Quote from STF :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgsZkHYfrmA

WOW! Jack... come here lad, come watch what I want you doing by age 10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAhHuYSDdoQ

I shouldn't really be swearing at the end, but the race was starting and I had to switch of the web camera recording! I love the fact when I asked him if he wanted to race, he looks up at me and says yes! (well in baby speak )

Well, I just completed a full race on the SR server and came 5th I wasn't that fast, but I think Jack, my 10 month old was warning me of the crashes infront I had to avoid

Quote from Stefani24 :

You want my 300 Tracks i have? Just tell and ill upload em for ya

ooh yes, can u put them on a public website?

Here is a good site as well

http://markus-moeller.de/generally/

and here

http://www.freewebs.com/orentios/trackgallery.htm

I just zipped up my Generally folder for you, might have some stuff you dont...

http://www.daftdonkey.com/external/games/GeneRally.zip

Gah, I had some awesome tracks for GeneRally... I LOVE that game. Also I would LOVE a networked version...

Quote from J@tko :

Championship Manager FTW

I used to be on the development team for that game in umm I think 2000-2001. It was my first job with Domark, which became Eidos. I have tried to find a copy of the game with my name in the credits but cannot for the life of me find a copy for sale anywhere

Video of two friends of mine on track...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmjUwOUwCFs

Quote from Mp3 Astra :

The Blame Game... Without the blame. But seriously, I enjoyed your analysis.

Actually yes... I sometimes get a bit angry in race about an incident, and then when I go back most of the time it's just a simple mistake on my part, an unavoidable mistake on the other drivers or it's an issue with the close racing and lag/collision detection.

So I might take some of these incidents, analyze them and offer an opinion on how I would've driven differently. After all these years of LFS'ing, i've become pretty adept at anticipating a crash and driving around them.

Quote from Nick A :

Great analysis You should work for the Beeb!

Heh thanks Nick... I might actually try analysing a few more race incidents when I get some time.

Quote from jasonmatthews :

Awesome crash

Sorry about the T1 crappyness today. I had never raced FOX no that track and with 25 cars behind me I just knew I couldn't drive a fast, race speed entry and exit on T1... I had to brake a little early and just messed it up both times.

Quote from squidhead :

as much as it's a good crash, which deserves to be seen, I'd love to see some work done to record it without the HUD, with proper visual aid (like circling the points of interest in some racing events on tv). With better camera positioning and so on...

Sounds like you just volunteered for the re-edit Want the replay file?

Quote from boothy :

And I thought you were a yank!

Lol, no mate. I moved to San Francisco a couple of years ago after Oracle bought my company. I miss the 30 minute trips up to Silverstone to go thrash my car around

http://video.google.com/videop ... &q=simon+thorpe+drift

Last edited by yeager, Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:05. Reason : Can't stand spelling errors.

Quote from EliteAti :

video is no longer available :P

Try again, it's finished processing...

During my lunchtime race today I was involved in (and no, I didn't cause!) probably the biggest full on race crash i've seen in a busy LFS server. So much so I spent the last 10 mins of lunch recording it and uploading to YouTube.... Poor old [SR] Gav is battered around under the bridge, fnar fnar

Enjoy


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl69WAnkNVE

Last edited by yeager, Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:05.

It's been a long ass day, a 4am flight from SFO to the cold and remote Winnipeg in Canada for a two day business trip makes you want rebel a little against life and hope for some anarchy amongst the order...

Well, just before I call in the wake up call I thought i'd drop some thoughts onto this eclectic forum and share some observations of late.

Since the CTRA dropped off the planet i've found a rather big hole in my lunch hour. As always, the server list is sorted by numbers racing and to my delight after the rigid, rule ridden and amazing quality of racing on the CTRA servers. I was thrown totally to the other extreme... that of the Destruction Derby server...

Within minutes I realised what a breath of fresh air it was to blast around a mad hat track, jumps and all, crashing into everyone, in the hope that I didn't get 4 screwed up shocks to make it over the finish line. Fun? It was like spending a day with smelly granddad, having to listen to his war stories whilst eating 2 year old chocolate cookies that could break teeth and THEN being let out into the fresh air to run around like a loony and play in the sand. Bliss... (NOTE: I'm not making any comparison to smelly granddads and the CTRA, simply that I need a rather strong image of two opposites.)

Anyhoo... the DD server has been amazing fun over the past few weeks. The admin who hasn't a clue has provided much amusement, in fact I am sure once he announced to a server of 20+ people that some lady friend with a rather large set of frontal glands was to make her acquaintance that evening for some "loving". The server also seemed to attract a few ex-CTRA types who also relished in the madness...

Then, unfortunately as usual, the obvious happened. Some who are less fun complained about the quality of the people on the server. Note I leave out the word "racing" from that statement, because i'm not sure if the DD server is actually racing.

Anyway. My real reason for this rather stupid tirade is that as much as this server is great fun I am stunned at some of the quite futile comments from people who seem to think that a server with no (ok, VERY little) rules is actually going to be anything other than anarchy.

What am I on about? (And i've had a few gins, so you might well be asking)... Whilst bumping about on the DD server i've seen the following comments...

1. "Hey! You can't run into me at full throttle!! Its against the rules..."

Really? Well until the server admin figures out how to write an InSim app that monitors my throttle level and kicks me for hitting other cars with a go go pedal depressed further than 50%, you're gonna have to just live with the dint in the car I just made.

2. "Stop ramming me!!!"

Read the title of the server young laddie and get over it...

3. "Wreckers! Stopping wrecking on T1!!!"

The safest place to be is either on pole and with your eyes GLUED to the mirrors and have the luck of the gods to avoid the masses of people piling in behind you OR be at the very back. Anywhere in the middle is going to be a mess, not because people are trying to "wreck" but because the DD server seems to be all about fun, messing about and some good ole anarchy... Wrecking is the point... if you survive T1 with a car perfectly untouched, you are cheating and should be banned

4. "Why do you keep hitting me every race?"

Because you keep complaining... you know, you CAN crash into me as well. It is all quite legit you know...

*sigh*

Actually, on a more serious note. I've found that months of CTRA driving have actually given me some amazing "crash aversion" skills and I can pick my way through the most amazing mess of spinning, upturned and flying cars and often finish, sometimes even win a... ummm race? on the DD server.

Quality times. My stressful days working on J2EE apps, dealing with customers and realising I have way too many emails to read are nicely intervened by 30 mins of running around smashing into others and having a good old time... LFS is great. No matter what its for... I've even (and this is the REAL shocker of the post) started to accept that a cruise server might actually not be that bad after all...

Quote from StableX :

10 months :O:O:O

Well, when I say racing... he was holding the wheel. I had to do the pedals for him

Quote from Toddshooter :

PS Yeager hows the family? Long time know see.

Ooh yes, RSR, i'll get my ass over there...

Little Jack is a good un, NEARLY walking... and today he was racing LFS! At 10 months!!

Cheers big ears... on another topic, would be nice to see you racing now and then. Amazingly one of the most popular servers since the closure of CTRA is a Destruction Derby server! Who would've thought? I think i'm banned however for telling a bunch of people to stop whining! Wonders will never cease

Sorry Sam I wasn't attempting to incur more workload on your part, I was just hoping I might be able to cut and paste my list from the existing website.

Well, seeing as the draconian method of locking down entire sections of the forum has started, i'll just post this in general in the hope I can get the attention of an ex CTRA type...

Any chance the CTRA website can be brought back up for read only purposes? I'd really like to get my list of "buddies" because I never added them via LFSWorld and the CTRA names don't match the LFS names. I'm all confused, lonely and in need of a way to communicate with the fellow "clean and non-whinging" racers I often had such fun to share track time with...

Beg beg, please please?

Stunt Island...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunt_Island

Spent WAY too many hours making a movie in this game. I wish I could get it working on a modern machine.

Quote from Becky Rose :

So imagine if you will, that whatever server you go on, you have features of X-System appropriate to that server. Perhaps the server has set rolling restarts on, or has enabled warmup laps (great for league races), or maybe you are taking part in a 20 server x 24 hour race and you want to know your aggregate position or your team (on the website spectator tool) wants to send a message to just their driver who is not on voice chat... Or maybe you just want to know when your friends are online [on another server] and message them...

Are you talking about something akin to a SOA layer? I make web services calls into the "LFS Service Bus" and transactions such as instant messages, race results, fastest laps etc are provided to server operators?

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

Call me whatever you like, but that's all I have to say.

If ONLY that were true. I was trying to avoid posting in response to your attitude, but being unable to find the "add to ignore" list on this forum it seems I have no option but to read the drivel of a 17 year old boy.

You are offensive, immature and arrogant beyond your age. I would advise you re-read all the comments you've made in this thread alone and compare with your public story of woe... If the light bulb does not come on, then all hope is lost of you "coming of age"