If you have an S3 license the only server I see that opens up is another TC City Driving cruise server which is not interesting to me.

Surprised the TC thing is still going, I remember they used to have servers a decade or more ago! Was nice to chill out on

Shame as the physics are pretty good still considering the games age, I pray one day CTRA or a similar league comes back lol

I installed and downloaded the game again once I got my wheel mount sorted, did some searching on here and got some of the texture and reflection packs so it doesn't look awful for a 15 year old game!

Must admit was disappointed with the active multiplayer servers, there was only 1 actual racing server I could see - which was a FBM server doing 4 lap sprint races - which was OK - reminded me how rusty I am :-)
Was well off the pace!

Probably won't get S3 , given how dead public multiplayer is, the most players on any server was 12
I see little point of spending the £12 just to drive around Rockingham

I remember back in the CTRA days there was multiple servers with 20+ people, I was hoping there was still a core active community

Oh well, if the FBM racing is all I can get then I'll take it for now and just dip in every so often but I'll probably stick with AC/ACC/PC2

Thanks for the Disc link Mandul, I've joined it.

Rane, looked into the mods, seems to just be some basic mods rather than the level of Asseto Corsa for example, but better than nothing I guess!

Is there an equivalent to CTRA today? I don't tend to spend 3-4 hours racing as a go, I liked the CTRA method of being able to jump in and out with the lap records and points earnt etc.

And are public racing lobbies still active in Multiplayer server browser? I remember there used to be the random drift servers and the racing servers that did 15-30 minute races etc?

Also, there used to be a big skinning community with the cars, are those still active? Is there a big file I can download which has lots of different skins for cars as opposed to getting them individually

Sorry for the questions, I'm a boomer now so I've forgotten how to do anything ! :-)

Last edited by S14 DRIFT, Fri 12 Nov 2021, 15:20.

Hello.
Been years (maybe 10) since I last played.

Gotten back into sim racing recently and remembered this game and how great it was back in the day.

Is it still active? I think CTRA with their lap record and adhoc racing championship plug in was all the rage when I was last active.

Still a lot of racing / tournaments going on or is it sort of dead now?


Basically wondering if it's with re downloading and getting s3 or not.

y u no slam it

Yeah when I was 18 I had £501,434.28p in my bank account.
True story.

Quote from pb32000 :

Couple of iphone shots from today

that is nice!!

and as for the insurance argument shut the **** up.
if the car is only lightly damaged, eg a bumper, there and then, offer to take the person who hit you to a cash point and arrange an amount and they hand it there and then. if they don't give you cash there and then you can either

1) escort the person back to their house, have them show you ID that prooves they live there and arrange for it to be done later or;
2) use insurance.
normally it would only be a bumper and £250 would cover a replacement bumper (ebay bought + respray) or a repair and respray of your current one.

if someone crashed into me and only dinged my bumper that's what i'd do (after i'd chopped their balls and or boobs off)
considering most people's excess is say £250 then it would be completely stupid not to.. you'd still have to pay and both of your insurance will go up next year.

Last edited by S14 DRIFT, Sun 13 May 2012, 18:23.

Quote from G!NhO :

In dennis arms.

and pushed his

Quote from Klutch :

FG Falcons are quite nice...

Not too bad. Sort of looks like a Mondeo-R

Quote from Klutch :

Goth chick has been laid.


took a lot longer than expected lol

Does anyone actually care or is this still a 12 year old playgroup? :P

Quote from hazaky :

Been playin LFS with a mouse since 2006 or so. Makes me sad.

You are unbanned too.

Is it cause I is (a graphical developer)?

Quote from ACCAkut :

nana, in the last pics I saw he looked a lot more like a human than he did before

oh my apologies then

Quote from danthebangerboy :

Audi, VW, Skoda, all look pretty samey these days to be honest, but then i guess the same can be said for most newer everyday cars, vehicles in general just dont have the character they used to have, look at anything from the sixties, all about fins, the seventies saw curves and more flared styling, then the eighties and nineties saw squarer looking cars, then becoming more streamlined in shape due to aerodynamics etc, the majority of new cars today just look plain boring, sure, they are more refined and much better cars in general, but boring to look at nevertheless.

I will use ford to illustrate my point...


1966...





1973...





1983...





1991...





1998...




2005...




2012...



Theres no excitement these days.

Sorry how on earth is a 1988 Ford Sierra exciting? The newest Mondeo is EASILY the best looking of any of the generation of ford saloons.

Quote from Klutch :

was a bit more than cuddling haha, her logic is really skewed

it's ok if she ever gets with you (why she would i have no idea you look like a fat ozzie ozbourne no homo) she will probably do the same to you at some point.

If i get a G27, I can race again. I'm far too busy upgrading my car in RL to bother with sim racing wheels.

Quote from flymike91 :

dotcom was arrested for making tens of millions of dollars distributing copyrighted material. There's an FBI warning before every US film that says you can be arrested for illegally distributing it, so why is it a surprise he's in jail?

Fukusima...I would love to hear who you think is secretly pulling the strings behind earthquakes.

But if someone was only hosting links to other sites...
That's like the Yellow Pages being arrested for having adverts for "discreet massage"...
Like going "I don't sell drugs but I know dave down the road has them.."

Quote from Racer Y :

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
uh I hit your profile link by mistake. Just outta curiousity, Do you own a bike?

I did own a bike I sold it to buy the Golf SURPREME.

Quote from frotto110 :

LFS is best simulation out there

Compared to what, being stabbed? In that respect it's great, compared to every other Sims since 2009 it's sh....iny? , sorry.
In terms of driving, general physics, it's nice, but in graphics, features, etc etc. Not so good.

Quote from Töki (HUN) :

Audi 200, lol sure.. BMW produced nicely styled cars in the 80's. Just look at the E23, 24, 28... Now compare them to the boring VWs.

Different tastes, we better stop here.

You did say square cars no homo.

It's funny 'cause it's true.

Quote from col :

When I raced in CTRA, I was peaking at around 40fps, but dipping into the teens at starts with larger grids. I achieved platinum level, and had an low to average yellow flag ratio. If frame rate had been as significant as you are suggesting, I don't think this would have been possible.

I used to race in CTRA and can tell you the flag ratio is crap. I would get yellow flagged for driving in the lead (??)
With respect it was people like you (not necessarily including yourself) who caused the countless first-lap f**k ups which meant I had to learn how to throw a tail happy car into a corner at max speed to avoid being taken out.

Banning because of frame rates is lame but I think a user who can't sustain say 20fps in the first few corners of a race should not be allowed to race on a busy, serious server.
Not that they exist anymore so no-one will be banned.

Quote from Töki (HUN) :

VW's designers smoked something in the 80's. Corrado, Scirocco, Transporter, Passat, Polo, they all look horrible. The Golfs are so-so.

shut up the Scirocco's were awesome Corrado was great as well.

Oh just shut up...........................

hello kitty