Quote from Crommi :

Driving Mazda is like jerking off to a picture of this really hot supermodel, which in theory should be all good and fun but you also happen to know that she used to be a dude...

Skippy while perhaps not being as sophisticated or have the perfect "aerodynamics", she is still plenty of fun to go around the "curves".

ROFL... that made me laugh but I'm not really sure what you mean by the Mazda analogy! What picture did you jerk off to then realise it was a dude?

Quote from Inouva :

1.500 post , and you dont see they are already like 15 Thread asking for a hill climb stage or raly stage??

Wake up and read what I put..... if I hadn't checked, why would I add to an existing thread rather than start a new one.... Oh hello... you need a coffee

these things look mad but quite cool as well.....

http://www.segway.com/puma/

Rather than start a new thread, I thought I'd rekindle an old one....

I wondered what the Dev's opinions were on a hill climb course as a future development>?

I think it would be a great addition and something that would be a lot of fun for spectators as well as for participants and server owners/drivers. A totally different skill and really fun to add to LFS. Maybe have ability to reverse and go downhill too.

Thoughts?

I like this too..... and little awards you get for your profile here. Easy to add with vbulletin too Better to have something like this part of LFS rather than independant I think.

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Quote from DaveWS :

One more thing about iRacing, why is it that no matter how far under the limit you drive, the tyres ALWAYS produce a tyre scrub / squeal sound??

All US Cop programs have the cars squeal at every opportunity I think Dave Kraemmer used to watch Kojak a lot as a kid and the Rockford Files...

thanks Richard...... From a few posts I looked at on the iRacing forums and from a private chat with someone that worked for SB< they said the improvements have made it a lot better still in terms of some of the characteristics.

Can't beat someone's analysis like that I guess...

Quote from Crashgate3 :

To be fair to her, she herself wasn't an attention whore. It people like Max f**king Clifford who seem to exist purely to be parasites off this kind of thing that really make me grind my teeth.


With pretty much any kind of media circus like this you'll get in the articles 'her publicist, Max Clifford said..' from his massive yacht sailing in his lake of money.

you do have a point

It's a very difficult car to drive well..... got to do a lot of practice in it but the racing is excellent.......

Personally, I prefer the Mazda

I really like CTF.... great game we had last night Moosey.... stop fragging me pls

Quote from SamH :

Just.. read the bloody thread You're acting like you just arrived at the end of a conversation and missed what was being said. The whole conversation is here, so go read it. If you can't be arsed doing that, then you have no business posting in the thread either.

I find if you brake before a corner, it helps to slow down more....

Quote from The Moose :

Maybe we could get a "clan" of LFS CTF'ers together

That sounds like a bloody good idea

added too

name: Bandare

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Quote from spacedskunk :

Just played this, can't believe just how well its been done...seriously!

Couldn't agree more... for a browser based "free" game its kickarse!

Quote from Bean0 :

It's quarter past 6.

FAIL

not in LA

yup... they've dropped arma2!!!!!!

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=5202

it totally depends what you are looking for in a game that determines which, you prefer or which, have the greater merits. Both have their own and unique benefits.

Quote from tinvek :

i dropped in for a practice this morning at 6.30 am after work and managed 25.7 which wasn't too bad for first practice but a certain dale jnr managed a 25.398 and he was only 2nd fastest

25.3 - buggar!!!!

Quote from Crommi :

Damn, I get all ready for Mazda race and then it hits me in the face with "Down for maintenance."

what sort of lap times you running on Phoenix in the Mazda Crommi>? I noticed one of the clubs must be using the same setup as they are consistently 0.2 quicker than anyone else....

Quote from RossUK :

I managed to get a copy, but I think I'll buy the boxed version just for the manual!

I watched the tutorial on the startup sequence intent to remember it all but got lost a 1/3 of the way through. Thats just flicking all the different switches on, let alone knowing what the hell they do! I then took control after and managed a quick wobbly flight and even landed without crashing.

Yep I defiantly need a manual!

It's worth buying. All you have to do is see the startup video to know the amount of work that's gone in to this. For the manual, all you need do is register on their website and then click on FILES to dload the manual for free!

Quote from Scrabby :

If we're starting an IL2 squad I'm In!

add me on MSN:

[email protected]

interesting email address :P

Quote from SamH :

I seriously doubt any racing driver deserving of the title "racing driver" will be taught anything new by iRacing, about adjustments that they can make to their real-life equivalent racing car. They'd have to be at an extraordinarily early stage in their racing careers for that to actually happen. I realise that iRacing wants to give the impression that a sim can be a real-life substitute for the real thing, but I'm afraid I just don't see it. No question, both iRacing and LFS can provide massive insight into the effects of car setup, to lay people and people who are starting out.. but not really beyond that.

Fair enough .... I took "real racing drivers" as anyone that gets out on the track, including people that used to like me and noobs that are getting going...... rather than just 1337 super uber tristans!!!!!

duplicate....

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Quote from SamH :

Well.. iRacing makes a lot of noise about the contacts that it has and the data that is provided to it, but it also sells itself as a tool to help real racing drivers set up their cars. I certainly dispute that.

I'm sure iRacing has value regarding learning tracks, but I don't think it's a credible claim regarding setting up a car, given the utterly static racing conditions and environment in iRacing, the absence of variable atmospheric conditions, track temperatures, track moisture and a gazillion other factors that dramatically affect the behaviour of a car on a track at any given time of the day.

iRacing has a well-formed marketing strategy, and it's very active in singing its own praises. I respect that, but I don't necessarily fall for it. LFS may well have access to copious quantities of tyre data from Michelin and Avon etc, but because of the nature of LFS - a simulator with absolutely no marketing aspirations whatsoever - we will probably never ever know any detail on it. That doesn't mean there's nothing to know, though.

What did you think of iRacing when you tried it?

In addition, I think iRacing, just like LFS, has proved to be a very credible and valuable tool for real racing drivers to understand a lot more about the variables that come with setting up a car for racing. Whenever I have managed to get out on track, having driven LFS, and now iRacing, I can pin point a few of the variables I need to tweak to get more from the car to suit my driving style. I wouldn't say its iRacing specific or makes iRacing sifferent from other games but its certainly there as a helpful tool and does make a difference.

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FPS games online are definately about practice to get decent. Getting your mouse and keyboard setup with the right parameters is ratgher like setting up your wheel for sim racing. It can take a while to get it right. Once that's right, you then nered to get your aim sorted and that, game depending, changes with the recoil of each weapon and the nuances of the game......

In answer, like any game, you have to prac to be decent!!!!

As a game, get HL2 and EP 1 and 2... excellent single player action

yeah, Branson's a really nice guy... very knowledgable too.....