You people suck! 16 Teams and we're only at round 3, shame on you.
edit: To expand that a little, if you sign up to a league you should commit to it, the organizers even try to make it easy in allowing an easy way to switch around driver rosters. It's just disrespectful to the people trying to make something happening in a stagnating world of LFS online racing.
Not confirmed anywhere, the community found a picture of the Nordschleife in the Techdemo and it was also featured in some video from Gamescom, but nothing official as of yet.
Aston sucked in the wet, in the first hour after the restart alone he lost 2 full minutes and about 8-10 positions because everything was so close together.
The degrading may be a problem in 40-60min+ racing but in short public races the fxo is clearly faster on any track you put it against the xrt. The 3% are accepted by the community for as long as I can remember, balancing still isn't perfect with this but it gives the xrt a fighting chance.
Without any restrictions even with the fxo's horrible start you can get around pretty much anybody in the 10-15min of racing on public servers. I wouldn't agree on the top speed argument though as far as I can remember they are pretty even top speed wise, it's the grunt out of corners that lets the xrt stand in the dust.
I would bet a lot of money on any skilled fxo driver beating an xrt driver with equal skill 4 out of 5 times if there is no restriction for the fxo. The rb4 is another matter entirely I'm not sure if you will ever be able to get it competitive on tracks with fast corners and long straights.
I certainly missed the community spirit in the races I took part, back in the days (when everything was better anyway!!11) I always loved messing around with sets, doing practice stints with 20 others, checking out the pace or even just do a little chitchat on the servers. This year the practice server was empty most of the time and I do think you can only get faster with healthy motivation and a strong competition while you practice, which must be in everybody's interest we want to have nice and close racing after all, not a 12/24 hour hotlap session.
So yes that setup extractor stuff is unfortunate and I fully understand that fast teams don't want to give away the advantage they have in setup knowledge. I can also see that it is very tempting and easy to use but since scawen is busy with other things I do think it's up to "us" as a community to police the use of it ourself, thats where the team managers have to come into play or the individuals taking part in whichever league, set an example, don't use it and maybe others will do the same. It would be a real shame destroying/fragmenting our little community even further because of things like this. After all we're all here to race together and I certainly don't get a lot of satisfaction in beating a 10 or 15 car field when we used to have full grids and brimming waiting lists for any 12h+ endurance event. (I've never won anything anyway but thats another story )
edit: I almost forgot: thanks to ndr and all the people making this possible for putting up with us lot for all these years and a lot more years to come hopefully.
Just use lfsworld as serverbrowser, I can't remember the last time I used the ingame one. On lfsworld you can still chose demo/s1/s2 and launch lfs to directly join the server in question.