Agreed. Great concept, especially the STP logos. But blue, red, green, yellow and white are a bit too much of oil and water for me.
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PK
FYI: Those skins were created for GTR or GTR2.
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PK
Yowza. That's ridiculously cool! Nice work.
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PK
That's very nice. Offering it as a public skin?
John:
Your "smooth race" setup is BRILLIANT. Smooth turn-in, and it's astonishing how early you can floor your throttle foot at corner apex and the rear end of the car stays planted to the track.
I've shaved six-tenths from my personal best in one night with your setup, going from 1:16.4 with a previous setup to 1:15.8 with yours. And I know there's more left to trim.
Thank you!
Take care,
PK
Your "smooth race" setup is BRILLIANT. Smooth turn-in, and it's astonishing how early you can floor your throttle foot at corner apex and the rear end of the car stays planted to the track.
I've shaved six-tenths from my personal best in one night with your setup, going from 1:16.4 with a previous setup to 1:15.8 with yours. And I know there's more left to trim.
Thank you!
Take care,
PK
There are just as many, if not more, drivers on public servers in the evening, Eastern Time USA, with Live For Speed than in rFactor.
I have no problem finding a public race at any time of the evening with LFS. Can't say the same in rFactor unless I want to jump into a Megane crashfest.
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PK
Must give it a try! But no-hands shifting will be interesting ...
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PK
Of course, I break my wrist last night playing indoor soccer (football, I know!), so no Scirocco for me until late January 2009. ARRRRRRRRRRRGH! 
Enjoy the new ride, boys!
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PK
Enjoy the new ride, boys!
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PK
Mega! Looking forward to some cool WTCC or BTCC skins for this baby.
Oh, and I can't wait to drive it, either!
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PK
Oh, and I can't wait to drive it, either!
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PK
Thanks, Night.
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PK
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PK
Niels:
Do you leave the centering spring box checked or unchecked in the Logitech Profiler/Windows Game Controllers window?
Thanks again for all of your great work with FFB.
Take care,
PK
Do you leave the centering spring box checked or unchecked in the Logitech Profiler/Windows Game Controllers window?
Thanks again for all of your great work with FFB.
Take care,
PK
One positive of the limited number of LFS cars and tracks, from this rFactor veteran: A much less splintered online community. It's easier for me to find a quality LFS public race with the demo cars than it is for me with almost any rFactor mod.
rFactor has so many mods and tracks -- and most of the new ones often gain "flavor of the month" status before fading -- that the online community is splintered. Unless you're in a private league, it's pretty tough to find quality races in most mods during evening hours in the U.S.
And again, if you place a paramount on physics and tire models, LFS blows away rFactor.
Take care,
PK
rFactor has so many mods and tracks -- and most of the new ones often gain "flavor of the month" status before fading -- that the online community is splintered. Unless you're in a private league, it's pretty tough to find quality races in most mods during evening hours in the U.S.
And again, if you place a paramount on physics and tire models, LFS blows away rFactor.
Take care,
PK
Take a break, have a drink and return when you're calm.
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PK
Why isn't there room in any sim gamers' collection for both LFS and more mass-market games such as rFactor and the Simbin games (GTR series, RACE series)?
Both have pros and cons. Admittedly, I'm very new to LFS, and I love it because the physics and tire models simply BLOW AWAY anything in rFactor outside of the Historic GT & Touring mod with properly tuned RealFeel, and they're also better than GTR 2.
But the lack of additional mods, cars and tracks hurts LFS when compared to rFactor and GTR 2, no question.
Still, all of that variety comes with a trade-off in quality.
The quality of tracks and mods in rFactor and GTR 2 varies wildly. A few are terrific; many are awful. Some are developed by people with intimate knowledge of race car engineering and physics; some are developed by so-called "experts" who know little but how to pump random physics values into Notepad. The effectiveness of force feedback plugins such as RealFeel and Leo's FFB, which are almost mandatory since the default ISI FFB is pure crap, also varies wildly by mod.
Everything in LFS just oozes quality and consistency due to one development team that is painstaking in detail. Physics and tire models are unique yet consistent. Same with force feedback. Same with graphics quality.
If your heart is set on racing real historic or current race cars and real tracks, then rFactor and GTR 2 are your best options. But that option comes with the price of scatter-shot physics, and sub-par tire models and force feedback, depending on the mod.
If you can tolerate the limited numbers of cars and tracks for LFS, you're rewarded by superior physics and tire models. That's what matters the most to me, and that's why I'm having so much fun with LFS.
Again, I'm new to LFS, so the "new car smell" is still quite strong. But for me, realistic physics and tire models never get old, never go out of style.
Take care,
PK
Both have pros and cons. Admittedly, I'm very new to LFS, and I love it because the physics and tire models simply BLOW AWAY anything in rFactor outside of the Historic GT & Touring mod with properly tuned RealFeel, and they're also better than GTR 2.
But the lack of additional mods, cars and tracks hurts LFS when compared to rFactor and GTR 2, no question.
Still, all of that variety comes with a trade-off in quality.
The quality of tracks and mods in rFactor and GTR 2 varies wildly. A few are terrific; many are awful. Some are developed by people with intimate knowledge of race car engineering and physics; some are developed by so-called "experts" who know little but how to pump random physics values into Notepad. The effectiveness of force feedback plugins such as RealFeel and Leo's FFB, which are almost mandatory since the default ISI FFB is pure crap, also varies wildly by mod.
Everything in LFS just oozes quality and consistency due to one development team that is painstaking in detail. Physics and tire models are unique yet consistent. Same with force feedback. Same with graphics quality.
If your heart is set on racing real historic or current race cars and real tracks, then rFactor and GTR 2 are your best options. But that option comes with the price of scatter-shot physics, and sub-par tire models and force feedback, depending on the mod.
If you can tolerate the limited numbers of cars and tracks for LFS, you're rewarded by superior physics and tire models. That's what matters the most to me, and that's why I'm having so much fun with LFS.
Again, I'm new to LFS, so the "new car smell" is still quite strong. But for me, realistic physics and tire models never get old, never go out of style.
Take care,
PK
A 1:14 low with a mouse and keyboard isn't that bad at all, man. I'm not even that quick yet with a wheel!
Take care,
PK
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