Being a Gen Xer I had it sooo easy. Millennials have it oh so hard.
My kids are millennials. They tell me this a lot. Almost all the time.
Especially the ones that still live here. Oh well. Live in grandkids.
Can't beat that.Sometimes the way they complain about how they have things
makes me laugh.
Well I found something that might just set them off this year.
"That said I don't understand why you would make a demo account if you already have a licensed account,"
What about celebrities? I dunno.... Say actor Lawrence Fishburne had an account. And he was afraid of the papparazzi getting access to it or posting the name his account is in so that if he goes on the servers, everyone will bother him about autographs and the Matrix.
I could see him getting demo accounts for those reasons.
Hmmmm.... a topic for off topic......
I think you're right about that. I imagine the contracts make sure to specify certain year models only. And then there's only so much money available and space to model so many cars. What cars do you decide to get the licenses for even if you did have the funding?
I would also think that developers of racing games in general would avoid getting into deals where they HAD to make specific car models whenever they updated their game versions. That could really suck for the developers of the game if the cars they had to model were to become unpopular and the devs are stuck modeling them on the sequel anyways. Or worse, the manufacturers want to market other cars by having them put in the game also as part of the deal. Like "Sure, you can model the 911 turbo, but you have to model the four door also". Who the hell wants to play with the four door? Now the developers don't have enough space for the Ferrari Portafino!
Yeah. I'm under the impression modeling real cars is more of a pain than it's really worth. Leave that stuff up to the modders out there once its all done.
But still just cause the car modeled is electric, it doesn't mean it has to be a model of an actual car.
Especially one that's prone to fire and has a whacky corporate leadership.
Years ago I played this old mod for NASCAR 2003. The guy basically modded his neighborhood and put all sorts of things in it. Oncoming traffic and a freight train were two of those things. Unfortunately the mod was a little glitchy and would lock up more often than not. But it was enough for me to realize that a train in S.City would be a cool challenge. Especially on Classic in the Chicane. I know Fern bay has train tracks in some of their configurations too, but it's more pronounced in S.City.
Seeing I don't know a thing about coding, I can throw out goofy suggestions all the time. Most of any suggestions I make are just that: goofy. They're not really meant to be taken seriously. Except the train idea. I don't know what kind of coding is involved in making a train for South City. I'm not so sure about how it would affect overall game play either. I just thought it would be a cool thing to have as an option.
I'd much rather have something like an illegal street race server with a working train than I would want to have a plain ol Cruise server.
But you're right. Still need to weigh the coolness factor of these game enhancements versus the pain in the butt factor of making any of these enhancements.
Pressed for time, so I'll have to watch and read the post a little better later.
But Yeah. There's speculation that people's from advanced civilizations all over the planet have been to the Americas before Columbus.
In the 1070's a guy made a Chinese Junk boat and almost did it from Hong Kong. He had worms eating the wood of the boat. I think he attempted it later and managed to make it. They base a lot of these theories on pre-columbian artifacts. From Toltec head sculptures in Guatemala that look Chinese to Eastern Amazon tribes making things that look Phoenician.
Drag strip surfaces vary with the drag strip. And depending how each lane was raced on overall, vary from each other as well. I'd love to see something done with the drag strip on LFS, but the all the physics coding involved for a 3 second race? I can see why it's not a big priority.
But still. A drag strip? You can get the nordi-track and just about any other assorted circles to race on with the other titles all day long. But a drag strip? That would be cool.
I did a half @ssed drawing of a modified UFR and posted it somewhere here a few years ago. It's definitely not something to brag about as much as to point out something I had in mind.
Yeah... A drag strip. Think Victor could come up with some '60s surf music stuff for the background?
So in a nutshell, you're saying Danish folk tend to over complicate things when they talk is the reason for the linguistic skills. Makes sense.
And with the viking heritage, it makes sense that your language would be that complicated. Think about it. You had all these tribes coming together. Eventually forming one super tribe or another. These original tribes had different words for things and different pronunciations too.
I don't think the guy was an albino. I don't think Azrec priests would've handled albinos very well. Besides, the guy had a beard too. I know about viking exploration in pre columbian Americas, But there's no real hard evidence of the vikings coming this far south at all. But common sense makes me think this is highly possible. The way the vikings tended to sail, hugging coastlines, I don't see why they couldn't at least get as far south as the southern US coast.
As far as who this Quetzalcoatl person was? Who knows? The shipwrecked viking makes for a good theory, but it could've been anybody, if anyone at all.
I just got through updating an RTS game called O AD. It's free and open source. One of the things they did with the latest update was have this MOD download section in the game settings. The mods were submitted,
verified for the most part and you could download these mods in game.
After LFS is completed, I wouldn't mind seeing something like that developed for modders.
You could have the mods pre-certified (?) for compatibility and you could download these mods about the same way as you click which server to use.
Now I dunno if that would be practical with those mods where the modders basically redid the whole game.
The website idea would be perfect for those.
But I agree with you, this whole modding mess shouldn't be a development priority at this moment. Or really to us fan-boys either for that matter. Even though I want flaming trash cans instead of tires and 1950's lead sleds, I can wait til the game is finished. Yeah. 1950's lead sleds. Most of the models are from car companies long gone so there shouldn't be any legal issues and they look cool - just drive badly.
I don't live all that far from there. About 150 miles maybe. Never been. It's too damned expensive. And I really don't like them promoting Brittany Spears and Bruno Marx Over the actual race. I don't want the 40% increase in the ticket cost going to cover the cost of those two. The track itself? It's an OK track. I guess. I've only seen races on TV. It's not a classic though. LOL Nothing to whine to the devs to model. I have a friend that lives in Austin. Yeah. If you like weird, then go there.
South City?
Hmmmm.... how about a working train? Rowdy race fans throwing bottles at the passing cars? and of course, Flaming trash cans!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One of the things I trip out about y'all Scandinavians is how multi-linguistic y'all are. I was in a bar in.... Belize? Could've been Honduras. I was talking to this dude from Norway. This guy knew six languages.
Oh yeah... Vikings. Have you heard about the Aztec legend of Quetzalcoatl? There's a lot of suspicion that this person was a Viking.
Well his legend didn't start there. Indian tribes along the Louisiana/Texas gulf coast. It describe the same person almost to a "T".
All of the stories from these tribes, save one describe this guy as being a good person. He helped them out and got along real well with the tribes. But one tribe claimed the guy was flat out evil and threatened to throw them all into a fiery pit. Now it's hard to date all of this, but you can see this route that "Quetzalcoatl" took. So I'm wondering if maybe this guy WAS a viking. If so, was he a Christian convert? See he upset the religious authority of the Aztecs with his condemning of human sacrifice. If I'm not mistaken, early vikings were totally cool with human sacrifice. He wasn't known for preaching gospel or any sort of missionary stuff, but a lot of his mannerisms described in these stories sounded like a Christian to me. The Aztecs set him up and got rid of him. Unfortunately, I'm getting a lot of distractions while trying to type this, so I can't remember exactly what they did to him, but his story ended there.
Now if this guy really existed (kinda hard not to think so)I'm thinking he was a Viking probably shortly after Greenland was discovered.
All of the tribes described him as a bearded white dude with blue eyes.
But no description of any weapons that vikings were known to have. A shipwreck survivor maybe?
ROFL my wife and I say something like that about a park around here, only it's about alligators.
Alligators are nowhere near as aggressive as crocodiles are. I think that they are smarter though. A lot smarter. But the problem is complacency. You can sit around a wild alligator for years and it never do a thing, then one day it just bites you.
Lynxes.... They're about the size of a bob cat, right? Not as big as a lion, or even a cheetah, but a whole lot bigger than your average house cat?
How many videos are out there about some Darwin contestant getting out of a car in the middle of a lion safari?
Where I live we have bobcats, if you're lucky you might see an ocelot and maybe just maybe jaguars. None have been officially seen since around 1900, but you still hear stories here and there of one being spotted. Bobcats are all over the place though. Our big land predators are alligators, coyotes and wolves. but the nastiest animal we have isn't a predator at all. It's feral hogs.
There's a program to reintroduce black bears like what they're doing with wolves, but no bears in Texas just yet. Deer season for archery started today. Personally don't care for hunting deer, I don't like deer meat and for what it costs to go hunting, even if you own the land, you can get some really nice steaks that'll last longer for less money. And a bone-in rib eye beats back strap any day. But then again, you hang up a deer head to represent the food you got, that's cool. You hang up an old meat package to represent the same thing? Yeah. People'll look at you funny.
I prefer fishing - salt water.
You know where I run into a lot of people from Scandinavian countries at? Central America. Yeah. Central America. Go figure. Is it the food? The coffee? Mayan ruins? LOL The lack of bears?
In all honesty, I'm not seriously demanding electric cars as I'm simply proposing to the devs that when they do ever focus on making new cars, instead of trying so much for real models to just making some up with alternate sources of power. But.... If they did and went electric, I was thinking of something along the lines of a Tesla for the road cars. Only with out the tendency to catch fire. I hadn't realized there is something in the open wheel categories too.
I really like that car. It reminds me of something George Barris would've made.
Yeah as far as the parameters goes, what about the weight distribution with electric cars? They accelerate like crazy, but diving into corners with all that weight and motors on each wheel would have effects that wouldn't happen with regular gas cars. I think it would be nice to have those type cars modeled as I think it be a whole new dynamic. Already against Diesels? I'm guessing that maybe the similarities would be so similar in a game setting, why bother?
You make modeling a car sound simpler than what it really is. I've been a graphic artist for too long to not know that. You have to have a knack for doing what you're doing. It's not just a bunch of polygons with wheels coded to interact within a set of parameters. It's gotta look cool too.