I am really looking forward to this.

Very excited. South City looks incredible and the airfield circuit looks like it'll be a draft festival. Like old Westhill but even crazier, maybe.

Classic Scawen, not just allowing mods but putting together an entire vehicle editor for the community.

Look forward to some of the new creations that will come of it. Hopefully some stock cars, sports cars/prototypes, and vintage F1 style cars in the future.

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Yes, Draggo! Thank you, exactly what I needed.

Greetings all,

Would anyone happen to have the old in-game LFS decals that were provided on the shop website? I believe the specific link for these items was http://www.lfs-gear.com/LFS-Decals.html.

Lost a couple years worth of files when I switched over to a new PC recently.

After ~4 years (per LFS World) away from Live For Speed, I fired it up this past weekend out of some longing curiosity.

Having upgraded from a $50, 10 year old wheel to something 30 times that, I do think the force feedback it a bit too numb (or maybe tracks too smooth) and the cars a bit too grippy after breaking traction, but I'm almost worried the physics reached the perfect equilibrium between realistic and fun.

The thing I've always liked about LFS is that it mixed everyone with everyone and really let the servers/community dictate how races should be sorted. Even this past weekend I was in 25+ car races where you end up with 3-4-5 cars that are right on pace with you and battling for position. You don't get that in other sims without the series investment of joining a league, and I don't think I've ever played any game where the casual soft bump-n-rub is so acceptable as LFS. In fact, my years of LFS hsve probably gotten me in trouble in other games because I got so comfortable running close to everyone else.

To date it is still the most enjoyable game I have ever played and probably the best entertainment investment I have ever made, considering that I still long for it 13 years on.

If only RSC had lasted too. They are still my "primary sponsor" on my liveries!

What kind of price range?

There was only one setup because most of the booth was set up for some merchandise display. That said, the only reason we saw anyone go up there was to have a go on the simulator.

For sure, it was absolute seat-of-your-pants excitement. I've been to Indy the last two years and this race on TV was more exciting than either of those excellent races in person. I don't think the speed is the immediate issue, it's whether or not the spotter can keep up with the action. My brother and I repeatedly said throughout the race, mainly after restarts, that there's no possible way the spotter could convey all the information they need to the driver, often because there's 5 or more cars within a single length of themselves.

At the same time, I feel like the drivers might not have respected the limit enough, if that's the right wording. At 220 mph, inches apart, they need to realize that cutting up or down a line isn't an option, even out of a turn when you want to run out wide.

I was at the Canadian Grand Prix this year and one of the vendors had a hauler with single simulator set up for use. Even though we passed by on Saturday morning, when the stands were empty, there had to be 20+ people waiting for this thing. We passed it again on race day and the trailer was filled to the brim, probably 50 people waiting.

Really, the only limiting factor to the crowd was the fact that everyone was awful and a 50 person line would take a couple hours to finish. With 3 or 4 simulators I could see the crowd scaling up proportionally, as the wait time cuts down. Get it in the right place and I have no doubt it will work.

This is absolutely brilliant.

On one of thew welsh stages he consistently cuts out for the last few corners for me. The notes still come up on screen and he does cue back in for the finish though.

Gutholz has the right idea. It's the practicality of an estate with the ability to storm down the highway. That's all most people want from a high performance car since 99% of them will never take it to the track.

I bought the Fulvia and it's exactly like that. The car will pull left of right seemingly randomly at high speed, which is almost impossible to correct with keyboard inputs (I don't mind not supporting my wheel, but no mouse controls? really?). I find myself in a semi-controlled tank slapper down every straight, pounding left and right keys just to make it to the end.

Funny that this is a PC only game, because gamepads seem to be the preferred controller at the moment.

Width is critical to the ergonomics of a handheld phone. My iPhone 5 with it's case is just barely small enough that my thumb can cross the whole screen. With some slight hand adjustments I can just touch any apps on the home screen. I imagine that on anything wider you'd have to have a second hand out to reach the far side of the screen.

It's only a few mm difference, but that's massive when you're trying to watch porn with one hand on your dick.

Short clips from my seat at the Indy 500 this year.

No more big wing?

Don't know if anyone mentioned this, but it seems that under the 'cars' section of the new site, there is actually a viewer embedded. It seems to be connected to LFS World as well, as you can view uploaded skins there too.

New site is awesome!

If Hamilton didn't pop a tire, do you guys think we would still be having a similar conversation?

IMO it was a racing incident caused by a poor, yet understandable, decision by Rosberg.

I turn my PC on/off maybe once a week...

My brother's VW Jetta has the most annoying clutch pedal I've ever experienced. The first few cm have almost no resistance, but then there's a sort of 'crest' right around the bite point where it gets really heavy. You have to press harder to get over the 'crest' and then you end up tumbling down the other side as it seemingly loses resistance again.

So you've either got all clutch or no clutch unless you have fantastic coordination and are really focusing on the clutch.

I think that South City, updated so that all the interior (and some exterior) roads connect properly, would suffice.

AMD FX-9590 8 Core CPU
MSI 970A-G46 AM3+ ATX AMD Motherboard
Cooler Master Hyper 212 CPU cooler
Kingwin Case fans 120mm x6
MSI Radeon R9 270
Thermaltake Commander MS-I Snow White edition.
Corsair CX Series CX 500M Modular Power supply.
Corsair XMS3 8GB kit
Kingwin FPX-001 4 Channel fan controller
1TB HDD

Meh, probably.

edit: The problem is absolutely between the monitor and the chair. It's all relatively easy fixes (just had to change SATA modes), but I have no clue what I'm doing so it takes 4 hours to solve the stupidest problems.

Last edited by Rappa Z, Thu, 21 Aug 2014 19:45.