Quote from Dennisjr13 :

Shut down steam, navigate to C:\Program Files\Steam, and delete "clientregistry.blob" (it is remade when you restart steam). This has fixed steam for me numerous times when it could not connect.

That didnt work. Tried that before the geniuosly brilliant uninstall attempt

damit, that's my first big problem with it. Now I uninstalled Steam and it took all the god damn games with it. Then i reinstalled steam and still no go. When I open it, it says "Updating" and after a while it says "Steam is unavailable... blah.blah...

Steam didnt start up, gave a weird error message. So I downloaded a new steam and it cant update... "Steam is temporarily unavailable, please try later". And this been going on for 2 hours. I'm in Europe.

Quote from Shotglass :

yes because as we all know video cameras especially small ones mounted on cars have exactly the same dynamic range and colour saturation as a human eye

I bet no racing track ever has such colors as the iRacing tracks.

Quote from Dalek0220 :

I am really, really, really annoyed today.

First, there was some talk about NFS. I say "NFS is crap, and LFS is better." Then, they say its a cheap knockoff. Then I told them to shut up, and kept doing it. I know all/most of you prefer LFS, but to these idiots then said "You can only do 10 mph" or "You can't drift, so its unrealistic."

Opinions of what I should do, anyone?

Back when I was in school... in 9th grade... we played a game called Duke Nukem 3D. In the game you could press buttons to send auto messages. One of them was Duke Nukem saying "Ha-ha-ha... WASTED!". Noone really new what it meant, except me for course. And until one day, one of my classmates looked up "wasted" in the dictionary. He them proceeded to proclaim that when someone shoots and misses you you should send that messages, as the bullets have been wasted... Of course everyone believed his version and I was made a laughing stock...

In fifth grade one of my classmates had everyone believe that he had 300 000 lego soldiers. Noone ever came to think if these would actually fit in his house. And of course, this was easy to believe, since his father had fled the country with accusations that he stole 8 million USD - money that was supposed to be used to buy arms for our country...

So I'd like to say that kids are dumb. And they suffer mass dumbness. So don't worry, if what they think is stupid. Some times ther just is no arguing.

Quote from Tweaker :

Uhhh, small onboard cameras are usually very heavily saturated, and the weather at that track is mostly overcast. The purpose of that video is to show the accuracy of the track, not the color

Yes, and the purpose of my comment was to say that whilst the accuracy of the track is nice, the colors don't match.

Quote from xaotik :

I don't know what's in the air in Estonia man, but around here things aren't brownish in real life.

But they are in the video, doh...

when you go to the front page... it is funny how the side-by-side comparison shows similarity between track and car... however, the colors are completely different. brownish real life vs colorfully green game. Almost as if its like Sao Paulo circuit, where they used to color the grass to be bright green instead of the color it really was...

Whilst is OK to be pessimistic, it is just utterly ridiculous to proclaim that anything you haven't seen is vapour ware.

Quote from Horseman :

Of course, how could the devs want their product to develop at a faster pace in graphics, physics, or any other area, with other very skilled programmers working for them? ...

There is no use making sarcastic comments. It is true that they want to go at it alone.

Quote from thisnameistaken :

That last point is the important one. And it makes a massive difference to your quality of life. Before I started doing this, I changed jobs every 6-12 months. I've been doing this for 8 years.

Wouldn't want to be the guy who hires you

Quote from Horseman :

Of course, how could the devs want their product to develop at a faster pace in graphics, physics, or any other area, with other very skilled programmers working for them? ...

One thing is to be independent, another is have the means to grow at their own pace, but having the possibility to do so if desired. It's a choice, yes, but given the limited budget they know they have, because ppl are so used to have things for almost free.

give a real argument. stop taking shots at opinions.

Quote from Jakg :

What i'm complaining about is that you pay a monthly fee (for something like community hosting and maybe LFSW stuff were getting for free) in ADDITION to paying for content - it can't work both ways!

I'm actually surprised there isn't a start up fee... Although noone's gonna buy it for six months without trying it... so anyone who is paying 20 bucks for the first month is actually paying a start up fee...

Quote from Lateralus :

If he is not on your lap and thus racing you for position, you should be able to completely ignore him. You should not have to react to his presence in any way.

Well, you cant expect anyone to act like a ghost... If he is occupying a space on the track, then he is still there. 4 laps down on a 5 lap race or not, it is not reasonable to expect people to drive off the road for you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Quote from blackbird04217 :

Thats a BIG IF

EDIT: Didn't see you already mentioned it was a big if ; / although my original point stands!

Quote from iRacing :

We expect to appeal to racers of all types, including all skill levels and budgets

Does this mean the original package includes only slow cars or it means it's not a very good simulator (it's more arcadeish)

Stop bickering about smth I don't understand and let's put down those guys from iRobyou.com some more...

Quote from Hyperactive :

Imho, 100€ per year (plus the entry fee of one month) doesn't sound bad at all.

Funny how it is... A McDonalds sales girl in Finland probably earns more money per month than I do as a financial controller in a quoted company in Estonia...

Imagine if it was 400€. That's how it feels to me at our wages

Quote from super_hoops1967 :

I suppose with the pricing thing it would get rid of a lot of the "lets drive like lindsey lohan on crack" driver's from the servers tho.

:something:something:something

I gotta say $12 a month I COULD manage if I absolutely loved it to death. However, I play LFS periodically (that is 2-3 weeks period of playing and then a 2 month pause... 2-3 weeks period of playing and then a 2 month pause... etc). I cant imagine paying the yearly subscription and then playing it 3-4 months total... I feel like someone is trying to rob me... And then I have to pay extra for additional content!?!? Which I don't get to use after my subscription ends!?!? $15 for an additional car and $15-$25 for a track??? If they charged me $1 per car which I get to race for ever, then I would do it... But $15!?!? Whole games cost that much!!!! pffffff....

EDIT: Oh yeah, and good luck trying to get a community together at those prices. Everybody's not as rich as USA, Norway etc... U'll get maybe zero to a single racer from Estonia I would think.

Quote from Gabkicks :

i'm pretty sure this has been posted multiple times. but if even Bob smith hasnt seen it yet, than many others probably somehow missed those threads as well.

You are correct. Original thread:

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=450582


Including Bob's post in the thread:

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=450855#post450855

Jesus... RIP

Some interesting watching:

http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=314874

Quote from Mauni :

Because of multi-quote feature?

tx, I will try it next time... didn't notice...

Quote from The Radness :

quad-post eh?

Why not...

Quote from jayhawk :

I tried it out a few days ago. Being that I am nearly twice the age of virtually everyone that was present, I grew pretty bored quickly. I tried the coin quest thing, gave up on that, so I drove and drove and drove until I was able to afford the XRG.

To me, there was no sense of purpose, it's ready made for 12-18 year old's who have a lot to talk about but no substance behind the words. Before some of that age jumps on me for that, wait ten years and then reflect back to when you were sixteen. Anyone over the age of thirty will know what I mean.

For example, until I got annoyed and pressed " - " to block messages, I watched one idiot type to another:

Hey guess what?
Hey guess what?
Hey guess what?
Hey guess what?
Hey guess what?
Hey guess what?
Hey guess what?
Hey guess what?

That went on for, no kidding, 32 minutes.

And of course the obligatory accusations of homosexuality, (why ARE teenager's so obsessed with that?) the "kekekekekeke's"*, the "STFU's" The "OMG i drive leik teh idiot somone fl!p me ovr plz...stfu n00b, kekekekekeke".

If you are reading and think cruise servers are all that and a bag of chips, great. Before I judged, I came, I saw, and I am forever scarred.



*likewise, if they are Latin it would be "JAJAJAJAJAJAJA"

Remember, when they made the "Wrecker barricade"... they made it to prevent idiots from joining. I'm sure the cruise servers could do the same if they could muster the power...

PS. I don't participate in cruise servers or drifting, but this mass-phobia is not only sickening but getting already ridiculous.

Quote from Gunn :

Some people seem to think so. But some people think Coldplay is a good band too, so, go figure.

This is not a "put down the non-racers" thread. You would think a moderator would get that :rolleyes:

Quote from HellBoy99 :

Yeh it's called live for SPEED for a reason. Not live to drive like a granny.

It's not my taste but each to their own.

Aslong as you stay the hell away from race servers i'll be happy

Yeah, there's a saying and it goes like: MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS. Not "when you don't participate in cruise servers then have them all shut down in order to humor you"