Quote from Ian.H :

Or you can just take a break.. like I did.. for 2 years, and come back to find umm...... well, not a lot has changed really. Looks like I'm about to take my 2nd 2 year break.. maybe I'll come back to S2 BETA by then.. but there might also be a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow too or a large pile of rocking horse shit in my front room.
Ian

That's it.

I have also been a LFS fan boy for months, but...

I also did a break and surprinsingly discovered that there is life beyond LFS !!!

And to my more surprise, excellent life beyond LFS. Tons of excellent stuff beyond LFS. Tons of "devs" so talented as your devs including those who make excellent mods for "commercial" sims. Tons of "devs" that are also aware of what their community thinks, whishes, and ask for. I think that perhaps in a more close way than your "devs".

I know, I know... this is not a commercial project. This is a bohemian state-of-the-art of programming from three lonely heroes. I am very sorry to be so stupid (you surely guess I am) but from the point that someone (including your "devs") SELL something, this is a commercial project. Including those organizations that sell coffee and a lot of things in those "fair commerce" stores.

They sold me (I bought it, and I agree with my purchase) a Pre-Order of S2 License. No doubt in the little letters, somewhere, someone surely put that this was a long time release, but as all the stupid man, I didn't read it, and of couse, as all the stupid man, I realized that this should be done and released in a reasonable lapse of time. My error. So I can't claim on it. But let me consider that putting those kind of expectatives in people to have them pay in advance for something that no one (including, as I have read about, your "devs") knows when will be finished is at least, imprudent, not to say tricky.

Listen, mates: yours is not a question of reasoning. It's a simple question of faith, and as I do with -for example- religions, I respect it. You are free to have loads of faith in wathever you want, including those three talented guys known as "THE DEVS". That's it. In uppercase.

But what I cannot respect from -for example- religions is the fact that all fanatics want to convert the unfaithful to their really unique truth and if not, they are automatically tainted as stupid people. That's what you, LFS fan boys, automatically do. That's one of the reasons I took my two years break after constating that there was excellent life beyond LFS.

I don't mind about the technical excelences of the inside programming. I can judge for what I see, what I ear and what I feel. And as I am so stupid, I can't see that the inside programming makes a real-time calculation to have tires deformed in a x degree turn divided by the atomic nr. of michelin composites multiplied by Phi (or something alike) but in the correct way, and not with canned effects, like all the other sims. Not to say of all those horrible canned Force Feedback effects that you can get from other sims, or excellent plugins for other sims like one released recently which really amazes. I know, I know... this is state-of-the-art sim programming.

The result of discovering other sims is amazing. Back to LFS I can consider it only a WIP arcade. The sensations I get from other sims don't admit to be compared with LFS, where I can't feel what I am driving and on what surface I am driving. Not to say that I know every and each bump, turn, and so on of all the available tracks. Ah but yes... I know... I am not a talented sim pro and thus this confirms that I am stupid.

But I am afraid to say that for some of us, ex-fan boys of LFS that are so stupid to not understand what the hell have we bought, this game is (or better I can say has) become absolutely boring.

In short, LFS is a never ending project of state-of-the-art of development only aimed to state-of-the-art sim pro's.

And I absolutely respect it. And as I do, I will take my second 2 year break riding all those horrible commercial products that are on the air. And as Ian says, perhaps then I will be absolutely surprised with a (non) commercial beta product that is the best ever developed. I really hope so.

I know, I know... I would have better waste my time in those all other horrible games instead of writing this post. But AS YOU, technically talented sim pro's, I waste my time in what I want. And I decided to spent some of it in stating my opinion here. What's wrong with it?

And be careful, my friends: from the other side (the dark side of ex LFS fan-boys), you look like every 24 hours you are one day closer to become just a sect in the world of racing sims.

Don't waste your time in replying me: I will be taking my second two years break.

Cheers,

John

I was forgetting to say that McLaren have always been a point of reference in the motor racing world since the times of his foundator: Bruce McLaren.

I was also forgetting to say that if Kimi has ever won anything it has been due to the really hard work that his tester did, and no by his means.

He has wasted the talent of the best ever tester: Pedro Martínez de la Rosa.

You can see him right now in the tracks. Here you go.

Cheers,

John

Quote from Blackout :

When was that? Why he started from the last place? Engine change maybe?

Can't remember right now. I think it was in the past season. But I guess yes, it was due to engine change.

Cheers,

John

Quote from deggis :

Alonso thought he was invincible and he needed a new challenge... if Mac will suck next season as much as it has sucked this year he wil definately have a new challenge...

I don't think so. If Kimi worked with his engineers just the 10% that Alonso did, probably he'll never blew off his engines as he did.

Kimi has a problem: he thinks he is a STAR. Look at what he did at Monaco: engine blew off and just 10 minutes later he was at a yatch drinking a glass.

ANY OTHER driver would have ran into his boxes to flame his enginners or to speak with them about what was the problem and how to solve it.

Kimi no. Kimi is far beyond the hard work that is needed from any racer that wants to consider himself as a professional.

Alonso is a professional and a very realistic man. He has his foot well on earth.

Cheers,

John

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Quote from Greboth :

There always seems to be a dominate team in f1, last year it was renault and still is, ferrari are close but renault are still more dominant IMO.
Whos to say that McLaren wont be the dominant team next year. It seems unlikely going on their past few seasons but who knows.
It is probably for the money but it would be good to see alonso stay at mclaren and them build a team round him like schu and ferrari.

It's not so strange Ferrari is the dominant team. They have a private TRUE F1 track near their Maranello : Imola.

And both Bernie Ecclestone and the President of the FIA doesn't care about the fact that Ferrari does A LOT MORE of real testing in track than all other teams.

Something is rotten in Denmark, Shakespeare said. It can be applied to some of the facts in the F1 world.

Cheers,

John

Quote from Rappa Z :

lol, gunn your so right.

He's moving to Mclaren right? I have always thought that the Mclrens aren't the most advanced cars though. I've seen too many crashes and brakedowns and explosions with them. I would have stuck with reno...

if it weren't for te money.

It was not the car. It was the driver. Kimi is thinking he is still racing Karts.

Take a look: in a race were Kimi blew up his motor, his team mate Juan Pablo started THE LAST in the grid and finished THE SECOND. With the same car.

Cheers,

John

Quote from Phoon :

Since Alonso is going to McLaren after this season, do you think he will be as successful as he was with Renault?

I liked his Renault car, colors were amazing.

No doubt.

Cheers,

John