Quote from cvearl :

#1. Why do I hear that quick little red line rev before each gear change? I noticed this in other replays too. I see it in their tach as well. It's like RPM is building in current gear, they go to change to the next gear and it's like a "whup whup" sound in the rev and the needle jumps briefly to redline and then they are in the next gear. What is that and why are they setup to do that? Also, is there a reason why NOT to do it?

#2. I have the option to take over their car via TEST DRIVE. So that's THEIR car and THEIR setup I am using? What if I want to keep that set? Can I?

Thanks.

C.

#1. It's called 'flatshifting'... Shifting up without ever lifting off the throttle. It used to seriously damage the engine, but since every car now has a revlimiter everybody who wants to hotlap just does that. The fastest way to shift up in LFS would be:
1. set LFS to use a button clutch and manual clutch.
2. Floor the throttle
3. Shift up to the next gear (it should stay in the original gear)
4. Hit the clutch button.
5. Watch and listen to the car automagically shifting up and take off in the next gear without loss of speed at all.

I think the rev limiter should be turned off for all cars when declutched (as in, clutch pressed).

2. uhmmm.. I'll just say 'No'. Like TAA said. Go to the setupfield to get most WR sets. Beware though. Some of them are undrivable for earthlings like most of us, and require aliens to be driven fast. Most of them will make you faster with practice though.

EDIT:
@nihil: Speed shifting is shifting without the clutch as I understand it (annoyingly impossible in LFS because all cars with a decent gearbox would allow it). Flatshifting is shifting without lifting, like in F1 or A1GP. Or I could have it backwards

Last edited by TagForce, Thu 14 Dec 2006, 17:46.

Quote from the_angry_angel :

See for yourself:
http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/1481/smoke11ct.jpg

Funny how the smoke in that particular pic is the only thing that looks realistic... Goes to show how good his stuff actually is.

Quote from Funnycat :

Helloooo! It's ooveeer!

Oh... But naming the next undefined character has started... We forgot to tell you...

LOL... Excellent!

Quote from sweetreid :

Yeah I penned that one, thought it was a nice fit.

I agree with having some discussion... Is 'The T1' really the best we can do here?

The T1 is probably the only name for that turn that will ever stick... I've seen people refer to it as T1 even on the reverse track (where it is in fact TLast).

@Tweak:
At Kyoto, the turn you named Don Bikes Kink should not be named... It's an oval turn, and turns like that on the s/f straight are always called dogleg or tri-oval. You could name the straight Don Bikes Straight/Shute.. You specifically named the corner though.

Quote from GianniC :

-LiveForSpeed: votes: 279 = 58.490566037736%

-Best Sim-Racing Website of 2006 - Results
Where the hell is LFSW ? Refused to vote in this categ. cause there is no LFSW.

-Other categ. I voted other, don't want rF to get votes

- Best sim - price: Voted for LFS of course.

LFSW is OTHER!!!

Quote from mrodgers :

If you have to slow down way off line on a straight when you first see blue flag, but don't see the car yet in your mirror, then so be it. That is what you have to do because you are not a part of the race. Those racing shouldn't have to pass you, you should make like you are not even there.

I agree with everything you say, except this part.
I'd rather they keep going until they can clearly see the car coming up behind and can judge its speed. If they have no clue where a car is, chances are they'll slow down enough only to get in the way because they arrived at the turn doin 2mph just as you wanna turn in. If they slow down too much they're bound to become moving chicanes for others. Passing is easier when they are going somewhat slower, not 100 mph slower. Gives you more time to react and prepare for them.

Hmmm... Who will I give my soul to... Is it Wheel4hummer because he has nice big letters in his sig now?
Is it CHR20000 because I 'must click the link!!!!11!one'?
hrtburnout, because he didn't actually try to get any souls?
imthebestracerthereis, because he started this?

What's in it for me?

(I've had demons fighting over my soul, girls fighting over my body, but never forum users over my clicks, so humour me guys).

Quote from al heeley :

What about 'Legal Teen Here' ?

* raises hand *... Yes please

But it's The General Lee

BTW, Live For Speed also has a darker one I just came up with... Feed Lover P.. (guess which letters are still missing)

Quote from RudolfR :

That's what I have sometimes , after U20..

Like Jak said...

I've seen that before... When I broke my nvidia by overclocking it. It was running about 25 degrees too hot for it to handle, so it started messing up these vertices.

I got a defective card that had the same problem without overclocking. So if it does this consistently with different games (although LFS is extremely prone to it), then you might want to see if a different videocard fixes it.

Quote from Darkone55 :

Then why is it F1 drivers get a drive-trought penalty if they not go off the line to let faster drivers pass? The slower driver must imo be the one to go off the gas.. Especially if they have just joined the server. Imo you don't have much rights when you just join a server when a race is already going on.

Yes, and no... Alonso got a penalty for alledgedly blocking Massa even though Massa was so far away I doubt LFS would have given even a blue flag message. Those are the F1 adaptations of Blue Flag rules. They have no connection to the normal racing blue flag rules, other than the color of the used flag.

F1 is really a bad series to use for basing your blue flag rules on, because they are really different from other forms of racing.

Quote from Greboth :

To where the name came from - Didnt anyone else as a kid come up with team names but taking parts of names, or initials etc to come up with a name? Or was that only the people i knew

Pronounciation - Sca - ve - er
Thats how ive always pronounced it.

heh.. Back in the day when I was in school, we had to design a computerprogram, so me and 2 friends started designing a graphics adventure. We came up with a company name, in much the same way except we used our last names. Company was called NiSaBo Interactive. Incidentally I still use that name... I've named my local W2k domain after it.

Quote from jtr99 :

Someday somebody will come up with some great video of senna87 driving around a supermarket car park and "firing off" Volvos that don't yield quickly enough for his taste.



Scary huh? You'd think this group of people would be naturally interested to educate themselves a little.

Edit: that came out wrong. Obviously lots of people here are highly knowledgeable about motorsport. I'm just wondering why there's a minority who (for example) don't know what a blue flag means.

I think you may thank F1 for that, because they are the only series that keep changing the blue flag rules, and (overly) strictly enforce them.

Quote from (-Mark-) :

Not sure if this will help but i did some reserch on it and got this, not sure if its the right thing or not

http://forums.ebay.com.sg/thre ... t=0&mod=1164426273320

That 3rd post on the page:

"Dear seller, My name is Rose beckley From UK"

Rose Beckley... Becky Rose... Strangest places you feel suddenly connected to the LFS community.

Define "computer-ish"... I found the "messed up color only inkjet" idea a good one for computer-izing the plain logo, without making it too obvious. But if you can sort of tell me what you want on the logo I can probably make it... Tomorrow though... Not enough time to design a proper logo today

They make merchandise which you can design yourself... (like: http://www.cafepress.com/buy/l ... 14073889/opt_/pg_/c_/fpt_ )
I didn't make that one, nor do I know if it has permission from the Devs.

As for the logo, I'm throwing something together... Nothing great though.

Last edited by TagForce, Mon 11 Dec 2006, 21:45.

Quote from pasibrzuch :

It's not funny. So many kids will be f**** up for the rest of their life after this

Nahhh... Apparently playing LFS or any other computer game does that for you... You just get more of a f*ckmook when you play violent games, like NFS.

Quote from Rappa Z :

i always wondered, how the hell do you pronounce it??

Like scurvy, but different

Skay Vee Yer. Or that's how I pronounce it anyway (so it automagically becomes the one and only right way to).

blatant plug:
Better quality... Set something up in cafepress.

Make sure you have the DirectX rasterizer file installed in GPL.. Search teh netz for it. I've had that problem before (decided to use software rendering which was slow and oogly).

Quote from Hankstar :

Exactly. Noone (noone who has a clue about RL racing, anyway) should expect you to park on the grass and let you whizz by. Any half-decent racer will do just what you described: let the faster guy pass at a safe point - it can be at a corner, down a straight, wherever. The slower driver has the right to go as fast as he can and go for the best result possible, but not to the disadvantage of a clearly faster driver who's about to lap him. Common sense, really.

edit: I should add that if you are being spammed with "BLUE FLAG" messages and you're not being lapped, you have the right to tell whoever's doing it to shove it where their mama never kissed 'em

When I'm being spammed with blue flag messages I'm not going to move over all the way and give them anywhere near a huge line past me. When I see the LFS BF message and one or two informative Blue Flag messages from the user I'll move over and slow down... If I get the LFS message and 15 "Blue Flag! Move ur az N00B!!!" messages from half a mile out, they just earned the right to attempt to overtake me. I won't fight them, but as long as they don't make a move, I'm not moving an inch. I hate when people go out of their way to annoy you with spam. There's a message in LFS that gives you the Blue Flag when you're supposed to get it. No need to fill my screen with your pathetic attempt at feeling superior.

Last movie I saw in the cinema was Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man's Chest... Next one I'm going to see is Pirates of the Caribbean - World's End (unless I get a girlfriend, then I might go see something else first). Everything else I just see on DVD.

Found a new love...

Ladytron - Witching Hour... Marvelously relaxed 'hard driving' album. Especially Destroy everything you touch, and Fighting in Built Up Areas are excellent tracks.

Groupware knowledgebase anyone?

Quote from Thorvertonian :

New work Lappy desktop

Oh WOW... Where can I get that image?