Greetings to the LFS comunity.
I purchased an S2 licence yesturday, which unfortunately has not made me a lot faster overnight. I downloaded the demo some time ago but only got round to playing it a week ago. In that time I have got down to (just) breaking the 1m 18sec barrier in the BMW on the demo track; a feat I have not yet been able to repeat. I can now however beat the field (AI) at OK level and follow them at quick level so I am a long way from being competative online. I have also tried the other open wheelers and posted hotlap times for them. (maybe there should be a seperate category called 'warm laps')
The thing that decided me on buying a licence was the hotlap analiser. There is so much information there it's hard to know where to start, but then again, starting is all I need to do at the moment. I have been concentrating on the first sector and have found a line that works for me. Actually got through in under 25secs for the fist time then blew the lap.
I have 2 questions at the moment as a newcomer to not only LFS but sims racing in general. They are
1) at what point is it acceptable to go online to race
and
2) are there any servers ( or whatever they are called ) where noobs can go online to practice in an informal and relatively non competative way. I mean, to get an idea of how to race at close quarters and some sort of experience at judging distances for both passing and being passed.
I know there is the training section in the program which I have had a look at, but it is a bit different with real people. I am a recent escapee from Iracing. I was suckered in by ther claims of a licence based on safe driving, only to be blown off the track by much faster drivers who could not be bothered setting a qualifying time and were thus placed behind me on the grid. For some reason they seamed to think I should not be slowing down for turn 1!
It took me a couple of weeks of blitzing the field in 'Need for speed porstreet' where it all began for me just over 6 months ago, to get over it.
Winning everything every time does get a bit borring though after a whille and now I'm ready to work on my skills and hopefully get good enough to enjoy some online racing, rather than just survive it, and to do so without upsetting too many people with my slow driving.
I have a sticker on my car that says;
" I'd rather be an old fart than a young dickhead"
Wouldn't mind one on my virtual car too and maybe one of those ones that say;
' I may be slow but I'm ahead of you!"
Cheers
See ya in the soup
Steve.
can anyone help me???
Just need to actually get good at this point. I heard you guys here are a pretty nice community of players, so I'm glad to be able to join you guys.