Quote from NightShift :

Save for the didascalic irony in the story about broadband issues, I can hardly see anything amusing in this thread. Nothing really new has been posted so far, more or less the same things and situations resurfacing from the Postponement announce thread.

Then we faced, and today still are facing, a very typical case of mis-communication. This time it's because Scawen has implicitly set some expectations (i.e. that he would be back working after the holidays) despite he already knew he was going to be away from LFS for some more time.

And it's typical in that it could be avoided altogether with very little effort, i.e. just by saying, I might stop working LFS for more than just the christmas holidays, rather than just now I'm going to enjoy my holidays full stop.

Really, there's no point in arguing forever that Scawen can do whatever he wants, he has no legal obligation bla bla bla - FWIW he could even post 'F-word you all! I'm not going to talk to you until S3' or stop working altogether on LFS, and yet we couldn't complain on a strict factual/legal/whatever basis.

But looking at the big picture I fail to see how both the community and the development team can benefit from the onset of situations like this one. From one perspective it is certainly a very minor issue, but as it happens minor things tend to pile up in huge stacks until they turn into big issues.

Then it's easy to see how this apparent carelessness, when put in a certain context, could be interpreted by some as a sign of a slow, painful death of LFS.

ScaViEr should really be able to work the way they feel like, AND at the same time provide just a minimum amount of clear information so that faithful users are not needlessly disappointed.

You are very right, my father win money to live being a self-employed and Scawen win it with LFS development... my father can't work when he wants, because he loses clients (so he's losing money, because the clients stop buying his products), and Scawen it's in the same situation... if he doesn't work, he won't be 'kicked' of his work, but he will lose buyers, exactly as my father...

Quote from BoyGTA :

I know man, I'll make one for myself when its out

I already did one for Spanish users, but it isn´t uploaded, and I will upload it when luathas upload his pack, in order to put it the spanish numberplate with that awesome textures

Welcome to life Scawen

Hoping the Scirocco as soon as you can...

Curiousity: How much time did you take to write this post? I took 15 minutes reading it

Quote from 5haz :

It has been delayed by snow, sorry.

I can imagine the fanfare when it does get released though, I can see certain people going mad like 5 year old kids, then probrably crying that there is a ridiculously minor bug somewhere.

WOW!! Today were a lot of snow at England (London appeared on some Spanish channels). Did your England channels emited some images of Spain? Yesterday it snowed too much in Madrid, which it is very rare, one time each five or six years...

PD: Your post remember me to think if the new Scirocco will have snow chains for bad weather

Quote from Bass-Driver :

hi
sry i started today with the layout because i didnt had time to make it
i'm really sry
Here's your karttrack:
i made this track quickly so maybe its not perfect.
but its good for me.

Thank you a lot, I will drive on it later because I'm seeing the tennis match

How is the layout?

I don't want to say:


Only to know if the request I did is possible to be done, if you need more data or if you have any screenshot of the progress

Nicest textures ever seen

Waiting for the upload

Quote from Bass-Driver :

sure let me see the pics of the track with map ofcourse and i make it.

Sure, let me prepare a big screen with the most info as I can get And improving the map, because it's Paint-Made.

Thank you a lot

I think it will enter at BlackWood Car Park, but use the 'free arena' that you want

I will edit this post with the photos if no one write here until I do that

EDIT: Here you have all I know, if you need more, just tell it to me



Sorry for the bad edit of the helps I tried to write in the image

Last edited by Tomas Miranda, Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:51. Reason : New images

I would like to know if I can make a request showing some photos, some measures and a map of a karting track, that I'm sure that it's not necessary to scale the map, because it's very little indoor track and I would like to train it in order to learn the track, because I'm going to drive there in the future, I just got the minimum age this year to drive an adult's kart

If yes, I will show you pics

It's very rare that they said to release it on 19th of December, and suddenly they see there are a lot of crashes/errors/glitches/bugs... it looks very rare so I have two options:

A: LFS Development Team signed a contract with Volkswagen Audi Group which said anything like ''When you finish the development of Scirocco, we try it, and if it's real for us, you release it'' and the Scirocco it's not too real for Volkswagen Audi Group.

[sarcasm=on]
B: LFS Development Team needed some money, so they said there was a new car for S1 and S2 users, and a lot of people bought it as a Christmas present, specially parents buying it for their children...
[sarcasm=off]

Quote from UncleBenny :

Why does that steering wheel look like it has paddles then? Or are those the things to let the driver take the steering wheel off.

I always thought GTRs had paddles, might have to switch over to the stick instead though.

Now when I've learnt that GTRs has sequential 'stick' shifters instead of paddles, I can think that 'paddles' are a QuickRelease system... it's not probably that the 'stick' is a handbrake' :roto2:

Quote from G!NhO :

:nol2:

Sorry about my idiot error

I'll start to use the sequential shifter

I shift with paddles in GTRs because the GTRs look like DTM cars, and DTM cars have steering wheels like FormulaOne's ones so I can't say 100% sure that they use paddles, but I use them. I use |-|-| shifter when I'm on cruisers with no mattering the car it is

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

I'm free to post as long as I don't break any forum rules.

Try an older patch, like S or something.

Thanks for the help

I know in older patches, formula cars admited |-|-| pattern shifters, but I think I heard that there was a script which permitted to use |-|-| shifter on any car, writing some lines or anything like that...

PS: I told you that thing in my last message because you are boring, it looks that your work is to call noobs to the people which is new in LFS ambit and asks not-useful things... I'm sure that any day on your life you asked for help, and I'm sure that someone solved you a problem somewhere in your life, even in LFS Forum. I onl think that you must try to help a bit more to the people which asks instead of 'flaming' them with that ridiculious :bananadea (flaming bananas).

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

Why on earth would you want to do that?

Not your problem, stop writing posts without helping the people, thanks

PD: I would like to drive a restricted F08 or a FOX with |-|-| shifter like real pilots did in the past

Quote from obsolum :

With a few simple scripts you can make it so that LFS switches to the appropriate shifting method whenever you select a car. For example H-pattern when you select a STD or TBO car, sequential when you select a GTR car and paddle shifters for the BF1. Without pressing a single button. Scripts really do make life a lot easier in LFS, and it's not difficult to do

If you want I can just send you mine; they're just .lfs files that you simply put in your data/scripts folder, nothing more, no need to configure anything.

Is there any script to use |-|-| shifter on any formula car?

Its obligatory to use it for LFS porposals? Or can I get some slots in order to talk with my real life friends?

I love the textures that you are doing.

Are you going to write all the progress in this post?

If yes, I would subscribe to the post in order to get your Scirocco Textures pack when you release it

I hope it, not because I'm happy of the Chinese New Year, yes because I would like to drive the VWS

Quote from Joris :

Sounds like you rather want to be part of the problem than part of the solution.

The nice thing would be to drive in all the servers, if one make this, and then other guy, and then other, and then other...

The problem is that we need a first group of people which loves FOX in order to make CTRA Single Seaters 2&3 as full as CTRA Race 3, but while this happens, I prefer to race with the other cars in order to learn to drive them better

I will look like a guy that says 'someone will do it, and then I'll use it'. Maybe I'm one of those guys, but I'm enjoying CTRA Race 3

Quote from obsolum :

Right, I forgot about that one I don't think I've ever set foot in that server

When I started at CTRA Servers (October/Novenber 2008) I started to race at FBMs server, and I got National B license, and my happiness of 'WOW I GOT A LICENSE YEAHH!' dissapeared when FOXs and FJRs (restricted F08s) was always empty. So I started to race on CTRA Race 1, and I started to like the normal cars (understanding a normal car is the opposite of a Single Seater: the wheels are covered by the car chassis) and I started to win points, in order to get a Silver License, because Bronze License only allow you to spec CTRA Race 2 & 3 servers, but no racing, so in 1'5/2 monts I got Siver license, and now I'm driving to Gold (715 points). When I got tired while fighting for my Siver license, I was going to Bump&Jump server, which was always with people connected, not like now (2 months later). Now, it's always empty, and I prefer to get soon my Gold license in order to drive some nice GT2 that not burn their tyres like GFRs (UFR or XFR).

Sorry for the large text, but resuming, I recomend drivers to drive in CTRA Race servers, instead of Single Seaters, because the servers where you cn connect when you win better licenses, are always empty, not the problem of CTRA Race 3, maybe from 19:30 GMT +1 to 23:00 GMT +1 the server gets from 20 to 25 connections, making funny races

About Bump&Jump, there is a funny racing style that requires not to be only in the track, because if you are only, it is boring. You can use it as a fast and boring method to get points for the international ranking, always knowing you are only, go slow, you will finish always the first

Quote from obsolum :

The FXR requires you to have a Platinum license. If that's the only car you choose to drive then I'm sorry for you because you'll first have to earn a Platinum license before you'll be able to drive it on the CTRA servers.

Like Saberskunk said, you earn points by finishing races in the top positions and racing cleanly. By earning enough points you earn different licenses. It will take you quite a while to get to Platinum.

The cars you can drive with a "beginner's licence" on CTRA are the XFG, XRG on CTRA Race 1, UF-BR on the UF-BR server and the FBM on CTRA Single Seater 1.

Also, be sure to take a look at the Rules page on the CTRA website.

He an drive at Bump & Jump too

I don`t know if this was suggestioned before, but anyway would be a nice tool for teams while on league servers in order to talk of setups like ''change valor of gearbox Final Gear from 3.050 to 3.078''.

Quote from BlueFlame :

Marbles appear on the OUTSIDE of the groove, where the loose rubber has been forced to the outside

Hehe, I forgot that, thanks for the comment

Quote from Bob Smith :

I should really get around to re-doing this pack in a state that works with current versions of LFS. Never seem have the time though!

I hope anyday you do a new pack, I love your setups for cruise servers