you are right Tony, only thing you cant do is link to the replay until after next restart.

SD.

This situation started me thinking:

I was in a race a few days ago and for some reason found myself crashed and out, spectating the other racers including the racer who had IMO caused my crash, unable to file a report because of the last race ended way it is atm, then the racer in question disconnected from the server, and I hadn't checked his username , I started to file a $rep whilst I was still spectating, and in the end decided to wait a race or 2 to make sure I get the correct replay.

anyway the report never got filed, and the player forgotten.
however my question would have to be; what if the system had a button available to allow players to flag a race replay (the race thats ongoing), and then the system will e-mail the link to that replay after the race has ended? then the user could enter the ctra my page and continue to file the report with all the info available,

It could be an easyer way for players to use the $rep function and still force them to submit @myctra, its just a thought, I might add it to the 1.4 suggestions thread tommorow,

The servers are 95% of the time clean and fair but sometimes theres just some madness

SD.

sry for the grammer and spellings its late

Could lap records show splittimes?
Could an option to turn off the little ctra flags display be included?

Thankyou for reading my suggestions

SD.

Could Race2 server alternate between car classes, instead of random.


I do miss the old RB4

SD.

I spent some time on R1 last night and have to say it all looked very good not half as bad as I expected

I think kicking for lapping too slow would be a bad idea on this server because any number of things could cause a new player to be very slow from just not knowing where the track goes to controller problems, I dont think this should not stop them being able to participate in the best licenced racing system known to LFS.

I think for newer drivers, actually having one or two aggressive or zig-zaggy players to get past is not such a bad thing, as mrodgers says above some more experianced drivers can avoid the worst of it because they have learnt how to be aware. maybe some of the newer come off worse and give up? ending up with a worse impression of LFS than is really the case, although after driving in some demo servers recently I think even at the worst of times its just so much better than average demo servers

It seems some players (especially using KB) need to learn more control over their cars, would the CTRA consider linking to or hosting a short guide to driving the R1 cars for beginners?, even some of the basic things easly available here at this forum could be helpfull , I am sure some more experianced drivers here would help write somthing up?

I realise the CTRA has taken alot of very hard work by a very few very dedicated people, that have many other things to do and I understand things take time, this thread was not meant as a pop at the system or its creator/s.

SD.

Last edited by SparkyDave, Wed, 5 Sep 2007 14:35.

I would not like to think the CTRA is being dragged through the mud.
far from it, I know from my own experience the higher tier servers are very clean and IMO some of the best races are to be found on the CTRA servers, as I am sure is the case for the other CTRA servers most of the time.

I will be joining the R1 server (possibly using another LFS account) and I will make a point of reporting any who break the rules.

I was just wanting to hear from some of the racers who might have more experiance driving R1 than I do at the moment.

maybe some positive comments? I didn't intend this thread to be a negative one.

If there are some issues that people are having difficultys with, maybe if we can help highlight them, we could help the new LFS'er have a better 1st experiance at the servers.

SD.

Last edited by SparkyDave, Tue, 4 Sep 2007 17:40.

Just read the thread in the genral section and have a few Qs people might want to discuss I was tempted to post in this thread but thought it better here.

not aimed at any staff ect just interested what peoples opinions are.


http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=30595

Anyway I think its worth a mention, that as new players buy S2 licences they will probably be joining a CTRA server soon after, now only race 1 is open to ctra virgins apart for the B&J &sSS or course , but for whatever reason it seems (from what Ive read) the standards in R1 are sometimes shall we say below par. This got me thinking and I wonder if this is partly because;
The system is working and all the slowest, zig-zaggy, KB using players who can race only in this server, and progress so slowly thats where they stay, zig-zagging into new users when they do first join the servers, giving a bad experiance the the newcomers.

or maybe the player base CTRA is aimed at, is reaching capacity, meaning the "more experioanced" players and those migrated from the original STCC system, have high enough licences they have moved away to either SS or B&J or just the next tier up?

Is the reporting system too complicated for a "new to LFS" user to understand and complete?

Is the laptime/position based system to hard for players to achieve the next progress point?

I will have to have some races back in R1 server as I havn't experianced any of the stuff posted in the linked thread, I am actually looking forward to it

SD.

IIRC I believe that whilst LFS fully supports many language/characters, SQL does not, and this is why the characters are not allowed within the CTRA system.

SD.

Quote from rc10racer :

Not sure if these pictures are any good for my rig but who cares.

Is that with standard track texture? looks like some rainbow/oil on the racing line

heres a couple from my system ATI X850XT-PE max quality via TT.

SD.

I dont think LFS being DX8 game, really pushes today's GFX cards at all, sure some high res AA and AF hit the fps, but with a modern card its not really a prob, the CPU throughput seems to be the key to increasing fps, but thats a little off topic

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Quote from LOUiX :

What does a man from Kazakhstan want to know about my specific location in cheshire for ?

Because some people dont always tell the truth on the internet

somthing about Borat?

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Hi J@tko
Some demo users if they signed up to this forum early enough, do have an avatar

I think your BL1 time is very good for KB, remember its alot easyer to control the cars with a good FF wheel (and alot more immersive)

after you buy S2 (I think you will) you will soon learn the tracks and get up to speed, and find racers of all levels of experiance to race close with.
Its all about having a great race for me winning and losing don't really come into it (much)

SD.

Quote from NoGhost :

Dont you understand that there is dudes always again and again race after race blocking lead lappers. Thats why it keeps peoples fingers on F1 = blueflag respect leadlappers . after few that shit it changes to vote kick.

As mentioned, in the CTRA servers the very fact that when someone uses a BlueFlag bind it gives the car being lapped the absolute right to race and or block the person spammimg BF.

This is only at the CTRA, atm and is a special rule ($blue)

however because of such differing rules in different servers the blue flag rule is in danger of becoming missinterpreted by newcommers to the sim.

IMO Blueflag binds are just rude, the game does very well on its own to inform someone they are about to be lapped.

SD.

I think people who change their username into a foul word should be auto kicked anyway, I have seen a fair bit of circumventing the filter Ill be sure and save the replay next time Sam


SD.

Kev can you post a full resolution ss?

ATI FTW especially at higher res with lots of aa + af

SD.

Quote from thisnameistaken :

It's a Vinviddier something, it's got something like six hundred Megs, and it's about the size of a house brick and weighs the same. I think it can create a lot of graphics, enough to keep my 22" monitor full anyway.

ahh yes you need to adjust your mortar settings (try moving the mip bias?)

worth a mention for LCD owners, running LFS at any other resolution appart from your monitors actual 1:1 native resolution can cause some blurring ect, always use the cable supplied with the display (DVI is superior to VGA)

Jak I personally use the dither function dont see much difference with it off, whats it do?

I have an old ATI X850PE and use Tray Tools to adjust everything to max quality via that, but I remember a gfx problem with advanced trilinear filtering on my card that made the kerbs look fuzzy Ill have to test

SD.

What flavor GFX you using Kev?

SD.

Quote from LordBlaster :

thats what i do sometimes just to give
the audience what they want

nice one that made me chuckle I dont mind the odd after race mess about at T1 whilst the UF1s finish the rest of their race ect, but I do tend to pit in and alter somthing about the set

Quote from RatzMilk :

It causes my wheel to slam around and it's really annoying.

If you press Esc FF switches off, no more wheel slamming could be that you have the FF a little high?

SD.

Give us some info Kev, do you dissconect from the server only or does you connection to your ISP reconnect? whos your ISP? and some info on how you normally connect (router or USB modem? wireless) I remember you having a prob at trackchange, any other times regularly? or is it random?


what ping do you get to the server? have you tred net debug?(shift F8)


whats your PC? brand name? network drivers up to date? any heat issues? plenty of room inside and around the case?


anything you can think of can be usefull info




SD.

If the arrow keys dont appear to work, use shift+ arrow keys

SD.

Quote from kurent :

Here's a lap record for the FXO on the Figuratively layout, 3 seconds shaven off the last one!
http://video.google.com/videop ... 200695676804420&hl=en

I had a look at the ctra records pages and I dont see a record for FXO BL2/3 ? and that layout IRC doesn't look like the figurativly layout, its been a while since Ive been there tho

when the cars fly like that if they miss a checkpoint a lap record wont register anyway

SD.

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=530951#post530951

Been spotted before, could be the result of an accident or maybe pushing

I wouldn't rule out the speed hack until I saw the replay also

SD.

EDIT: I think the 0.10 at BL1 is easly obtainable , drafting ect

seems down atm on race2 been like that since I joined , 10 mins

SD.

Quote from SamH :

SD- sm1s in teh ctra's steelin ur recrds

now that made me laugh

talking about records what about record abuse?

for example I didnt have to look too hard to find a CTRA record over 3 seconds faster than the LFS WR(SO3/UF1/45s530), is there any way to stop this? I think being able to look at a the replay where the record was set, would be of great benifit to those wanting to learn good lines ect, and would also put an end to cheating for time.

SD.

EDIT: I am not saying this player was cheating on purpose, I havn't seen the replay, It was just the first one I spotted that looked too fast.