Thank you! Much appreciated..

Great job! It amazes me how professional and clean the footage is, you can definately tell that there has been a lot of work put into it. Some great racing too, right down to the last turn!

Yes, experience is absolutely the best way to lower your lap times in any situation.

Here's how my process usually goes (You'll have to know what effect each setting will have on your car to do it properly..):

- Do consistant, steady laps to figure out how 'even' your tires are running (use F9 to see tire temps/wear), then adjust camber/tire pressure as necessary.

- Once each tire has even temperature and wear, I'll start adjusting the spring rates/anti-roll bar settings to loosen or tighten the car as needed.

- Once it handles how I like, I'll start concentrating on adjusting gear ratios. You'll want to do plenty of laps before messing with these to get a good feel of whether you're actually using each (and every) gear efficiently.

- By then I'm usually running pretty quick and competitive, so I'll just begin tweaking other settings to see if I can find something I like.

I'm there too, don't worry. I almost always find myself right outside of a podium spot (unless I make a mistake, or get creamed in T1).

What I'd really love to see is the ability to let end-users (us) build and use custom tracks. The only problem I could see with that is copywrite/trademark issues as people build tracks that need licencing.

Quote from 510N3D :

here we go again, who said this should be, from now on, the task with the highest priority?

I did. That being said, I'm fully aware that everyone has their own respective opinions, I'm just not bashful about letting mine be known. I paid x amount of cash just like everyone else!

Anyways, on the topic at hand.. wouldn't South City be Monacoesque? Crazy elevation changes, bumps, no room for error, etc.

Quote from Ball Bearing Turbo :

The only thing with this event (which I have not heard of until now) is that it seems based too much on the flow of the track (have not seen, just what I picked up from this thread... Perhaps wrong...) Part of the intrigue of staging is that you need to learn the stage, so I might be more interested if the layouts went over curbs all the time and weird places and so forth.

As Rubenz touched on, I've tried not to use layouts due to the fact that I'd have a lot of DNFs.

If you want to think of it less as a stage rally, and more of a 'One Lap of Live for Speed'.. that's fine by me.

I'd rather the devs concentrate on other things than waste time making more tracks/cars. Dynamic weather, day/night cycling (both would be an amazing addition to endurance racing), proper damage modeling and finally fixing the damn moon-launching signage would be much higher on the priority list..

Quote from Bob Smith :

Me for starters.

+1

I use a 21" ViewSonic CRT monitor. The size and weight don't bother me at all, considering I'm not exactly moving my PC around all that much. It's as crisp, clear and responsive as any LCD/Plasma monitor I've used, and it's a fraction of the price.

Quote from spookthehamster :

I think he was saying we need a rally car, but in a really long winded way.

To be honest, I think having a 'rally car' (read: WRC type car) would be complete overkill. Most of the stages I use are fairly short (unless I feel evil and decide to use Aston GP or something). For the first few events I had the FXR available, but nobody wanted to use it.

Quote from Kalev EST :

- Use GMT as a timezone for start times. A lot of people(me included) get confused with timezones.

I'll begin using GMT/UTC from now on, I realize how confusing the time zone thing was. I'll also have a feature on my website (after a redesign) that'll be able to show the current GMT/UTC time.

Quote from Kalev EST :

- Make the start times more European friendly because Europe has the most LFS players. I doubt anyone is interested in racing at 2am in the morning.

I've been trying to do that by starting most of my events at 17:00 UTC. I may be able to start a few hours earlier, but that'll require me waking up earlier!

Quote from Kalev EST :

- Promote your league more. Get a subforum in the leagues section, go to team forums and post invitations, etc.

I asked in the one thread about a subforum to no avail, and I've began sending out invitations to teams this week.

Thanks for the response!

Quote from Captain Slow :

if its basically a rallying league or series of events i think it would be fun, but im not a fan of organised avertised events because im a little wimp with no confidence in myself to do well.

It's not a 'league' per-se, atleast not yet. I'm simply trying to get some solid events organized before I concentrate on starting a league.

Quote :

think its because LFS has a lack of interest when it comes to rallying, there was a supposed "rally pack" comming our way, but there is nothing soon about the "soon" that was said about it, so no one even knows if its actually being worked on or not or .. what

back in S1 i loved to rally, but right now its just not fun because dont have really any cars to rally properly

Interesting. When you say 'rally', do you mean rallycross or stage rallying? What I'm trying to get off the ground is much different than your typical rallycross.

Quote from Batterypark :

You might've included a description or at least a link...

It was in my signature.

http://www.simrs.com/

You can get a basic description of how it works in the 'About' or 'Rulebook' sections.

A simple question. I've been trying to promote stage rallying on Live for Speed for about two months now, and at first there seemed to be a real interest for it. Now, as I see my entry lists getting shorter and shorter, I can't help but wonder where all of that momentum went!

Is there a general concensus for why most people seem disinterested in such events? I'm hoping it's just obscurity, and that proper promotion can help alleviate the problem. If it's not however, I have a bigger problem.

So, who has/hasn't heard of SimRS/LFS stage rallying?

If you have, what do you like/dislike about it?

If you haven't, does this sound like something you'd be interested in?

This is costing me real time, real money and real stress sometimes.. but I'm simply trying to add something new and different to the Live for Speed community. I appologise if I sound desperate, but I am in a way. I posted this here in the hopes to catch the opinions/thoughts of people who don't oft frequent the Leagues/Events forum.

Please, feel free to post any constructive critisism or questions, I'd much appreciate them!

Oh please... illepall

Franky, when are you planning on upgrading the rest of us?

Quote from nutty boy :

Did your car escape from prison :P

Nah, I was just going for something simple which utilized the car's lines.

Not a father myself, but still gotta give you props for a great idea!

A peak at my basic design for the SimRS zero car.

I'd be interested in having a subsection for SimRS, but I can't find a way to PM you. Let me know, thanks!

Well, the holiday rush is finally behind me and I can get back to business!

SimRS would like to announce the following:

Club Rallies (All times are GMT -5 ... be sure to convert to your local time zone!)

January 13th - 12:00pm - Open Entry
January 14th - 06:00pm - Open Entry

January 20th - 06:00pm - Open Entry
January 21st - 12:00pm - Open Entry

February 10th - 12:00pm - Open Entry
February 11th - 06:00pm - Open Entry

February 24th - 06:00pm - Open Entry
February 25th - 12:00pm - Open Entry

ALL EVENTS ARE TENTATIVE AND ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE!

Any change in the above schedule will be noted in this thread, or in a subsequent announcement thread.

Although not required, I recommend that if you're interested in taking part in any of these events you should submit a proper entry! Doing so will guarantee you a seat in the event.

I also recommend that everyone read the SimRS Rulebook prior to taking part in one of our events!

I suggest people take this opportunity to get as much experience as they can... as I may *hint hint* be working on organizing a championship for this spring!

All events will take place on the official SimRS server: [SimRS] Rally Sport

Thanks for reading, if you have any questions don't hesitate to contact me here on the forums, or via email!

Hope to see everyone there!

Last edited by XenoWolf, Wed 3 Jan 2007, 08:01.

I love the hiss and pop when you hit the rev limiters... definately a cool detail.

I love GPL. I've been playing it since it first came out years ago (albiet not much since I bought my S2 licence). It's definately better than LFS in some reguards... I mean who doesn't love tearing around some of Europes most notorious tracks in a sickeningly hard-to-control rail? It's more 'raw' than LFS for sure. On the other hand, the variety and multiplayer community LFS has definately gets a big thumbs-up. In short, it really depends what mood you're in...

Quote from Rubenz81 :

P.S. Did you try the layouts?

I gave them a spin a few days ago, and I'm still unsure whether I'll use them or not. I appreciate the effort, but they're a bit cryptic in design at some spots... and until the devs fix the moon-launching barriers I have to be mindful of such things.