@CrAbStEr DrIfTeR: Can you explain if you want layouts or tracks?

- A layout is easy to put together and graphically simple. But it does not show up on the server list with its own name, nor does it have its own statistics on LFS World (e.g. WRs).

- A track has much more variables (objects, textures, curves, surfaces, elevation differences, bumps, ...). It will show up in the track list and in LFSW, just like Blackwood, Aston, etc.

So, what do you have in mind: layouts with more variation than the current ones, or a kind of easy-to-use track builder?

On what machine should this list of hosts be maintained? It has to be on a local machine, because the connection to the central LFS server could be blocked by a proxy.

An alternative solution is to maintain a page on a local web server. the page can contain links to the hosts. (You will need to have Join2LFS installed, though. And I'm not quite sure if it will work for local hosts.)

I get the same twisted feelings with many videos of "funny" accidents. Some viewers roar with laughter, but I often cringe because people could get seriously injured.

I think you can experience beauty because the consequences are hidden from sight. (Okay, these shots are all from tests, so nobody got hurt. Except for the wildlife, and the people who got cancer a few decades later.) For a better balance you should at least hear the actual sound of the blasts. Or even better, survivors' stories from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, talking about loved ones being cooked alive or slowly dying from radiation.

Another antidote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-DeHE1V-uk

Quote from Fabri91 :

Or is he the chap that drowned in the Rainbow Warrior, sunk by french frogmen?

Bingo. The frogmen were agents of the French secret service. They were sentenced to 10 years by New Zealand. Due to heavy French "diplomacy" they got out of jail after serving only 2 years, returned to France and got promoted.

Quote from Becky Rose :

In fact I think all countries should give their nukes to France

Wouldn't trust them. The French are touchy when it comes to nukes. They get, um, a bit terroristic. Google "Fernando Pereira" for some background info.

Quote from xaotik :

The iVibe dev has been around on the forums sometime in the past stating that the data which LFS outputs is not enough to create a plugin for the actual FFB.

:doh: http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=14973

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However, judging from that review it seems like it's just a complicated vibrator - the only thing the reviewer mentions is "road buzz" and feeling curbs.

I guess it can only vibrate. But if you use the vibrations to indicate G forces, you might get a better idea of what the car is doing than if you use it to simulate road rumble and engine noise.

Quote from george_tsiros :

they amde this divice that you wear like headphones which makes pulses to your ear that you can't hear much but messes with your inner ear the cochlea and acually mekes you feel your moving for real!!! i see if ifind youtube

You mean galvanic vestibular stimulation?

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Quote from frokki :

Panther 6 from 1977

Yep.
Your turn!

New pic:

Reliant Regal (link)

Quote from Becky Rose :

Why was there fighting in Northern Ireland for freedom from Britain when we're all European anyway? Why is there still fighting in Basque to gain independence from Spain when we're all European anyway?

The issue is, I guess, who gets to be boss: "us" or "them". (Which begs the question who the hell invented the us vs. them distinction.)

BTW, be careful using the "we're all European anyway" argument. It was used back in 1942 by a couple of chaps who dropped in without being invited...

Update: Inside Sim Racing episode 24 has a review of the iVibe seat, which looks to be what I was thinking of, but in the shape of a cushion that you can put in your seat (http://www.ivibe.com). At $240 it's not exactly low-budget, though, and it doesn't support LFS (yet?).

Quote from dougie-lampkin :

Damn it why is our country almost exactly in the middle of US and Russia?

You should tell the Yanks and the Russkis about the secret shortcut: the Bering Strait. (And we'll get polar bears with glow-in-the-dark hides, yay! :tilt

Quote from Wazzlo :

Too many countries are allowing the USA to have too much say, anyone from the UK should remember the close relationship Blair had with that moron Bush.

That's why the UK needs harsher sodomy laws.

Quote from ATC Quicksilver :

Georgia started the war by bombing Russian civilians in South Ossetia

Technically that may be correct, but:
- Georgia allegedly responded to attacks from Ossetian nationalists, who are being actively supported, if not armed, by Russia. The history of the conflict goes back to 1990.
- Those "Russian civilians" were Ossetians AFAIK, who will consider themselves Russian only insofar as it helps them in their strive for independence.
- Putin probably does consider them Russians. The Ossetians have yet to learn what Putin thinks about their right to independence...

Quote from Scatter :

And who could forget this?
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-dcmDscwEcI

Pure genius.

Quote from Woz :

So if you are far slower in a corner than them they will nudge you. To be fair, this appears to be like far too many humans online

Yep. Racing the AI is a good preparation for going online...

The AI was improved in patch Y, but the awareness of other drivers is still very coarse. Sometimes they run you off the track, sometimes they slam the brakes when you get near them.

Scawen wrote that he had planned some more refinements, but ran out of time when patch Y was due. So, improvements to the AI are somewhere on his to-do list, but nobody knows which priority they have.

Time for a bump.

The Sad
"Kolyma Tales" by Varlam Shalamov.
The horrors of the Gulag in beautifully plain, effective prose. I have never read Solzhenitsyn, but it's hard to imagine him improving on Shalamov.

The Funny
"Perfume: The Story of a Murderer" by Patrick Suskind.
Re-read it for the 5th time or so.

The Wise
"Reclaiming your life" by Jean Jenson.
Self-help book, well-written. Has changed many people's lives, and looks like it could change mine, too.

Quote from hrtburnout :

Lada Niva

D*mn, too late!

Solution: switch the display of wheel and driver off. Then you can watch the movements of your own hands, feet, wheel and shifter in perfect realism.

Quote from Juls :

There should be a permanent server for each class of cars.

If you want to race the LXes, FZ5 or the RAC you can probably find a server... But it will be empty.

Quote from windmouse :

But somewhere halfway between user-generated content and developer generated content lie moderated mods.

I seriously doubt that this is a realistic alternative. The problem is not whether Scavier will allow mods -- let's just assume that they are willing to consider it. The problem is that you won't get many mods, or none at all.

Making top-quality content for a sim is a lot of work. Suppose you have the skills. Would you invest all the time and effort to create a new track or car, if there was a good chance that it would never be published? That you would never get praise from the community for all your hard work?

Furthermore, to become a creator of first-class content, you need practice. Your first few projects will not be that good. And if you are sure that they won't make it into LFS, you will probably start out on some other sim, like rFactor. The question then is: is there any reason to switch to LFS later on?

There are some solutions for this, but they all have cons:

1. Create a "premier league" of moderated mods and a second, non-moderated league for the lesser-quality mods. But that would essentially be like rFactor's approach, with the same problems: a lot of garbage, and a thinning-down of online racers.

2. Pay the content creators. This comes down to expanding the development team, and I can't see Scavier agreeing to that.

3. Only do conversions of mods from other sims. Not a real solution, because a good conversion is still a lot of work. Besides, you need to get permission from the original author.

Quote from scipy :

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Is there any way to make the graph fields "blank" as the replay is about to start, and then as the vertical line moves to the right it "draws" a graph as it goes?

No, not currently. Does this have an advantage over the way it works now?

I voted no. The LX8 would be a contender for the least-driven car in LFS. The data for the old LX8 is probably unusable, because LFS has changed so much since then. That means it has to be developed from scratch. If the devs would spend time to develop a new car, there must be many other models that the time would be better spent on.

Quote :

The mice escaped the shooting unharmed.

Phew! All is well, then.

Downsides:
- You can only use one hand to operate it.
- Screen is not backlit, unless you take the optional gene therapy with firefly DNA .
- You must cover it while sunbathing. A suntan decreases screen readability.
- If you want to be state-of-the-art, you will need a new implant every 2 months.