Quote from Hallen :

There is one pro driver in the US who can't bend his ankle to heal toe while driving his Porsche because of an old football (US Style) injury. He as a button installed on top of his sequential shifter that blips the throttle for him. He mashes the button when down shifting and an electric servo blips the throttle for him. He has to get an exeption to the rules to use it, but it works. I don't think this relates to what we are talking about, but it was interesting anyway.

Maybe that's a sensible idea for users of a combined throttle/brake axis? Would be at least helpful if the auto blip gets removed (which IMO it shouldn't be).

Can't ou just press the throttle pedal? I refuse to except that short of the very rare case of people with disabilities every LFSer should be able to find a controller that allows them at least three axis control for less than the price of LFS.

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Can't ou just press the throttle pedal? I refuse to except that short of the very rare case of people with disabilities every LFSer should be able to find a controller that allows them at least three axis control for less than the price of LFS.

People play with gamepads. Until humanity grows an extra thumb a gamepad with three sticks won't be all that useful.

Quote from ajp71 :

Can't ou just press the throttle pedal? I refuse to except that short of the very rare case of people with disabilities every LFSer should be able to find a controller that allows them at least three axis control for less than the price of LFS.

[hypothetical]I purchased my LFS license in 2005. I bought my MOMO that has separate brake and throttle axis. In 2007, the rapid rising cost of everything and the near complete loss of pay raises no longer allows purchases for "luxury" items like controllers to play a computer game in my spare time. The MOMO breaks and someone generously donates their older wheel that has combined axis only to me. Now I have combined axis and can not throttle blip, brake, and downshift at the same time.[/hypothetical]

Talking about financial status doesn't work. Same with the comments in other threads that state "if you can afford a PC and net connection, you can afford LFS". Not everyone in the world has purchased their PC or net connection. Having in possession something, does not mean that they purchased it themselves or that they can currently upgrade their "gaming ability" financially.

LFS is after all, a racing simulator as everyone points out all the time. Not a car driving simulator. It is still a game, though a game that is taken much more seriously by the majority. I don't feel the need to hamper folks trying to race by limiting them to their financial status as to what they can use. If I can race with my wheel with 20 others who can't buy a wheel for some reason or another, I'd rather that than race with only 1 other who has a wheel.

I have a license, and a wheel with separate pedal axis. If my MOMO breaks (which it is trying very hard to do right now) I'm out. Or, I can continue to race on the racing simulator with another available controller that I have laying around because purchasing another wheel is out of the question for me.

Why can't keyboards stab at their accelerate button to blip? To slow throttle reaction? Increase the button reaction rate thingy. Too hard to drive? Oh well. I'm sure there will be a compromise in the middle - no need to give keyboarders any more driving aids than they already have!

This is actually pretty damn good idea. So good that I wish Scawen would have already thought of this and included it... because it is very likely that the blip option has been removed. With this feature, all the pad and combined axis users can just "STFU".

+1

Isn't this already possible? You can bind throttle to a button and to an axis at the same time.

What about the neck down paralyzed people? Shouldn't they have automatic steering, throttle and brakes? Or the blind? Maybe Scawen could code a co-driver who gives instructions?

Or what if you all start driving this like the simulator it is and leave the gamepads for NeedForSpeed: Carbon-shifter-knob-edition:something

Quote from thisnameistaken :

People play with gamepads. Until humanity grows an extra thumb a gamepad with three sticks won't be all that useful.

you know that a gamepad with 2 sicks (like a PS2 pad) is a 4 axis controller???
Three axis would be some combination of a gamepad and a RC-Controller-Thingy (damn... lost my english vocab)
(sry that my post is off-topic)

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What about the neck down paralyzed people? Shouldn't they have automatic steering, throttle and brakes?

They've been experimenting with putting a microchip in peoples heads so they can control computers and stuff with thought control scary.

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Or the blind? Maybe Scawen could code a co-driver who gives instructions?

Or just get the guide dog to drive http://youtube.com/watch?v=vd1Nl8DeC3U