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I read "remaining with fantasy material" as "not adding further real content".
And a special case of not adding further real content is denying new free real content.
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I read "remaining with fantasy material" as "not adding further real content".
And a special case of not adding further real content is denying new free real content.
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@ajp71: 'bullshit' is a pretty strong word for a free interpretation of a post. I wouldn't agree with your idea of 'achievable'.
I'm still a bit puzzled at the result. If I imagined that tomorrow Scawen posted "We were approached by several track owners and car brands to include cars and tracks for free in LFS, but we decided we won't ever again add real content to LFS" I surely wouldn't be pleased. I can't believe 80% of the forum members would go "Yay! Good decision!
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I'm still a bit puzzled at the result. If I imagined that tomorrow Scawen posted "We were approached by several track owners and car brands to include cars and tracks for free in LFS, but we decided we won't ever again add real content to LFS" I surely wouldn't be pleased. I can't believe 80% of the forum members would go "Yay! Good decision!
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I like the fact that there are real cars like the RAC, MRT and BF1 in LFS and I hope that there are going to be more real cars in LFS.
I'm wondering wether those people who would like LFS to stay with fictional content want the devs to remove those real cars.
But ultimately I'd appreciate any type of content. LFS lacks content. A lot of it. There just isn't much fun in having to resort to driving a combo like XFG on So Sprint 2 Rev just to find something new, even though you already know XRG on that track.
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I'm wondering wether those people who would like LFS to stay with fictional content want the devs to remove those real cars.
But ultimately I'd appreciate any type of content. LFS lacks content. A lot of it. There just isn't much fun in having to resort to driving a combo like XFG on So Sprint 2 Rev just to find something new, even though you already know XRG on that track.
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Or just a nice patch of static caltrops. There won't be any more cutting.
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I'd go for a Smart Roadster Coupe and put a turbocharged 1.6L inline 4 into it. As far as I can see the result would be both sensible and fun. But I didn't get a chance to look at the chassis to see what fits and what doesn't.
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Wow, that's what I call a DoS attack. 
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Nice trip.
I was at the Nurburgring on that saturday until 3 am . There was a race on the track that day that my brother and I watched. Actually we wanted to stay a little bit longer to do some laps after the race but went early.
About the atmosphere around the ring: I always wonder how kids in Adenau or in any other of those towns grow up - they wouldn't believe you if you told them that 911 GTR RS are *not* every-day cars. If you watch the traffic around the ring you'll think the 911s are for free somewhere around there.
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I was at the Nurburgring on that saturday until 3 am
. There was a race on the track that day that my brother and I watched. Actually we wanted to stay a little bit longer to do some laps after the race but went early.About the atmosphere around the ring: I always wonder how kids in Adenau or in any other of those towns grow up - they wouldn't believe you if you told them that 911 GTR RS are *not* every-day cars. If you watch the traffic around the ring you'll think the 911s are for free somewhere around there.
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For everyone who craves racing but can't watch it, take a look at www.racing-underground.com .
I use it exclusively, that means I don't own a TV. RU.com is enough for me.
(The F1 coverages is the only one that usually take a while to come up to RU.com, but hey, it's more fun to wait 5 hours for the torrent than 2 hours for the first pass! )
Thanks for the recommendations. I forgot to add the SuperV8 series to the list. I usually watch Bathurst. The racing format doesn't really suit my taste, but the racing is great. I'll give MotoGP a shot.
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I use it exclusively, that means I don't own a TV. RU.com is enough for me.
(The F1 coverages is the only one that usually take a while to come up to RU.com, but hey, it's more fun to wait 5 hours for the torrent than 2 hours for the first pass!
)Thanks for the recommendations. I forgot to add the SuperV8 series to the list. I usually watch Bathurst. The racing format doesn't really suit my taste, but the racing is great. I'll give MotoGP a shot.
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I like how the internet teaches your brain to analyse and sort information within seconds. I just listened to the flash-movie linked by joen in the 2nd reply which started with "A new type of computer..." -> whoever wrote that has no clue -> window closed within 3 seconds of the start of the media.
Great, isn't it? Saved me enough time of sensless gibberish and pseudo-information to write this post .
And about the topic: Touchscreens are not a perfect input method. I work at the computer most of the day and using the tip of my finger to navigate (similarly to the touchpad of a laptop) for such a long time wouldn't work out well.
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Great, isn't it? Saved me enough time of sensless gibberish and pseudo-information to write this post
.And about the topic: Touchscreens are not a perfect input method. I work at the computer most of the day and using the tip of my finger to navigate (similarly to the touchpad of a laptop) for such a long time wouldn't work out well.
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My thinking is that the masses don't use pitspotter either because pitspotter is only known to the people who go to the forum which are incidentally also those who use the testpatch. And those people managed to deal just fine to drive without pitspotter.
Personally my driving has improved greatly since I don't use pitspotter anymore. I check my mirrors in a completely different manner and drive more responsibly. Also I'm well aware that no effect has a single cause - I'm merely making an observation and suggesting one of the many reasons for that.
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Personally my driving has improved greatly since I don't use pitspotter anymore. I check my mirrors in a completely different manner and drive more responsibly. Also I'm well aware that no effect has a single cause - I'm merely making an observation and suggesting one of the many reasons for that.
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I hope he doesn't.
Somehow the standard of driving has hugely increased from W to the incompatible W testpatch and I believe this has something to do with people thinking: "There won't be someone telling me where other cars are, I have to think about that myself."
Wether or not, fact is: Without pitspotter the standard of driving was better than with.
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Somehow the standard of driving has hugely increased from W to the incompatible W testpatch and I believe this has something to do with people thinking: "There won't be someone telling me where other cars are, I have to think about that myself."
Wether or not, fact is: Without pitspotter the standard of driving was better than with.
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Hints and recommendations on which racing series to follow
Hello.
I created this thread as a basis for racing fans to exchange recommendations with each other. Which series do you like that others might also find enjoyable?
My favorite series is the WTCC. Good action, proper moves, great cars.
Directly behind that WRC. Loeb's domination kind of kills it a bit but I just love everything about rallying. There's something about driving a twisty gravel stage at insane speeds that just makes me addicted.
Usually I also watch the reviews of the FIA GT. Partly because the cars are just plain gorgeous.
I've been considering watching MotoGP, but I'm not really into bikes.
DTM looks too much like F1 to justify the time to watch it. Also I can't help seeing it as a "retirement home for aged drivers".
BTCC is too much of a banger-type of series.
F1 is propably the only motorsport series that is more boring to watch than the advertisment in between.
What series would you recommend?
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I created this thread as a basis for racing fans to exchange recommendations with each other. Which series do you like that others might also find enjoyable?
My favorite series is the WTCC. Good action, proper moves, great cars.
Directly behind that WRC. Loeb's domination kind of kills it a bit but I just love everything about rallying. There's something about driving a twisty gravel stage at insane speeds that just makes me addicted.
Usually I also watch the reviews of the FIA GT. Partly because the cars are just plain gorgeous.
I've been considering watching MotoGP, but I'm not really into bikes.
DTM looks too much like F1 to justify the time to watch it. Also I can't help seeing it as a "retirement home for aged drivers".
BTCC is too much of a banger-type of series.
F1 is propably the only motorsport series that is more boring to watch than the advertisment in between.
What series would you recommend?
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Decals is propably meant to mean stickers, e.g. for the car's bumper.
But on that topic I wonder wether it'd be possible to make stitch-on logos. Those are easy to attach if you have basic eye-hand coordination and they go everywhere. Cap, shirt, backpack, even a racing suit.
Perhaps printed and then stamped felt? I guess that stitched logos are too expensive unless you find someone with a machine for that.
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But on that topic I wonder wether it'd be possible to make stitch-on logos. Those are easy to attach if you have basic eye-hand coordination and they go everywhere. Cap, shirt, backpack, even a racing suit.
Perhaps printed and then stamped felt? I guess that stitched logos are too expensive unless you find someone with a machine for that.
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Even huge FEM-simulations that take days to calculate on super-computers don't produce real brake-squeel behaviour. Many major car manufacturers tried it, but not a single virtual brake ever squeeled similarly as a real brake.
It's just not known to mankind how the geometry of a brake, temperature and speed work together to cause brake-squeel. If Scawen managed to approximate the squeeling behaviour of a brake accurately he'd be the first in the world.
That said, I'd appreciate a simple model that involves random factors a lot.
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The point is:
"I know cross-compression sucks and the youtube version will look crappy, but what original format and settings give the best result (read: pretty crappy instead of absolute crap)."
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"I know cross-compression sucks and the youtube version will look crappy, but what original format and settings give the best result (read: pretty crappy instead of absolute crap)."
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Actually the way the discussion went nicely shows that there isn't a specific direction. Before the change *everyone* said that the FZR and FXO are overpowered. Now there isn't such a general opinion. If that's the case then that is an indication of a good balancing.
The more people disagree and the more they throw mud at each other for different opinions the more even the balance must be.
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1. At least in germany rollcages are allowed in normal traffic. I drove a race prepared car in normal traffic for several months because of the lack of another car. You never get used to the looks of people when you come to school with a car that has no interior but one bucket seat .
2. LFS's roadcars aren't allowed on any track. No roll cage, no external hooks, no hooks for the engine hood, no external off-switch for the fuel-pump, no fire extinguisher, you can't race those anywhere but on trackdays. Racing the XRT is illegal in about every civilized country in the world. It's a road car, not a race car.
3. On topic:
Brake fade and wear is essential and I hope it's in the pipe for patch Y. I could nicely feel the brake pads of a BMW E30 wear away during a 2 hour drive when I did my race driver's license. The temperatures were alright since the E30 has a good cooling system for the brakes, but the wear was excessive. It's interesting to feel the pads wear away lap after lap until I had to stop. Those were production parts though. But quite some Porsches had to throw the towel before me because of brake-fade .
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.2. LFS's roadcars aren't allowed on any track. No roll cage, no external hooks, no hooks for the engine hood, no external off-switch for the fuel-pump, no fire extinguisher, you can't race those anywhere but on trackdays. Racing the XRT is illegal in about every civilized country in the world. It's a road car, not a race car.
3. On topic:
Brake fade and wear is essential and I hope it's in the pipe for patch Y. I could nicely feel the brake pads of a BMW E30 wear away during a 2 hour drive when I did my race driver's license. The temperatures were alright since the E30 has a good cooling system for the brakes, but the wear was excessive. It's interesting to feel the pads wear away lap after lap until I had to stop. Those were production parts though. But quite some Porsches had to throw the towel before me because of brake-fade
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Reason : Meh, I should go back to school and learn proper english spelling...
Thanks for that. I only knew what the people on the server told me.
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Hello.
I found an oddity in the connection list.
The "24h Train #01" server (W23) runs in practice mode on Ky GP Rev for quite a while now. The details screen reports it as a 214 laps race. I went to the server to confirm that it actually is in practice mode. I was using W26 to capture the screenshot.
Wether or not it's caused by the testpatches it's something that should be fixed, isn't it?
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I found an oddity in the connection list.
The "24h Train #01" server (W23) runs in practice mode on Ky GP Rev for quite a while now. The details screen reports it as a 214 laps race. I went to the server to confirm that it actually is in practice mode. I was using W26 to capture the screenshot.
Wether or not it's caused by the testpatches it's something that should be fixed, isn't it?
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Remember that the FZR consumes a lot more fuel and needs to pit more often. You should be fine in the XRR.
By the way, I didn't expect Scawen to actually react to the 80kg request at all. I'm surprised, really.
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LRF is perfectly balanced right now. Of course the FZ5 gets it's 1.4 tons a*s kicked by the LX6 around So City, but I pity the fool who drives down the Aston Gp straight in an LX6 and watches a FZ5 blow past with 50km/h more speed (yes, that'd be you, Hyperactive ).
The LX6 edges slightly ahead around the sum of all LFS tracks as far as I can see, but really, LRF and STD are the best balanced classes right now.
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).The LX6 edges slightly ahead around the sum of all LFS tracks as far as I can see, but really, LRF and STD are the best balanced classes right now.
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I have a 1400px wide monitor with a diagonal lenght of approx. 15".
But my browser-window is under almost no circumstance wider than 1024px. You can not honestly demand that I stop using any other application on my PC just to look at your website.
Usually I'm looking at my music playlist, I have a messaging service open, I chat with two people and I'm following the status of my bittorrent-client. Of those 1400x1050 pixels I have barely 900x650 left for the browser.
If you need more than 800 pixels width to display the information on your site you need to restructure.
That's my opinion as a user and hobby-webdesigner.
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But my browser-window is under almost no circumstance wider than 1024px. You can not honestly demand that I stop using any other application on my PC just to look at your website.
Usually I'm looking at my music playlist, I have a messaging service open, I chat with two people and I'm following the status of my bittorrent-client. Of those 1400x1050 pixels I have barely 900x650 left for the browser.
If you need more than 800 pixels width to display the information on your site you need to restructure.
That's my opinion as a user and hobby-webdesigner.
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