The only thing about LFS getting old are those few stupid problems that never get fixed. Like collision detection, the LSD diffs, aero damage...
Though the LSD diffs surely are the most obvious and disturbing problem.
I decided I'll make it the "daily new darkwing duck avatar month". 1st of febuary starts with the first scene from the intro. I'll propably need half a month to process the intro alone.
It's at least as dangerous as walking to the supermarket. Think about it, only one small error of that SUV driver and you're dead!
And imagin, I voluntarily drove a motorbike. Imagin it'd have failed!
By the way that robot is a lot more reliable than most motorists.
@ajp71:
Do you know the story of the guy who began a post in a discussion with "I think..." and didn't give references to his sources and then was executed by throwing flaming bananas at him?
Tried watching it, but I can't because of the music. Someone decided that cars don't make sound but that there should rather be music. And because other videos also have music that someone decided to make this one special by playing two different songs at the same time. I just can't watch it.
Why oh why can't they just let the engine sound be? *sighs*
You did a great job commentating the qualy-broadcast. You seemed to be a bit surprised with the amount of action going on. You went a bit "Oh my god! Too much input!" while Becky stoically reported everything that happened on the screen. I sometimes wonder how Becky manages to say so much in so few time without breathing. Well, that's the pro-side of having a female commentator!
I think you two were a superb combination. I don't think there is anything I would criticise on. I like the styles of commentating of both of you and would like to hear that combination more in the future.
I liked the addition of the qualification-radiocast. Though you need to first see the feature race broadcast to understand the names of the turns. How about including a picture of the track with the names on it beside the radio-cast? That'd surely help.
Since the patch I did 13 154.6 km in RWD cars, and 1623.6 km in FWD cars.
That means I have travelled over 8 times the FWD-distance in RWD cars.
Exact ratio of RWD to FWD (each in distance) is 8.10.
I'm gonna do something stupid now: I'll go back to the topic.
I don't believe that a change in the STCC-server structure would change anything about the car-preferance of the drivers. The FXO is very popular because it's both quick and easy to drive. A different structure won't change that.
Also, if you make single-car servers the aspect of multi-car driving is gone. I enjoy driving with different cars a lot. As an XRT driver I take several places from the standing start and the FXOs only have a few laps to get those back. If I'm quick I can keep some distance until well into lap 2, which means I only have to defend for 3-4 laps (mostly). That's definitely manageable and lots of fun.
Though I understand that I'd safe myself a lot of trouble by choosing the FXO. I'd be quicker, as simple as that. But I don't think we can do anything about it until the devs change the situation.
I'm not sure on the statement you are trying to make now.
We both agree that we don't want spyware. Checked.
Beyond that you seem to want to say that advertisments are identical to spyware. You seem to be implying that it is impossible to have advertisment of any sort in the game without spyware, because the companies wouldn't do it if they didnt have the marketing data.
Is that correct?
If so, I disagree. The current billboards don't use spyware but are still a form of advertisment. I'm speaking about that. And I'm saying that I'm willing to accept changing billboards once in a while. So the whole deal is that I have to spend a few seconds downloading new billboards and that's the end of data exchange. Just like I did when I downloaded patch T, with the BMW and Intel ads. I already did that and I didn't mind it and I wouldn't mind doing that again.
That's the advertisment I'm speaking about.
No one says that updating dds-files means espionage on what I'm doing. When I log on to the LFS master server it tells me there's a small update ready and wether I want to download it in windowed mode, and one click later the billboard says "AMD ownz Intel" instead of "Intel pwnz AMD". Not a big deal.
I just see no relation to spyware.
I don't see any reason why it shouldn't be a good idea to put new logos on the ad-boards.
After all, that's what they are doing right now and what they are supposed to do. I don't mind wether it says Intel, BMW, or AMD, Chevrolet, or whatever.
That guy that set off the grenade didn't even get it in the first moment. For some reason he didn't immediately try to get as far away as possible but rather tried to approach it (Suicide? Stupidity?).
I hope I'll be able to make it to most of those events too, but I might not be able to put in much practice (currently I'm already in the STCC and LFS LeMans, and I have exams around this time, so this will have a rather low priority in my daily shedule ).
Prepare to pwn me.