"Ive noticed a few posts either about LFS dieing or about the NEW patch well i upgraded to S2 not to bad but now wish Id spent the $$ on something else. Due to having a pisspoor DSL connection and they wont fix it or upgrade my lines out here in the boonies but o well..This seams to keep me from racing full league races or joining in a full race this sucks i found a car i like and a cpl tracks i was getting used to now i cant even race BUMMER!! "

Alright, then, you go to the gas station and put in a few gallons of gas. That's 8 bucks. Then you roll over to the grocery store, get yourself some fruit and six-pack of Bud Lite Lime. That's 10 bucks.

Total, on the conservative side, is 20 bucks. That's about as much as you paid for a S2 license. And unless I'm some sort of wizzard who has preternatural skills, you probably didn't go all that.

So you're even. Why feel the need to complain?

Is it so that we all could correct your odd grammar and ramblings?


Alan

Quote from shiny_red_cobra :

We're all equal? I had to lol at that, you communist! We are not all equal!

How aboout equal before the law? Does that suit you?

Communism, as if you know that the hell that is.

The thing will be released when it is released. If someone doesn't care to wait, he can move on. It's that simple.

Alan

Quote from Fuse5 :

poster is american, so he only knows and supports iracing. move along

I think you're misguided here. Maybe it's because you are unAmerican, eh?

I am American and do not support iRacing. It's an alternative and I've tried it but didn't really care for how rigidly it's run.

So I think you're generalizations about Americans, at least on this particular point, is a bit wrongheaded (along with your usage-- grammatically speaking).

But consider that most people are accustomed to having things instantly. They watch TV ten hours a day, and American Idol is their favorite program. I think you can see that the way LFS has been developed goes against the grain.


Alan

I must be stupid or I'm missing something-- or maybe both.

I have a G25 and am running under XP. I've set up my controls, with a manual clutch and all the rest.

Now when I go to drive a XF GTR, say, everything works splendidly.

But when I try say maybe the XR GTR or the Formula XR, it seems like my shifter or something doesn't work. I press the clutch, put it in gear (I don't think it goes into gear) and accelerate. But it's like I'm in neutral.

Then I go back to the XF GTR, say, and things work as they should.

So some of the cars work fine and others I can't seem to get my G25 to work.

Am I supposed to be doing something to get things going with some of these cars-- the engines are running and all.

I've been out of the loop for a bit, so I thought something new was added.

I am running the latest Test patch.


Thanks,


Alan

Question. How do I load an autocross. I put the files in the /layout directory, pressed shift-u, but got nothing. I had the right track selected and went through all its variations.

I'm trying to run the Aston Hillclimb autocross.

Thanks,

Alan

Quote from SpikeyMarcoD :

They are seperate. I only have cars on hi and helmets on normal. Dont want to use my credit on the helmets

Are they separate? I at first thought they were. But when my account wasn't billed and it didn't look like a thing was beging downloaded, I enabled the 512 helmet option.

It was only then that my account was billed the one pound and the skins were being downloaded.

As for the number going on your account page each time you get a skin, I'm not sure this happens. I'm still at "1". I know I've gotten more than one skin so far.

This whole skin thing is pretty unclear. I read what the patch notes said and it still is unclear.

I agree that the developers should write up an FAQ on the skins and make it a sticky.


Alan

Quote from (SaM) :

You just have to enable the option.
Options > Misc > Car skins download > 1024
Options > Misc > Helmet skins download > 1024

Okay, so I did enable the car skins download to 1024. The only thing is that I still get this on my account page:

Edit: I didn't have the helmet 512 enabled. I thought that was something separate which incured a separate cost.

All is fine and it shows on my account that I've used something.

One more question, though. The skins I already have-- are they converted to 1024? I went online to a server, just to see. Now my account page reads:



Does the number at "1" now go up each time I get a skin? I'm just a bit uncertain about how this works and how the skins are downloaded.


Thanks,

Alan

Last edited by Alan_Bernardo, Sat, 7 Jul 2007 03:33.

Okay, now. I went and dumped in 3 pounds to my account. Then I went and enabled the option for 1024 skins use, and got a message about how you need money in your account to activate, etc.

What do I do after that? I just went and tried online and then single player, returning to my web account details to see if I had one less pound.

But I'm still at 3 pounds.

How do I go about getting or using these high-resoltuion skins?

Thanks,

Alan

Quote from The Moose :

ROFL. Alan actually made a recent comeback at RSC..unfortunately it was the same old 'Attack Kunos and speculate a bit' rubbish that he usually comes out with.

You are such a sensitive person.

As to Kunos and NKP, you can go on believing what you want. Everything he promised he reneged on. The next thing you'll get from NKP is a new version with a new cost.

Quote :

Bit of advice Alan old friend.. As you obviously don't like the content of this forum and you don't want to contribute anything of interest, why not just stay the hell away.

All I was doing was commenting on polls, and we all know they are stupid.

Quote :

One day you may actually make a positive post somewhere about something. Until then how about keeping your own miserable world to yourself.

I think you might be projecting your world onto mine, but I can't be sure. I've posted positively many times on many subjects. If you think I'm going to post something positive about something that doesn't deserve a positive post, then you've misjudged me.

Polls are dumb, and Kunos is one of the most disingenous game-makers that I've ever seen. Should I just be silent on these things or say how I feel?

Quote :

Ohh i see, we're all far too unintelligent for you, oh wise and all knowing one. Your smug self satisfaction is really starting to wear a bit thin.

No, I didn't actually say this. I can see that reading what people are about is not one of your strengths. It must be that everyone who uses satire or irony (in a satirical way) is smug and self-satisfied.

I just don't see it that way.


Alan

Quote from XCNuse :

He responded before the poll appeared, I almost replied asking the same thing, but now seeing that the poll is up I understand what you mean.

He is asking if you post on threads that have polls even after answering the poll.

It depends on the topic, and if I can add to the topic, if not then I just answer the poll.

No.

Polls, do you take them? That's it.

Absurd-- like polls in general. Maybe all this was a level too deep for some of you.

Alan

Quote from LazLoW :

Highly agreed. I said I sometimes respond though. This is one of those times because I love encouraging completely useless stupid things

And so the point is made. Polls are useless.

It took you guys that long to figure this out?

A poll on polls about polls on polls about polls on polls.

And so it goes:

What car do you like the most?
What version are you using?
Would you pay to enter a race?
Are you paying for hi-res skins?
Do you like oval?
What's your fav combo? (too much television for this author)
Would you like to see three-wheelers in LFS?
Training, do you bother?
So what happened when you unlocked S2?
Does someone look like someone else?
Do your feet get dressed to go racing too?
Track guides: worth spending time on?
Oval or road course?
Which view do YOU race with (as if the "you" needed some special emphasis)

There you have a listing of the last polls. Very thought-provoking.

LFS is a nice simulator, but these forums... there's not much here, unless one goes to the technical assistance forum.


Alan

Quote from LazLoW :

Um.



What?

Simple. Someone might do a poll on polls about polls. That's not difficult to understand, is it?

Obviously, from my poll and my post on polls, it's not hard to figure what I think about most polls.


Alan

How do you feel about polls is the poll of the day. A poll on polls. In the future, I'm hoping that someone will do a poll on polls on polls.


Alan

Anyone know where I can find this?

If someone has it, could you please send to

[email protected]


Thanks,


Alan

What of this idea, where the host can force the controller?

Options could be like:

Wheel
gamepad/joystick
keyboard

This could even out the field, in a sense.


Alan

I'm trying to configue my XBOX 360 Wired Controller to use with LFS.

I want to configure the triggers, right and left, to the gas and brake, respectively.

I've tried all sorts of combinations and all but nothing seems to work. In other racing games (e.g., rFactor) I can do this easily, using split axis.

I'm using XP.

Thanks,

Alan

I searched and searched but found nothing on this subject. Is there an option for showing no wheel or arms (or both) in LFS, cockpit?

Thanks,

Alanb

Quote from ShannonN :

Let them all pay out on ya man, they're jealous, having a parent that'll take an interest in your games/hobbies is a great thing in this day and age when most parents are too busy working two jobs to pay debts etc, challenge mum more and more, maybe she'll form a team with other parents and get them to take an interest in what their kids do?

Cheers

How about a parent who has two kids and wishes his kids would drive LFS?

That, I'm afraid, is my situation.

Alanb

Quote :

Could someone please post a config file, one that works.

I got it to work. I needed to change the IP in the config file to my LAN IP. No one mentioned that and it wasn't in the readme; but that's what the problem turned out to be.

Thanks,

Alanb

Quote from Noxi :

@Alan_Bernardo
No you dont need to make thise files, they will be created when the first driver makes his first lap. This error you get is not the reson lfslapper dont start.

The problem I would guess is with InSim, somehow the port you are using for InSim is already used. When I config my LFS server with /insim 29999 in the config I get the same as you, the window closes without any errors. So I removed that from config and manualy start InSim from the chat in my driversseat with /insim 29999. Thats how I got it to work, dont know why the config dont work. GL

That did not work. My window closes, but with errors, something about how the text files cannot be found.

Could someone please post a config file, one that works.

Thanks,

Alanb

When I try and start LFS Lapper the window just closes. The debug option doesn't appear to work but I notice in the window-- when it opens and closes-- that the error I'm getting is about the pb.txt and DriftPB.txt not being found.

The program does not create these files. I used a text editor and created the two files, with nothing in them.

How EXACTLY do I point to these files, in the *.cfg file.

Currently I have this for one of these text files,

DriftDatatbase = LFSLapper/bin/DriftPB.txt

I've tried it also using the drive designation, since I have the main program in the root, "D" directory.

It would like like this,

DriftDatabase = D:\LFSLapper/bin/DrfitPB.txt

Neither way works. I still get the error message. I have the main executable pointing to the *.cfg file.

How EXACTLY do I indicate this path to the *.txt files, is what I want to know.

Alan

Quote :

I also though to that it is great to have a fully mod friendly game like rfactor. But now after 6 months or so I think its totally wrong done.

Wrong done? That's interesting.

Quote :

There are simple to many low/half quality mods. My idea of rfactor was to have some 5 or so top quality mods like F1, GTR, F3... whatever.
Now go online and check the server list. You will find 10 versions of F1, F1_Fullsim, F1 Champions, F1 rips. blabla. It cant really go any worse then this.

There are at least six or so very good mods, and they dominate online play. You can't beat variety.

I think you exaggerate when you say "10" versions of F1. There are two, I believe. One is pretty decent, and the other I haven't tried.

Quote :

There is only 1 server with 10 people right now. All others are filled up with 2 max.
My only hope is still that when the real F1 mod gets released all this half done will get dropped and deleted.

Actually, the numbers online are pretty similar between LFS and rFactor. If you run version 1.070 and have the proper mod installed, you're in good shape. The PCC mod is very good.

Quote :

Also I much more prefer the gfx of LFS then any ISI game ever done!

I think you're crazy on this one, if graphics are what you look for in a racer.

I have LFS S2 and rFactor and enjoy both of them. I do play rFactor a lot more. But I'll agree, that if you want quick online competition, LFS is the way to go, simply because LFS is less fragmented. But to say that rFactor is a single-player only simulator (as someone here has said) is absurd.

Seeing that this is an LFS forum, it's natural that most would prefer LFS. Ask the same question over at the rFactor forum, and you'll get opposite responses.

In all, any such questions comparing racing simulators is a waste of time. You like what you like and go from there. If you like LFS, you bash rFactor; if you like rFactor, you bash LFS. If you like NetKar Pro, you bash rFactor and LFS; if you like flight simulators, you bash all racers. It's endless, and a waste of time.

But since I've already wasted everyone's time, I rank the top three current racing simulators as such:

rFactor
LFS
NetKar Pro (simply because it is unfinished and very limited-- best physics engine of them all)


Alanb

Quote :

As tightnit as the LFS community is, these problems WILL happen if tools are released. There is no way to stop it.

This is an absurd justification for not wanting tools for LFS to be released. Eventually, if LFS hits the wall and there is no expansion after S3, the game will die out.

If tools are released allowing new cars and tracks, the game continues to live way beyond the lifespan if no tools are released.

So you're choice is-- let the game die or allow it to grow, albiet in a somewhat fragmented way.

You're deciding the former.

Even if fragmentation occurs, sooner or later some sort of order will be created out of this initial disorder. Take a look at GPL as an example. And even with rFactor, still in its infancy, order is slowly beginning to take shape.

The problem with rFactor, as I see it, is that a good many modders do not test their releases enough, which results in fix upon fix, which creates mismatches and fragmentation. This problem will evenutally fade, as the want-to-be modders fade away and the real talented modders take over.

This is a long process, and those suffering from ADHD might not see this as an eventual outcome or care to wait until it happens. But it will happen, within time.

The same would happen with LFS, though it will be less painful than rFactor, since with LFS modders will be working with a finished product, unlike what is happening with rFactor.

Myself, I'd be elated if LFS released the necessary tools tomorrow. I don't think it spells doomsday if they were to release the tools, as you seem to think.

Not releasing the tools would be the end, however. That is a certainty.


Alanb

Quote from Jakg :

happens as Windows checks for other wi-fi networks

Dont you just love wi-fi?

That can be disabled. I have a wireless network and I have no pauses.

Check your network settings: there's something in there that disables this checking, if that indeed is the problem.


Alanb

Quote :

We've had this discussion before.

This is not entirely correct. Might be better to say that we've had this discussion hundreds of times before. Those who drive wrecklessly online will never change: no use wasting bandwidth.

Alanb