Quote from duke_toaster :

Enforcing it would be hard to do, unless it is coded in that passing a car that is under braking is OK. The thing is people would just slam on the brakes to get the person behind them penalised.

Yes, I'm speaking of a change to LFS itself.

Your analogy won't work since there is not a Yellow on the field. Or, if there is, then there is the bit about speed differential being an exception to the rule. There's a Yellow out and I'm ahead of you. Since you disagreed with my suggestion here I want to screw up your race so I slam on my breaks. You are faced with either hitting me or passing me.

If you pass me, then there would be a significant speed differential between our cars.

Perhaps, though, there also needs to be a certain "grace period" here. If you pass under Yellow you have X number of seconds to get back into your original race position. (Ain't that how it works in real racing?)

Little attention is currently being paid to Yellow Flags. By this, I mean that drivers continue to race full speed and pass each other which in a real race would result in a penalty.

I'd like to see LFS enforce the Yellow Flag. It'd be very difficult since LFS would need to allow for exceptions like passing the cars that caused the Yellow and passing in order to avoid a collision. My suggestion is to allow passing under Yellow if there is a significant speed differential between the two cars.

Also, the Yellow should remain in effect until all involved are either back up to something close to race speed or have pitted.

<--- agrees/joins/whatever.

Is there a reason why LFS World shows my three wins on UF-BR on January 5th starting at 23:17 but CTRA-X only show 1? One race had 2 drivers and the other two had 3 drivers according to LFSW.

thanks.

EDIT:

Never mind. Saw the answer here.

Last edited by animal1313, Sun, 6 Jan 2008 10:00. Reason : posted without researching the problem

There appears (to me) to be a problem with the X System when running a single car race. If there is only one person on the server, the following happens:

1) After the first lap, you are auto-spectacled for being idle too long. This happens while driving and turning decent lap speeds.

2) The X system reports a heck of a lot of yellows. I went off track 3 times in 14 laps and have 20 Yellows tacked onto my license.

3) The X System records the fact that laps were run, but not that the race was finished. This reflects in the driver's completion percentage.

Cheers.

Agreed that the AI needs a number of improvements. However, the AI is not as important as other portions of the game and therefore low in the development cycle. My suggestion is very simple since its just a random number and I thought that it would be rather simple to do as opposed to things like making the AI smarter, having it understand the concept of pitting, etc.

I'd like to see a bit of randomness introduced to the AI during race start. When the light goes green, all the AIs jump off the line at the same time and with the same acceleration. Instead, pick a random number from .05 to .250 for each AI. This number will be the number of milliseconds the AI waits when the light goes green. This should better simulate a human response and also add a bit more realism to the "T1 Drag Race".

What in the heck is a transit provider, then? The people that provide the rack space and 'Net connection? An ISP is, to us colonials, an Internet Service Provider who just provides one or my IP addresses. Sometimes an ISP also offers a physical connection to the Internet via telephone, Cable, satellite, or commercial DS/OC lines.

On the other hand, what we call a CoLo is a "co-location" provider. Also known as a "hoster". These are the people we call up if we don't want to have a server in our house/company and/or need more bandwidth than we could otherwise get since a CoLo will generally have a massive connection to one of the Internet backbones.

So what's a "transit provider'? Its true that we are a group of people separated by common language.

Quote from mrodgers :

In by opinion, that idea fails . It's due to the fact that many folks don't have all day for racing (jobs, family, you know the normal distractions). So, I log on and join midrace. It's difficult because I need to create a setup (Inferno sets for XRT are strickly drift sets for me, LOL). But, the field is spread out and I don't want to get in the way of anyone. So, I can't get some good continuous laps in. I'm shift-s'ing back to the garage after too short stints to make setup changes (I'm not a setup guru, I can't run 1 lap, make all the changes and have the perfect car). The race is over, I see that "oops, I am going to need more fuel for a full race." In the garage, add fuel, race is auto restarting, press join LAG!!!!!! Race starts, now I have the join button countdown. Great, I missed that race, but it gives me time to work on setup for 20 minutes before the field is spread out again. I work on setup for 20 minutes. I like it. The set feels good. The race ends. I am ready. I am waiting for the restart with the set I finally like. "End Race in 3... 2... 1..." Now it changes to a new track and I have to start all over again..... Eh? I'm going to bed instead.....

Solution #1: There are a fixed number of tracks. Create a setup for them off-line.
Solution #2: Don't be such a perfectionist and just race the race.

Quote from Becky Rose :

I just spoke to l33t hosting again and it seems the reason the new rack is not built isn't a problem with the Ikea manual (although I did ask ), but because they want to move to a new transit provider and are holding off until they have switched.

That doesn't make much sense and I think that yanking your chain. Unless I am mis-defining what a transit provider is. (I wish you Brits would speak English. )

If a transit provider is the entity which is providing the hosting company with a data line to the Internet, then why should a change in that cause a rack not to be deployed? The rack (and your equipment) would not be directly connected to that up-stream ISP. Your stuff is connected to the Hoster's internal network. An ISP change would be done at the Hoster's MPOE (Main point of entry).

Becky, Sam,

I had something similar happen many weeks ago when everyone was still on the V patch. After a track change there were two of us. My connection display showed the other player, but I didn't see his car on the track. The race started and everything seemed fine except that there were no barrels where I normally expected to see them.

As the race progressed, I saw that the other driver was turning in Fastest Laps. He also lapped me but I never saw his car. After about 2 laps I say his car flying through the air. It wasn't from a crash; the car appeared to brake and turn normally, but it was up in the sky. The other driver saw the same thing.

I figured it was just a server screw up. After disconnecting/reconnecting everything was fine. I didn't grab a MPR and didn't think of mentioning it since the problem fixed itself.

Ain't any difference between "darn" and "damm" (intentionally misspelled). There is also absolutely no contextual difference between "oh rats, I over shot the corner!" and "!@%#'ing corner" other than the number of characters in the sentence. Both mean exactly the same thing.

If you truly value the wee little tots, then I urge you to create a grammar filter like I facetiously suggested in an earlier post. Incorrect grammar, bad spelling, and improper word usage are far more detrimental to society than any "foul" words. This applies to all languages and not just English.

Next we can speak of all the words that are not considered "foul" today but would cause great consternation just a few decades ago. Languages are living things and change over time. This is the reason few people say or write "thy" anymore.

(I reiterate again that you can do anything you wish on your own server and I am not complaining. I will happily follow whatever rules you wish to have on your servers.)

Quote from Becky Rose :

I dont give a hoot what anyone thinks about free speach or realism. STCC is family entertainment and language not suitable for children isn't welcome. That's that .

Then you should create a grammar filter. I'd rather have my kids exposed to allegedly "foul" words than "proper" words used incorrectly. I would also give my right arm if children around the world could be safeguarded from marketingspeak.

It is YOUR server and you can do whatever you wish. I can either respect the rules and your wishes or go elsewhere. That is non-debatable. However, if you deem to post your reasonings publicly, then you must have a better argument than the one quoted above; its silly and nonsensical.

Personally, I join the STCC servers exclusively and will follow whatever rules are imposed. I'm a guest and guests must respect the host or get the !#$% out.

Cheers.

Didn't see this mentioned so I figured I let it be known:

The firewall software provided by Verizon (U.S. telecom provider and ISP) thinks that the updater is a virus. This occurs both for the standalone download and the autoupdater. The only solution is to disable Verizon's A/V feature, update LFS, then turn the A/V back on through the "Security Suite".

MacAfee, Norton, and AVG have no problems with it.

Cheers.

I've got zero artistic skills but have managed to make some simple skins consisting of a single body color and one image on the hood. What I'd like to do, though, is add some flames around the wheel wells.

I've used the Iwarp distort filter to create a fairly good flame image. What I need, though, is to figure out how to take that image/layer and wrap it around the contour of the wheel well so that it appears the flames are coming out of the well towards the door.

I've tried just overly the flame image and then cutting out the well, but this makes a nasty mess.

I'm currently working on the UF1, but have tried the same thing on most of the other cars. I'm pretty sure the model of working on is irrelevant since its a question on the capabilities of Gimp.

Have I made this clear, or was that confusing? Thanks for any help.

Quote from BenjiMC :

you have to record in game using fraps

Quote from dadge :

and then use an editing program like sony vegas. windows movie maker is built into xp (and vista i think) but it is a bit basic.

Quote from LFSn00b :

I used Sony Vegas 6.0b.

thanks, guys. I'll get Fraps this weekend. All I really want is the ability to scroll backwards and it appears that this'll do it.

why would anyone waste the time already spent in an endurance race by bailing out just because of damage? Has nobody heard of driving to the Pits? I've limped to the Pits quite a few times and usually manage to regain my position.

I've been meaning to ask this but never got around to it until now. Would someone point me to the instructions on how to convert a reply to a regular video file?

thanks.

Quote from DragonCommando :

Why is everyone I talk to so against steam?
Its a very good service, I've never had a problem with it.
I swear, some people have 1 problem with it and they lable it bad.
If I did that I wouldent be playing LFS.

Because its a memory hog and crashes. When your from rate drops to nothing all of a sudden, chances are that steam.exe is at 99%. This is very noticeable for those of us with dual monitors; we play on one and have taskmanager open on the other.

http://www.richardkunze.de/sued_000.htm

In german, but has a map.

Had an issue like this last night (might be with the guy who requested the feature). There were only 3 of us. One person and I were getting bored on a track and the third person showed up during the last few laps. I asked if anyone wanted to try something different and the other two agreed.

Voted to End Race. I didn't bother changing my set up when the new track loaded and immediately hit the big green "ready" button. That put me onto the track and the race started automatically. The other two didn't come out of the pits in time, so I was about 1/4 lap ahead.

The guy/girl who joined late on the previous track moaned and cried that I didn't wait to start. I suggested that they vote to restart, but the person bailed.

Upshot of all of this: don't change anything. If people come in late or don't have the proper set up in time, they can vote to restart.

However, I do get a bit annoyed when I'm leading a race in a large pack, there's a wreck at the back, and the damaged people vote (and win) to restart.

Quote from GT Touring :

did my bit- and raced clean and won a few times and podium placed much more...
now i am a silver license...
I will be back because it is fun- but WAHHH lots of jerk wreckers show up for sure.

I'm in agreement with you and just got my Silver, too. Great racing last night, but its more common for "fast" drivers to intentionally bump-pass. What annoys me most, though, is the jokers who blow their horns and scream "blue flag" even though you are leading them.

Here's a hint people: sound your horn when you are overtaking and when in a blind-spot. Not when you are three car lengths back and/or squarely behind the car in front of you.

+1 (for what its worth)

(XP limits TCP intentionally. This started with 2000; MS didn't want people using 2K pro as a server and crippled the networking portion. I don't have a reference, but I have heard it justified as "protecting against the computer being used as a zombie in a ddos.)

Quote from SamH :

Hmm... reads pretty harsh, Becky.

I think it's probably appropriate to point out that we've had a plethora of emails from people who've been auto-banned from the servers recently, reading along the lines of..

..so while I understand where on the tether Becky's at (nearing the end), it's probably a good idea to put it all in context

Not harsh. Appropriate. Coddling the stupid does not help, whereas harshness may, just may, humiliate them into proper behavior. If not, then a moderate amount of chlorine should be introduced into their gene pool. This equates, in computer gaming terms, as banning them from a server.

enjoyed the server while it was up. Disappointed tonight went I went to join and couldn't find it. I like racing against more-or-less the same people on the regular servers while not needing to be overly conscious of driving nicely. Hard to create a setup which is fast while remaining easy to drive with all four suspensions gone. . .