Quote from Sponge :

It's a raped version of dutch

I thought it was the closest thing they had to a language

Quote from Fastwalker :

and there is no such thing as a Belgian language

What about Flemish?

Looks like America has caught up with sarcasm, now there’s just irony to master.

Quote from pearcy_2k7 :

Oh and i didn't use a capital P fs

Same here, but I did it on purpose, so I could have something stupid as my racername; Scary/Leary/Fairy. As for logitekg25, if you come up with one of the dullest usernames ever (although it seems to be an American trait to use controller/wheel names on here), then you should have to live with it!

Quote from bandaid :

Go fill some other forum with your inane dribble.

Shouldn’t that be inane drivel?

Well Usain Bolt can run at a world class level after 3 hours sleep, when I can only make a peenie joke.

Also let demo users have an Avatar (no ones looked at my peni$ in ages).

Quote from Bob Smith :

There's your problem. You'd never jump into a real car and onto a live race track without testing if the brakes and steering worked.

But then a real car (after a night of not being touched) wouldn't have crooked steering and no response from the pedals.

Quote from morpha :

And it's not recommended out on the public roads either

It’s funny you should say that, but I heard a story from an experienced mechanic, about a particular model of car that had a brake fault. Long story short was that people where ploughing into other cars at the first turning, set of lights they came to, which shows that not many people check the brakes when they set off (but if your car was pulling then I think you might stop).

Quote from tristancliffe :

nKP's new calibration tool isn't that clver really. It takes ages for a start. But again, you'll only ever have to do in once.

I thought that too, but I think it'll be less confusing for a newbie than the old interface.

Quote from AndroidXP :

If that is actually the problem you're unhappy about then you can't be helped I guess, since it takes less than five seconds to do this recalibration.

5 seconds when you've gone straight into an online race's a long time!

Quote from AndroidXP :

Regarding your price-quality comparison, the pricing model of racing sims is generally not comparable to normal mass market games, simply because they're often a niche product and independently developed.

Since Sony killed the Genre with their $hitty F1 games. I just think this space's going to become a lot more crowded when Codemasters come back on the scene (if they go old-school and disregard their recent crap incarnations).

Last edited by carey, Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:30. Reason : with to when.

Quote from garph :

I just wouldn't use the cost of a game to determine if it's good or not.

So having found the first three TOCA race drivers in the 'bargain bucket' doesn't tell you anything?

Quote from garph :

You do see the fairly large flaw in that logic and how you could easily be tricked into buying a shit, expensive game?

Generally!

Quote from AndroidXP :

Heh, I guess you should be all over iRacing then, since according to its price it's of unbeatable quality in every aspect

GENERALLY!

Quote from AndroidXP :

Are you sure none of the files in your LFS folder are write protected?

I'm not sure.

Quote from AndroidXP :

What controller are you using and are you plugging it in before starting LFS?

Now a G25, but even with my other wheel I had the same problem and I always plug them in before loading the game.

Quote from AndroidXP :

Seriously, my G25 never needs a recalibration, the only thing that's sometimes necessary is turning the wheel lock to lock and pressing all pedals to get the full motion range back (but that has more to do with the G25 firmware than LFS).

Isn't that recalibrating?

Quote from garph :

You're not saying that the higher price of something says something about how good the game is are you?

Not on release, but generally it does eventually correlate with popularity (with the exception of race-pro).

Quote from garph :

I have no problems with having to recalibrate my wheel.

You're lucky then, as I've seen a lot of other people having the same issues (although my throttle sensitivity one seems to be unique).

Quote from tristancliffe :

1. nKP isn't worth the normal asking price at the moment, due to bugs and lack of support (though I have my fingers crossed for the current public beta).

Hence why I didn’t buy it (but I might now). The new interface looks pretty good, with a decent wheel/pedal calibration tool, that doesn’t need to be repeated four times a fortnight like in LFS! The only downside as a demo user (also) in nKpro’s that with the new beta you can’t load any third party tracks and Monaco no longer works in my original installation.

Quote from tristancliffe :

2. LFS is worth the normal asking price, as it's being developed (however slowly, but I have my fingers crossed for a particularly lovely patch in a few weeks/months)

I’m not there yet. It feels like every time I play LFS something has changed in either my controller or car setup.

Quote from tristancliffe :

You can see, I guess, why one is on offer and the other isn't.

Because the one on offer costs more normally? I think thirty odd quid says that nKpro’s aspirational (hopefully not like race pro), but LFS at £24 stinks of a game that didn’t live up to expectations, although there’s still time to convert me!

Quote from J@tko :

Demo racers can't have sigs [or avatars] - it's only for Licensed peeps. But hey, pay £24 for a sig and avatar and get a free Racing Sim

I thought it might be something like that. Well nK-pro currently has 45% off (until the end of August), is LFS willing to counter-offer up to 50?

Quote from Dajmin :

That there, right there, is signature material.

Stupid question, in fact I’m almost too embarrassed to ask it; how do you edit your signature as I can’t see it in the user CP.

Last edited by carey, Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:07. Reason : avoiding repetition.

Has anyone heard of this? It sounds a bit like V1, just based in the real-world and they charge a lot (in my opinion). Basically it costs nearly 7k + VAT to do some laps in a saloon car. The best drivers go into a final, with the prize being a Formula BMW drive for next season with Raikkonen Robertson Racing. By my rudimentary calculations they have raised enough money from entry’s to fund the seat, but what I find more worrying is their plans for the winning driver’s future. In short, it may involve giving up 50% of your future earnings, so with the 50% tax rate in this fine kingdom of ours you wouldn't be left with that much. I know a young racing driver was on Dragon’s Den (a programme where investors judge people then decide if they want to invest in them) with a similar idea, plus Lewis Hamilton pondered a similar plan after his first year in F1 but neither example lead to anything.

Last edited by carey, Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:27. Reason : just formatting

It’s a feature that I haven’t seen in any other game (which would give LFS some sort of bragging rights), plus it’s what some F1 drivers utilise, for those lightening starts although those with a clutch pedal might complain!

I set a personal best of 1.15.78, then tried to update my stats by doing it online, but after this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz9rXkK2XEM I decided to call it a day.

Sorry if this has already been asked (and answered), but does anyone know of a solution regarding the following:
1) Throttle sensitivity; if you go full throttle for too long at low speeds (say when entering or exiting the pitlane), the throttle becomes hyper sensitive, with the slightest of touches resulting in it being wide open and the car becoming undriveable.
2) Steering pulling to one side; which I know other people have had (although it normally seems to be wheel specific), but my steering wheel's an original Xbox one, that I’ve had no similar problems with on any other games and frankly I’m getting tired of having to re-install LFS everytime this occurs.
Personally my interest in Live for Speed that I’ve had over the last few years’ starting the wane (maybe since last year when I saw the professionalism of nKpro).