Allow me to reiterate: It's generally a good idea to only start using an acronym the second time you refer to something; after you've already spelled it out. If you had, these posts would be unneeded.

Quote from joeynuggetz :

How about just bumps in the road like as in part of the street or circuit and be able to feel this through FF. And be able to see them too.

We already have those in our only street course, yeah? anything more would probably be considered hazardous IRL... 'sides, SO1 was already smoothed out once.

Quote from Gimpster :

I just want to drive my car in LFS. Is that too much to ask for?

Not at all--I want to drive it too.

Quote from m374llic4 :

I am not some F&F NOS bodykit fanboy from cali

:doh:

Read my sig

Hmm. It appears three and a half years of unrestrained 'omg what if!'-playground threads may have finally gotten to me. Thanks for reminding me to chill out.

Notwithstanding, some things we'd be crazy not to all want. Some things Scawen would be crazy not to have thought of on his own. Some things are an insult to the man's judgment. Forget not that this forum is primarily directed to him.

Everyone may as well reply with a hackneyed "+1" and water down the immediately applicable and useful suggestions in the company of this thread.

P.S. this thread is now hijacked and driven into the dirt anyway; it stretches my imagination to think of a reply which will not beat the proverbial dead horse.

P.P.S. I am taking this far too seriously.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch...:chicken:

I can tell you Scawen isn't going to waste his time thinking about S3 yet, so why bother yourself?

How about this thread gets locked before anyone else starts "dreaming?"

A. This forum's not for dreams.

B. S2 isn't even Beta yet. Suggestions for S3 can wait.

We all dream.

Quote from lalathegreat :

BY the Way i am in america

An even better reason not to generalise. The continent is even bigger.

Quote from colcob :

Nah, what he means is that if you look at a torque curve for a real engine, it can be a broadly arbitrary shape with an irregular pattern to it.

Yeah, this would be obvious on an engine as tuned to a particular rev-range as an F1 engine, whose power probably drops off PDQ after its peak.

It would be pretty cool if Scawen could copy curves into LFS from similar real-life car counterparts.

Edit: I bet they still try to short-shift as much as they are comfortable doing to preserve the engine. The Mercedes engine Tweak mentioned blew up at the end of the race... I think DLR was used to wringing his engine out in practise sessions because it didn't have to last two races, or even one.

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Quote from lalathegreat :

and Americans who are into that sorta stuff.

All right. That's the last straw. I'm changing my damned flag to something neutral.

Lumping two states together is almost as bad as throwing the British in with the French. All 50: Arabs and Jews.

There's enough intercity disassociation and disgust here in California alone (even excluding intracity hate and rivalry in LA) for an entire continent. The only thing that unites us is a bunch of papers plebeians never read.*

*I didn't say this was a good thing.

...gear ratios?

Quote from MAD3.0LT :

... dont u mean Holden astra opel just modded it :P

Well, I mean a Vauxhall Astra if you want to quibble. =p

At least Eric Bailey is probably most familiar with those.

Quote from Viper93 :

I would think track temp would effect this alot too. Maybe thats why a 100deg tire will cool faster than a 50deg tire?

Yeah, well, air temp too.

Quote from axus :

Well it only really is noticable if the inside of your tyres (as in, within the tyres - not the inside part of the contact patch) is running cooler than the outside. Then the tyres could cool down as much as 3-4deg down the straight. By the time you get to the corner, they are at optimum temp and then they heat up again and drop down the next straight and so on. I suppose you could say their temperature is just more sensetive to friction or lack thereof.

Interesting. Maybe higher temperatures are just less stubborn to change? A 100 degree tire will naturally cool off more rapidly than a 50 degree one. Easier to slide and superheat an overheated tire as well.

Quote from axus :

How often do you partake in long races?

Often enough to not notice it.

Quote from DeKo :

that, or a GPL era car would be my dream, that would satisfy me for years.. the early car with massive power and nearly 0 grip, and the turbo era car with buckets of grip to make for close tight fast races. the way formula 1 should be <_<

Now you're smelling what i'm stepping in.

I'd like to see a good sampling of motorsport's cars from each of the last 4 or 5 decades. F1 and Le Mans for example have had a slew of great historic/classic cars to choose from.

Quote from axus :

I'd also like to know how realistic is it that tyres tend to run cooler as they wear - I know that they loose their temperature down the straight quicker once they have worn but is the effect really that noticable in racing?

I haven't noticed this phenomenon.

Quote from Jamexing :

For goodness sake, even a 2005 corolla sportivo has a 6sp gearbox.

I'd like those cars to be 6-speeds too, however I think the XRs are supposed to be 5-speed 1980s cars like a Mitsubishi Starion. It seems more common (even a marketing tactic) to put a 6-speed gearbox in new cars these days.

The RB4 is like a kind of older Supra/Eclipse hybrid as well.

But IMO the FXO should be a 6-speed like a modern Opel Astra. I believe authentic representationalism ("realisticness," not to be confused with realism) is being sacrificed to have the cars better balanced with eachother, when we'd all just rather have more, divers cars to fill in the gaps...

I think biggie knows what he's talking about.

Quote from Becky Rose :

This oval, 14 miles or whatever it is of nothing would be as dull as the far too frequently requested Nordschliffe - why oh why would anyone want to race there in a sim? 14 miles of not seeing another car!?

LFS has a collection of fantasy tracks with lots of interesting corner combo's and some excellent circuit design. So we all pile online to play together and race other cars and what do we do? We run the longest circuits we can find and drive around on our own!

We're incredibly stupid. The lot of us.

The majority of my LFS miles are spent alone, on the longest tracks.

I mustn't be the only one...

+1 ldriver
+1 Tweak
+1 Vain

Daumen hoch :thumbsup3

Any American car with like... leaf springs & solid rear axle so people can see how much they suck. :uglyhamme
(edit: StevenJ beat me to it! LOL)

But seriously? a turbo-era F1 car, or any Group B rally machine with 5 cylinders.

This thread is a placebo.

Last edited by wark, Fri 14 Jul 2006, 05:32.