I think you have a typo. According to the calendar Round 5 is the autox. Unless we're eliminating the autox and still running aston north...

Calendar:
24/2/08 R4: Aston North - FXO/RB4/XRT - 7 laps
2/3/08 R5: http://www.lfsforum.net/attachment.p...0&d=1200214 218 - MRT - 15 laps

Quote from TAYLOR-MANIA :

Well if the Green Flag was displayed then I think it's more or less deemed to be okay. Technically, it's not, unless they accelerate at the same time the leader does.
I had two cars hoon past me too, the green flag was up but they was on the power earlier

Hi taylor, that would be kaluiks and I. For the record, we weren't actually "on the power earlier". In fact, both him and I bunched up behind you and were on the brakes when the green was displayed. Our cars (LX6 and RAC) simply have better acceleration than the RB4 which is why we easily passed you before the start finish line. Safety car rule #8 and rolling start rule #8 seem to conflict each other - maybe this should be clarified for future seasons.

I believe I'll be dropping out of the next 2 races due to a wedding and long business trip. Please let a reserve fill my spot for those races.

I passed two cars before the start/finish line as soon as "green flag" was displayed on the screen. One was during the first start, and the second was on the restart. I'm not sure if I should be penalized or what. I thought anything goes once "green flag" is displayed - and due to the better power to weight ratio of the RAC I accelerated much faster than the RB4's on restarts.

@mutt, sorry for my comments during the race. I was just upset because of the damage to my car that's all. I think we all need to be a bit more cautious during the SC laps - I also gave finnwest a few bumps (although I didn't ram him hard!). I tried to stay at a consistent pace but I could not do anything about people slowing in front of me.

p.s. honking horn during race should be disallowed.. it's not really appropriate IMHO

Here's the replay.... that many of us want to forget about

http://rapidshare.com/files/90820229/lfs_bc_rally.mpr.html

hopefully the link works, I've never used this file share thing before.

ram your current wheel is fine. Just buy S2 and save up for a better wheel later. You don't need an expensive wheel to run good times. In fact, if you use all 900 degrees or whatever the DFP has, it will be much harder to recover from spins as I said in the other thread.

RAM, just remember that while a wheel that can turn over 720 degrees is more realistic, it's not necessarily easier to drive. For instance, it will be much harder to catch a spin... drive a rallyx track, etc.

Toki, won't a wheel that turns 240 degrees only be marginally better than a wheel that turns 180? It's still not going to solve his problem. He needs a wheel that can match the degrees of rotation of the in-game car's wheel.

RAM, I'm pretty sure this is normal. The road cars in LFS turn 720 degrees. Since your wheel only turns 180 degrees, for only a few degrees that you turn your wheel, the in-game wheel turns much farther. Even with wheel turn compensation at 1 (which attempts to match your wheel to the in game wheel near the center neutral position), it will not help much because of the limited degrees of your wheel.

I think the only thing you can do is buy a wheel that can be set to match the LFS cars degrees of rotation (720 degrees, 400, 450, 520, 270 I believe).

oops.... *hides in corner* I think you're right I normally never touch those car filters.. but I guess I left them enabled by accident.. oops. It wasn't quite obvious thats what the problem was. Maybe it should reset to cars y 0 and cars n 0 every time you start the game for noobs like myself

hmmm.. I don't agree. I don't really see what gain the safety car would bring to the start of the race. If we're rolling, it's not going to make t1 any easier. Actually, we'd just be carrying more speed and a bump or two might turn into a rollover

In fact I think it would be worse for a couple of reasons.

1) We're not professionals and we seem to have a hard time keeping up with the pace car (atleast in the couple of practices races I participated in) I don't want to be an extra 20 car lengths behind the leader because the field was spread out.

2) I can see there being some incidents just in the safety lap no matter how slow we drive.. before the race even starts

I thought rolling starts were to prevent damage to transmissions?

Anyway, thats just my opinion...

Final update... I went through the entire cfg.txt file and overwrote each line with the default until it worked. It turned out to be the cars y and cars n setting (which unfortunately were at the bottom of the file!!!). I have no idea what those settings are for, how they changed or why, but that was what was preventing me from seeing all the hosts.

Here's an update on my problem.

I tried running my old installation of lfs again. Once again I could only get a few servers. I copied the cfg.txt from the new installation into the old installation directory. It now works fine. I don't understand what's wrong. The last thing I did in LFS was mess around with the custom view but that's about it.

I looked at all of the things that look like network configuration settings and there's some differences but nothing obvious (perhaps cars y and cars n ??? not sure what that's for). If the devs want me to attach both files I will do that.

Broken config:
Master Port 29339
Auto Kick 3
Address Name 1
Server IP 0.0.0.0
Server Name ^0[^1DR^0] ^4Server 1
Server Port 63392
Server Pass THIS_ISNT_THE_REAL_PASSWORD
Game Name
Game IP auto
Game Port 63392
Game Pass
Game Admin
.
.
.
Max Conns 4
Modem Type 3
Packs Per Sec 4
Cars In Race 4
Cars Per Guest 1
Cars Per Host 1
Admin Slots 0
MP Rules 1048575
MP Flags 35
MP Filter 0
Cars Y 3
Cars N 524288
Conn To Master 1
OutSim Mode 0
OutSim Delay 1
OutSim IP 0.0.0.0
OutSim Port 0
OutSim ID 0
OutGauge Mode 0
OutGauge Delay 1
OutGauge IP 0.0.0.0
OutGauge Port 0
OutGauge ID 0

Good (default) config:
Master Port 29339
Auto Kick 3
Address Name 1
Server IP 0.0.0.0
Server Name
Server Port 63392
Server Pass
Game Name
Game IP auto
Game Port 63392
Game Pass
Game Admin
.
.
.
Max Conns 4
Modem Type 3
Packs Per Sec 4
Cars In Race 4
Cars Per Guest 1
Cars Per Host 1
Admin Slots 0
MP Rules 1048575
MP Flags 35
MP Filter 0
Cars Y 0
Cars N 0
Conn To Master 1
OutSim Mode 0
OutSim Delay 1
OutSim IP 0.0.0.0
OutSim Port 0
OutSim ID 0
OutGauge Mode 0
OutGauge Delay 1
OutGauge IP 0.0.0.0
OutGauge Port 0
OutGauge ID 0

hi all. I'm having a similar problem. I'm only seeing limited servers. For example, I only see 15 demo hosts (2 no replies).

I just ran LFS_S2_ALPHA_Y.exe, extracted the files to a separate directory and I see all the 157 demo hosts. Just to make sure, I refreshed the first instance and still only see 15 hosts. Note: I have the same options selected below the server list (all public, private, etc. are set to "Yes"). Can someone explain would could cause this? I don't want to have to unlock it and copy all my stuff over if I dont have to.

I've had this problem since Monday.

Last edited by Technique, Thu 7 Feb 2008, 00:03.

Quote from Mr.Muh :

Wow.. now I don't want to take part anymore

If you think that was bad, just wait until you see next week's replay from fern bay rallyx!

Quote from Dalek0220 :

Heh, yer all gonna get owned.

The chances of you or anyone else avoiding my spinning raceabout is slim to none.

No matter what car I choose, I'm going to suck this round. So I'm going with the raceabout.

eh... this sounds a bit better than those volvos/bmws

this isn't half bad either (you may have to turn down your volume).

rotary power!


haha... actually that volvo s60r does sound nice. It's too bad it's in a heavy sedan though.

J@tko, it doesn't really matter - but my fastest lap was 1:35.02, not 1:35.20 I only remember because it was a new PB for me.

It was a good race. I wasn't really happy with my performance, but oh well. T1 was kind of a disaster. When the front bunched up, the guys behind me were coming in really strong and I was kind of stuck in the middle. After making a bit of contact (sorry) I wound up losing 3-4 spots.

I think we started much better in the "lag start"

Quote from hyntty :

Wake YOU up! It's bloody afternoon in da States.

haha.. I'm sick. I got 2 hours of sleep last night. I can barely keep my eyes open, let alone stare at this ultra bright monitor The medication I'm on says not to drive or operate machinery!

wake me up when the server's back online

.... look what I've started!

I think it's a good thing everyone's passionate about the products they sell and own, but I don't want this thread to get locked. I think there's enough info about the rinoseat in this thread to keep me busy reading for a few years.. let's give some owners of other cockpits a chance to share their experience with us.

It looks like I opened up a can of worms. Let's try to keep this discussion civil

People buying the rinoseat probably aren't spending thousands of dollars on wheels and pedals. It fills a niche for a cheap cockpit. Shipping to the US for the base nixim alone costs more than the rinoseat itself!