemented what I suggest then you would have a truly great game. But I fear the devs are digging themselves a hole. what's the point of having a mathmatically perfect simulation when the circuits, and sounds aren't realistic! There's no way to fully understand the potential of the engine!

The tacks sure as hell don't seem too wide with BF1 and GTR cars. In addition, I have no need for a lot of cars and tracks, if the physics is crap. After the April physics improveent the satisfaction from game play increased quite a lot. In rFactor I get no satisfaction from actualy driving the car. It's more like I'm playing it because there is a sort of a career mode and I want to complete that. In LFS I can go around one track for hours, because it feels very rewarding...

Quote from ryanb :

Hello LFS-ers,

Have not enjoyed LFS for over 12 months, returning from an extended stay overseas August 05 to a mountain of debt. Little luxuries like a home PC waited until we had the loan and credit card under control and had managed to buy a house so we had somewhere to live. It all meant pushing LFS to the back of the mind, not visiting the forum or main website so that I wasn't tempted.

Anywho, just bought the new PC and downloaded the latest iteration. An F1 car! Fantastic. Fuel control add ons, etc. What else has changed? Oh LFS how I missed you.

Go to buy Driving Force Pro today. Me thinks I won't be getting to bed early tonight. Its going to be a long day at work.

Great to see LFS is still going strong!

the fizzics have changed... YAY!!!