oops

he just got the game and a wheel so just going round the course the first time was obviously still gonna be fun. Winning isnt everything

edit: what do you guys think of some sort of sin bin like ice hockey can something like be put in so people arnt just banned for a racing incident?

Last edited by richy, Sat 4 Mar 2006, 19:17.

Quote from AndroidXP :

No, he spun because he opened the console getting ready to ban your friend. Apparently your friend took too long to type sorry, so the ban was the result.

could be who knows.

Quote from Bawbag :

I banned your friend because he was just cruising around untill TPC 3ttan came round the outside of him and he smacked into him, I then stopped, awaited his reaction (none) and banned.

You however timed out from the server.

He's the 1st person i've banned on LFS (except a vote) and we barely have servers up long enough for idiots to come in and ruin the race, so we rarely ban but bitch all you want, doesn't bother me.

Anyway,

well we were there from qualifying so he didnt join mid race he was being lapped, he also said sorry but you banned him. and you can see he didnt even hit first place hard enough to make him lose control. i think you were just angry because you spun out and took it out on him. but thats ok i guess a lot of admins are like that.

if i timed out thats ok im not worried about that its not as if i were gonna stay when my friend was banned eh

just dont be so harsh with the bans please?

Quote from Fonnybone :

I'm sorry to say i agree with szyszek. Just like in any game, and in
real life for that matter, there are misunderstandings, impatient people
and sometimes the wrong person gets accused. These forums are not
policing any server. Personally i don't like playing the blame game and
pointing fingers. So your friend had a bad experience, that's unfortunate,
but there's not much anyone here can do about it. We've all had a bad
experience once and you and you're friend shouldn't let that get to you.

What bothers me is why people don't post everytime they have good
experiences ? Why does it have to be negative...LFS has a strong
community preciselly because there ARE some decent and fun people
here and because there ARE some good and fun servers
One individual on one occasion is not representative. Maybe he
had a bad day also, you never know...

dont worry we arnt angry or anything, i already knew what its like so i just told him, but i do think sometimes admins should be a bit kinder to guys who are slow, learning and are apologetic for mistakes.

well see for yourself by the replay. he got banned because he was being lapped and hit the leader who was still the leader... but [400]Bawbag banned him because he spun out... i then enquired if they banned him, as my friend had said sorry then disconnected, they said because he was not clean, well he said sorry to the guy he hit but the guy who spun out obviously took out his temper and banned him, then me for asking why.

this is the first time he had gone on that rallyx with that car as he just got the game, now i have to explain to him why we got banned off of the only rallyx server and we have to go back to the demo to play some.

this 400 guy is a little careless with his admin priveledges be careful when he is about...

Quote from Funnybear :

It's relevant. It's about LFS *Shrug*and it's had a few hits so it must be reasonable interesting to the rest of the users on this forum.

And it's not problem letting you practice your English, you need all the practice you can get.

Gawd, say something nice for a change and people knock you back for it . . . From now on I shall just be bitter and twisted.

rofl

mmmm pi

A friend and I both bought our racing wheels and are going to setup our own little 2 man team.

The Wacky Racers in their mean machine.

Dick Dastardly and Muttley

we have room for expansion at a later time but we are training the 2 of ourselves up right now. hope to see you around on the tracks as we learn.

cheerio

try turning your sound up and listening for the scrub of the tyres on the road too

what bugs are really that bad? if its the crash physics, dont crash or get a better imagination, if its the sound get a subwoofer, if its the nose high thing then just be open minded and realise aerodynamics arnt quite the same here but its very similar. and things can only get better.

for an "unfinished" game, which is dont think it really is, its quite bug free.

Quote from thisnameistaken :

Yes, but...

The rear look function (as far as I can tell) looks over the shoulder of whichever direction you last looked. So if you look left, then behind, you get left shoulder, right then behind is right shoulder.

With this in mind I set this up:

< = Look left
|_ = Look left
\/ = Look behind
_| = Look right
> = Look right

I set up the diagonals too because my D-pad is a bit wobbly and I don't want to accidentally hit the diagonals and get no response. With this setup I can press left or right, then drag my thumb to down, and get the appropriate rear view.

how did you set that up, in game i cant get diagonals and i cant find any keystrokes that are for diagonal thats why i use the paddle buttons. when i use my d pad for views and use down to look back it doesnt do a left and right rear view version...

Last edited by richy, Sat 4 Mar 2006, 01:08.

ok i decided to put my view left and right on the paddle buttons. why? because if you press Left first then right button it will look backwards. and if i press right first and then the left button it will look backwards. but it will rotate that direction to get full view. on a D pad you cant do this as you cant press both at the same time. Does that make sense? If its clear enough I wish i could tell more people about this...........


anyway, im a little drunk (a lot to some people pfft) but my other button setups are as follows.

indicators on D pad are set like this:
left <
right>
hazardsV
Off^

Start is set to Shift R (via prolifer)

Select is set to Shift S (via profiler)

sec ill come back with any other stuff i set

this thread made me grin i think even if his skin wasnt funny it sure got some funny replies.

well done mission completed.

yeah this one is a good idea

maybe a white flag too?

having so many buttons at your fingertips is like a kid in a candy shop!

going to spend some time getting it setup through the profiler, that cycle idea is really good

ah tristan thats how some people can do "pass left" or "pass right" without spinning out by pressing Ctrl-F1 while at top speed lol

i shall just get used to holding the wheel firmly enough so that oscillating stops. its a bit like if you let go of a road cars steering wheel i suppose, it wouldnt always go straight sometimes it might start doing that, i havent really noticed it today so might just happen sometimes which i dont mind.

the calibration thing is strange it just happens sometimes, but it usually settles after i center the axis once or twice.

loving it though, single seaters are drivable at last, drifting is impossible but the racing is 10x better.

just a bit noisy!

what a lovely welcoming thread topic, i hope you didnt cringe too much.

anyway its a Logitech DFP and i got my friend to buy one at the same time too! Hell be getting LFS asap i suppose.

ive never had a wheel before so its all new to me, and im having a few issues with it. ok here goes.

1) I have the wheel setup as 720 degrees in XP, and in LFS its set at 720 but when I drive the wheel loses its center position and I have to go to options and re-center it by clicking the "C" next to the wheel axis. does everyone have to do this regularly or am I doing something wrong?

2) Ok, I heard of some oscillation too, ive been getting some. in the FO8 at top gear on a straight if i take my hands off the wheel lightly, as if i were lightly holding the wheel of a car in one hand, its starts to oscillate. is that just because im not fighting the feedback (not holding wheel tightly enough) and its oscillating or is that a setup thing too?

3) Can I setup the other buttons on my wheel to perform other actions from in-game. I would like Start to do Shift R, and Select to do Escape key. and L2 and R2 for my indicators, is it possible to do that with LFS without being able to do it from options menu.

Thanks all!!

i got myself a wheel! a DFP

its lovely, and when you put those settings in you start to feel those front tyres more like you would expect, little twitches here and there, a little rumble over the curbs but not too much to make driving hard.

try it you may like it .

is the default [Rallycross] setups good as they are or do you modify your setups for that too, is there any changes you make to the default rallyx setups that you change on every car, like you would increase your maximum lock for drifting?

i dont mean tuning for the tracks individually, but is there anything about those defaults that make them as bad as [Hard track] setup for example?

nooo where you brake from 6th gear down to 2nd before the split, that grass on that hairpin can be a real pain in the whatsit.

not all sharp turns, some have a little strip of grass before you reach the gravel trap, or like the hairpin in AS Nat theres grass right up to the barrier (oh boy does that sometimes give you an embarassing slow slide into the barrier)

i think as you roll over all the glass should crack then on the last bump as you come to a stop it shakes it all out. anyone for a convertible??!

edit: just incase you didnt notice, i wasnt being serious

Last edited by richy, Mon 27 Feb 2006, 01:27.

they do go in the LFS/data/settings folder... not sure why you cant see it, make sure its the right file type and filename, and make sure its for the right car.

check other cars and see if you can see the setup elsewhere

haha at last a way to get the girlfriend to play race sims.

that looks like a G suit, impressive. i can see some guys building F1 cars in their bedrooms now.

i did say that i wasnt going to give up on LFS i did listen to the help i got. there is tonnes of good guys here. i know your ok funnybear it wasnt just you who made me flip. theres loads of animosity toward new guys starting out, in the servers from players too, it isnt just the forum. i got the heart and the time and effort to put into this driving sim even if i dont quite have the skill.

so far i can only drive the FWD cars im not very good in RWD yet (ive not driven a RWD on the edge in real life either yet) but i spent last night drifting for ages and i was getting the hang of that eventually. the LX4 is fun i can drive that but the really fast RWD cars get me. just one time i got used to one and was managing to do a full race, but by the next day i had forgotten how to keep it smooth and was back at square one.

i decided not to keep switching cars and tracks, and not actually getting used to the feel of anything i was driving. i think you get much better results if you practice the same one over and over. FWD are something that i can relate to from real life driving experiences so i decided if theres a platform i should start out on and practice hard with, its the XFR.

im also trying to force myself to mess about with the setups so i can learn how to make my own race setups, though im not sure if im having much of a result. though i did make my own drift setup and that was the best results i had yet, i changed the rear tyres stiffened the suspension and increased the gearing a bit and maximum lock and i had made a setup that suited me! though how good it actually is i dont know, but it feels nice to drift with and i guess thats what im looking for in a setup there!

and im still debating wether to get a wheel or not...