Quote from The Moose :

Oh yes it is. It's great to see someone taking a stand against blue flag spammers. Top marks to the CTRA for introducing this rule. I cant remember the last time i saw someone spamming 'Blue Flag' on the CTRA servers, so the rule obviously works.



No, it doesn't always work so as I've said before, someone who isn't going to obey a huge 'BLUE FLAG' across the middle of the screen is hardly likely to move over for a spammer are they?

Yeah, you dont see the spamming now, not only that but most of the people there are very good under blue flag situations too. So the rule not only works for the spammers, but also the waved blue is a good rule for mid raced joiners, and all in all, everyone ive seen racing there has pretty much been the best backmarkers they can be, and props out to them, you guys are great, especially in server 2.

Quote from jonaz lindberg :

Thank u very much but because i dont have widescreen monitor i would like too have the render in 1280 x 1024 or bigger plz. If u or someone else can render these skins again i would be very happy.

The skin are attached this time also

nice skin. I like it.

at first I thought, oh no the music, but actually it went really well. I liked the way its blurry and has that trancy feel to it. Nice vid. You really brought out the nice lines of the cars, and the environment of south city. 10/10

Damn freezes at 1:49 for me too. I was really enjoying that too.

Pretty amusing stuff. Made me smile, great music, leary is good.

Quote from mrodgers :

No need for this Richy. You remember what was going on when you first joined the forum? You've come a long way, my friend. I've seen and raced with you plenty in the CTRA servers and you've turned out to be quite the fine racer indeed.


LX6, yes, it's a beast to handle. But I've grown to really love the LX4. I don't think it is a difficult one to drive at all. Once you figure it out, which doesn't take a whole lot of figuring, the rear end plants right down. I don't find it twitchy, nor find it a handful. Well, maybe a little, but no worse than any other car. The XRT, in my case, is a worse car to try to come to grips with (no pun intended). I have horrible oversteer which I can not tame at all no matter how I set it up. A very nice LFS car to race that LX4 is.

lol wasn't exactly smooth sailing into the live for speed world, I learnt a lot those first few weeks. like dont drive the wrong way up eau rouge, soz tweaker, actually that was in an lx I think hehe. maybe thats why im scared of them, bad experience.

I tried the LX competition I finished higher than average but I wasnt consistent and I wasnt really fast, like I could see other drivers on the autocross circuit doing. I guess I just need to spend more time in those cars and less in the others to get used to its characteristics.

I love all the cars, FWD, RWD, fatties, thinnies. There just isnt enough time in the day to race them all.

I havent really given the lx-4 and lx-6 the time. Bad enough trying to drive the XRG and XRT without being super sketchy in a full grid. It scares me that I might screw up in it big time. Pretty much goes for all the single seaters too.

Quote from ans7812 :

I think you forgot that the tire already is blue (when cold) so it might be hard to see the water spot.

lol maybe like a silvery dark grey with a hint of blue and white speckles on it. Like, sort of rainy.

lol I dont know. just thought it would be funny seeing a blue square on the tyre instead of brown.

I once played a flying sim online, world war 2 fighters, aces high it was called. I sucked in that too, a bit like I do with live for speed. But you learn the environment over time through trial and error and some good old hard work by trying to never make the same mistake twice.

One skill I picked up was situational awareness, SA for short, if you lost SA in the air you would be a dead man. Its a valuable skill in man and machine vs man and machine. (See the connection in the reference now).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situational_awareness

I've posted this before, but, I like to bring it up a lot, because I really think it helps.

Understanding whats going on around you by taking in as much information and using it to your advantage. Knowing where cars are around yours, knowing what speeds they are doing, predicting what will happen in the road ahead of you or hundreds of yards up ahead.

I look around a lot, I try and judge speeds of those next to me and I make sure I wont run into their path by braking more than I usually need to. Lots of things. I guess its just concentration and taking care. Add to that lessons of previous mistakes throw it all in the mix and every split second your SA is continiously changing at all times.

Sometimes at starts of races I get overloaded withinformation and get twitchy, my SA drops, this is when things are at their most dangerous. Similar to when you get in a big dogfight, too much information to understand at that moment and before you know it a guy is on your tail making your plane look like swiss cheese.

So yeah, my motto tends to be "dont lose SA!".

Quote :

SA is now a key concept in human factors research, aviation, command and control, and indeed in any domain where the effects of ever-increasing technological and situational complexity on the human decision-maker are a concern. Having complete, accurate and up-to-the-minute SA is considered to be essential for those who are responsible for being in control of complex, dynamic systems and high-risk situations, such as combat pilots, air traffic controllers, emergency responders, surgical teams, military commanders and the like. Lacking SA or having inadequate SA has consistently been identified as one of the primary factors in accidents attributed to human error.

I love this quote. ^^

Last edited by richy, Thu 30 Aug 2007, 16:44. Reason : The quote of win

Well it depends on the quality of rain we all expect in LFS.

You could just have it the same wetness all over.

edit:

Heres a thought. The way dirt registers on the F9 key, you could have A blue square which could mean water on the tyres and permanently slippy.

As much as it bugs me on my flying laps while in a good race position, I will be on the brakes if a backmarker pulls infront of me, treat it like any other passing move, keep it clean, try not to lose too much time, and I accept that fast lap was lost due to being in a race with other people. Thats just racing. Sometimes I get stuck behind someone, and the guy behind me will come flying up the track and pass us both and i'll lose a position. Thats racing. It sucks but thats how it is. I didn't pass the backmarker as well as he did. How you race backmarkers has always been a big part of motor racing. I often have a "lol" or a "" with the backmarker. Have some fun, laugh at them a bit hehe, give a little advice, maybe send a setup.

Thats the only way you will get peeps to be generous with the blue flag situation. Both the passing driver and the back marker have to work together.

Quote from Alles :

sure if he is being lapped i hope he moves away. but if he keeps driving infront of me and slows me down and ignores blue flag, that pisses me off and i hit him to learn him a lesson or two. i cant stand somone racing me if he is lap down, so the thing to do is bump him and tell him to get out of the way and leave me alone. i dont do that all the time, just when im really pissed off.

about mid race join people. there houldnt be a midrace join atall!

while i agree that mid race joining is bad, im not too sure about the venting your anger part by wrecking people. You're just breeding more wreckers, to be honest.

Really nice skins there. well done to everyone who entered and congratulations to the winners!

Quote from Krammeh :

+1

Maybe custom dashes?

Ability to move all of the objects around? Removing them totally as an option to!

Nice idea there.

Quote from th84 :

Richy will be Richy.

I havent seen a logical reason from you yet. If you dont like it, then dont watch it... pretty simple, even for you.

Yep

You get plenty of logical reasons why but youve your head in the sand.

Quote from srdsprinter :

Continue your truthful and obviously true posts please, they really do so much to contribute to this conversation.

NASCAR's races have the worst competition in today's world.

Wrecking 42 other individuals with the same machinery is what these guys are out to do. Think about it, wreckers by nature are very competitive, some are ego maniacs. If you believe you are the best wrecker in the world, NASCAR is a suitable environment to prove it.

I agree.

Yeah english football sucks, I agree. Damn me and my ability to not be blindly patriotic.

No I really would rather watch shopping trolleys race.

Try and find some videos of actualy ice hockey on the internet. Damn, only fights. /cough cough cough

Even if WRC used shopping trolleys pushed by native chavs it would be better than NASCAR.

Dont get me started on american football !

/doublesnicker

Wrc > Nascar

What competition?

Dont they just let people pass up the inside and then spin the leader out in the final corner?

/snicker

If they add an SUV they need to add a barbers drivers model.