Quote from cargame.nl :

Another story of how it was and how it is now. It's great and all grandpa's but it adds not much more to this forum then another 'geez, life changed hhmm' personal description of your situation. It's been stated before that the team doesn't want to increase in size. Less people less progress. Besides, there has been just a great update; Westhill.. I suggest you at least try it, where was you when it got released anyway?

People can 'moan' it isn't any good or what any reason... But it's a bit silly, disrespectful even, to see that some people show up here start the complain train again but never appeared online in the last years. It's very weird actually, if I am not interested anymore then I'm not interested. Unbelievable that a large group of people keep stalking something which is out of their lives for years, what kind of disorder is this?

Grandpas? I'm 24 hardly a grandpa, not sure why you felt the need to attack me personally.

I have been playing this game for 10 years, I don't play at the moment but that doesn't mean that I wont be back. For me the problem isn't the game or the lack of development or any significant changes. The problem is that right now I cannot go onto the game and find a server where there are a decent amount of people for me to have a decent race with.

I might find maybe 1 or 2 people that I can race but nothing like it used to be. Popularity is a big issue for me because if I can't get a decent race then what am I playing for, that's the fun factor completely gone for me really. Nothing wrong with the game, I have tried Westhill and it's good, I haven't complained about the game or development my only quarrel is that the popularity has fallen because of other people's perception of these issues.

I pop back onto the forums every now and then to catch up, read up on development notes etc because I love the game and I haven't had the feeling that I had with this game ever since. One day I will come back and I will see that popularity is back because of some major update (be it tyre physics, track updates or graphical updates) and I can again do what I love doing with this game. Nothing will stop me with that.

Last edited by snewham, Fri, 15 May 2015 16:33.

I absolutely love this game, first racing sim I've played since LFS that I've actually come to like and will probably play for a prolonged time. Had some really great races online on Oulton Park last night with Ginettas, 16 people within 2 seconds of fastest lap.

I think it's a bit disappointing really, when I was playing hardcore from like 2004-2007 I finally left because I had to go to uni and had no setup there.

When I came back after 3 years basically nothing had changed, there were a few minor updates but nothing that really shouted to me to get back into it. Even now, I mainly play Asetto Corsa, Project Cars or iRacing because I feel that they are so far ahead now as an all round game. Still not as good as LFS in terms of physics or gameplay but what is physics without people to race against.

However, LFS was my first love and only Project Cars is coming close to the kind of racing that we used to have back in 2004/2005, the races and leagues that we had back then were immense loved every second. If there was some sort of big update I would definitely come back but I fear that for most people there needs to be some sort of massive graphical update now to lure people back.

I know that the game isn't about graphics and it's about the racing but it's hard to even find a race these days there's no one online racing. It's just a bunch of people attempting to drift...

sup guys just checking in!

Hey guys, I haven't played for a long time. Started playing over 10 years ago, thought I'd come back and see what was going on.

Might get back into LFS have been missing playing on sims, all this new Gran Turismo crap is awful, terrible races and mainly just full of kids trying to crash into you. Haven't really been playing many games for the past few years, mainly working hard and getting my life sorted.

Should be buying a new wheel soon so will see you out there

My car at the moment

Hey guys

Well I'm not new at all, I was playing LFS in Alpha but haven't played the game in over 5 years now, thought I would pop by and say hi. I expected some sort of development of the game and was quite looking forward to seeing what had progressed, slightly disappointed to see that not much has happened.

Used to run a team with a bunch of people and went to the karting meet in 2005 and met all the devs back then...

Either way, just ordered myself a new wheel and I'll be seeing you all on the track again

Scott

I came to the kating meet in 2005 and it was great fun indeed, so I'd love to come this year as I'm getting back into LFS but I think it might be a little far for me but I'l going to look into it anyway.

Quote from Fordman :

5. 4 Sight Racing (4SR)
W.Dendy (Confirmed)
Scotty (Confirmed)

:P Scott

Quote from zeugnimod :

Hi, nice to see you come back.

Oooh I remember you as well :P

Good to see some old faces that are still here

Quote from Darkone55 :

Haha.. Awesome. Well.. I haven't played for a while now. I'm just sticking around because I like the team, but I hardly ever touch the wheel..

Ahhh ok, well I'm hoping that I can get back into it properly.

Quote from Darkone55 :

It involves beer and racing and it's somewhere in May. *looks mysteriously*

NO WAY YOU STILL PLAY !!@!@!

Omg dude.


I remember like 5/6 years ago when I was racing with you all the time, back when 4SR was around. I'm going to start getting back into LFS I hope.

Good to see that you're still around F1rst, had massive respect for you when I used to race, hope to race you soon when I return to LFS lol :P

Scott

Thanks guys, it's just getting started but we already have quite a large amount of content so it might be a valuable resource for tutorials and product reviews for you. We're going to start advertising it properly in the new year so this is sort of just like a trial run to iron out any bugs or structural issues.

scott

bump

I just wanted to make you guys aware of a new project that I am involved in. It's basically a photography forum based in the UK but international members are also welcome

It aims to help with the development of people's photography skills in the UK and provide a valuable resource of all things relating to the subject. Here are some of the features:

Community forums
User galleries with unlimited upload space
Camera equipment reviews
Photography tutorials
Photographer interviews
E-Zine in design stages


The site is just getting started at the moment so there aren't very many members but we're all committed to making sure that it works so it would be nice to see a few of you over there sharing some of your photos.


CLICK HERE to go to PhotographyForums.org



Thanks alot for your time,


scott

Quote from GFresh :

Love the photo's, any chance of getting hold of some high res versions?

Yeah I can do hi-res versions, which one do you want?

scott

Well I went along to Brands Hatch today to see the WTCC qualification for Sunday's race. I can't go on sunday so I thought I'd check out the saturday instead.

I got there about 9:30 just after the first practice session had started and started snapping. This is my first time shooting motorsport so I'm looking to improve really. I don't think I have the best equipment for the job though :P

anyway, here goes:




































Thanks alot,
scott

Mate, you've lost the plot. Seriously.

Quote from XCNuse :

Good point about aperture, I was zoomed out a fair amount when I have done it before, except once when I did the moon (now that was cool!), it could just be those photos have enough zoom to where not much of those lights light up the ground enough for the camera to capture it.

Well the reason the ground isn't lit up is that the ground in those places is only lit for a fraction of the amount of time that the light is visible around the areas of the headlights etc.

Therefore, that small amount of time, distributes itself over the 10-15 second exposure and almost gets completley wiped out.

Hard to explain but think I got the point across lol

Pfft Nurburgring gets boring after a while :P


haha only joking, I'll be going on my third trip to Nurburgring this year in August

Quote from XCNuse :

Those pictures for all you know could have been taken in the range of 5 seconds +. If you set ISO up to .. I don't remember how high my mom's camera went, 1200 I believe if not 800, and set a 15 second shutter open time it'll be fairly bright. I guess I never saved any of my pictures on my computer after taking them, but then again I do live in one of the largest light pollution areas in the US so.. it makes sense.

Those pictures though may be low ISO settings and probably 10 seconds long.

The last one of those four pictures definitely has a higher ISO setting than the second or third, but all most likely have a shutter time of 8 to 10 seconds.

I wouldn't directly use ISO, to make an image brighter. A higher ISO setting will leave you with very bad graining in low light conditions.

You want to increase the exposure and therefore want to either increase shutter speed or increase the aperture size to allow more light to enter.

Quote from franky500 :

except for summer when it is British Summer time as we put our clocks forward one hour. Lets not forget that the UK is not the only place that uses GMT....

BST is what we are on now which is GMT + 1. Time.

simple search in google to try and prove the point ... and i saw this:


PLEASE NOTE: GMT DOES NOT SWITCH TO SUMMER TIME
The United Kingdom (UK) switches to British Summer Time (BST)
(which is an hour ahead of GMT)


.... No Further Questions. Your Honor

I haven't been on here for months and you're still a cock lol. The point I was trying to make was that the British standard is GMT...

Quote from zeugnimod :

England has BST which is one hour ahead of GMT.

You dont even know your own timezone?

Quote from zeugnimod :

No, it is not...I know.

GMT stands for Grenwich Mean Time. Grenwich is a place in London which also happens to be in England. England has and always will be GMT time and +0.00 hrs....

lol pwned.

cool