Is the auto-clutch system really that important to add as an option?
I thought this was more about the more controversial settings of automatically blipping and lifting the throttle on shifts, and for the die-hard simulator fans to have the option of fixed (randomized) setups and cockpit view.
If it's about using a clutch button versus a clutch pedal, the clutch button could be made slower than instant.
(I don't like options that would potentially ban me from joining servers because I don't have the necessary exotic hardware. Cockpit view is so bleedingly obviously a must have force option (mind you: OPTION!) that I wouldn't mind that, most people not able to run cockpit view now are probably going to be out of luck for S3 anywayz)
I thought this was more about the more controversial settings of automatically blipping and lifting the throttle on shifts, and for the die-hard simulator fans to have the option of fixed (randomized) setups and cockpit view.
If it's about using a clutch button versus a clutch pedal, the clutch button could be made slower than instant.
(I don't like options that would potentially ban me from joining servers because I don't have the necessary exotic hardware. Cockpit view is so bleedingly obviously a must have force option (mind you: OPTION!) that I wouldn't mind that, most people not able to run cockpit view now are probably going to be out of luck for S3 anywayz)
You'd be surprised how many top formula class drivers have NO clue what to do to a car to make it handle better... The best they can do is say what the car is doing for each turn (it's understeering in slow corners, that fast left hander is difficult with the oversteer as it is now)... The engineer then changes the setup options to change the car's behaviour. When's the last time you've seen a F1 driver take a wrench to the front left damper to change the rebound setting? You ask all the formula 1 drivers today what changing the front left damper rebound setting does, and 90% will have to say "I dunno". They need to be really good at telling the team what a car is doing at any given point on the track, not what settings to change. Sure, they know the basics of car setups... Mostly the settings they can change from inside the car, but for most that's it.
Nobody said the forced setups would need to be default setups... Just as you can send the setups to other racers, so could the server send the fixed setup as you join the server.
I'm sorry? Their own custom car setups? Tell me how realistic the car setups, and more so the way they were created, are in LFS right now?
Did you know that a car setup for Barcelona in June is radically different from the setup in December? What you do in a car on a track is start with a basic set, and change that for the current situation. They have only a couple of hours to build their set, not hours and hours for months.
At the very least, if you want to be realistic, you should force them to start with some sort of default setup, and have them tweak it over the course of practice and qualify. That would show their top form. Unfortunately, we don't have engineers to help out, so even that would not be realistic.
Sorry, but don't you think that's a bit ego-centric? Say no to forced setups because you don't like it, but say yes to force something that makes some users unable to play the game at all. We're still talking about an option, but you're going past the option, and force it on everybody.
I only count 7 off-topic posts...
threads being closed are a direct result of moderating, so the subject of moderating would be on-topic. But yeah... Some posts could be edited/deleted in a cleaning up kind of fashion.
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Who is that in your avatar? I wish she was My Boss
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Who is that in your avatar? I wish she was My Boss
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I have no idea how WMCE behaves when upgrading an XP Pro install... It may be it will install MCE over Pro, in which case it would basically be Pro with the MCE shell. I've always believed it behaved like XP Home rather than Pro every time I installed it for one of our 'beloved customer relations'... The Microsoft statement kind of confirms that, but I'm not 100% sure it actually is just Home, or Pro with a lot of cool stuff removed.
The problem lies in the fact that users will make absolutely sure the poster knows he looks stupid, and as a result the poster will try to make the critic look stupid, which results in a flamewar... Which doesn't look nice and keeps people from staying on-topic.
You need moderators to ban an account, btw. The ignore list is annoying when everybody starts to use it and everyone has a few users in it for arbitrary reasons. Threads will look really weird with questions answered 3 times, and people starting to get upset from getting complaints that they made a double post, while in reality they were the first to answer (as far as they can see).
Nooooooooooo... Tristan would just spam-delete random posts to get his 'deletestats' up
(kidding)
@CaptainSlow below me:
faster? YaY, free wordpuzzles with every mod-edit he makes... (just joking, don't be offended)
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Uhmmm... No... It's Windows XP Home...
From Microsoft:
(also, try joining a PC with XP Home to a domain... There's more missing than just IIS and Multi processor support (I thought XP Home supported 2 procs, XP Pro up to 16, but I'm not sure))
It's the discount that did it, right? Hollander
The only thing I don't like about this one (or any other notebook, really) is the HDD... There should be a full 3.5" HDD bay for regular 500GB 10k discs, not those lame 2.5" flat 80GB HDDs at 5400rpm. Other than that... Nice buy!
long enough for me to say "not long"?
(Scawen has one, he used it to get the shifter differences in lfs cars programmed and tested afaik)
Delete this post if needed.
(Scawen has one, he used it to get the shifter differences in lfs cars programmed and tested afaik)
Delete this post if needed.
You (and anybody buying a complete desktop) have the right to deny the Windows XP pre-install... Not only does OEM mean non-transferrable, but it also means no Microsoft Support. The downside is that you'll have to pay full price for a full license (and XP Pro is not cheap), the upside is that you don't have to pay for an inferior product if you don't want to.
On a side-note... Apparently Vista OEM licenses can be either installed on 2 systems (but not simultaneously), or the Vista complete license can no longer be installed on more than 2 systems. Also, you are not allowed to install any Vista version on a virtualisation system (like VMware) except for 3 expensive versions (business license, premium license, and Volume license). (edit: this is from a press release from MS to clarify the new licensing scheme... Did not clear things up from what I've read)
On-topic:
So what kind of notebook did you get, Victor? Wanna know if we're going to have to return the support you've given us over the years anytime soon
And that's exactly why editing a post might prove smarter than just deleting... And a feedback forum might have saved that thread from being closed.
Anyway... I support the mods in any (actually most) of their decisions.
You're all doing a fine job, and keep it up. I suppose that needs to be said every now and then, as well.
Most of you know how I feel about moderation (for those that don't, moderation on these boards isn't tight enough imo)...
One of the things I would like to see here is a feedback forum where users can complain to mods (if they for some reason don't feel like using PM). This way all the off-topic complaints in threads can simply be edited/deleted with a reference to the feedback forum. A lot less threads would need to be closed.
Also, editing instead of deleting a post might prove useful if you remove an offensive or off-topic post. It might just receive a bit more understanding from the users involved, and generally results in less complaints.
Mind you, moderating is not censorship. It's just the forum police force.
Anyway, all this is my opinion, what y'all want to do with it is up to you.
One of the things I would like to see here is a feedback forum where users can complain to mods (if they for some reason don't feel like using PM). This way all the off-topic complaints in threads can simply be edited/deleted with a reference to the feedback forum. A lot less threads would need to be closed.
Also, editing instead of deleting a post might prove useful if you remove an offensive or off-topic post. It might just receive a bit more understanding from the users involved, and generally results in less complaints.
Mind you, moderating is not censorship. It's just the forum police force.
Anyway, all this is my opinion, what y'all want to do with it is up to you.
There's just one thing I need to get out in the open (and this is in no way an accusation towards anybody in the LFS dev team)...
If Eric's got his own house, and it needed work... Then where the heck is the corresponding forum thread?
I think most people would just like to read some kind of update, even if it's just to say there's no update.
Enjoy the new house, Eric. Enjoy Leo, Scawen... Have fun with LFS Alpha, community. I'll patiently wait for the next update, and continue enjoying what we have so far.
Thanks.
Edit: @Tristan's sticky: +1
If Eric's got his own house, and it needed work... Then where the heck is the corresponding forum thread?
I think most people would just like to read some kind of update, even if it's just to say there's no update.
Enjoy the new house, Eric. Enjoy Leo, Scawen... Have fun with LFS Alpha, community. I'll patiently wait for the next update, and continue enjoying what we have so far.
Thanks.
Edit: @Tristan's sticky: +1
Actually it's just God Rest ye merry gentlemen and the Carol of the Bells on guitar and drums... But it absolutely rocks... Only song in history to ever give me goosebumps all over. Every year in December my musical playlist reduces to all TSO CDs. I'm not into christmas, but this music simply rocks...
Keeping it a bit on-topic of LFS my favorite video would have to be Robbie Williams - Supreme (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvs7DYdWSsc)
Technically perfect, and a very cool concept.
BTW, my favorite song ever doesn't have a video: Popcorn by Gershon Kingsley.
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Apparently, even if it's just for you, we need a feedback forum...
You wouldn't have to go to PM, and this thread would remain on-topic.
That was the reason posts were deleted in the first place.
btw, a reason WAS given... So it was a mistake. Sorry for the loss of your posts, but life goes on. Leave it at that.
(I'd be a much stricter mod than all the mods on here combined, so just be glad I'm not one
)It doesn't matter who made the mistake... My point was that they'll always get complaints. I for one am glad something is happening that could be considered moderation on the boards (although it should be done even more and stricter imho). We needed it after the last 'crisis'.
Ultimately, the mods can do whatever they want. And yes, they make mistakes, and Al has 'kind of' admitted he could've left the posts as is (at least Kid's ones)... If Kid has a problem with his posts being gone forever, I suggested he'd take it up in PM, and not here, as this whole discussion is off-topic.
And how long do you think it would take to delete the current discussion?
If you have complaints, don't do it on the thread, but go to PM (a feedback forum is what we apparently need but don't have as yet).
Mods will always get complaints, whatever they do...
There was a time we didn't see mods for a while, and there were complaints nothing was being done. Now that that's changed, they get complaints too much is deleted.
The mods run this show for the most part. If you don't like what they did, go to the feedback section of the forum (which isn't here, so PM the mod)...
Don't waste valuable forum space with completely off-topic complaints.
Actually, the name on the window looks a bit strange... Too tight to be over the B-pillar, and too horizontal.
You can't really make out the helmet in the Alfa, so I missed that one
Yeah, I did a search over a year ago, after finding out he was the 'foreign' entry in the dutch Alfa challenge... Just thought it was cool to race someone I'd seen on track in real life.
Right... Who's the sucker we're going to embarrass now?
Now WHY would he want to find one with 3 paddles?
I can understand why someone would want 3 pedals though... It's one for brake, one for throttle, and one to pump up the airbag in a crash.
Yeah mate... You need to wait a tiny bit longer until the Logitech G25 is available to you. It's da proverbial bomb (for the hardcore budget priced wheels).
Dangerous statement... If he gets enough people to state the same, then he'd just say 'no', get your money, and pick up racing again.
lol... Why? Slowly becoming the most famous non-famous racer in the world.
(btw, that first pic looks photoshopped, and the helmet seems to be different, is it you?)
I've seen some of the alfa challenge races. Wasn't cheering for you though, sorry
And physics limitations in the engine (as well as real life) dictate that a car cannot accelerate in any direction at 1.5m/0.01s/0.01s. So these weird calculations can be avoided (quite easily by taking more than 1 last checkpoint into account and interpolating the energy at which the actual collision took place).
Mind you, crashes because of lag will still happen (where cars simply get into eachother because of the collision detection), but the result of that can still be a realistic crash or slide. LFS is doing ok, just needs the final wrinkles ironed out of the collision detection.
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