Quote from jayhawk :

Of course, of course...as we all know, paying a little bit of money every month will radically alter human behavior, for the better.
No, iracing won't see any of the above grievances you state, because as we know, people are rational and logical when it come to their money and winning, they would not DARE to bump, push, cheat...whatever it takes to win.

Will it? Crashes will keep happening, no matter how much the entry fee will be. Now what do you think will happen if some guy gets thrown off track in a racing incident? He's gonna be pissed because he just lost 5$ worth of racing. I hope they'll have some full-time admins on every server, 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. If there's something I've learned until now, it's that money does not civilise people, on the contrary.

I think serverwise what the guys at UKCT have doen with the CTRA servers and the X-System is just great. Set up a scoring and reporting system. The scores permit to access new cars and voilà you've got a self-controlling environment with a motivation for the drivers and some good racing!

Contentwise for the game I think it's too bad the devs haven't tried to implement possibities for the community to create content, like has been done by Bohemia with Operation Flashpoint. Users have developed some whole new vehicles, weapons, characters, maps,... The only problem for the devs is they wouldn't have complete control over what's being released and developed.

They could let the community develop some new content and THEY could choose the really nice features and "officialize" them in an update release.

I do hope they're thinking about what's going on and trying to find solutions, because this game is too awesome to just let die.

The reason the note of this particular engine is so high is because of the even firing order of the cilinders in the engine. Today all manufacturers use the so-called big-bang firing order, where the cilinders are fired two at a time. The advantage of this is a more manageable torque output, but less peak power. Yamaha has been working on a screamer engine too, but have officially dropped the project. Kawi is the only manufacturer working on a screamer at the moment and they plan to use it in race before the end of the season.

BTW: The video is of Anthony West testing in Jerez.

[sarcasm]That's the spirit![sarcasm]

I seriously hope you grow up in the meantime. The public road is not a track for you to test your souped-up Beemer on. Insurance is there to protect other people (and you) from your (probable) mistakes. If they find out about your super scam, that protection will be dropped and it's your ass that'll get on the dino!

Arctic Monkeys - 505

Quote from sgt.flippy :

Yep, we do have some hills, but they're down south where you don't pass for the ring
But yes, we're flat

Hmmmmm, you're wrong there. Suspiciously wrong I should say. The ring is right (150 miles) next to Spa (the truly best race-track in the world).

Quote from Crashgate3 :

Death Is Not The End - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5DprBANAVE

Nice riff. James' singing is a bit iffy, but great to hear Kirk has been allowed to solo again.

Quote from Crashgate3 :

The Other New Song - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNMzWCOEFfU

Better singing but a little much, where's the riff? Meh.

Quote from tristancliffe :

I'm hoping to pursuade to work to buy me Autodesk Inventor, which looks awesome. But it's parametric construction system looks a little daunting to an AutoCAD veteran (self-taught 2D, 3D and Solid modelling)... But the thought of 3D design, automatic(ish) drawing generation, animated assembly and mechanics, built in FEA analysis and all of that just looks AWESOME. I think I've seen v11 (i.e. the last one before 2008) for £150 for a standalone licence, which is all we/I need as I'm the only one at work who can 'do' CAD.

Inventor is pretty cool. We use it at Uni and it's quite impressive. The only problem is exporting the Inventor files to meshing and analyzing tools, which can be a bit of a drag. But don't fear it, it's very intuitive and easy to use. The GUI is clean and well designed. We had to design a monocilinder engine (plus animate it) and a heat exchanger (using Floworks for the fluid simulation). Unfortunately all my inventor experience is down the shitter, because CATIA V5 has become the benchmark and Inventor isn't used quite that often.

Great, thanks!

Are the points earned in UF Baby R counted on the Race license?

Quote from beefyman666 :

MotoGP '07 has a cool intro and the welcome screen is quite cool aswell. http://youtube.com/watch?v=cv17vCBYEhw
I can't find a video of the welcome screen, so I'll try record it later if I remember. Unless someone has it already.

What a ripoff! They just took the official intro to the actual aired MotoGP races. Okay it's the same franchise and they own the intro but they could've been a little creative for the game.

Check this one out (be sure to turn the sound up)

R8 Hillclimb

Try also to look around your family, friends, etc. if anybody is trying to sell their car. I got a nice deal on a Pug 306 (Diesel) from a coworker of my dad's. The thing is a dream, been driving it for the last four years. I had it insured in my name (which was expensive but not UK expensive) but the insurance has dropped about 30 percent since then.

I have a friend driving a 1.5 Citroen Saxo Diesel which is dirt cheap to maintain. But hey everything depends on your budget eventually.

Hmmmm, it sure as hell looks like a DTM car. Ralf Schumacher has been mentioned as joining the DTM series and he's got ties with Toyota (who own Lexus). Could it be?

I agree with the posts above, it's not the downforce killing your time. Besides it's not on the fast parts of a track you can lose time, it's on the slow bits (i.e. bends) that you can easely lose a couple of tenths. The most critical parts of AS National are the 2 successive hairpins and the last chicane.

HW2 is hard when you go at it like any other (Red Alert, etc) RTS game. This game asks for super aggressive tactics.

Here's some help: Guide/Walkthrough

Anyways, sorry I don't have that mod, but seeing you found it I have a question: is it any good?

Quote from Mazz4200 :

Well, if Arma2 is released this year it probably won't be playable till late 2009/early 2010, so hopefully Operation Flashpoint 2 will be finished this year. If not then the best i can hope for is they drop the price of VBS2 by a couple of hundred quid or more

Other than that i'm not entirely sure what's scheduled for release this year, any decent racing sims ? FS11 ? dunno ?


edit: just noticed Spanky's already mentioned Arma2....(well, who the hell reads the whole thread anyway ?)

Arma 2 or Operation Flashpoint 2 (will wait for the demos before deciding). The problem is that with the next game I'll buy, I'll have to rebuild myself a whole new PC. Need a new graphic card and then my power supply will need to be changed too, which means I might as well buy a new processor and the list goes on...

Isn't that the collection of one of the Google guys? It must be an American anyways, with the muscle cars he has and the fact he overlooked a couple of very decent European car-makers.

I read on another forum on how he sometimes lets people visit the garages, but they have to sign a contarct sayign they won't touch any of them. The guys seems allright though. he organises rally's where you can drive the cars. He has a couple of hangars full of cars across the US. I hope he got a couple of racetracks too though...

Quote from BuddhaBing :

'What to Expect in the First Year' by
'The Big Show' by Pierre Clostermann (WWII pilot account)

Great book! The attrition rate among pilots of the RAF (even at the end of the war) was just enormous. Clostermann was a great pilot and his description of his sorties with the RAF is great. If you liked that book I recommend 'Reach for the Sky: The Story of Douglas Bader DSO, DFC'

I'm reading 'Nemesis: The Battle for Japan 1944-45' by Max Hastings.

Quote from Christofire :

<much gnashing of teeth>

I'd say >50% of UK drivers don't know how or when to use fogs. There seem to be:

• I'll put them on because they look cool, so I'll look cool! Look at me! Please!
  
• I'll put them on because it's foggy (but then forget to turn them off again for three months).
  
• I don't know they're on because my son put them on (see 1).
  
• It's so foggy you can't see your hand, but I won't put them on.
  
• It's a tiny bit misty, or my windscreen has misted up. I'll put the fog lights on in case.
  
• The water spray is so bad that you can just see what looks like small, very low clouds, but I won't put them on.
  
• We're sat in a traffic jam in the rain, so I'll put them on and keep my foot on the brakes. I'm sure the driver behind doesn't really need their retinas.

As I drive not an inconsiderable amount of miles myself, you do see some very, er, "creative" interpretations of the highway code.

You forgot:

• Ooooh, I wonder what this button does?
  

Quote from Funnybear :

I have a pathological hatred of all things Beemer shaped.
Did I mention I've just brought a BMW? No. Oh. But it's ok because I'm the 0.01% that are actually any good.

That doesn't seem very consistent does it?

But off-course, you're a Beemer driver. Those are the most unconsistent people on earth.

Aaahhh, the joys of generalizing and having a go at people because of the car they drive in.

BTW, I drive a beamer...

I'm doing a master in aeronautics and aerospace engineering (final year). I'm working on my thesis at the von karman institute for fluid dynamics.

Quote from teedot :

I dont know what is up lately with people in CTRA... But a vast majority thinks that they can wreck someone, spin someone or ram them off into the grass and then continue on their merry way like nothing happened. No sorry... not waiting for you to get back on the track and catch up.... well as it CLEARLY STATES IN THE RULES:

So if you wreck someone... is it really THAT hard to wait until this person gets back on the track or pits before continuing on??? Is it so hard to flash your lights at them or honk your horn to "signal" a "sorry"??? Is it so hard to press the hotkey for "Sorry"???

This is the general attitude that is received on almost all of the CTRA servers as of late. Now granted, there are very many of you out there who do not fall into this category... so this does not apply to you.

So in short... Stop being inconsiderate and selfish when on the CTRA servers. It's not going to kill you to wait for someone to get back on the track or simply say "sorry".

I totally agree with your post. I was on Race1 regularly before patch Y was released and racing was fun, fair and balanced (with rarely a full grid). Since Y patch the number of drivers has increased massively and the attitude of some people is just awful. As somebody else said, trying to report every abuse is just impossible. CTRA are great servers and I'm sure the mods will find a solution.

I don't think the implementation of something like that would be as easy as you guys might think. Something will have to watch that nobody is overtaking during warm-up lap for example. That seems very tough to implement.

But I agree it would be a nice feature in LFS.

I did 250 km/h -ish in a 911 Porsche Carrera Cup on the Spa-Francorchamps track, in the rain (not me driving). The Eau Rouge/Raidillon corner is awesome!

Over here in Belgium they used to be quite loose with the speedlimits, but the last couple of years the authorities started to become pretty tough on speeding. Installed speed cameras all over the place (well, flamish part of the country mainly). I don't mind speeding when conditions are appropriate = empty 3-lane highway in the middle of the night. I've started biking recently and riding in the city ( respecting speed limits) is waaay more dangerous than driving a couple of kms/h too fast on the highway. People should start paying attention in their car. The stuff you see people doing in their cars during the morning rush-hour