Ricer (n) Owner of a small, cheap, japanese economy car that has been "upgraded" using shiny bits of metal cladding, overly-bright lights, vulgar body kits, oversized wheels, cut springs, and several stickers; all in the effort of looking "racy" and "cool" without having actually doing anything to the underlying mechanics of the car. Ricers are generally hated by any sane person. Also see: poser.

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If this thread were a few days older, I would have given the benifit of the doubt. Let's see if he makes the race in California next week.

I don't care how well he does in NASCRAP. It's still NASCRAP.

I lost quite a bit of respect for him the second he defected to NASCRAP. If you join the redneck racing league after being in the pinnical league of motorsport, it means that...

1. You're giving up. No, I won't go as far to say that NASCRAP is easy, but easier than than F1? Heck, yes.

2. You're a sell-out. No one joins NASCRAP for any other reason than money. Except, maybe, die-hard rednecks.

Yeeeaahhh, no. My local paper had what is probably a pretty accurate review: "Ghosts? Whatever. Alba as a violinist? Puuleeeze."

wat?

Honestly, what is this obsession with adding ~$#@y music to everything?

In sequential mode, I just go down through the gears as the revs approach the correct speeds the corresponding gears. If you wait until you're at the right speed for the target gear, you'll have to flick the shift-down button several times very quickly, which could result in accidentally going too far, or not far enough, down the gears.

In H-pattern mode, it's best to slow down to the desired speed, disengage the clutch (as in, press the clutch pedal), shift directly into the target gear, match the revs as necessary and re-engadge the clutch.

Meh...we don't need any of this bloat in LFS.

It's watchable, but not pleasant. What Mp3_Astra said made sense. Slow it down by half, then double the frame rate in the final video.

Not so 1337 now, are we 1337sauce?

Sigh...more Microsoft "if you can't beat 'em, buy 'em"

If you want millisecond gear changes, motion blurring and "hang-time" (whatever that is), go play Need for Speed.

If you want proper racing, play Live for Speed.

Um...sorry, but no. Jamming your foot to the floor in a FF will not give you a faster start. Even though you have the big lump of the engine at the front pushing down on the tires, basic physics will show you that, when you accellerate, weight is pushed towards the opposite side to the direction of accelleration. In other words, the faster you accellerate, the more weight is pushed towards the rear of the car and the less grip you'll have on the front wheels. This is why wheel-spin can actually be advantageous in a RWD setup.

Adding some weight to the front of the car will help you reduce wheel-spin. Beyond that, it's mostly a matter of practice for each car.

Have these idiots who clearly aren't thinking ever heard of a hyphen?

Do you have Microsoft .NET 2.0 or higher installed?

http://www.speedtest.net/ will tell you a bunch of statistics for your connection, including latency.

If your goal is to make local applications for LFS, PHP makes no sense. It is a web programming language.

Wow, I thought my eyesight was pretty bad. I have progressives and multiple prisms in my glasses (big thick binoculars, basically), and I'm also very colourblind.

Obviously, I'm more fortunate than you in this case. I can't imagine losing my eyesight, even in just one side

I'm sure glad I use LCD monitors - never going to back to CRTs again!

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Isn't that basically true for anybody (talking about both eyes here)? Your hearing slowly but continually degrades over your lifetime, your eyesight happens more in bursts, and later in life

Yes, but I think what he is talking about is that it is degrading far more rapidly.

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Bleh. Wait until your 30s. You won't notice your eyes not working when your back's not working and your knees aren't working and your hips are getting a bit iffy and your hair's falling out and there's pudgy bits obscuring your waistline, etc.

Crap...sometimes (OK, most of the time), I'm just too lazy to excercise, but now you've really made me think

This is fantastic addon! It's amazing how much more fun it makes playing LFS!

Just a couple of suggestions/requests: would it be possible to include sound effects for tire squeal/screech and collisions?

Great addon, just one thing I noticed: the lateral G's don't measure high enough. It tops out at just under 3 G's when driving the BF1. Realistically, it should measure up to at least 5 G's.

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All I personally want is that the sounds get a massive update sometime. No advanced/basic editor is imho needed as long as it is almost impossible to make a car sound like a car.

I'm not asking for an "advanced editor" (CSR does a great job of being that for me ), all I'm looking for is an option to balance out the various sounds in some more detail.

This is rather simple and doesn't have anything to do with gameplay, but an option to disable the screensaver and Windows power management settings (screen off, HDD off, suspend, etc.) would be very nice to have. My display has gone off because of no mouse/keyboard activity more than once during a race.

EDIT: Just finished a race and thought of something else: separate audio controls for different sound effects. Currently, any audio settings related to the car (engine, tires, collision, etc.) is all grouped together in one setting. I think there should be separate settings for:
- Engine
- Tires (squeal, screech, etc.)
- Collision
- Road noise
- Drive train
- Turbo

The main reason for this, for me, is so that I can better customize CSR. Eg.: I want CSR to handle the engine noise, but it doesn't do tire squealing/screeching nor collision, so I want LFS to handle those. But, LFS can only control all of those as one setting.

Other than that, I'm sure there are others who also want to customize the various sounds of their cars as well.

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^ "ch"?

Thanks for the replies, now I know.

What's the usual frame rate with this card? With all of the AI cars on? Online?