i think they SHOULD ad an f1 style car but i'd probably never use it online. i can't even handle the f08 at racing speeds.

but i'd LOVE to watch a race full of guys who know how to handle 900 hp in a 600kg car!!!!!


speedfreak227

i think each person has to make their own. a general one wouldn't work very well.

i was doing a 5 lap race on a kyoto configuration with some little race car (don't rememebrthe name). at the end of the first 5 lapper i pulled over on the grass to chat a bit. after a couple of minutes my engine stopped. out of gas. the very next race i ran out of gas AT THE LINE. i didn't feel like i changed my driving style all that much but my fuel was a bit too close for comfort.

though i'd rather have a volume of fuel than a percentage of the gas tank of the specific car for calculation purposes.

and heck, my dad's truck calculates his instantaneous fuel useage as he drives. that could be programmed in pretty easily!

speedfreak227

yup, sports car gt is the one. i just came back to edit my post but you beat me to it.

it was good for its time.

speedfreak227

MRODGERS, i used to play grand prix legends. it was great but a bit too realistic and none of my freinds could handle it.

when i bought the ORIGINAL logitech force feedback wheel it came with a pretty good sim racer. i don't remember the exact name........GT racing perhaps, no, that's not it........ damn......... it had real tracks and real cars. i think there were 3 levels of cars to progress through. though i don't rememebr how much set up you could do to the car.

i remember people at the kart track talking about various nascar versions but i just can't bring myself to play em. i haven't even been on the oval in LFS.

well, as far as i'm concerned, LFS rules. the physics are awesome, the tracks are geat fun, and there's a decent selection of cars. the sounds could use some work but i can live without that.

can't wait till the shop figures out what's wrong with my computer so i can get back online and racing again.

speedfreak227

Quote from BigBen :

http://www.nascar4real.com/images/Infineon%201/track.jpg

i know nascar does 2 or 3 races per year on non-ovals, and if i catch them on tv i enjoy them quite a lot, but when a game has only a few road courses and 25 or so "different" ovals it just can't hold my attention.

don't get me wrong, i respect the skills required to excel on ovals but personally i just find them boring...................

........HEY GUES WHAT? TURN LEFT AGAIN! hehehheheh

speedfreak227

ah, you mean the one right beside the words "view first unread"?

i KNEW i as missing it somewhere.

thanx man

speedfreak227

i'm sorry if i'm not seeing this but here's my question:

is there are way to enter a thread and pick up at the first message that i haven't read? i see that a thread will be inbold if there are new messages, but if there are 12 new ones or just 2 i end up reading duplicates to find where i left off.

speedfreak227

Quote from ajp71 :

I think that LFS only narrowly looses out to N2003 in the physics department, other than that nothing ISI has ever made can come close.

forgive my ignorance, but what is N2003? oh, wait a minute, nascar 2003? if it's nascar (isn't nascar already an acronym? heheheh) that you're saying has such wonderful physics then it doesn't interest me. i NEED NEED NEED to turn right and do some hard braking from time to time.

speedfreak227

i think the current tracks ae AWESOME. it's fun once you get to know where the little bumps are and such.

on thing that might be added (if it's not already) is different sections of pavement on the track with varying levels of grip. corners where the asphalt has been ripped up and concrete has replaced it.

maybe corners where the "line" is one material and off line is another.

also, it would be nice if a track could "rubber in" as the laps went on. and what about if an off course car could bring sand or dirt back onto the track with him.

oh! how about after a few laps if you went off line (could be more pronounced on a street track) you'd pick up "marbles"

these are the little things that plauged me in my karting years.


speedfreak227

Quote from mrodgers :

Hehehe, that said, it reminds me of a video I had at one time of a race between a minivan, some Mercedes, and an F1 car. Can't remember the track, may have been Nurburgring or how ever you say it. The minivan started 1st and ran around the course. Then they showed the Mercedes driver getting geared up. About half way for the minivan, the Mercedes took off. Cut back to the F1 driver and he's eating a hot dog. They show some more cornering of the minivan and Mercedes, and the F1 guy's sitting on the side of the track reading a magazine. They kept cutting back and forth like this showing the minivan and Mercedes and the F1 guy just messing around. Finally, the F1 car takes off when the Mercedes caught the back of the minivan about 4/5ths around the track. By the 2nd to last corner, the Mercedes took the lead, but lost it on the last turn to F1. Funny vid. I wish I still had it or knew where it was.

that was silverstone in england. the f1 car is a mclaren driven by david coulthard. it's an impressive display of the difference that downforce makes (as well as ridiculous power)

speedfreak227

k, i have a request for someone with photoshop or something like that.

i'm stuck on my girlfriend's laptop with no mouse so i'm pretty useless right now and my comp is in the shop. (crying)

can someone make the black background on those AWESOME car and track map pictures white so that they're printable without using all my ink?

thank you if someone can.

Speedfreak227

Edit: ok, i figured out to reverse the colours on the track maps but can someone make the black background white and teh white words black on the car picture please? the negative coloured cars look funny. ;o)

thanx,

speedfreak227

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wow, i'm glad i complained. thanks everyone who posted lists and pictures explaining all of them.

speedfreak227

can someone explain to me why every car has more than one name?

when i'm going to make my own paintjob or looking up world records online i'm always confused because the cars have different names than when i pick them in the pits!

wouldn't it have made more sense to give each car only one name?

When people see me on the street they call me Steve, not Stephan, Stephanos, or BOBX!

speedfreak227

i've tried a few bike video games and i also have my own sport bike. one thing i found in the games was that it wouldn't let me flick it from side to side as fast as i could in real and it was annoying enough that i didn't bother playing anymore.

speedfreak227

as far as i know most people don't use the driver aids. if you're using the onboard camera to watch what other people are doing it can be a little decieving. due to internet lag you don't actually see what they doing exactly and it may look like they're giving EXTREMELY rough inputs to the car.

as for cars behaving differently when sliding, yes, all the cars are modeled differently and will behave differently.

speedfreak227

i'm not sure if this is the one you're looking for but this place has a large written section on LFS

http://lfs-old.4players.de:1043/lfswiki/index.php/Main_Page


speedfreak227

1) how about closing the pit lane to new entries until the current race is over. if someone drove into the pit lane from the race they could rejoin the track but a person who left the race to the pits with the click of a button or a new user who just joined the track would have to wait for a new session.

i bring this one up because today on lap 8 of 10 after battling corner after corner with someone for second place and having a WICKEDLY FUN TIME, as we both came down the main straight (south city classic) i saw two cars leave the pit and nail us in turn one. it was such a let down after such close and clean racing.

2) how about when someone opens a server they could post a minimum lap time required to enter the track. LFS could check with your personal online bests and if you hadn't achived a good enough time then you couldn't join that server.

i know this could lead to some elitist servers unfortunately but it would get rid of noobs that intentionally or unintentionally end up destroying good races.

speedfreak227

1) I know that drafting works but does the following car lose downforce due to the reduced air pressure?

2) How do people get colours into their online names? I see people representing their country's flags and want to do the same.

speedfreak227

assuming you've got pedals and a wheel setup, just give about 1/2 to 2/3 brake pedal when braking. even for hard braking zones. you will slow down a little bit more slowly but your car will be more balanced and it's easier to drive smoothly that way.

Speedfreak227

Last edited by speedfreak227, Fri, 16 Sep 2005 05:36.