my opinion: all demo racers move your *censored*, use your credit card to buy this *censored* awesome simulator

just kidding

i think for a demo you get very much. lfs has a very good cost benefit value when i think that most games costs 60 € in every game stores and lfs is with 36€ an awesome deal.

last thing i want to say: you want more content? buy it!

Last edited by Trekkerfahrer, Thu 15 May 2008, 21:53.

you movie looks good, but i have one question:
what has lfs to do with crashes? they happen but they are not lfs, you now what i mean? your title simply dowsn`t match

Quote from RE Amemiya :

oh wait it's broken!
What an eventful 2 years, thankyou for being a kind LFS player.

yes and thank you

even eventful 2 years can be good years. nothing stopped me driving further and further...
lets see the other side of the bad things:
- i got much experience
- had eventful and interesting races with you
- destroyed 3 wheels over the time (Thrustmaster Ferrari FFB, Logitech Formula Force Ex and Logitech Momo ....R.I.P) *psssst*
- learned so much about being fair... ok ok, i am driving like montoya
- gathered several world records (pre Y)
- and i HAVE so much fun with you

i never thought that i play LFS for 2 years, normally most game got boring for me after 1 year...
i have a beer right here on my desk and i say cheers, on that live for speed will never die

i think there are generally too much servers... nearly everyone has his own server (700 S2 users and nearly 600 Servers on peak of the day).

i think there should be more racing like CTRA or Conedodgers instead of cruise. personally i am cruising sometimes on CLC when its raining outside
insim is the best friend here, you can do so much with it (remember: insim is not a tool for creating cruise servers )

looks good so far, when you want a german translation, please send all english text via pm to me

Quote from jayhawk :

In my view, you did not discover Live For Speed, you were actually saved from CSS.

Now what to do with WoW slaves, er, players...

and i am lucky that LFS saved me from this stupid game

... i played Counter Strike Source in a clan and it got more and more boring for me. As an old race sim enthusiast (played the whole GP Series by Geoff Crammond) i searched for a racing game which is good playable in LAN and maybe online? next thing i did was a long search and i talked to some people over ICQ i knew from my old GP4 times.

All recommended only one game: LIVE FOR SPEED!

They said i can test the online mode in the demo so i went to liveforspeed.net and downloaded it. Only 5 minutes of good and mostly fair online racing satisfied my descision to buy the S2 version of the game. It was shortly after the release of the BMW Sauber F1.06 in the game.
The next thing was the most complicated... buying an S2 Voucher in the 4players.de online shop after 2 days of waiting and much fingernail biting the best Email in history arrived in my Mozilla Thunderbird
I think it took only 4 or 5 minutes to enter the voucher code and my good old Thrustmaster Ferrari FFB should be tormented a lot
The next thing was telling my clanmates about this awesome game but they were not ready for such a game like this.... but one member was very interested: Mojo1987.
Mojo and i trained a lot on some public servers but Mojos new wheel was not very reliable... but this was no barrier for us and we founded our own team under the flag of our CSS Clan: di.racing was born. After we found out that we are not really fast the motivation has gone and we went back to CSS so our team slept a few months. In September 2006 i was determined that i wont let die this project to lead an own team so i decided to start in OWRL for the beginning. After my first Race i was a bit proud because i made the 5. position in the sprint race and the main race. I told my new experiences to Mojo and he decided to come back in the next race and the first league race as a team could start. After a few seasons in OWRL we decided to extend our team so we searched for new members... In April 2007 we found our first member: B.R.O.
But in April 2007 there were not only good times... we had some problems with our clan management so the whole di.racing team has been kicked out of the clan. We went together on Teamspeak to talk about what we should do... due an old friend i contacted the Virtual Sports Clan. After a few weeks of discussion the vSports Racing Team has been born. But after a short time (think it was 3 weeks or so) we saw that multigaming is no more an option for us.
The descision were made that we found a stand alone racing team... Mojo and me nearly gone mad finding a name when i had THE idea: Due a heavy Thunderstorm outside i saw lightnings... lightnings? And i made the suggestion: LIGHTNING RACING! Mojo havent thought much about and he just ordered our domain. Lightning Racing was born in July 2007 and exists until today and i never want to drive somewhere else. We extended the team up to 10 active members and i am proud that Mojo and i made a good job i think.

Now you know how it began for me and the rocky way of my team... But i have some courious things with good ending for you:

Winter/Spring 2007: Kraut Racing organized a fun event with FOX @ Kyoto GP Long Rev... i the training phase i got a food poisoning. I was pumped up with drugs and got a bad reaction. But i drove the World Record on this combo . In the race i had pole, fastest lap and the victory.

April 2008: GTCC Race 3 @ Kyoto National Rev... i was on the lead and tried to push hard. I came over the kerb in the chicane onto the oval part and felt a huge BANG in my wheel because i was a bit over the kerb. At this situation i heard a loud CRACK in my hand and i got more and more pain in my thumb. Next day i went to hospital and the doctor made an X-Ray... Diagnosis: Thumb broken... and i won the race


Now i want to say "thank you" to some people:

- Scawen, Victor and Eric for this amazing game,
- Mojo1987 because he is more than a member,
- The whole Lightning Racing Team because we did the rocky way together,
- And last but not least: the community for the good racing on a high level!

That we have more races together for a long time!!!

Quote from Bob Smith :

Would have been more manly if the crack had happened half way through the race. Still, erm, congratulations?

it was half race
it was shortly before my pit stop in minute 55 and the race had 2 hours

edit: here are the stats... you can see that i havent found back to my pace after the pitstop in the graph at the end...
http://gtcc.digital-racing-ser ... ts/grid1/race3/index.html

Last edited by Trekkerfahrer, Fri 18 Apr 2008, 23:24.

is saw scawen on the official test servers when W20? came out that more than 20 drivers can race....
he was a bit quiet

All i have to say: 10 hours of playing is NOT enough to post a review...
shamrock had no idea what he was talking about...

his posts tells me only one thing: he is a nascar nerd and nothing else counts for him. (its not against nascar what i said, i watch the highlights on premiere sports every time )

EDIT:

Quote from Shamrock :

by the way, tell these guys they can't drive
Nick Heidfeld, Lewis Hamilton, AJ Allmendinger, Justin Wilson, Christiano Da Matta, Alex Tagliani (who provided a setup), Brumos Porsche (Grand Am), Rafael Matos, that they are wrong. Or you could tell Carl Edwards and Jamie McMurray.

ALL drive rF or NASCAR 2003. NONE of them drive LFS.

I can't in good consiounce recommend this as a hardcore sim. I CAN recommend it as half sim, half arcade. Just the way I see it.

Especially the name Nick Heidfeld.... which team provided the F1 Car officially in LFS and said that LFS is one of the most realistic race sims out there? Was it BMW or am i wrong?
All the other drivers on the list are awesome drivers !!!!

Half Arcade and half sim... hmmmm what should i say?

HE IS A NOOB

Last edited by Trekkerfahrer, Fri 18 Apr 2008, 15:08.

Quote from Luke.S :

if u don't need your shifter anymore cause of your thumb can i have it?

eeeeehhhhhmmmm

NO

Quote from Forbin :

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteoporose

ahhh thx, now i am smarter

dont have this

Quote from Forbin :

A) You have your FF set way too high (and probably can't feel any of the minute forces due to FF saturation).
B) You are osteoporotic.
C) Both.

Take your pick.

EDIT: Radness had the right idea.

to A: your are right, i talked to other drivers how much ff they use and i think 125 in profiler and 50 ingame was too high when compared

to B: wth is this? ^^

Quote from [RF]-art555 :

wow, what a great news about G25 just when I'm going to buy one rofl

Happy recovery to you. Just on a side note, did you hold the wheel in the right way or were switching hands etc.?

buy it, its the best wheel i ever had!!!!!
i held the wheel like i ever had, not with crossed arms or something like this. seems only too much ffb and my thumb was already stiff due it broke a few years ago and maybe its a bit weak since the first time.

Quote from eight8acht :

WTF? i read the post and first... needed to check if it's still the 1st of april

good healing and i think i'll let my g25 unplugged for a while

hehe, i thought that someone feels like you
play further... you dont have to stop due my foolery

Quote from Nathan_French_14 :

*nathan slowly backs away from his G25...*

Surprising post i must say

Well, you may have broken your thumb, but atleast you won the race!

only a victory counts i had no feeling in my thumb in the last hour and it was a strange feeling

thanks for all the "get well soon" i wont be able to take part in a league, but cruising relaxes a lot

thx guys

i will try to get a copy of the x-ray tomorrow ^^

In yesterdays GTCC race on Kyoto Long rev I had an impact in the chicane on the Oval.... my G25 got a huge bang and i heard a "CRACK" in my hand...
This morning i waked up early cause i wanted to visit my mom in hospital... I looked at my thumb and it flashed in all colours...
I drove to the hospital and before i visited my mom i went to the emergency room. They made an X-Ray of my hand and the final diagnosis was: THUMB BROKEN

Oh man, never thought that it can happen in a Videogame!

Cheers

EDIT: I have won the race

Last edited by Trekkerfahrer, Mon 14 Apr 2008, 14:38.

great settings!
thanks very much

hi there,

i just got my g25 today
it feels quiet good, but i have problems to find a good controller setting for LFS and general settings.
can you please tell me, what settings you use in profiler and in LFS?
would be really nice if someone answers

okay, the others was faster

edit: tested the tool and i feel like biting into the steering wheel multiplicate it by 4 and it should be good and you see more of the track

Last edited by Trekkerfahrer, Fri 14 Mar 2008, 17:26.

i have one of the crysis pcs wich can do all in full

my pc specs for first run lfs was a amd 4000+ @ 2,4 GHz, 1,25 GB ram and the good ol' radeon x800 xt.

lfs ran good on full details and 4x AA @70 to 90 fps...

so this configuration is like the optimum for full graphics experience (thanks scawen that you are not one of the developers who thinks that buying a new game should be part of buying a new pc )

my pc specs now:

intel core 2 duo e6750 @ 2,66 GHz, 2 GB ram, 2x geforce 9600 GT

lfs runs really fine with the unofficial highres textures @ 150 to 200 fps

but its learning by doing and smoetimes check some samples and see how it works ^^

that would be really nice...
maybe with some code samples, that would make the business much easier

why not?
more peaople can make more interesting programs more faster

and its ok, when they offer them 4 free... *hate payware*

but there is no reference how to do and what can i do with it.... and the insim.txt tells me only what this means

will there be a small tutorial in the future? i found nothing useable and as a full noob in programming i have nearly no rescources, so its quiet hard to learn on your lib.

seems to be a kind of programmers alliance ^^