setup field seems to be down 80% of the time for me...usually i can just keep trying to hit it and eventually it will work

luckily, there is a US based setup site coming soon, with more than just WR sets.

If you just give it a shot, you might not mind the borders of the monitors being there...

i have mine split like that...seemed really bad at first, but now, once i get racing, i dont even think about it...your brain will just "adjust" it for you... think of it like a crack in a windshield. At first its annoying, then you just forget its there...

Quote from Rooble :

He still isn't banned?

His supposed 'friend' this HKS-D1 hasn't been online since Feb 07 - You think if he 'let you borrow' his license you would've ventured online? No?

If i was on someone else's name...I wouldn't get online either...wouldn't want to wreck someone and start stuff on an account thats not mine...

Not to mention my first 6 months were offline...i wanted to make damned sure i understood the car control in the game to the point that I wouldn't be a hazard to anyone else.

You guys are being real pricks...

2 things.

1) You cant prove he is doing anything illegal. That should be enough to shut your trap.
2) Regardless of #1, its not your damned business. Its between him and the devs (and the mods). Let them sort it out if there is a problem. Regardless of what hes doing, your experience isn't changed in any way. You aren't harmed, or kept from playing, or anything. Your just being dicks for the sake of being dicks.

Last edited by rjm1982, Thu, 13 Sep 2007 18:28.

Quote from frokki :

No, because you're not banned yet...

The word **** doesn't even begin to describe you...but its the closest one I can come up with.

Quote from mcintyrej :

Prove it? Post the name of your friend who has S2 - then we'll maybe start to be helpful.

Guilty until proven innocent, eh?

nice...

Actually, LFS is a ... ready for this? SIMULATOR.

Period.

Simulators by definition aren't limited to one thing..

Its a physics simulator, its an aerodynamics simulator, its a traction simulator, its a weather simulator (to some degree), its a thermal simulator (tire heat), its a damage simulator...

You can't even simulate "racing" ... racing is an activity, not a property. You cant simulate activities...you can only simulate properties. By simulating many properties, you can allow for an activity to take place.

What -IS- racing, really? Is it people fighting door to door? Is it time trials? Is it hotlapping and trying to beat another person? Is it the former, just trying to beat yourself? Racing is an abstract concept. Are you racing to be the one to finish 10 laps, or are you racing to see who can turn a lap of a certain speed first?

LFS simulates all aspects needed for the activity of drifting...so why not drift?

I know none of you were really knocking drifting so much...but damnit, It's tiring seeing someone say "LFS is a RACING sim" every damned day.

Quote from danowat :

Sigh, it's only annoying for people who find it annoying.

The 2 comments I made originally were flippant comments, I have as much right to make my posts, as you do to make yours (within the rules of the forum), I wasn't harassing the OP, although ironically, I am now being harassed for my POV....funny that........

And for the record, I never directly accused anyone, I only hinted at it

Sorry, accusation is pretty much a binary term. You are accusing someone, or you aren't. "Hinting at it" is like saying "kind-of dead".

You're making a judgment you have no grounds to make, as you have not the slightest shred of evidence that hes doing anything wrong. I played LFS on a friends computer for a while before I bought it...that's what got me interested. To say that hes lying ... is just retarded, not to mention mean spirited and hateful.


And by your logic...since its a public forum and you have the right to say what you wish to the OP, then everyone else has the right to tear into you for saying it, your argument nullifies itself.

I think it would be better on the SO short...

What do i know, though?

I was there before the filming, and power went out about 15 min to start...and stayed off for 6 hours...you never know just how a.d.d. you are untill all of your toys stop working.

Remember, popping the curbs also puts some positive camber in the outside tires...

As far as which setup you would use, hopefull any server worth its weight would be nice and use race-s or hardtrack depending on the car. Those are pretty well balanced setups...

I don't see why it can't be done already though. If the CTRA servers can see a pasenger...you would think that they can get your setup as it is... then again, the passenger detection is buggy as hell...

Quote from waider :

In saying that you miss a reason to shut your mouth.

Wow, it took you a full 7 days to come up that with little pearl of wisdom?

Keep burying yourself, nobody takes you seriously anymore.

If nobody reposted Ideas this forum would have 15 threads... not very entertaining.

If you don't like the thread, ignore it...stop whining already. You wasted more effort replying to it that you would have ignoring it...and top top it off, you brought it back to the top thereby keeping it more visible and frankly, retardedly negating your own point.

Quote from Btoryo :

Was in first place in the SR Racing servers with FOX AS2 Last lap I was winning and ran out of fuel about 500 feet from the finish line. Although the 2nd place guy had a magnificent lead over the others and gave me a push and took 2nd. That's what I call true sportsmanship One of the nicest guy ever although I forgot his name

Yes, there are some great guys out there when it comes to sportsmanship. I ran out of fuel on the ctra-1 sever all of 500 feet from the line (i was in like 2nd) ... when 3rd passed me and finished, he asked if I was out of gas...then pushed me across so i got my points I ended up like 8th, but still finished on lead lap...so i got a few points...better than none.

Quote from Nathan_French_14 :

Thats odd, according to your stats, you have never even done a lap on BL GP, neither normal or reverse.

Yeah..!!!

I mean, there's NO WAY he could have been playing single player...nope.

Is it possible to create binds that work based on the state of the key?

Basically, I want to make a control panel of sorts, with some 2 way switches. The silver "toggle" kind, some 3-ways two, probably.

I would like to be able to bind them to things hud elements...ie, the chat window. I know I could make it a button and it would work, but if i left it "off" or "on" ... does LFS understand the concept of states for a command. Like, no matter what, if that switch is on, then the chat is visible, and if its off, its hidden?

I can think of a few bings that would be nice on switches like that, as well as making an easier access set of switches for chat binds and the like. I've built a usb switch board before for flight sim for a buddy, so I'm thinking the actually mechanical and setup from a hardware perspective will be easy...its just the integration into lfs...

Quote from BlueFlame :

I think your wrong there, Porsche engines are in teh back, apart from the oddly crap 928, 968 and 944 which aren't popular enough to want to put into a game tbh.

I'll take the 944 over any new Porsche out today. That car had class, power, and handling. Will it outrace some of the newer ones, nah...

Does it look damn nice when it tries? Your damned right.

I've NEVER driven a car that handled as good as the 944...to each his own, though.

I wouldnt mind paying for a good league...

It 1) gets rid of wreckers/idiots ... they wont pay to do their thing and 2) provides a more mature atmosphere overall.

I've raced in paid leagues in other games (namely nr2003) ... no prizes (other than small things...nowhere near what the total entries come to) but it did provide a good server, consistent -enforced- rules.

One thing you should do for the league, as it was done in the one I raced in for nr2003, is require everyone have teamspeak or the like. No talking during races is allowed. However, admins can talk... This way, drivers can hide the chat windows, and admins can still give warnings, etc...not to mention people seemed to take warnings more seriously when they were verbal.

1 thing I don't think any league has done, is like corner marshals. I think it would be great if you have people spectating in the shift-u view, 4 or 5 of them per race, acting as corner marshals at various places on the track. You would also be kinda the "spotter" for wrecks. IE, let people know there is a wreck in t1, that there is a stopped car on the inside...and tell the stopped car to stay put, untill you clear them... I would love to do that, I spend alot of time spectating races anyways, I love to watch them as much as drive them.

I would pay for that... Hell, i would pay to spectate that as a marshall, just to see what kind of racing quality we could get.

Barring getting hit by someone else, whats the worst way you've lost?

I was headed for my first win online in an xfg last night. BL GP Rev. I got first with 2 laps to go, coming out of the chicane and onto the pit-stretch. Next lap was perfect, my best lap of the race. Last lap, ok...perfect all the way to the chicane, and 2nd place bobbled in the first turn, putting probably 250ft between us. All i have to do to win is not screw up, i could drive slow and pick the win up now.

Well, the first 2 splits were my fastest of the race...so i decided to push it. I pushed too much. Clipped the right curb into the chicane too hard...and over I went, sliding into the pit entrance upside down and backwards, watching 2nd place drive to the win... gerrr!!!

Fun though... Love this game...

post a time up, im in for traffic

You have to enable horizontal spanning in the ATI Control Center...

Then set windows to work in that mode...

Then it should work. If you havent figured it out by the time I get home, i will go into further detail, im at work now so i dont have it in front of me.

Unless we have full course cautions, a tow truck/return to pit with time penalty is about the only decent option. Limping back to pits isn't acceptable on most tracks, too many high speed chicanes that don't have room for 2 cars at once...

Open your mind a bit...

"My car has a boo-boo, im retiring". "I'm in the sand, im packing it up."

Wonder why Nascar has as much appeal as it does, drivers love driving (dont believe it, look at the california busch race...carl edwards was trying to get back out with just a few laps to go...he has nothing to lose as far as points are concerned to just pack it in, but he WANTS to race...)

Nascar drivers dont give up if you can get the car up to speed again. Running 50 more laps might mean the difference of 3 or 4 positions depending on attrition...

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=537589#post537589

because i dont want to type it all again.

If you dont want people to have your skins, dont upload them to a public system. period.

Yeah, well, the point is, their setup see passengers that arent there.

So you have a bug that creates a major PIA...i've tweaked setups offline before for an hour or so, then try to join and get the passenger error. NO PASSENGER enabled. Nobody seems to know the magic combo that make it think there is one there...

So my point was, keeping that check in there is retarded.

You think a wrecker is going to go "damn, i cant have a passenger, I'm outta here!" ... no, hes going to turn the passenger off and still wreck.

Arguments based on correlation masquerading as causality are rediculous...thats the reason the "games are the reason for columbine" arguments are so weak.