Anybody on virgin media broadband have issues with traffic shaping causing disco's from the master server? I'm considering ditching tiscali/sky/bt for a vm package (it's cheaper for starters) - I can live whatever tv I get but want to get back to actually being able to have a race in the evening...

Just ordered one of these: http://www.saracencycles.com/i ... mages2007/mantra1_big.jpg

A series of recent events (visit to quack, brother gave me an old bike) made me realise that I need to get some exercise & that I hadn't ridden a bike since 1986 (when I finished University)

Jeep trail of life (off road driving) might be worth a look: http://www.jeep.com/jeep_life/tombraider/index2.html

Psychologically for me the difference is that I don't have the gumption to race a real race car.

What's a console?

Not interested myself but ISI have put this up: http://youtube.com/watch?v=pvsBwAPoNSc which somebody might be interested in.

Visible again now W10 is out...

Looks like it's being made available/hidden as & when required.

mmm, apparently I've gone platinum too (everybody???). Would explain why I've just been getting a 'you will not progress in this car' after each race this evening.

Sometimes I'd rather race than worry about voting (particularly kick/ban where I haven't seen anything to make me want to kick/ban said individual)

Other times, restart votes seem to start the instant the winner has crossed the finish line & I've still got half a lap to do (though a no vote might help here)

There's other places this is an issue & something more concrete (well, maybe) needs sorting. It spoils it for me to race with somebody who overtakes 'off track' or gets good lap times because they've missed out a big chunk of track. Problem is, people do sometimes genuinely miss a turn & it would be a pity to turn every track into arnco laden city tracks...

Anybody who comes along, joins in, races fair (but firm if they like), doesn't cause other users grief, goes away smiling & lets others go away smiling.

Quote from JJ72 :

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Micheal Andretti, the indy500 winner, ...

Err when?

About 10. Bought S1 the same day I tried it.

Quote from Bean0 :

They're not blocking ports, just shaping traffic.

Also, does Tiscali have 'peak' and 'off peak' hours ?

I ask because the soon as 'off peak' hits, everyone will fire up their BitTorrent and Newsgroup downloads at once. This floods the main pipes (centrals) and causes major packet loss, which will REALLY affect your gaming.

Tiscali have 'published' peak hours of 6pm - 11pm

I'm also with Tiscali & recently have started having issues connecting to LFS. Often can't get a list of races from the master server.

October 2004 - MrsK went on holiday with Wills & my mom - I stayed at home (we were having the house rewired).

Tried the demo (offline only iirc) one afternoon & coughed up my £12 within a matter of hours (there was a small delay whilst the devs added England as an available country).

I still remember the first time I ran GPL... Lotus at Monza & about 4fps...

Quote from BuddhaBing :

I think the LFS rank stats would be a lot more useful if they would automatically consider your best laps during a race also instead of the current scheme which only considers hotlaps which you upload.

I'd go along with that.

I actually think LFS benefits by not being tied down to 'reality' when it comes to track design so have ticked 'not interested.'

Anyway, GPL has the Nurburgring

Quote from Bugle :

ahaha
What next, remove the walls in South City?

Back in F1 GP2 days, somebody did a 'no walls' version of Monaco

Whilst I don't fully understand the question - I either race in cockpit view or wheels view. I prefer full cockpit but sometimes I just like to be able to run close to apexes, arnco etc.

If in the former I like to see the back seats when I look backwards & when in the latter I like to see (just) the back wheels. In each case I think the backward view should compliment the forward view.

Quote from Dumpy :

... I'm sure I'm not the only one who's renamed AI 1/2/3/4 into Richard, Karen, Tom, Mary, etc though, right?

I'm sure we've had this in a thread before but mine are all named after characters from Camberwick Green, Trumpton & Chigley... http://www.t-web.co.uk/trumpgo.htm

I prefer something a bit longer myself but the only plausible way to get that is league racing.

1. GPL - has been on more hard drives than I've had hot dinners. It's still there...

2. Indianapolis 500 - probably the first time I ever contemplated car set ups - iirc you had the option to switch clouds off to gain fps

3. Tie between F1GP & GP2... The world according to Geoff Crammond. Probably did more between them for my interest in F1 than anything else, ever.

Last edited by W1LLSD4D, Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:10.

Quote from Electrik Kar :

... What I hated was the beginning coming out of the pits ritual which takes control of your car. ...Maybe you can turn that off...

It's in the options (somewhere) to turn that off...

I race LFS online as 'Dad' which is what my son calls me...