In any kind of racing bumping the back of another car when it is already close to the edge of it's abilities can have very bad consequences(losing control, etc)
The problem is that there are two simulations trying to simulate the same thing, but they are not in sync because of network latency, so bad things can happen when one simulation thinks you are somewhere you are not and vice versa. Some work could probably be done to cut down on the sending you into orbit collision responses while playing online, but I'm sure Scawen has plenty to stay busy for a long time.
The only time I have had a problem while being close to another car was when there was significant lag, and then their car jumped into mine a bit and I was sent spinning off the track. You can't really help network congestion in a realtime physically based game, I think LFS does an excellent job.
Wow, thread went from 2 pages to 8 since I last checked.
I just want to say that I agree with Bahrain 100%, although maybe he could of been a bit more tactful with some of the arguements. PartyBoat somewhat, but calling people moron in big letters really is pointless. All the people that are going on about how stalking is illegal are missing the point, there was no stalking going on, just someone being an idiot/annoying someone in a game.
Best post was by Honey
We might as well close the thread now that we have invoked Godwin's law
There is a block messages button for a reason, stop drawing attention to yourself and you wouldn't have a problem. People are ****s to other people all the time, why do you deserve special consideration? Not that I want to come off as rude, but it seems like you are just attention whoring with this thread as much as the people who you say are stalking you.
Yeah most are just a reading from the output of the transmission where the axle ratio and tire size are assumed to be constants and factored in to get ground speed, having the speeds read from that instead of the 'actual speed' like it is now would be really cool.
Why do you say V for Vendetta was a european movie? Just because it was shot in Britain? Sure it was based on the comic by the British Alan Moore set in a future dystopian UK but the screensplay was written and it was produced by the Wachowski Brothers and distributed by Warner Brothers.
mrodgers you seem to have more of an agenda than just being against a movie, it's not a money making scam, we live in a consumer driven economy, they make the movies that they think will make them money. At the end of the day this is just a movie that believe it or not some people will see and enjoy, but you can post pointless nonsensical rants all day since that's what you seem to enjoy doing. Your first mistake was that you presume to think that your idea of entertainment applies to everyone.
I unfortunately saw it today, the one thing that annoyed me [most] was the simple fact that, DRIFTING IS NOT RACING! The objectives of racing and drifting are for the most part mutually exclusive.
As someone with a Computer Science degree and who makes games it seems like you don't know enough on the topic to know what you want to do, if you want to get into programming, go buy a book and start programming something very small and very simple, anything. For an overview on what a large scale game takes check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_development
A cell phone is a type of mobile phone, as I guess there could be many other types(any phone that is not wired I would assume could be called a mobile phone), see the earlier car phones that were obviously mobile but did not use cellular networks. If you want to define a native name, where do you think cell phones were invented?
The BF1 on the aston north going clockwise, there is a steeply banked corner in the middle of the hilly part, it's always fun to throw a car into a nice banked corner
At least I think he was refering to bracket racing where instead of racing the guy next to you to see who can get the fastest time, you see who can get closest to a 'dial in' time that you guess before hand without going any faster than that time. It basically allows cars that are not equal in horsepower or ET time to compete against each other, because it tests driver skill more than how much money you have dumped into your car to make it go fast in a straight line.