Just tried this recently....

Made the BF1 have 580 bhp (older GP2) by giving it an 11% intake restriction, and +88kg weight added to equal the 688kg weight (with driver). Turned traction control off, and tweaked the setup a little bit and the car is pretty much driveable, and lots of fun.

All you'd need to sort out is a bit of tire issues, and change the grooved tire texture to solid slicks and you almost have a GP2 car right there. Only other difference visually would be the engine cowl gills on the bodywork, and the sharpness of the nose really.

Perhaps a crazy idea for a league? I would try, but LFS is dying on its' last drops with all these old cars, old generic racing, and handicap-modded grids to try and make something "new"... it just doesn't seem like it is worth the time. But making GP2 skins does .

Medicine. Saving lives and keeping people healthy is a BIG responsibility and requires a great deal of knowledge/schooling.

Quote from frokki :

Forza Ferrari, even though I'm not that interested because I can't watch the race since they shot down the Speed Channel @ TVU...

It was back up yesterday, but ermm, MotoGP re-runs were on. I dunno if they aren't allowed to broadcast F1 now anymore (TVU ppl), because it kills just before a show starts.

Quote from zeugnimod :

Did anyone else answer all 3 yes/no bonus questions with yes?

Hahah yeah. Rain + Safety Car two times is likely. But Fisi being able to finish, that is the only thing I am not sure about.

Germany and Europe (Spain) are perfect options to have chosen, which was the answer .

Quote from tristancliffe :

Bah, yes it is easy now that I remembered that that track isn't just a test track this year... Silly me. Tweaker was right - very very easy if one engages brain (and realises that one doesn't know the test track layouts as well as one thought!).

Sorry that stupidity got in your way. For one, it isn't a test track, and if you knew they'd be calling it the European GP (in place of Nurb), it is not hard at all. Even if you didn't know that, matching shapes is kids stuff. These questions aren't rocket science, or trick questions... just easy money.

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Excited to see this race. I think Hamilton wants to leave his mark, he has the ability to win it. First practice is looking good so far. Dunno about the weather, forecasting is saying it will rain.... through into the weekend.

I'm thinking Hamilton, Raikkonen, Kubica, Massa, Alonso for Top 5 finishing order in the race.

Practice Results:
1st Practice
2nd Practice

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It is gonna be shown at the Ferrari dealer over here (Ferrari of Silicon Valley)... they bring lots of new releases and rare cars around here. Saw an F50 GT and some old rare classics . Maybe I'll get some pics of it.

The problem with buying teams on the basis that they have a new chassis is the performance so far of the drivers in that car. I wouldn't bet on Torro Rosso for the life of me with Vettel and Bourdais behind the wheel. They just haven't done well at all.

Sébastien Bourdais ------ 7 Ret 15 Ret Ret
Sebastian Vettel -------- Ret Ret Ret Ret 17

Sure you can have high hopes for them to even finish, but the chances of scoring good points is so low.

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Horizontal for the Xbox, I believe it has better cooling if it lays flat. But for space concerns on the desk, it'll probably stand upright soon .

Quote from MAGGOT :

The LFS tracks need more bumps imho.

Bumps don't make a great track, the LFS tracks just need better designs for driving. Elevation changes help, but even a flat track can be incredibly good if it is designed right. After a while, I find many ways a lot of the tracks can be designed better to improve the driving experience in LFS, as well as making them a whole lot more technical when pushing on the edge.

There are too many fast corners that don't take much effort in LFS, and the few corners that are slow and require precision are always the best for racing (eg Turkey's last chicane), like Fern Bay and parts of South City. If we just had tracks catered to being like the classics of LFS, but made for bigger cars, things would feel a whole lot better. Else the S2 tracks just lack character and uniqueness with 'legendary' type designs.

Simplistic corner designs, that are very basic are too common these days. Nowadays we are seeing much more radical and interesting shapes of corners that really push the way of thinking for the designer and the driver.

Though most modern tracks look very geometric and have neat designs, I'd much rather take more classic approaches to track design that are evident in a lot of earlier circuits (50s-70s).

Example: Circuit Charade (Vid), Mosport Park (Vid), Rouen (Vid), Zandvoort (Vid),Bremgarten, Dijon (Vid), Circuit Mont-Tremblant (Vid), Road Atlanta (Vid), etc. These kind of curvy tracks, built in hilly areas are always the best. Watch YouTube vids of these tracks, they are great.

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Stop using blurred shading and glows on edges, it doesn't look good imo. You can make a proper vector illustration without, and use purely vector shapes and proper stepping techniques between reflections/highlights. Vexel doesn't always need to use such preset effects, you should typically do them by hand, and not around objects, else it will look like blurry 'love portraits' you get at the shopping mall.

And technically, a vector illustration is not 100% vector if you use such feathering. Each shape has to be crisp to be a 100% vector illustration. Yes it is still 'vector' on your program, but a vector print has a small amount of unique colors. Gradients within vector shapes are OK, but the problem with feathering and making shadows is if you want to increase the size of the entire artwork, those effects you made will change appearance, which shouldn't happen in any vector illustration.

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This should help you guys answer the bonus question http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Formula_One_circuits

It is quite easy, very very easy.

Quote from deggis :

Look who's there... entry number 90.

lol, is Tilke even a good driver? Maybe he needs a taste of how a real man's circuit feels....

Sabine is in a Porsche 997 too.

Cool cars entered, especially the new Scirocc and the Apollo (has two good drivers). Should be cool to watch... if I can view the stream hopefully.

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Quote from squidhead :

ok, I got a pretty much similar problem...

There's the situation, my PC is connected to the internet (well, duh) via built in network card, I installed a second network card, and plugged my sister's comp (next door) into it, to give her internet too, it all went well, and sharing internet works... until she got that blasted webcam and started chatting for friggin HOURS (up to 6 hrs of non stop noninformative bullsh... EVERY BLASTED EVENING)...

my net speeds fall more than by 60% of what I get in the morning, when she's not on skype. how can I limit her without having to choke her boyfriend with that webcam's wire to prevent him from giving her another one?

Join her webcam chat session in the nude, that might make her get rid of the webcam....

Quote from March Hare :

Are you sure you are as gentle to the car in LFS as you are in RL?
Are you sure you don't go a bit too hot into the corners?

Take a video of you driving IRL and then do the same stunts in LFS. Post both the video and the replay. Then we shall see the difference.

Without proof you are just posting what you think you feel.

Uhh, go 65mph in the XRT and take a moderate corner, just like driving on the highway (our speed limit). You don't feel snappy and start feeling on the edge of sliding like in LFS.

I am not speaking how I feel FYI, don't get on the negative side of things without even knowing for yourself. This has been a common problem in the tire physics since DAY ONE of tire temperatures, and even after the most recent 'grippier' update, cold tires are still not taken into account completely.

Hell even if I drive an RX7 with standard road use tires, completely cold and go out on Laguna Seca to drive, I am not sliding incredibly loose. Think about the rubber already on the track as well. Among other things, autocrossing on any run of the mill type of tire, typically at a dusty and oily parking lot course -- complete opposite of a racetrack... you don't go sliding out. This is all with casual to moderate driving speed - not "stunts" as you call it. You can be gentle in LFS on cold tires, and still feel the slipping... under acceleration is the worst especially. I can't stress it more that cold grip is terrible in LFS... watch the forces view to understand, and you'll see red bars everywhere proving that there is 100% or greater slip under so many different kinds of loads.

And no, I am not going to waste my time making a video just for you... unless you want to buy me a video camera? Besides, I am not going to sink my teeth into some typical LFS debate with video comparisons and the god awful note of "RL" :rolleyes:. Quite surprising after 2 or more years, people still believe the physics are fine in LFS, and continue to detract change.

Quote from AndroidXP :

One problem: it seems you cannot view the connection list in replay mode anymore. It sometimes flashes on for a random amount of time, but I can't seem to find a pattern to it. Looks like you can get it to display as long as you don't move the mouse while fooling around with Shift+F, though that doesn't exactly help

Also some of the pit huds act the same way.

New menu is cool, but why is there a picture of a DoN rallymobile? (eg Slicked car jumping in the dirt?)

New replay system is great and all but there is one problem. The mouse-activity to bring up the timeline is a bad thing for Shift+U mode when people make their own camera movements. If you want to move the mouse in that mode, the timeline pops up, which interferes with movie making.

Perhaps a button like a carrot symbol [^] to hide/show the menu would be effective, or if spacebar would bring it up (more intuitive). Either way, the timeline gets in the way when using Shift+U.

Quote from Zen321 :

Have you ever raced on slick tires-fitted go-kart when they're cold ?
I did some, and I can assure you that they are as slippy as prewarmed tires in a laggy first corner...
I remember a race in an indoor track, where about 50% of the grid (including me) spun during first lap.

Maybe it's because you're in California and the hot weather makes your tires prewarmed anyway (jk ^^)

Not talking slick tires here, road tires. Even in cold weather and cold tires, you can still grip the road just fine. Which is why LFS confuses me to hell when cold tires during an average day can be so slippery?

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

Eh, I haven't done it recently, but I'll wager that if you put one of Bob's road setups on a XFG and drive it at road speeds (i.e., not flooring it, maxing out at 70mph and taking the corners reasonably) it won't be that loose at all.

Nope.

Excessing skidmarks are still drawn, squealing sounds, you name it. The car will feel tail happy at the slightest twitch. No matter what setup, you still can't alleviate ultra slippery cold tires in LFS... rear wheel drive cars are the worst. It's a big problem, and never liked this 'tire warming' method of trying to make the tires grippy. It just sucks. Even with low-locking front end diffs on the RB4, it still cannot turn a tight circle with cold tires.

Tire tempurates need to be reworked entirely anyways.

Ever driven on the lowest tempurature (idle temp) road tires? There is no way in hell that they'd be so slippery. I want to see this fixed, and yes road cars shouldn't have the tires warmed up.

To be honest, I have always felt that the "pre-warming" of the tires in LFS is currently a way to hide or ignore the flawed cold tire physics.

hahahahahah, wow this "internet" thing really is amazing!!!!!

There are so many of these things around the world, they are all essentially the same. Cockpit frames/shells made to look like an F1 car, with just a modern day racing sim set up inside.... nothing special.

Strangely, I have a feeling you work for them.

Quote from Bean0 :

Porsche Supercup VIP car livery, as driven by Norbi Kiss I think...

Stripes and such are too 'gold' with green hue? The real color is supposed to be kind of 'champagne silver' of sorts.

http://www.racecam.de/index.ph ... ams&id=628&sid=18

Almost silver really - http://www.racecam.de/images// ... c6b46b5c4ead1786_kiss.jpg

Last edited by Tweaker, Mon 12 May 2008, 23:48.