About the endurance nights, is it possible to have them run on a preset schedule so it's easier to anticipate the start of a race? For example, if each race is estimated to be 45 minutes, have it or its quali session start every hour on the hour instead of leaving x minutes between them.
I don't know how feasible this would be, especially on Kyoto National, but enforce a drive-through penalty for crossing the outside yellow line on pit exit. I think it would be a good learning tool for eventual inclusion in the STCC, since crossing the pit exit line seems to be a common rule in real racing.
A personal wish: On STCC tracks Have a small button that shows which corner is nearest using STCC corner/straight names. In the event of a yellow flag, have a button pop up above the sector bars with the name of the nearest track feature to the yellow flag.
A personal wish: On STCC tracks Have a small button that shows which corner is nearest using STCC corner/straight names. In the event of a yellow flag, have a button pop up above the sector bars with the name of the nearest track feature to the yellow flag.
It's the illusion of accomplishment. This is something easy to see in almost any MMORPG. Lowering your laptime by a second on any track/car combo is an accomplishment but takes long, hard practice. This is similar to improving skills in FPS or fighting games. "Earning" a fast car by driving around for a similar length of time (ie grinding rats in an RPG) is simpler and less demanding but generates a feeling of progress, even if all you've done is invest time and your driving isn't better than when you started out. Not that I have anything against cruise servers. Well, maybe the one that automagically penalizes you for going faster. That's just ass-backwards.
The cars and track look gorgeous compared to previous broadcasts! So much so that now the little 3D grid preview stands out with its lower resolution. The position list works well for the most part, but the text is too blurry even in the high quality video. It becomes completely illegible when the color changes to green or red. I think the text boxes need to be opaque to reduce the amount of artifacting on the text due to blending with the background.
In regards to car markings and numbers, I think next season (if there is one) the number template is going to have to be much bigger to be prominent and visible in the high res video, let alone youtube. Not as big as my roof number, but perhaps something like the big circles they had back before touring cars were covered in sponsors.
Before the race I had been hoping to get a little more screentime but I didn't think I would put on such an embarassing performance!
I suppose I can console myself with the fact that my flub was useful in demonstrating that the STCC now has false starts. :Kick_Can_
In regards to car markings and numbers, I think next season (if there is one) the number template is going to have to be much bigger to be prominent and visible in the high res video, let alone youtube. Not as big as my roof number, but perhaps something like the big circles they had back before touring cars were covered in sponsors.
Before the race I had been hoping to get a little more screentime but I didn't think I would put on such an embarassing performance!
I suppose I can console myself with the fact that my flub was useful in demonstrating that the STCC now has false starts. :Kick_Can_
For new stats:
* Track/config that you earned the most yellow flags on(besides BnJ)
* Average starting grid position in last 100 races and Average positions gained/lost in last 100 races(not counting mid-race joins)
* Percent of race finishes in the lead lap/outside the lead lap(not counting mid-race joins, retirements count as outside)
* Yellow flags in the first lap in last 100 races
* Track/config that you earned the most yellow flags on(besides BnJ)
* Average starting grid position in last 100 races and Average positions gained/lost in last 100 races(not counting mid-race joins)
* Percent of race finishes in the lead lap/outside the lead lap(not counting mid-race joins, retirements count as outside)
* Yellow flags in the first lap in last 100 races
Isn't the queue only for when multiple people try to join a non-full server at the same time? When trying to join a full server, I only get the server full message.
Heh, the first server filled up in less than a half hour. I think finding a spot is going to be difficult tonight, even when all 3 servers are running. 
If Formula Junior is between FOX and FO8, maybe it's an FO8 with ballast or intake restrictions?
I would LOVE to join a league like this, but sadly being a canuck, my time zone isn't compatible for a weekday schedule.
Regarding the forward/back adjustment, don't we already have zoom keys in cockpit view, 5 & 6? Or was it F5 and F6.
There's 3 of these polls that I know of, spread out over 2 or 3 years, and the vote is always 69 or 70% for cockpit view. I think the trend is pretty much established by now.
Are you such a delicate flower that you can't deal with a single line of - no, half a line of text? If it was flashing or jumping around or a huge image I would gladly agree with you, but really now.
No, but you get it for your PS3 you can use the PSP as a rearview mirror! :uglyhamme
Good commentary, I liked the analysis of suspension damage, even if it's not all that realistic to see it on the fly. Is this going to be available for download later on? I'm getting a lot of rebuffering.
The most likely cause is all the extra contact and physics calculations that have to be done when cars hit each other. I usually get these "lags" in T1 crashes, but if the grid manages to avoid contact I can get very reasonable fps even in T1 with a full grid. One or two hits might cause an imperceptible stutter, but a large number of cars having multiple crashes at the same time causes a severe tax on the CPU. So the big ol' crash you see afterwards with cars flying is probably the cause of the stutter, not the other way around.
Great footage as usual, but the music choice isn't as inspired as in your previous videos. It's simply too downtempo and flighty for the bouncing and sliding going on in the video. I have to agree the music makes it feel a bit like a eulogy.
I see from the flag by your name that you're in Canada, like myself. In that case you can buy it the same way I did. I didn't have access to a credit card or online payments either. Go to the LFS main site and login to the "Welcome Guest" box in the top right. Click on the Buy a License link on the left and then on the Money Order section. There you'll get all the details about what you need to do to complete the purchase. You can get a money order at any major bank. Just take your money, and ask to buy an international money order for £ 24 British Pounds. (call ahead before you go to the bank to make sure you have enough Canadian money to cover the exchange rate and fees)
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I think some of those with better systems are getting too defensive about the performance concerns.
No one in their right mind is going to ask that grid slots be reduced or that no new graphics features be introduced. However, it's still important to give the options for those who need it to alleviate load on their system. The current lowest detail LOD turns cars into blocky lego structures. If someone has to deal with that to get a playable 24 fps then so be it. However, I think they should have the option of dialing down their graphics that far if need be. It's not going to stop anyone else from using hi-res textures and 16xAA/AF.
Speaking as someone who has had to tweak a mid-range computer, I think the LOD reduction system is sometimes optimistic about what can be smoothly rendered. Perhaps some form of manual customization is due for the automatic LOD reduction? For example, setting a maximum car LOD level at all times. Or maybe a user defined max number of car polygons rendered, where if (# of cars rendered * #of polys per car) exceeds a certain number, all cars are dropped to a lower LOD. Or even a simple minimum FPS setting that the LOD reduction system tries to maintain.
No one in their right mind is going to ask that grid slots be reduced or that no new graphics features be introduced. However, it's still important to give the options for those who need it to alleviate load on their system. The current lowest detail LOD turns cars into blocky lego structures. If someone has to deal with that to get a playable 24 fps then so be it. However, I think they should have the option of dialing down their graphics that far if need be. It's not going to stop anyone else from using hi-res textures and 16xAA/AF.
Speaking as someone who has had to tweak a mid-range computer, I think the LOD reduction system is sometimes optimistic about what can be smoothly rendered. Perhaps some form of manual customization is due for the automatic LOD reduction? For example, setting a maximum car LOD level at all times. Or maybe a user defined max number of car polygons rendered, where if (# of cars rendered * #of polys per car) exceeds a certain number, all cars are dropped to a lower LOD. Or even a simple minimum FPS setting that the LOD reduction system tries to maintain.
And so we see how LFS gets its reputation for having teenage FPS clans instead of proper racing teams. 
There's some rendering errors on the track pages with large images in Firefox 2.0.0.2. As you can also see, the backgrounds get all streched out and pixellated. It might be better to link the youtube video from the front page, as I don't think that downloads anything but a placeholder. I think having a streaming video of the latest event on the front page is important. You can also consider adding dailymotion.com to the lineup, they have bigger resolution video now, still in flash so it doesn't need an extra plugin like that divx site.
The menus have some issues, I don't know if they're firefox specific. The letters are too small, and jump to the right and increase in size when moused over. They should start out at the larger size and not move, change color at most.
One of the background images has a car in an FE track about 50 feet in the air. I don't think that's the kind of thing you were trying to show off in the broadcasts.
The menus have some issues, I don't know if they're firefox specific. The letters are too small, and jump to the right and increase in size when moused over. They should start out at the larger size and not move, change color at most.
One of the background images has a car in an FE track about 50 feet in the air. I don't think that's the kind of thing you were trying to show off in the broadcasts.
More LFS on ASS
I was rather please to see the new issue of http://www.autosimsport.net/ has an interview with an LFS racing team and race reports from a couple of leagues. Nice contributions, everyone! 
Humour of what? An impersonation of kidcodea on Valium?
All this and I still don't know what Breizh wanted to tell the devs.
Since this allowance of images in sigs is supposed to be a test in league promotion, why not have the userbars automatically act as links to the STCC website?
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Admins don't have privileges, they have rights over the servers they own and run. The ones with privileges are all the client users, including you. On any server your access is essentially at the whim of the local admin. The only way to avoid power-tripping jerkass admins is to not patronize their servers. This goes for any online game, really.
Let's face it, there's not all that many Canadians on LFS to begin with, and only a fraction of those are willing and able to participate in leagues. To attract enough people, any league based in Canada has to be open to the US and ideally, also Mexico and South America.
Personally, I would prefer one of the LRF cars or TBOs. BTW, I'm in Ontario.
Personally, I would prefer one of the LRF cars or TBOs. BTW, I'm in Ontario.
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