I just say: "been practicing to defend my championship title", works quite well

Quote from ayrton senna 87 :

fast they all are yea, but u forgot the most important thing to win races, the ability to race! arrechee is the best, very fast to get through the pack, agressive but clean, and a damn good overtaker and thinker.

ROFL a leaguewrecker as best racer? Come on senna, you can do better than that Oh, I see, I'm just working to get to not so funny teamlist j/k I go sleeping, night

In the recent 12hours race several teams had the following problem:

Cause there arent enough places for spectators on the server ( ), the new driver joins the server shortly b4 he takes over the car. When he sits in the car, he just sees always when there is a splittime: "Riding with [my own name]". No laptimes are shown in top right corner, no gaps are shown in the positions list. So basically we are blind then.

I dont know why this happened, but it happened to pretty much every team taking part. No matter, if the new driver was already once in the race or not. It seems to have some connection to joining the server during the race...

Quote from Scawen :

Just to let you know - i've made a note of this to consider it for the next patch. I haven't looked in the code yet but my first guess is it may be that the fuel load value (that was increasing rapidly during the pit stop) from the original driver, may not have reached the new driver by the time of the changeover. The fuel load gets sent over approximately every 2 seconds during a pit stop, so it's possible that a maximum of 2 seconds worth of fuel isn't sent over. The fuel load is sent over less often during normal driving.

So if that diagnosis is true, then the situation would be worst with the cars that fill up more quickly (like formula cars) and more likely to happen if the changeover is very quick after the end of the pit stop.

As i said, i haven't studied the code yet but this would explain the random nature of the bug and also that most of the fill-up does make it to the new driver (just not quite all of it). The most obvious solution would be to quickly send a fuel update immediately before the "accept changeover" packet.

Just coming from 12 hours race of MoE and we had this bug too. I had on my screen written "83 litres of fuel" in my FXR (which corresponds to 83%). Then we change drivers quickly after pitstop finish and my teamie only has 72% fuel in.

That appeared several times during the race.

Quote from RMachucaA :

LFS is really big in europe, unfortunately, due to the north american simplistic NFS:U loving ass LFS isnt as big... give it time, it'll pick up

I hope that will change with the feature that you have to start yourself at the lights, and not like it is atm. Caue then also Dragracing becomes more interesting On the other hand... As for now, my contacts havent reached your continent. I do my very best

rofl, but the Tool looks really cool and well thought. Go on, and do it faster.. somehow I like you more, when you code :P

omg zeh kev is back!! :O wb, m8

:arge:

/me searches his UK-passport made by fordman :P

Haha, Scawen the hard working man! Thanx for the pics, put a big smile on my face!

momo force here (red one)

yeah, now THAT i call a kitchen!

GameStar 10/2005 www.gamestar.de
Test: Not the best written test, some errors in it (WTF is a vinyl-editor?) still 83%

PC Powerplay September/2005 www.pcpowerplay.de
Setup guide (4 pages, pdf will be up soon), setups, skins and replays on DVD. (Test in last issue, about 90% )

Now my favourite:
Autobild Nr. 35 (2.9.2005), page 52. see attachment. Well, one wrong link in the text, but short and pretty well written. Edit, NO wrong link

Last edited by Vykos69, Mon 5 Sep 2005, 10:52.

Quote from Boris Lozac :

No, that's not the "moose" test, but it's good to have it anyway..
The "moose avoidance test" looks roughly like this:

just say: The test, where the Merc A-class flipped

Quote from MagicFr :

You forgot me in MoE

No :P

Get the gfx card first. Cause your actual card doesnt support Hardware T&L, which is used by LFS and will give you a lot of performance with the new card. The next step should be the CPU then.
So: First the gfx-card, then the CPU.

Here you find the infos you need for the racing challenge:

http://www.lfsforum.net/forumdisplay.php?f=46

OK, subforum for the Racing.Challenge opened: http://www.lfsforum.net/forumdisplay.php?f=46

There you find all infos on it.

Quote from RichardTowler :

I guess the community will start ranting and moaning that rfactor sucks and it makes all the problems with LFS not important, an excuse if you want to call it that pretty much how the LFS reacts towards any other sim is to say LFS does this well, the other sim sucks, atleast thats what I've read on this forum when any other sim is mentioned

I think you see it wrong, Rich. The biggest difference in LFS is, that we know and accept the still not finished parts, bugs, some unrealistic things (oval-setups ) etc. cause we know, we have an open ear on the dev-side and that things will change. Cause we for sure have the Sim with the best support ever, and the best contact from Devs to community. I have no problem with people criticising LFS; if they take into account, that their critics will be adressed and thought about deeply. I have a problem with ISI or GTR fanboyism, that say their game is perfect.
There are posts about wrong physics in LFS, with well written arguments, and they are adressed maturely, while a similar post in any ISI-based Simforum is flamed to death, just cause people think to know you (I) are (am) a LFS fanboy. That is annoying.

I wouldnt even flame Greger, knowing he likes GTR

Best example threads:
GTR-Forum:
Q: I get CTD and 1fps-bug, will there be a patch?
A: Must be your problem, learn to setup your system right, GTR runs perfectly on my sys.

LFS-Forum:
Q: I get CTD when doing this and that.
A: What are ur sys spec? You tried this? can you check for errormessages? Post them here please, I (Scawen) will have a look into it.

God damn, scawen even coded patches cause one single person had a strange bug...
Get the idea?

BTT: I'll have a look at ISI, but honestly, I doubt it will have a huge online Life. There'll be some cool mods, and some cool small mod-only leagues, but you wont have a good overall basis, especially cause ISI goes the hard way of selling over web only. They overestimate there some stuff a lot. F1C was so succesful, cause it was F1 and still easy to buy in shops after a year or so for less money to get the mods. rF wont be in shops, will only reach a limited amount of people, especially cause the community is still really small.

ROFL, Fordie /me hides

as said, more infos on racing-challenge this weekend.

OK, cause of some changes in our team, our actual members and leagues they are in, and will be in.

Richard Torp - ESCC, OLFSL
Nukelane - ESCC
Magicfr - Endu, MoE
MacEST - ESCC, Endu, MoE
Ruditurbo - ESCC, Endu, MoE
DasBoeseC - EAS, MoE
OPK - EPS
Vykos - EPS, MoE
JeeP - ESCC (if time )

- We have some newer members to the team (check also the NEWS )
Hummer - ESCC, Endu, MoE
BusterOne - ESCC, Endu, EAS, MoE
Alex Marx - MoE, VR, EAS
Vince - ESCC

Besides that we have
VecTreX - skinning, websitestuff, lfsnews (no racing atm, no time )
Bikes - being best drinker in team :P
Limiter - GFX guru

Oldschoolers chriko, thunder, Pallukka and raikz are very busy with RL atm and you'll probably see them from time to time on some publics

If you have any questions, wanna meet us or so, just come to www.ocrana.com/lfs and check out www.racing-challenge.org (more about that later this weekend )

Joe aka Vykos, Teammanager, racer and buddy for everything (almost )

Last edited by Vykos69, Wed 31 Aug 2005, 19:05.

buy a wheel, Lucky It's about time anyway...

IMHO, you should be allowed to block as much as you want, as long as you dont force the overtaking guyof the track. But usually one move to one side is anyway the maximum you can do. Blocking belongs to racing, and in some shorter distance races it's needed. In a longrun, you can more easily give room. But I for myself love to be a "hard to overtake" guy.

hmm, no. MS hasnt resigned yet. His contract ends after 2006 season. And today german newspaper says from "absolutely sure source", that Kimi already signed a pre contract with Ferrari...