Hello! Coming back after a long time off. I tried iRacing but just don't like how it 'feels' compared to LFS...I like a bit slip slide for a start (not drifting though) and it makes it almost impossible in that game. Not reaaaaallly that realistic in that respect.
Hope there's a decent amount of people on here still playing! Any good sites for leagues and regular racing? I'm based in the UK.
Hope there's a decent amount of people on here still playing! Any good sites for leagues and regular racing? I'm based in the UK.
Glad to see this thread still going. Go to the below link for a pretty good exampel of a proper hill climb course...as you will see it is nothing like pikes peak!
http://members.tripod.com/sprints/scammonden.htm
Now to join the start and end together perhaps we could have a straight road like 8 lane drag? People could cycle round here and wait at the bottom to run again. Runs spaced 30 secs apart. There might be a holding box where you have to wait to start again...after the 30secs you are moved to the line ready to go?
Here is a map of a course...it isn't very long and you would be looking at lap times of sub 1min on the really fast cars. It's a sprint race! Just join the end to the start and you make a loop.
The UFR would fit the bill of good hill climb car! The LX4 and 6 as well!
http://members.tripod.com/sprints/scammonden.htm
Now to join the start and end together perhaps we could have a straight road like 8 lane drag? People could cycle round here and wait at the bottom to run again. Runs spaced 30 secs apart. There might be a holding box where you have to wait to start again...after the 30secs you are moved to the line ready to go?
Here is a map of a course...it isn't very long and you would be looking at lap times of sub 1min on the really fast cars. It's a sprint race! Just join the end to the start and you make a loop.
The UFR would fit the bill of good hill climb car! The LX4 and 6 as well!
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Got it working now in LFS...thanks for the PM though zorrofox...big up the scottish team. Might have to persuade you to let me join onceI get back into the game.
DFP set up....
DFP set up....
...I am having no luck. Got it installed but in the game I just can't set it up right
illepall Could some one take me through the settings for the profiler and for in game? I really want to play but just can't get it right 
...I am having no luck. Got it installed but in the game I just can't set it up right
illepall Could some one take me through the settings for the profiler and for in game? I really want to play but just can't get it right Proper rally/rally cross car. WRC style with 400-500bhp and some trick 4WD and diffs. That could make rally cross more fun.
Front wheel drive touring cars like the BTCC. 300ish bhp through front wheels. Before they went to hatch backs. So BMW 3, Ford Mondeo, Audi A4...cars of that size i.e 4 door saloon. Maybe 1 FWD, 1RWD and 1 4WD but similar bhp.
Front wheel drive touring cars like the BTCC. 300ish bhp through front wheels. Before they went to hatch backs. So BMW 3, Ford Mondeo, Audi A4...cars of that size i.e 4 door saloon. Maybe 1 FWD, 1RWD and 1 4WD but similar bhp.
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This is exactly what I meant. Well done. Small winding tarmac track through trees...AWESOM! I just hope people realise my suggestion was for this style and not something like pikes peak which is very different. Its all about quite narrow tracks with large elevation change and tricky corners.
It's a good example for those not familiar with the idea. I haven't heard/seen any of the european championship. Just like the idea of small courses that are challenging.
Hill Climb Course
I checked the sticky at the top of the page + did a search for hill climb on the forum to check whether or not it had been previously suggested. I couldn't see anything so I figured I would make a thread.
Basicallly I think point to point hill climbs would be a cool addition. Obviously they wouldn't be suitable for multi player courses <well unless everyone went on and took turns...not a problem on a course that only lasts 40-50seconds? Gives you time to fiddle with set up between goes> Certainly oppertunity for good hotlaps action! The local hill climb course here has a record some where near 40seconds if I remember correctly.
In the UK they seem to be a very popular form of grass roots motor sport.
The game already has all the style of cars you'd expect at a hill climb...small FWD, open top caterham style and the open wheeled formula cars.
Courses ideally would be narrow tarmac affairs with plenty of corners that climb up a hill. The often have hair pins as they wind back and forth up the hill. Quite a large change in elevation would be ideal. It makes it difficult keeping your speed up but gives advantages when breaking up hill...some good skills to learn. It could be applied in reverse with down hill courses.
Most likely to be in country/wooded settings.
I guess the Goodwood festival of speed hill climb is a famous example but there are plenty of small tracks in country estates etc around the country.
Basicallly I think point to point hill climbs would be a cool addition. Obviously they wouldn't be suitable for multi player courses <well unless everyone went on and took turns...not a problem on a course that only lasts 40-50seconds? Gives you time to fiddle with set up between goes> Certainly oppertunity for good hotlaps action! The local hill climb course here has a record some where near 40seconds if I remember correctly.
In the UK they seem to be a very popular form of grass roots motor sport.
The game already has all the style of cars you'd expect at a hill climb...small FWD, open top caterham style and the open wheeled formula cars.
Courses ideally would be narrow tarmac affairs with plenty of corners that climb up a hill. The often have hair pins as they wind back and forth up the hill. Quite a large change in elevation would be ideal. It makes it difficult keeping your speed up but gives advantages when breaking up hill...some good skills to learn. It could be applied in reverse with down hill courses.
Most likely to be in country/wooded settings.
I guess the Goodwood festival of speed hill climb is a famous example but there are plenty of small tracks in country estates etc around the country.
I'm not a big fan of real tracks unless they are something different from the usual. How many games have silverstone etc. I think the TOCA series should be comended for producing tracks that we haven't seen before. For example the Austrailian touring car tracks are fantastic in Toca Race Driver. Also they put in KNOCKHILL! The only major race track in Scotland. I loved that because when I came back from racing at knockhill I put into practice all the lines I had been taught whilst there.
So yeah...it doesn't add much but it is cool if you can race on a circuit you've driven on. I'd rather they concentrated on making awesom original circuits that wouldn't get made in the real world.
So yeah...it doesn't add much but it is cool if you can race on a circuit you've driven on. I'd rather they concentrated on making awesom original circuits that wouldn't get made in the real world.
When you turn the level of rotation down does it acctually phsically stop it from turning any further?
Also where do you get the software to use it with PC games?
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It quite worrying when you are driving a real car and the tyres hit the arches when the suspension is in compression.
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