Quote from Cue-Ball :

While I think editable stages or a ton of different stages would be cool, I think you're off base to say that it wouldn't be viable without this. There are TONS of guys who drive "The Dragon" every single weekend for hours on end. It's one stretch of road, but it doesn't get old.

i wish that i lived close enough to the dragon (US-129) to be able to drive it everyweekend. well, i guess technically i could, but considering its a 3 hour drive each way, its not really practical. That said, the dragon is all sorts of fun. 11 miles long, 300+ turns, and some fun elevation changes.

a hill climb/touge track would be incredibly fun and a great addition to the game.

oh, and if anyone cares to learn about the dragon, here's a map...
http://maps.google.com/?ll=35. ... amp;spn=0.076175,0.139046

I'd like to see the route from Adelaide to my parents' house in the Hills in a game - any game! It's about 30km and beautifully twisty - the road my parents live on (Deviation Rd) is used as part of a stage for the Classic Adelaide Rally too. It rocks to sit in the scrub with a camera and watch GT40s, Dinos, Caterhams, Lancer EVOs, Triumphs, Jags, Lambos, Coopers etc...scream around my road the way I've always tried to

http://www.classicadelaide.com.au/ca/

Quote from Cue-Ball :

While I think editable stages or a ton of different stages would be cool, I think you're off base to say that it wouldn't be viable without this. There are TONS of guys who drive "The Dragon" every single weekend for hours on end. It's one stretch of road, but it doesn't get old. The same can be said for several roads around the US (and the world). As long as the stretch of road is interesting and fun to drive, it doesn't need to change.

Look at how many people spend hours and hours week after week driving Blackwood. And that track has less than a dozen turns. Imagine how much time could be spent on a downhill track (or uphill, depending on how you run it) that had four or five times as many turns!

I hear you. If they made just one really nice stage I'm sure it would be fun to drive for ages.
Trouble is it would be over-practiced and as an online competition element there wouldn't be much to it other than to see if people can match their hotlap times because the on and offline experience is just the same. That's why I could not see much life in one stage, or a small number of stages (as an online competition element). But, let us make our own stages and run them like the real things are run, with limited practice and timed runs through a stage that you first see on the day or just shortly before you show up to compete there, and the online lifespan suddenly goes from a week to years (imo of course).

I hope you understand what I mean

Quote from ldriver :

Good idea i made a picture of what it could look like

This is exactly what I meant. Well done. Small winding tarmac track through trees...AWESOM! I just hope people realise my suggestion was for this style and not something like pikes peak which is very different. Its all about quite narrow tracks with large elevation change and tricky corners.

I also thing hill climd or down hill would be so great, but, if the track isnt similiar to Initial D's style it would be sucks.
Also no one would use drift on this kind of course, trust me, people wont spend hours of practice drifting, well i will.

I realise that the course have to end in the same place where it start co I think the course would look like some NFS1/2/3/4 courses. Well I don't have anything against it.

Yeah hill climb picture looks great I'd love something like that in LFS. Definately be a great hotlapping track

Quote from glyphon :

i wish that i lived close enough to the dragon (US-129) to be able to drive it everyweekend. well, i guess technically i could, but considering its a 3 hour drive each way, its not really practical. That said, the dragon is all sorts of fun. 11 miles long, 300+ turns, and some fun elevation changes.

a hill climb/touge track would be incredibly fun and a great addition to the game.

oh, and if anyone cares to learn about the dragon, here's a map...
http://maps.google.com/?ll=35. ... amp;spn=0.076175,0.139046

I've always wondered, what is the cop situation like on the dragon?

Sorry MCTAV but I already posted about this back in 2005 along with a load of other ideas for LFS.

http://www.lfsforum.net/showth ... 25&highlight=harewood


I really hope to see some of them soon

+1000000000000!!
but then we need a powerfull car because the stand road cars won't make i guess

RB4GT

I still fondly remember the last track from NFS 3 course. That mountain course was the one of my all time favouries.

If LFS comes up with any circuit of that nature, it'll be THAT much closer to the perfect racing sim.

Wayyy heyyy luvin that idea. The sound of dirt and grit under rubber almost sexual isnt it mmm.

Yes, the idea of a hill climb course brings a smile to my mind, I have not yet seen a track in games that elavates more then 100 ft.

If LFS incorporates an excellent mountain course, I won't mind paying 10% over the current price for the license.

a (huge) hillclimb track would be an enormously fun addition to LFS!

with uphill straights and twists on and on.. both gravel and tarmac ofcourse!

isnt downhill just a hillclimb in reverse

+1 for hillclimb courses

I'm going to the St Ursannes-Les Rangiers hillclimb race this week-end, it's part of the European Championship and all the great drivers (Plasa, Regal, Meisel, Ianniello, Bormolini, Regosa, Napione, Kramsky, Szasz, Svoboda and many more...) and great machines will be there

A few vids from 2005 :
http://www.dasracingteam.ch/vi ... ss%20Les%20Rangiers05.wmv
http://www.dasracingteam.ch/videos/E1%20Les%20Rangiers05.wmv
http://www.dasracingteam.ch/vi ... CN%20Les%20Rangiers05.wmv
http://www.dasracingteam.ch/vi ... ch%20Les%20Rangiers05.wmv
http://www.dasracingteam.ch/vi ... as%20Les%20Rangiers05.wmv
http://www.dasracingteam.ch/vi ... el%20Les%20Rangiers05.wmv
http://www.dasracingteam.ch/vi ... 0N%20Les%20Rangiers05.wmv
http://www.dasracingteam.ch/vi ... ni%20Les%20Rangiers05.wmv

the bad thing : it will probably rain again this year

The "Autsch"-one is impressive, especially the part with the formula car.
I would want to go to St Ursannes too, but it's to far away. Be sure to get some video footage

A hill climb. Now that idea sounds tasty.

Quote from Tomi :

+1 for hillclimb courses

I'm going to the St Ursannes-Les Rangiers hillclimb race this week-end, it's part of the European Championship and all the great drivers (Plasa, Regal, Meisel, Ianniello, Bormolini, Regosa, Napione, Kramsky, Szasz, Svoboda and many more...) and great machines will be there

A few vids from 2005 :
http://www.dasracingteam.ch/vi ... ss%20Les%20Rangiers05.wmv
http://www.dasracingteam.ch/videos/E1%20Les%20Rangiers05.wmv
http://www.dasracingteam.ch/vi ... CN%20Les%20Rangiers05.wmv
http://www.dasracingteam.ch/vi ... ch%20Les%20Rangiers05.wmv
http://www.dasracingteam.ch/vi ... as%20Les%20Rangiers05.wmv
http://www.dasracingteam.ch/vi ... el%20Les%20Rangiers05.wmv
http://www.dasracingteam.ch/vi ... 0N%20Les%20Rangiers05.wmv
http://www.dasracingteam.ch/vi ... ni%20Les%20Rangiers05.wmv

imagine what an improvement to LFS it would be if the mods could make a track similar to the one in the videos!


liked the m3's and the yellow evo! and the old opel kadett c's (i'd like a couple of these cars in LFS as well..)! or vauxhall as you english chaps say.. :P

I recognise that track. I think I have a few crashes, 1 of a red Golf and 1 of a yellow Megane from that track, possibly that event.

it all would be great +1
but if de devs lets us give a possibility to make such cars it would be more greater because with the current cars i don't c myself driving that course, exept he UFR then

We need a big super GTR version of a car with like 700 BHP and the biggest air cutting front bumper ever.

Yes the GTR version of the RB4 that would be awsome

I think we should have an RB4 GTR. It'd fit the GTR better than any other car.