This part is wrong because you think that you have increased load->increased grip for the increased weight, and in the end not change the balance. But, it is in fact increased load->increased grip with constant mass there. You will change the balance.
You can put a scale under the front wheel, and it will read increased "weight". It does not mean there is increased mass. A scale never measures mass, it measures a kind of force which we call weight. Mass vs grip (force) is really what determines if you understeer, not weight vs grip.
I think you're mixing up "weight moving to the front" and "mass moving to the front" a bit. If you lift mid-corner, "weight" moves to the front, but "mass" certainly doesn't move at all, in the sense that the CoG is still at the same place in your body frame. You get increased load in the front, but zero increased mass there, so lifting mid-corner creates oversteer considering only this increased load, with or without load sensitivity.
Only with severe load sensitivity, the available grip doesn't rise as quickly as load does, and you get less oversteer from lifting. But you still get oversteer, not understeer. To get understeer when lifting you'll look at other sources, like coast locking on the differential.
Personally, I think the whole "weight" shifting, "weight" distribution, "weight" this and that, is really lousy terminology. It makes you think there's mass flowing around the car when there isn't. "Dynamic loads" would be much better.
Only with severe load sensitivity, the available grip doesn't rise as quickly as load does, and you get less oversteer from lifting. But you still get oversteer, not understeer. To get understeer when lifting you'll look at other sources, like coast locking on the differential.
Personally, I think the whole "weight" shifting, "weight" distribution, "weight" this and that, is really lousy terminology. It makes you think there's mass flowing around the car when there isn't. "Dynamic loads" would be much better.
You haven't paid anything ever, have you?
Let's just conclude it as an "idiot proof" feature, that is not mechanically required. Same goes for requiring clutching to start even in neutral.
All cars I've driven, too, required only turning to "start" to run the starter motor. No clutch needed starting in neutral, either. But it does make sense to artificially require turning to "off" then to "start", and maybe plus pressing the clutch to a) avoid using starter when engine's running and b) avoid driving the car with the starter.
Wouldn't that be the work of the compiler? I've always thought the compiler's supposed to optimize the math to the processor's instruction sets, not the programmer, not unless you code in lower levels.
Not about clutch, but guys, is it true that we'll be able to stall engines? Really? I've been waiting for that for a long time.
Didn't I say I played LFS with that pad? Oh I also tried RBR with the pad, where even after a lot of tuning the driving still couldn't be tidy enough. But I love experiments so I might try some more. I wonder how the console versions of RBR played.
Console FPS games have loads of stupid aids to make the gamepad usable. I especially hate the sort of "targeting" an enemy before you fire (or punch). Those glowing ring under their feet just kill all sense of immersion right there. Auto aiming is necessary, too, which is just stupid. Ever played Gears of War? That "press A to use cover" thing irritates me to no end. I mean, you can just go to a box and crouch can't you? PC FPS games have always done it that way and the action is way more fluid...
But that's FPS games. I think driving can be done using the gamepad though. Because I've an XBox 360 pad that I use to play LFS on the laptop as mobile gaming, and it's quite playable. Of course you'd need loads of damping and non-linear compensation and smaller locks, but it's ok after the fudge factors are tuned right. Forza 2 works quite well with the pad, too, and with its input display you can see its elaborate damping/filtering scheme to make the pad work. I'm sure if devs spend a little time figuring out that scheme, LFS can be controlled well on the XBox, too.
My MOMO used to do that, and then the paddle broke, and then the gas pedal...
I would get the G25 first simply because it's not likely to drop in price quickly, and probably has a longer useful life than a graphics card. (Well, my Radeon 8500 lasted some 4 years, but that's a special case...)
With the 7300 at least you can run all the current sims with medium graphics, and the added sensation of the G25 can fill in the blanks. Or revisit some older sims!
BUT, if money is not an issue (paid by mom) then get the best graphics card you PC takes
There are clutches you know, just not at the torque converter's place. Not only one, either. There are multiple clutches in an auto box that hold various parts together for different gears. So each time an auto shifts some clutches slip.
However, I've not experienced auto boxes that are particularly smooth.
Those were different responses to different people. Double posts are like the same text posted twice. By your standard everyone would've more than quadruple posted in most threads.
It's a frickin hollywood entertainment movie, and one about fast cars involving some mafia family. How you NOT expect some driving+shooting is beyond me. Or you really can't tell what things are plot devices.
I think the fastback, with any engine anyway, is rubbish. What your OPINION is about what is great I don't care.
Not the spiral drifting. It's real.
http://www.edmunds.com/insidel ... atures/articleId=115709#4
But of course if you got better sources saying otherwise I'm all ears.
Now where's that double post? I don't see it. I don't see your logic, either.
The latest NFS actually got back onto race tracks in sanctioned events.
I agree that "It's the game that made lil' Johnny do that" is just lame excuse. Doom would've had me chaingun everyone in sight a decade ago.
By means it did what it set out to do, or did you read my post? Have you even seen anything about drifting Japanese? They DO drift down mountain roads 10 at a time, yes with a lot less smoke. And if that's your opinion about the "cars" part you obviously didn't look past skin deep. Some of the drifting they did were pretty precise, like where one drifted up a spiral with bumpers almost touching the walls.
Wait, let me guess, DORIFITO is rubbish! Oh well, learning more adjectives will help.
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and your vid card and ram and laptops and scooters. I'd personally prefer we have brands like nVidia or Intel who design stuff, and leave the manufacturing to others, but this is OT.
There is something entirely different in building your own car, with loads of cash and low C/P and whatever trouble. It's like playing an MMORPG where you have some sense of progress, of uniqueness. It's totally different when someone admires a tricked-out Civic and a brand new Porsche, unique and rich. What would anyone do to a Porsche anyway? You spend a fortune and end up getting what thousands others got. Well it's fine because I love Porsches (and Ferraris and Lambos etc) but understand some people prefer tuners. I believe if they're born rich they'd tune Porsches, too.
I think Tokyo Drift wasn't a bad movie at all. It does well for what it set out to do, like painting a (too) vivid picture of the underground and showing some impressive D1GP skills.
Street racing in real life is stupid, no question about that. There are loads of stupid things to do in real life anyway.
How about finishing a thesis? (not yet, though :shrug
Honestly, you've asked a really nice question. The usual earning money, consuming stuff, growing old... do feel a lot like any MMORPG. I'd consider raising good children a real accomplishment, though.Ok, let's build a warp drive, find some alien race and exterminate them. Should take quite a few generations to do, and accomplishes a lot more than cruising for example.
Then limit rotation to 720 degrees. At 1.00 compensation you still have the rotations matched PLUS you get FFB stops for road cars.
The "New Generation" version was straightforward enough, but they've since added stuff to it and I've since lost track of everything...
It's like the record industries saying P2P are taking away their potential customers, when in fact those who download via P2P aren't going to pay for music with or without P2P.
Come on you so called racers, go bully every drifter away and see if you get more races. FAT CHANCE!
You video card does fully support DirectX 8, no? It absolutely requires shader capable cards to run.
Very bad. See my previous post about one tooth killing another
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Reason : Don't take my word for it. Listen to Origamiboy instead!
Last time I had that, she was busy chopping up my #38 wisdom tooth (that had pushed #37 into fracture BTW...) I prefer some less painful breasts, honestly.
Hey, I actually like that numbering scheme.
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