Chaps, I've got a code going for a free month of iRacing* that expires today.
Seems a shame for it to go to waste, so if anyone's interested, first reply to that effect gets it.
* New users only I'm afraid
EDIT - Taken!
Seems a shame for it to go to waste, so if anyone's interested, first reply to that effect gets it.
* New users only I'm afraid
EDIT - Taken!
Last edited by Tokartta, .
Actually, he was drafted into the commentary box for the 1994 European GP at Jerez.
Actually it's a Lizard engine game, I believe.
Broadly based from a random FBMW image on flickr:
Not everyone (notably the southern hemisphere, the US*, and various other places) changes in and out of DST at the same time, hence the reasoning for using UTC in the first place as it does not change. Some countries, admittedly ones with negligable LFS userbases, don't use DST at all.
Most people know their DST offset at a given point in the year, it's just a case of addition.
e.g. Event scheduled for 17:40 UTC
Britain: (DST active; BST = UTC+1) - 18:40 local.
Central Europe: (DST active; CEST** = UTC+2) - 19:40 local.
India: (DST not used; IST = UTC+5:30) - 23:10 local.
West Coast US: (DST active; PDT = UTC-7) - 10:40 local.
* The US is/has changed the DST entry and exit times that it uses, so you can't assume that when we enter DST, that all the timezones shift at once.
** In the central european timezone, it is VERY ANNOYINGLY common for the term 'CET' to be used all year, whereas the proper term for the DST period is CEST. If you see a time expressed as CET in the summer, it could mean UTC+1 or UTC+2.
It's not so much about what car you get to drive when, but rather who you get to drive alongside. The SRA promotes good, clean driving. And that's exactly what you get. While you don't get a full guarantee of that, you can be fairly confident in other people not to annihilate you out of the race.
It's a common misconception among copper and bronze licensed racers that the silver server is more of the same, but it really isn't; It's in a whole other league!
Bad news for Virgin Media users
Bend over...
http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/internet/traffic.html
The limits themselves are bad enough, but my worry is how they're going to actually do it. I foresee plenty of packet loss/delay and unhappy LFS users. If that's the case, I'm screwed - I switched to cable a while ago due to a huge myriad of problems I had with ADSL, and no other company operates anywhere near here in Brighton.
"Hello Mr. Branson, I'm your cosmetics assistant. As part of my new contract, I'll be upgrading your nose at an extra cost of £x a month, however, if you smile for more than 3 minutes between the hours of 8am and 8pm, an arsehole will appear on your forehead. This will persist for 4 hours after it is initiated."
The broadband in this country is a bloody disgrace - Much is being said about the speed increases in recent years but it's always veiled - there's no company you can trust not to screw you over a few years down the line.
http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/internet/traffic.html
The limits themselves are bad enough, but my worry is how they're going to actually do it. I foresee plenty of packet loss/delay and unhappy LFS users. If that's the case, I'm screwed - I switched to cable a while ago due to a huge myriad of problems I had with ADSL, and no other company operates anywhere near here in Brighton.
"Hello Mr. Branson, I'm your cosmetics assistant. As part of my new contract, I'll be upgrading your nose at an extra cost of £x a month, however, if you smile for more than 3 minutes between the hours of 8am and 8pm, an arsehole will appear on your forehead. This will persist for 4 hours after it is initiated."
The broadband in this country is a bloody disgrace - Much is being said about the speed increases in recent years but it's always veiled - there's no company you can trust not to screw you over a few years down the line.
Becky, the STCC system has produced a number of things.
Primarily, bloody superb racing. Pick-up races tend to, in my experience, be effectively over after the first two laps or so as the order shakes out and unassailable gaps form, and while this of course happens on the STCC servers also, it seems to be a much less regular occurrence, on the STCC2 servers at least.
Sometimes, especially on enduro nights with pit-stops, you get some absolute hum-dingers - really intense, heart-in-mouth, bumper to bumper action that lasts for, potentially, the entire race. I have replays to that effect. Even the spectators commented.
This is because there's a whole new skillset being used by the drivers; instead of getting a better exit and pulling to the inside at the first possible opportunity, people use something which you don't see very often at all outside of league racing: The application of pressure.
As anyone that has seen an orange car being rather large in their mirrors will know, I like to follow people very closely, both on straights (easy) or through corners (hard). If the person in front is inexperienced, they'll usually go off on their own sooner or later because they're too busy worrying about me to actually focus on the track. If the person in front is able to cope with it, then you can feel a certain confidence with them. You know you're on to a great battle when you feel that you have a ... sort of... memorandum of understanding with the other person - e.g. feeling confident that they know what you're up to when forcing to the outside or the inside etc.
Again, that new skillset is being used: focussing on the track rather than your mirrors while appreciating anyone that may be right on your arse, inching up on people under braking, reading the movements of backmarkers and taking them strategically, reading other peoples lines - knowing when they're intentionally going defensive by taking the inside, having tyre cooling problems etc., dealing with low front grip due to slipstream, knowing when to pull alongside and when not to - and when you are alongside, how to spot a closed door early enough and yield without losing any ground, the importance of trust.... etc.
These skills are being used by the second thing that the STCC has produced: bloody superb people. When I joined the silver server for the first time, after coming third in a 50 minute ky2r UF1 race (never again), I spectated for a race or two and thought that if I were to go out on track, I would crap myself the moment the blue flag message popped up. There was a real weight to it, these other people were the... elder statesmen. I can say now, with some conviction, that since then I've become a better racer to the degree of an order of magnitude, thanks simply to being around other people that the STCC system had previously produced. I'm now aiming to compete in the STCC in season 2, if the number of entries increases and I'm quick enough.
I'm not saying that all of the above can't be found elsewhere - Any league can provide great racing, although with that comes enormous weight - but I've had races on the STCC servers that you won't find anywhere else.
Becky, I really hope you can get all of your problems sorted, it'd be a bloody great shame if the servers went down for a large expanse of time. Devastating, even.
For the people moaning: If you've had a problem with the STCC servers due to other people being idiots, then for god's sake report it. It does work. If you've suffered a glitch in the license system or you've forcibly had your points removed and wish to enquire about it, then bear in mind that Becky has an enormous amount of stuff on her plate at the best of times, and you haranguing her isn't going to get you many answers very quickly. If you're just against the whole idea of objective driven racing in the first place, then that's fair enough, but let me and others tell you that the system works beautifully. Sure, it's not perfect, the points system is always tweakable, but the results speak for themselves.
Wow, that was a longer post (read: ramble) than I set out to write. :P
- Tokartta. STCC Gold licensed. Bloody proud of it, too.
Primarily, bloody superb racing. Pick-up races tend to, in my experience, be effectively over after the first two laps or so as the order shakes out and unassailable gaps form, and while this of course happens on the STCC servers also, it seems to be a much less regular occurrence, on the STCC2 servers at least.
Sometimes, especially on enduro nights with pit-stops, you get some absolute hum-dingers - really intense, heart-in-mouth, bumper to bumper action that lasts for, potentially, the entire race. I have replays to that effect. Even the spectators commented.
This is because there's a whole new skillset being used by the drivers; instead of getting a better exit and pulling to the inside at the first possible opportunity, people use something which you don't see very often at all outside of league racing: The application of pressure.
As anyone that has seen an orange car being rather large in their mirrors will know, I like to follow people very closely, both on straights (easy) or through corners (hard). If the person in front is inexperienced, they'll usually go off on their own sooner or later because they're too busy worrying about me to actually focus on the track. If the person in front is able to cope with it, then you can feel a certain confidence with them. You know you're on to a great battle when you feel that you have a ... sort of... memorandum of understanding with the other person - e.g. feeling confident that they know what you're up to when forcing to the outside or the inside etc.
Again, that new skillset is being used: focussing on the track rather than your mirrors while appreciating anyone that may be right on your arse, inching up on people under braking, reading the movements of backmarkers and taking them strategically, reading other peoples lines - knowing when they're intentionally going defensive by taking the inside, having tyre cooling problems etc., dealing with low front grip due to slipstream, knowing when to pull alongside and when not to - and when you are alongside, how to spot a closed door early enough and yield without losing any ground, the importance of trust.... etc.
These skills are being used by the second thing that the STCC has produced: bloody superb people. When I joined the silver server for the first time, after coming third in a 50 minute ky2r UF1 race (never again), I spectated for a race or two and thought that if I were to go out on track, I would crap myself the moment the blue flag message popped up. There was a real weight to it, these other people were the... elder statesmen. I can say now, with some conviction, that since then I've become a better racer to the degree of an order of magnitude, thanks simply to being around other people that the STCC system had previously produced. I'm now aiming to compete in the STCC in season 2, if the number of entries increases and I'm quick enough.
I'm not saying that all of the above can't be found elsewhere - Any league can provide great racing, although with that comes enormous weight - but I've had races on the STCC servers that you won't find anywhere else.
Becky, I really hope you can get all of your problems sorted, it'd be a bloody great shame if the servers went down for a large expanse of time. Devastating, even.
For the people moaning: If you've had a problem with the STCC servers due to other people being idiots, then for god's sake report it. It does work. If you've suffered a glitch in the license system or you've forcibly had your points removed and wish to enquire about it, then bear in mind that Becky has an enormous amount of stuff on her plate at the best of times, and you haranguing her isn't going to get you many answers very quickly. If you're just against the whole idea of objective driven racing in the first place, then that's fair enough, but let me and others tell you that the system works beautifully. Sure, it's not perfect, the points system is always tweakable, but the results speak for themselves.
Wow, that was a longer post (read: ramble) than I set out to write. :P
- Tokartta. STCC Gold licensed. Bloody proud of it, too.
Using this is a bit easier than going to control panel > sounds and audio devices each time you need to change soundcard: http://www.quicksoundswitch.toflo.de/
Some people keep thinking that setting 900 degrees in the DFP settings means that when using a car with, say, 540 lock, you have to turn far the full 900 to achieve max lock, and thus advising against it - this is only true if wheel turn compensation is set to 0! Set it to 1 and it'll always be 1:1.
I don't drift myself, but I do sometimes use 'The MOMO effect' when driving the BF1 so that it's a bit easier to catch oversteer: Set the DFP rotation to a lower amount than is set in LFS (e.g. 450 DFP, 900 LFS), and set wheel turn compensation to 0. It's quite unnatural but it might help.
I don't drift myself, but I do sometimes use 'The MOMO effect' when driving the BF1 so that it's a bit easier to catch oversteer: Set the DFP rotation to a lower amount than is set in LFS (e.g. 450 DFP, 900 LFS), and set wheel turn compensation to 0. It's quite unnatural but it might help.
Bug (either just on my system, or no-one else has spotted it yet): All of the config buttons for Aston load as3.
EDIT: eep, Primoz spotted it above, sorry.
EDIT: eep, Primoz spotted it above, sorry.
SOLD.
My DFP pedals are on the way out atm (wobbly/noisy throttle signal, questionable fixability, using 8-odd year old MS ones for now), and I can already afford a G25 right now.
Logitech have very wisely placed themselves in the market with this; below is where the low quality plastic clad budget McWheel abominations reside, and above is the ludicrously expensive diamond encrusted, hand crafted, michelin star rated stuff (think ECCI etc).
Obviously you get what you pay for - it's hardly [include one of those super high end manufacturers here], but this is the only three pedal + shifter + decent wheel combo you're going to get without paying an enormous premium.
October is so far away
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My DFP pedals are on the way out atm (wobbly/noisy throttle signal, questionable fixability, using 8-odd year old MS ones for now), and I can already afford a G25 right now.
Logitech have very wisely placed themselves in the market with this; below is where the low quality plastic clad budget McWheel abominations reside, and above is the ludicrously expensive diamond encrusted, hand crafted, michelin star rated stuff (think ECCI etc).
Obviously you get what you pay for - it's hardly [include one of those super high end manufacturers here], but this is the only three pedal + shifter + decent wheel combo you're going to get without paying an enormous premium.
October is so far away
!Switching to windowed and back (Shift + F4 twice) usually fixes this.
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