Yeah I'm using the auto everything for anything involving the gearbox. So essentially I've got to be more careful with the throttle?

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PCCD, I owe you an apology. The BMW Formula 1 car is not in the demo, but the Formula BMW is. This is the car that you've been driving, not the BMW Formula 1. I didn't make the correct association and banned you based on an assumption that I made that you'd obtained the BMW Formula 1 by "unconventional means" and met the BMW Formula 1's pit limiter.

I didn't even know I had been banned. This is literally the first time I've been back since I posted the thread so er...

:huepfenic about a banning I might never have known about

So it's a Formula BMW I've been driving? Wondered why it was on slicks and the fin looked a bit odd. Basically I've managed to wreck the clutch then? Is there an option I can switch on that shows how hot the clutch is or is there a sound of some kind I should listen for to tell me to ease up?

So after quite some time away I decided to give LFS another go with added Broadband. I quickly discovered that us unwashed demo masses have been allowed to get a go in the BMW Sauber. I had a couple of laps driving around and apart from some spinouts all was well until I went round another corner. As I came out of the corner (in 2nd) I floored it and hit sixth gear pretty quickly. Not bad considering that by time I hit sixth I was doing a mighty 82kph. Slowly after that the car just refused to gain any speed what so ever and I just pitted to save me from any further embarrasment. The fuel and everything was fine and I hadn't hit the clutch button by accident (I use auto anyway so should be no problems?) and I haven't a clue what happened.

So I ask you, what went wrong? How do I avoid doing it again? and what do I do if it happens again?

I think he was just making a joke, I mean it is incredibly easy for people to get a good three minutes or so ahead around the full size Nurburgring on any game be it GPL or heck even Forza 2.

While I'm speaking of Forza, I will say that there are a fair few players of that game who can't drive and shouldn't be allowed on the roads whether real or virtual. Ever seen a 5 car pile up mostly consisting of reasonably priced family four seaters?

I have.

Probably a dumb question but is anyone getting "could not find restarter program" or similer when trying to use the ingame updater?

If so, How do I fix the problem?

Anyone else been having problems with the speedometer giving false readings when braking from high speeds? I've braked down to what I thought was 100KM/PH only to find that I'm actually doing 120KM/PH when entering a corner and end up in the grass as a result

Not so much the what's wrong with the guy's car, it's what's going on in the Chat Channel that's got me. Put it this way, when the server came up on the main screen ten people were on there. When I logged on it was down to about five and when I left it was down to two. This sod with the bad car and the person flooding the channel. Shame the vote ban was turned off as well.

So can anyone shed any light on this?

The only one I know of is on the Car Park.

If you drive through one of those red & white barriers you should go through and hopefully not fall through. Then drive round to the caravans and large building in the south west corner. Drive into the large building, stop and then reset the car. Takes some experimentation but eventually you'll end up on top of the building.

Team: DSR.

Believe it or not, I politely refused someone's offer of the LFS voucher.

Didn't feel right them forking out only for me to give just because I can't get the rear wheel drive cars around the track without doing a Torville & Dean reenactment

Yeah I race with music.

Have media player on in the background (with full graphics settings and no slowdown) playing some stuff. Bit of everything really, Kasabian's "Empire" track is a good 'un because it automatically reminds me of Sharpe and I end up being a bit more piratey and adventuresse in my driving.

Oddly high pings to be getting.

I'm on 56K (shock horror!) and the highest I get is around the 280 mark

I've seen a fair few folk with different names copying that kind of thing. Pretty sure I've run into mafia as well.

Quote from S0ul :

Oh man,this got me laughing for 5 minutes,so damn funny...or maybe im toot tired^^But thats really howit is,which demo driver wouldnt press one if there was the chance to get NOS

The amount of times I've seen that happen thoughillepall

I'm sure there are some actual n00bs who think that they don't qualify as newbies because they've played the game twice.

I will confess though, I have used the "press 1 for NOS" thing to get rid of a wrecker before. He claimed that him parking up on the chicane and driving into everyone was my fault

Seriously do some people get high or something before playing LFS?

Mores to the point people can rant about this all they want. People will still do it as they know full well people seem to have a thing for pressing 1. All they have to do is start the vote, post ban crasher or similer and bang that's the end of you due to their idiocy.

As a rule myself, when someone is fairly close behind me and it's not a blue flag, I try and defend my line not to the point of ramming folk off the road but still I'll defend. If it's blue flag and the guy is pretty close behind and I'm not trying to chase someone down, I'll kill the throttle and let them through.

People having problems driving side by side can be problem, in my experience people do try and outbrake you and on something like the first corner in the middle of pack that can cause an even bigger accident with the cars in front

Just checking.

Just about everytime I've seen it though, it means the typer is a village idiot by trade. I would launch into a rant about what two village idiots working in tandem did to me today but I'll say this. I'm getting mighty sick of people who press 1 for a ban vote because someone told them to eg: Press 1 for nitrous, press 1 to ban this n00b etc. It's even worse when people vote for you to get banned for driving cleanly but won't vote for the idiots who park up in the middle of the road and smash into people.

and then starts wrecking, trying to get other folk blamed for their poor choice of parking space etc.

What does "<8*)" mean?

Note that the triangle is a solid one and the asterix is in the middle and is a circle when typed. I know crashers use it but is it linked to a particular group?

I've found an ad hoc way of sorts.

I run Media player in the background and use the media controls on the front of my laptop to control the music. Works pretty well and I only lose about 1-2frames on full settings so still doing around 35fps online with a ton of cars.

Something for the programmer brigade to do above though

Is that doable in Media Player or do I need something else?

Simply put I think the music in LFS during races is a bit duff, there I said it.

So what I want to do is set the game to play my own music during races, ala the custom radio stations in GTA. How do I go about this?

Respect Dave.

That deserves a pint.

Scarey that, dying at that age.

The story of "Plan B" at the first Masters tourney he won is a great one though.

Shame.

Because it's a big long straight, I sometimes switch to TD when I've pulled out so I know where I am in relation to the other car. When I need to pull in again, I switch to in-car.

Actually quite useful, I use the rumblestrips down the left side to tell me when I've run out of road

I've got a story of banning on a demo server.

I logged onto a server just as the race was restarting so quickly joined. I found myself at the back of the grid alongside someone who shall remain nameless but claimed to be part of the anti-wrecking group with his username proclaiming this fact.

So the race starts and I hang back slightly to avoid the usual carnage, not so the person alongside me, who promptly keeps his foot down and causes a five car pile-up. It is agreed to restart the race.

Same again, me at the back with the idiot.

Same thing happens again. Frustration builds amongst the other racers who are slightly pissed off that the there's been another huge pile-up. The culprit must be found and disposed of!

Up pipes the idiot, "it was XXXX" (name obscured by my own hand, in case I misname someone). "I saw him do it" "****ing n00b" ('scuse the language).

Here's the thing though, XXXX was in the thick of the pile up as two cars had been rammed into him which in turn caused him to T-Bone another car and so on.

I try and explain the events as I saw them happen, exactly as I typed them above, I even challenged this guy to back up his claims with proof from the replay.

Nothing doing, Idiot voted to ban XXXX (1 of 6)
Six votes later this completely innocent bloke is banned from the server.
Cue another restart (as you do)

We manage to make it through the first corner OK and the chicane and we're on the straight where I'm right behind this guy who in turn is closing in on the driver in front with me in the slipstream being dragged along. I switch to the topdown view to aid overtaking with causing carnage.

Idiot pulls out of the slipstream and begins to gain ground and come level with the car in front, I decide to wait until he's past and away before making my move. Until for no reason, idiot goes straight into the car alongside him, I couldn't believe what I just saw and yet there's no reaction whatso ever from the driver (no, I wasn't racing bots), idiot though shouted "TAKEDOWN!". I challenge him only to be met with an extremely cutting and witty retort: "****ing n00b".

Over the course of the race he does this to about 3 other people, all of whom react with a bit more activeness shall we say. Well pitting anyway.

At the end of the race I demand to know what this guy was playing at, someone else asks what I mean. Idiot responds by saying that I was trying to pin deliberate crashes caused by me on him. I'm quite rightly pissed off at this remark and demand he back this up with proof from the replay.

Cue this:

Idiot voted to ban PCCD (1 of 6)
"****ing wrecker"
XXX voted to an PCCD (2 of 6) This was the person who was first upended on the straight believe it or not.
"Ban the wrecker!"
Strangely the other folk that this person wrecked also voted to have me banned. My car's livery is damn different to his livery so this wasn't mistaken identity we're talking here.

In the end I got banned.

Wreckers and sheep, I hate them both

Quote from Lautsprecher[NOR] :

That made me think: Since the hilux is up on a podium of sorts, will the dragster be too? Or will it be to morbid?

I'd think the owners may want it back.