Quote from Funnybear :

I'm going with impotent . . .

I did read that Geologists are argueing that any large bodies founs out by pluto and beyond should not be called plutons(I think) because Plutons are a geological formation made by lava solidifying under ground and rising to the surface. So you could theoretically have plutons on a pluton...

Geologists Vs Astronimers . . No thats a naked greco roman moment I would pay to see . . .

From small to huge:

Meteoroids (rocks of less than 10 meters in diameter)
Asteroids or planetoids (rocks that are larger than meteoroids but smaller than planets and do not have a gravitational force of their own)
Plutoids (rocks that are larger than Asteroids and do create their own gravitational force)

There... I solved their problem in all of 10 seconds... Now where's my millions of dollars, you basterds.

Quote from ajp71 :

Would be nice but I don't think it's possible with the current LFS policy of only connecting when you tell it to.

wouldn't actually typing in '/' 'w' ' ' 'w' 'r' be more like telling LFS to connect than clicking the button that says 'connect'?

Quote from SamH :

It's been discussed quite a bit in the past, and I don't think the idea is lost on the powers that be. A really good discussion on the subject happened here.

Bandwidth considerations dictate that streaming mpeg style content is extremely heavy on bandwidth. If anyone were to broadcast a race's-worth of video to a "mass" audience, in a live event, the bandwidth required would be colossal. It might work if there were a relay system, where a server had say 6 concurrent streams, and one of those was given over to relaying to the next server in the chain, streaming 6 concurrent streams, relaying one of them to the next server in the....

IPv4 and IPv6 have such a relaying system (well a better actually), it's called multicast (unlike the wrong definition of unicast in the thread you mentioned). Every 'viewer' is given a special IP address from a range of addresses that are grouped together into another single IP address. Each router in between the two endpoints (viewer, and broadcaster) creates a multicast group and combines the IP addresses into a single one at the other end of its connection. The result is that the broadcaster needs to send his stream to only 1 IP address. This single IP address is converted into more than one IP address at the first point of convergence (ie, where multiple routes to 'viewers' occur) and the stream is sent to each of those new multicast IPs only once until it reaches the next point of convergence, where they get split up again, etc, etc, until a packet reaches a 'viewer'.
The difference between multicast and regular (unicast) connections is that a unicast connection is 1:1, ie. it sends each packet to one single destination, and multicast is 1:M, ie. it sends each packet to an infinite number of destinations. Broadcast would be overkill since it would send each packet to all possible destinations (and for very obvious reasons is not routed at all (try sending a packet to IP 255.255.255.255 every 0.000000001 seconds and you'll kill the internet).

Multicast was disabled for security reasons in the early years of the internet, but with the arrival of IPv6 it's getting turned back on on all newer equipment by default.

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The superior concept is LFSTV, which has various interpretations, but the one I like most is a dedicated replaying/spectating client which receives InSim data from the race, and also camera position/focus information from the LFSTV "director". An audio/commentary stream, which is much less bandwidth-intense than video, completes the service. Because it's not transmitting video, but instead just positional/directional/angular/etc data, it's much less burden on bandwidth. The LFSTV resolution is of course whatever you make your client window size. If needed, a relay system/service can also be incorporated, greatly increasing the number of possible viewers.

Not superior... Completely different... It's a good concept, but it is limited to supplying people that use special software (this viewer), which is basically my only point of criticism on this concept.

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There's many different permutations.. those are just the aspects I like the most, from the proposals/suggestions I've picked up on. The above thread is well worth a good read

Yeah, and possibly worth reviving (or we could just continue here). If we could only get some word of some dev (not naming names, Scawen, honest ) on his views on the matter.

Last edited by TagForce, Fri 1 Sep 2006, 23:11.

Quote from Jakg :

did this the other day, although my advice is that once you get right behind the other person, overtake the same way the other person did, time it right, and you draft someone going a bit faster, and that slingshots you past VERY fast, although i got in the middle and got crushed last time i tried it!

Ahhh, yes, when you have the opportunity to get behind the other drafter in time, do that. If not (because you will be going faster and are going to clip his rear quarterpanel) just go around the other side, or in between if there's room. Best example of this will always be the Hakkinen overtaking manouvre on Schumacher in Spa...

The "you're in the middle 3-wide" passes are the most gratifying, though, especially when you're 3 wide for what seems like forever.

Quote from P5YcHoM4N :

Okay, I'm hearing rumors of Pluto getting planetary status back, but finding nothing on the subject, anyone heard anything about this?

Like I said before:

Quote from TagForce :

As for the IAU declaring pluto no longer a planet... Nobody in the actual astronomical world takes them seriously anymore. They spent 2 years discussing this one issue, and finally come up with a solution... Pluto and 3 more rocks will be classified as planets. 2 weeks later, they decide that pluto no longer IS a planet... Every decision they make is reversed within a month.

Wouldn't surprise me at all... They really are a bunch of stupid kids who think they are important.

Quote from ATC Quicksilver :

Some obvious ones...

Fake a move to the inside and outbrake round the outside (if your brave)

My favorite move... Get them where they least expect it... Also a nice one is when you just KNOW they expect a switchback and hug the inside line, and you just go around the outside and get alongside them.

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Turn 1, most cars will try and go for the inside line, if your lucky you can outbrake 5-10 cars on the outside and cut in. I had an old replay where i started 23rd and ended up in 2nd place after t1 because i went round the outside and someone had spun on the inside line.

I like to do that as well, depending on my position after the first 200 yards... If I find myself incredibly well positioned for an inside divebomb without risk I'll go for that, otherwise I'll just go around them all.

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On tracks where overtaking is hard run low downforce and pick people off on the straights. Then hug the inside lines, good on fern bay or south city.

This won't work too often... But is good on short races... If you wanna hug the inside with low downforce people will notice you being slow and perform the first 2 tips on you.

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Look several cars ahead, never focus on the back of the car right infront of you. I gain lots of places early on by spotting gaps and spun cars early and being able to react and find the best way past.

In addition to that, when you're the rear car in a multicar draft, don't follow the car in front of you when he makes the pass... Just floor it when he gets out and draft the front car, you'll pick up more speed in shorter time and slingshot passed both of them (especially on BL1 is a perfect way to take 2 positions in less than 5 seconds).

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all i can think of for now

Well, I can think of one other tip that's been mentioned a lot before, but is vitally important... Patience is the key. ALWAYS wait for your chance and give up an attempt when you're not 100% absolutely sure you are going to pull it off. Except of course in the final turn of the final lap, you're going to have to make that one absolutely stunning move to take the car in front of you and receive all the cheers and fame that come with being victorious. Either that, or end up in the hospital, but nobody can ever say you didn't try.

Quote from Scawen :

I suggest you run a memory checker, and a CPU checker thing. Sorry I can't advise where to find the software.

http://www.google.nl/search?hl ... G=Google+zoeken&meta=



(fifth link is actually useful)

Edit:
On a side note, Scawen, I have a theory about how to solve these problems you don't want to hear, and should be in the improvement suggestions forum.
It involves not using physics for replays.

Last edited by TagForce, Fri 1 Sep 2006, 18:33. Reason : just for the heck of it.

Quote from hrtburnout :

South City is ook leuk, maar wel wat moeilijk voor beginners.

Daarentegen is een perfecte full lock drift door de chicane op Classic Rev een moment waarbij je je ook echt compleet drift king voelt.

(for non-dutch readers, I said that performing a perfect full lock drift through the SO classic rev chicane combo makes you feel like the ultimate drift king)

Quote from spankmeyer :

...there's no reason to live! Where's my kayak?!

Please don't bring this thread back on-topic!

Transformers, and M.A.S.K.!

I'm 30 years old now, and I still have those damn toys stashed around here some place just in case I ever find a woman who deems me worthy enough to father her children.

These days I'm more into CG movies like Final Fantasy, and anime, of which for some strange reason I find Princess Mononoke the best to date.

YaY... She's back! Keep her in, keep her in... She rocks!
Who's gunna play her in the movie?

Quote from Scrabby :

well i don't really feel like for waiting 7 months until a "big patch" and maybe a new car, there is no race game were they don't use mods or is moddable sow why not LFS?

There's no race game that's not finished and out there... Well... Actually there's no race game that's finished and out there, but they just stop developing it. LFS is still under development, and as such allowing you to mod would be stupid because everything in the game might change at one point rendering the modded items useless. As for extra cars, specifically... We have plenty cars at the moment. We could use some extra cars, but only if there are specific locations for those cars (short oval with a NASCAR for instance). They will come, me thinks. At the moment, the cars we have are fine for the tracks we have.

Sue them! (or better yet, slip them one of your stories, wait till they make it into a movie, and then sue them for even more money).

Now what the heck does swing the cat mean (other than catching the neighbour's cat steeling fish from your pond, and subsequently tailswinging it back over the fence (and 3 extra for good measure))?

Quote from Funnybear :

Ok. I get one (The kraken, which was more just topical than actually a reference. But what was the other?)

In your first short story... "She's gunna have your gut's for garters"...
(quote from the movie: "If anyone as much as thinks about 'Parley', I'm gonna have your guts for garters")
It's quite possibly just my obsessive PotC fandom making me notice any small reference to those movies, though.

Quote from SamH :

If Friday's doesn't fix it, I'll call and book THREE consecutive engineers

Why not have them all over at once? That way they can have a meeting about the problem, tell your TV to stop fooling around, have a beer with eachother while waiting for your TV to think about that option (get them beer!), try to bribe it with their combined wallets, and when all else fails have a jolly good time playing dodgeball with it.

BTW: I could tell you all about my day, but it's top secret. National security stuff... Either that, or very very very boring.

Damnit, you're good!

Doesn't this one remind you of something?
(looking forward to the blog if it ever happens)

EDIT: Did you see Pirates of the Caribbean? There's a blatant reference to PotC in 2 of your stories, so just wonderin' if that was intentional.

Last edited by TagForce, Tue 29 Aug 2006, 15:26.

Quote from XCNuse :

i dont want to land up with a game such as rFactor where people are using 5+ gigs on 1 game

Have you checked your LFS folder lately?
Just don't change anything in the default settings, and play for 6 months on a nightly basis (say an hour 2 a night)... My folder was 4.2GB just from replays and downloaded carskins...

Quote from JohnPenn :

and the one with lots and lots of corners.

Zandvoort? :-P

The tracks in LFS are outstanding, although I'd change some corners here and there... The real challenge now is in creating different kinds of tracks.. A dense forest track, a sea-side dune track, a very fast desert track, and a very long mountainous track.

Quote from Funnybear :

Awww. Head hurts. Need a bit of recovery time. . . Got the internal Balaclava on and everything is a but fuzzy round the edges . . .

You gonna be alright? Take yer time, m8...

Quote from Funnybear :

Naked.

There is a story there certainly. But prehaps I need to practice what I preach. Discresion surely is the better part of valour here as I am v drunk. A little stoned and need to find a handy asteroid to tether my barge to until I have slept this off.

It is too good a story too mess up through a drunken retelling . . . . .

You sobered up yet? Need a glass of water?

Quote from noTe :

What are you talking about?

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That's what he's talking about
Personally I don't mind it, it's just one site... Look at how many sites won't work in FF properly because they're built for IE. And they won't give you a IE download link either, so they're even less user friendly

I'm just hoping the story of your nickname will be allowed here...
Oh, do tell...

PS. I'm going to bind these stories together so they won't ever be lost.



EDIT: Oh bloody hell, now I'm going to have to listen to the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy again... All phases.

Last edited by TagForce, Sun 27 Aug 2006, 16:18.

Quote from Funnybear :

'Ze Finest French Ved Vine Vinegar.'" He read further down the label. "Made in California, America. Honest."
By this time I was really getting nervous and I was sure the funny smell that had engulfed the cockpit was me. I had to think quickly . . . . . .
. . . . .
. . . . .
. . . . .
the Captain turned the bottle over in his hands. I thought some more.
. . . . .
. . . . .
. . . . Ah! . . . No.

Best one so far, imo. Please please please don't stop writing this stuff.

Quote from ATC Quicksilver :

Funny how the server is still regularly full if you listened to people here you would think it was ran by elietist devil worshippers that beat rookies into submission then ban them.

So what if it was? As long as I don't get agitated by the peeps running that show (which is at times amusing, you have to admit), I'll keep going there for the odd FOX BL1 race.

We got a D
We got an R
We got an I
We got an N
We got a K
BAILEY'S!!!


(getting a little tipsy meself here)