Quote from mkinnov8 :

Tried it, meh dont like it. Honestly I dont see the point.. If I wanted to drive around, treated like an idiot and swore at, id go out for a walk in my home city. Each to their own and all that, it seems like a great mod, but just not what I paid to drive.

Good Luck!!

Hey there Stoney!

I would love to hear your original expectations when you were going to try the gameplay. And also some more details about what you didn't like in particular.

To be honest I don't care too much about kids who comes and ask "So how do I make more money" since the best answer would be "join any other server with all cars allowed and no Shift+S/Reset penalties and have fun wrecking them" perhaps.
But i do am interested about oppinions of guys I had so much fun in the past, whether it was CRC racing, Banger mayhem, old good CnR games - enough of various not-only-serious-racing situations to get to know they share my vision of proper social behaviour within an online game community.


btw, I told Monk we shouldn't go public with just these 2 demo quests working! :doh:

Quote from KiDCoDEa :

Vol.1


Seamus: <smallprint>The above is my personal opinion and is not representative of the thoughts of the entire RSC team.
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Carfreak: Hey are you from finland cuz i'm not i've just written that i'mfrom finland, i'm from usa, New York..... hmm
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Carfreak: No i'm not a bad driver!! I have drived go-kart since I was 7 and now I'm 13... so no not at all!!!
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Carfreak: I got the sound blaster, and I will try what you said!
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Bathrone: How about at the end of the race, the AI vehicles do a close down lap, to cool their vehicle and head back to the pits, instead of just stopping? It might add a bit more realism
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Bathrone: The image display for the power lines has errors.
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Bathrone: Currently Im running 13.5 inch wide this season and its going well.
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KiDCoDEa: vic ya hihats still sound like a casiotone from the 80s [20:09] * LFS_Tech Quit

:ices_rofl

Haha Kid, thanks for this little insight to LFS history I have missed (because of some mad conspiracy)!

Hey Tweaker,
I can summarize those about 100 pages of internal CLC discussions about things you have mentioned later and via private messages. Sorry but now I got no time. So later, promise.

Just btw, I understood it that you did not mean wasted my time. Just wanted to point out that playing LFS is never a hard work for me and never the wasted time. Even when I was leading the race and I have lost connection. Those few exciting laps before it happened still counts to me. But hey, I know what you mean. I feel it about the same, from the very beginning. Cheaters-proof system is almost impossible to create. But let's keep trying yea. So..later.

Last edited by RAYfighter, Sun, 17 Dec 2006 15:02.

Quote from franky500 :

i like that server, shame it crashed again , back up and full!!

question: 1.) will this be available as a mod for other server hosts?
Question: 2.) why not increase the slots to 23 ?

Hey there Franky,
I feel honored that you visited us
answer 1) this is really a good questions now, when it seems that the router is having a hard time with the traffic. I need to think about it and talk to guys but I would love to see more servers hosting it (with different tracks). For now I see them all having those 3 red letters in a host name, though.
answer 2) reason above, 20 slots doesn't seem to be 100% stable on the current machine. 23 slots means 3 speccers, which too many newcommers kinda couldn't understand, so we had to restrict to 20/20 race/connected.

Quote from Tweaker :

The server had crashed not too long ago, people lost their cars, their money and wasted a buttload of time on this.....

And now some commands wont work, people cannot buy anything, etc etc. It's a mess.

BTW, you need to leave a link to your forum somewhere on your site. AND you need to give more information on the site, so many things are vague, and when people ask questions on the server, others get really angry and give a link to your website which doesn't answer any questions..... lol

I am sorry to see players getting dissapointed, but eventhough we have spent quite some time to test it, we never got a chance to see it under such a heavy load. Monk had to rewrite major part of the core yesterday, and after just few minutes the server was back online, running new version of the CLIS. Today we got a new kind of error, which forced us to restart the server once again. Players obviously lose their money or cars they got from the session they see the crash. But I wouldn't call them a victims, common. "Wasted a buttload of time on this..." are words which sound a bit pathetic to me, when I look back at all those sleepless nights I have "wasted" on this gameplay.

When it comes to info on the site, and questions people ask on the server, well... I am not going to write anything like "Go to the garage #423, and luckily find a lottery ticket there! And btw, when you disco and rejoin the server, you can get another one!".
That would kinda destroy the magic. Or? Are you the kind who starts some adventure game and go google for some walkthrough from the very 1st screen?

I would love to see people relaxing with friends after some good adrenaline race, on the Caribbean Cruise. And care less about money. Is it really just me?

After few birth problems Monk coded new version of CLIS on the fly, i just compiled, restarted and voala, full server and everything works like a charm. Monk is the one!

Thanks to all people who gave their talents, time and hearts to this idea. It was beautiful adventure eventhough it took about 10 times longer than I expected in my most skeptic guess.
Thanks MaxH, for your trust, understanding and your fat internet line for the host.
Thanks Ran, for your gamesome fresh thinking and tons of sweet ideas from the beginning.
Thanks Chris, for making my babelling sound like the decent English and doing the best PR for the project I have ever seen.
Thanks Raz, for writing our awesome Road safety rules and bringing the Police gang which redefines the term team-work.
Thanks Cropsy, countless unpatient kids went away with your kind advices already - if I will born again, want you as my dad.
Hey Spidstax, thank you for this genial name - Caribbean Cruise.
Supaman, your cars specs are nowhere else to be found, still.
Tristan thank you for your cheering words during the project development.
N2O, gear, good old days with only you and me on testing server.
Smorg, Zeeall, without you I never would guess how crazy things I can expect from our players.
DoN, your Carl movies were the kick in my ass when I was losing interest in this.
And Jenny, thank you for allowance to become my beautiful inspiration.:lovies3d:


I hope I speak on behalf of all these people when I say, that we dedicated our effort to Scawen Roberts, Eric Bailey, Victor van Vlaardingen. For the best game ever.
:bowdown:

Last edited by RAYfighter, Sun, 17 Dec 2006 01:05.

Quote from Razvan :

Sorry thats not the case. As chief police officer of Carribean Cruise, let me be the one to notify you all. So far we have a well trained Police Unit, which can handle initial traffic but as traffic grows out of hand we will be recruiting other police officers. This will be done by an in game test.(Details will be released further). NO one is to place COP name unless he is authorised to do so, failure to respect this will be dealt with accordingly. I hope this clarifies things.

Auto-spec of a player who adds "COP" (or "Officer" in the future) to his nick and who is not a member of the Police group, is very high on my ToDo list. And only system admins and our Chief Police Officer can add a new player to Police group.
Admins will spec manually for now.

Quote from Execution Style :

Thought I should pass on some comments made about LFS by people knowing nothing about it, and more interestingly, people currently earning undergraduate degrees in multimedia. (Cinematography, computer modelling, animation) During a recent dinner party, a group of exchange students from France saw me demonstrating your game and their universal reaction was that the graphics were fantastic.

I must confirm this, by my own experience. I am an architect running the computer 3D animation house. During a very similiar party with mostly architects and designers in an age of about 25-35 years, there was the LFS running on one computer. Their comments could be summed to this: "Finally some game with realistic environment and colours. Real grass has not RGB 0,255,0 ffs! Bravo, who made this game again? Oh so there is a demo? Online? Cool..."

Quote from Becky Rose :

Can u monee me pls cant marry u wivout it

Hush Becky!

However, Chris is right, it's pointless to ask admins for money. They get just €4000 for a start as anyone else. The main idea is to keep it balanced and fair.

Quote from St4Lk3R :

Two people, two opinions. what's the right one?
(asking because a few team-members and me want to join and drive together as soon as its open)

Chris is always right!
(thread title says the correct time and date, Saturday the 16th @ 20:00 GMT)

Quote from Becky Rose :

Best insim app ever *grumble*. It looks good though, i'l wait until there's space on the server sometime after launch to try it Good luck with it.

I am sure that Chris wrote this without knowing about your awesome Tiered STCC servers Becky. But yesterday I have already informed him about where I spend all my LFS time lately!

Quote from Bob Smith :

Looks nice. I hope all your city life'ers are using road worthy sets.

Well, from now on there is a good chance for them to do.

Ladies and Gentlemen, find Bob Smith's Road Going Setups pack at our CC website downloads section.

Thanks for sharing again, Bob!

LOL Chris...

What are you going to achieve here Becky is some kind of tiny live LFS 3D spectator? Sounds insane.

Just a little teaser for Caribbean Cruise by CLC server. Featuring my RaceAbout Golden Shadow.

Last edited by RAYfighter, Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:00. Reason : typos :doh:

Quote from AtomAnt :

Hey Tweak,
Is this the one where you have to drive on the left at all times? If it is, I tried last week and loved it.

Good Work.

Ant

I guess it is another one.

Quote from Tweaker :

Track: SO5R (Reversed to people will try and go in right direction for right-hand side driving). This now enables pits, should be interesting.

Quote from al heeley :

You seem to have wandered o/t Ray. The point is regardless of which reflection I choose to use, or who made them, it would be good to have them reflect the different circuits/weathers. This reflection just looks silly when you drive round South City.

Sorry I just coudln't resist

And yea you are right in your point, +1 for special SouthCity enviro dome.

Quote from Bob Smith :

You're talking about a completely customisable interface, which serves a slightly different purpose than Shift-F. Shift-F (Shift+F?) is a quick and easy way to remove everything from the screen for taking screenshots, or for hardcore racers to immerse themselves more fully.

Anybody said hardcore ?

I don't need player names nor fully customizable everything, but let's remove everything with Shift+F, especially WRONG WAY and YELLOW/BLUE FLAG rcc messages illepall
And while we are on it, server option for the forced hardcore mode. You should agree that it has much more meaning when there are not arcade fans allowed on the track with hardcore racers, correct?

Yet another super high quality hires custom reflection ....

made by some amateur. I always was affraid of a so called mod scene. Selfmade men without any kind of proper education. And this is what we get. ..hey, confused? Another selfmade man maybe? illepall

Quote from axus :

I think they also store position or something like that too, to which the physics results are compared and if that doesn't match, then you get the OOS error. Otherwise you have no way of knowing if you're in sync or not because you have nothing to compare it to.

And even then it is the perfect proof the physics have not changed, right?

Siso: thank you for understanding, let's make the best we can.

Scawen: I am terribly sorry but I couldn't find the email message from you - since I wasn't awaiting it, my spam filters most probably killed it. Could I ask for the re-send please? This time I make sure to sort emails manually. Waiting at rasto at caadg dot sk.
Thank you for giving me a chance to be the part of this awesome game.


edit: got the email now, thank you

Last edited by RAYfighter, Mon, 4 Dec 2006 08:55.

Good job putting alot of time into this Siso. I have ran thru it and it still needs alot of work though. Tried to point out just mistakes and email them to you, but after few ingame pages I gave up. Plus the Training lessons are not translated yet at all. What if I tried to come with my own language version? Translation from English this time, not just from Czech. I am wondering who decides which one to use, since Scawen probably doesn't speak slovak very well.

Quote from Blaeza :

Now, what other game lets you say Happy Birthday to a developer AND get a thankyou off said developer! I wish I found LFS earlier now... Scawen, go and get yourself plastered tonight, but we would like footage of you staggering home, bouncing off parked cars and such. Deal?

LOL! And yeah, Scavier is the prodigy.

Crackling of sounds related to echoes, which was meant to be fixed in patch U25 (or so) still was there in previous patches. I was quiet since I realised I am not alone with this problem and also Scawen was apparently working on some major change of the sound system.
I just wanted to mention that now, with U30 patch, the sound is absolutely clean. Everything sounds excellent in every situation, on both computers I play LFS on. Great job Scawen, thanks!


(both computers running Windows XP, one with SoundBlaster Live, other is HP workstation with built in Realtek HD Audio, no Vista machines)