Quote from Crashgate3 :

Will Saab still be making these?

Yes! because its not the same company... havent been in a long while... i think they separated the car part when they sold of to GM.

Its these 3

SAAB automobile
SAAB "Svenska aeroplan aktiebolaget" (Swedish Airplane Corporation)
Scania (trucks)

Its only the automobile company that is in trouble so far..

Quote from Si Mclaren :

I am a experient player, not only in LFS but in a lot of simulators, and wanna suggest: Why dont make a new pit lane exit? because it ends in a bad place, can make a lot of crashes, and i think if will better the pit lane ends before the hairpin or after the chicane, better if use a tunnel, like abu dhabi track?

Download lfs s1: http://www.lfs.net/?page=downloadsarchive

Try it out, it has the same pit exit as your other choise. The abu dhabi thing would be cool but not on BLGP. The pitlane is already very long as it is and having a tunnel past the chicane sure would make things interesting but the pitstops would take very long time, otherwise the chickane would be a perfect place to have the pits.

However in many leagues pit stop is mandatory and there it wouldnt matter if the pitlane is long, but in races where its not mandatory it would make you loose LOADS of time.. but then again so would any pitstop..

the next post.

This would be difficult but very fun indeed. it would require you to setup you pitstops yourself.

example.
roadcars=limited money and team, you have 2 mechanics... and you have to setup how they are going to work.

maybe 1 guy changes tyre and one refuels. Or both changes tyres and then 1 refuels and the other fix damage.

and for GTR and Open weelers you have as much as 8 guys or so...


It adds yet another "dimension" to the races BUT it would be extremely hard to setup the strategy while driving as it would be even more to "fiddle" with while driving...

But maybe 2 or 3 alternative "pit strategies" that you have to "preset" so you can choose wich one when you are making the stop.

Last edited by AcesHigh, Mon 21 Dec 2009, 13:28.

i think it should be setup like this...

Open wheelers
You have a nice sponsored team with full pitcrew, all tyres changed at the same time and refuel is going on simultanuesly. Damage gets fixed at a pretty fast rate aswell.

GTR
You have the same fancy sponsored team with full pitcrew, but! due to regulations you get to change tyres 2 at a time, and refuel happens simultanuesly. Damage gets fixed pretty fast aswell.

Roadcars
You have a private team or a team with "limited" sponsorship and thus "limited" pitcrew.
Tyrechange still happens 2 at a time but its slower, refuel happens after the tyrechange and damage takes long time to fix.

Also
make it possible like you say to change only the rear tyres or the front tyres... or maybe only 1 tyre...


Or a alternative that requires a change of the entire "pitsystem" read my next post...

Last edited by AcesHigh, Mon 21 Dec 2009, 13:25.

I really hate the guitar fag kids(guitar hero/rockband) that actually thinks it has anything to do with guitar... and when i sau you only press 4 buttons instead of all the combinations on a normal guitar neck, they just " but you learn to keep the beat" **** that you learn nothing guitar hero is so ****ing inacurrate as can be...

OT
Myself im self taught, thats why i know no theory at all... i know som "chords" but i dont know they name... powerchords i know all of the because they are really simple and require no real skill to pull off...

ive started doing som blues improv stuff at this point...

Im gonna energize this thread with my own info.. not artist but player yes.


- Genre: Mainly heavy metal.

- Experience and History
Just played guitar for a couple of years on and off, not realy good but i guess i can play a few bits, my aim isnt really to be "awesome" i just like to play... be it simple bits or hard stuff... used to play bass @ school so i guess i can do that aswell.

- Instruments
Guitar.
Bass.

- Hardware
Electric Guitar.
Ibanez roadstar 2(RG 410), quite a collectible this days and the colour and "turned over" pickup makes it hopelessly 80´s.. but its a dream to play and pretty "unique" theses days

not mine but it looks exactly like that, the pic shows the colour pretty bad though... its very metallic and looks darker or brighter depending on light.


Acoustic guitar
Just a cheap ass "stagg" acoustic but its pretty playable and does its job well.

AMP. Peavey Bandit 112.

F/X. A pedal with lots of stuff to play around with.

- Software
nothing really

im just trying this game out as we speak

I also wonder what the owner of the real "Yashio Factory" thinks about you using his trademark for private use...

That thing about the mods is just so lame, it can easily be done without to much photoshop skill...

Ive seen edited lfs screens years before anyone could add cars to lfs.

I remember a screenshot where sombody edited in a ae86 making a twin together with the xrt, and it looked so good you couldnt have seen it was edited if you didnt know it...

Quote from danthebangerboy :

I once had a 1985 vauxhall nova (opel corsa) that had done 248,164 miles (399,381 km) when i sold it, but needless to say it smoked like hell!

I had a volvo 740 with 360,000 km on the gauge, wasnt any problem whatsoever with the car... no smoke, didnt take oil, no rattle... just a bit soft in the suspension.

My parents had one just like it with 470,000 km and still working perfectly when they sold it.

Thats quality

???

Thats the importance of getting good people at the start, like my team... i probably have some of the best drivers in the lfs community, not as in "fast" but as in motivated, friendly and motivated drivers that race clean... and ofcourse some of us are IRL friends that hang out IRL and we actually had a IRL team meeting drinking beer and having a good time...

Thats what has keept this team going strong for over a year now.

[BCCC] Burning Clutch Car Club

http://bccc.forum24.se


We have been around for just over a year now but i havent bothered to post around on Lfs.net

Introduction.
We are a tight group from sweden, founded in september/october 2008 and been going strong ever since. Mainly focusing on the swedish league called "torsdagsrace". However im thinking about expanding into some other leagues aswell.

We are not currently looking for new members but however if you are from sweden(or denmark/norway) you can try to apply anyways if you are interested (there is always a chance:shrug, the important thing is that you can understand swedish since we arent to keen on speaking english in ventrilo.

Members

Arnie
AcesHigh
Yoshiwara
Fredde
Hjorten
Spirre

Pedal to the metal/AcesHigh

Here are a few from various driftingservers over the years..


"crasher!!!!" (he spun off the track and just drove back right infront of me)

"You are to slow" (spins me out to be able to pass)

"n00b" (spins me out to be able to pass)

"learn how to drive" (same as above)

"are you drunk?" (i was connecting some corners by sliding back and forth on the straight between them, and some idiot tried to pass at corner entry.)

"your skin is gay"

"i tried to twin" (rear ending me in a tight corner at full speed).

"sorry" (probably the worst one out there... why even think that anyone would fall for that time after time when you clearly are crashing on purpose several times).



public servers, meh....

So what if 1 server uses a layout you made? its the "server" and not the layout that people come for. I do like layout when im drifting... and a server that changes layouts often and offers a great variety is what i like, also one key thing for me is that the server is nicely moderated and not to populair...

cause populair servers=fail, look at the 42d servers, specially the driftwars server, its a very friendly and nice team that operates the server, and they have a master on making good layouts...

....but.... full of idiots, just 10 year old´s with the rb4 that crashes everyone! try to do a nice twin and you have some idiot destroying it... also if you are alittle bit slower people cant just wait to pass, no they ram you of the track!

so a nice password protected server offered only to a decent gang of members who actually can behave is what i want... and it doesnt exist!

I think most online racing are just like this... thats why i only go to public servers for drifting.

There will always be the fast ones at the front, and then the rest of the idiots in the middle of the pack and in the rear... i find it pointless to even attempt online "public" races in LFS... there is just to much mayhem, to much people who dont show respect.

Doesnt matter what server you are on, you always get pushed over by people in T1... and you will always have loads of people blocking more than they should. Eventually you get tired of spending 30-60min of being left behind with a few unlucky others or having to get DNF because of idiots who actually blame you for their idiocy.

The only racing i do is in racing series and events, sometimes practice in single or on private servers... in a series people have a tendency to show some sportsmanship because there they got something to loose... like a permaban from the series. Another "plus" demo drivers cant join because most combo´s are s2 material.

wather and damage definetly, cars are the least problem actually, there is already alot of cars in the game.

Then throw in some weather with the ability to "change" so that suddenly in the middle of a race rain starts pouring down. Then also add nightdriving, and a complete 24h day with changing weather conditions. It will never make the game boring, and the endurance racing will never be the same.

However, LFS is in desperate need of new rallycross tracks... there is a huge number of racingtracks as there is, and the rallyX only have a total of 6 tracks in you throw in the reverse ones aswell...

Your wrong with bonaaza.

it something like..

HKS] Bonazaa - been in Team TSL, DRFT|, BCCC, TXD, TSD, and other teams aswell.

well thats it isn´t it... a team doesnt just die, a team gets killed by the leadership and thats a fact.

A original name, no matter how "lame" it may sound really is the way to go!

HKS, rockstar, blitz, falken, Project-D... bleh... sounds like guys trying to hard IMO.. its all about the fun IMO.

Quote from shaymous-122 :

what is with you guys haha! anyway, tryouts are cancelled!!!!!

[HKS] is dead! No one backs us up, gives us a chance, and because of past hks teams the team rep. is shit!

so thanks guys!

peace

slider

That´s why i didnt even think twice about joining when you asked me... i pretty much had the feeling it wasnt gonna last, and now when you got to the first "bump in the road" you just give up and call it a day...

its 99% quality and 1% quantity... 2 active and decent members easily pull off way more than 20 unactive members.

sorry for rambling... i dont know about your activness in the team, but it really cant be good if you cancel the team now.

Quote from shaymous-122 :

Not official. We are official and have direct contact with HKS themselves.

peace.

slider

As much as i like you slider i couldn´t help but to laugh my ass off when you said "your in direct contact with HKS" and to make a claim like that just drags you down..

peace out!

then i am sorry and apologise. but there should be another smiley or something to mark as joke imo.

Quote from The Very End :

I find that VERY offending, reported :mad:

Wanst meant to offend you but more as a "joke" to everyone that describes that there is a whole lot of whining for nothing.

If you failed to se that i feel sorry for you, but you sure is the biggest crybaby ive seen in long time thats for sure, and i really hope that you feel really offended by it now that you are crying about reports.

Quote from Mazink :

VW will never come to LFS

problem solve

we should make a wiki about LFS DEV TIME (aka valve time but even longer)

Maybe we should make a wiki about all the lame people whining about lfs development time...

The patch isnt coming any faster because people constantly are whining about it, thats no fanboy talk.. thats a fact. If your not happy with what LFS can bring you, you could try another game like both myself and lots of others are doing... i mean its not like LFS is the only good game out there(though its good).

I also realise that this may come as a shock to some people, but there is other things you can do to pass time besides playing computergames all day long...

Quote from atledreier :

Last weekend I took my car to trackday, and drove really badly..

First time out, and I overdrove the car so bad it was embarassing. Most corners entered way too fast, and alot of sliding. I have awd, so there wasn't alot of drifting as such, but alot of sliding around and locking up tires.
After a few laps I noticed my tire grip degrading noticeably, especially in the last corner which is a sharp hairpin where you whip the car around. The pit entry is on the outside of this corner, and the pit exit itself is around 20m onto a staging area. On one of my runs where the tires were really bad I exited onto this staging area and immediately felt the tire temps with my hand, expecting to burn my hand. To my surprise the tires felt definetly hot, but not burning hot. I would estimate around 50deg C. This is performance street tires. With the amount of degradation to grip I was expecting REALLY hot tires. I can't imagine what it would be like driving on tires 150 or even 100degrees, but I assume it would feel pretty greasy.

Now, it COULD be that my tires just cooled down really fast, but I was off the pace for a maximum of 15-20 seconds before the car was stopped and I was out and touching the rubber. I felt the tires after about a minute and they still felt pretty hot.

Now I know this is in no way scientific, but a subjective observation, but still I think I can tell a difference between 50 and 150 degrees.

Thats what i mean aswell with my example it was a burnout and though we didnt touch the tires we went sideways in 30km/h in a corner where you normally go 50km/h(everyday driving).

I dont think that LFS tires physics are that off really, especially since hearing your input. Ive seen 115bhp volvos burn rubber in 3rd gear once the temperature rises. But i do believe that a small adjustement should be made to make it a little bit harder to overheat so damn much.

I like it as it is at the moment when you are in blue or green zone. But once you get to red it seems to get out of control and rise very fast. But you only really drives with red when you are drifting, or have made a terrible mistake and spun out or choose wrong tires.

well real tires get a similair behaviour, me and a friend at the time did a really really long burnout.. then we drove off (with no wheelspinn) and entered a corner at around 30km/h and the car skidded like we drove on snow or somwthing. And this is a corner where 50km/h is actually a bit slow.

I do agree that lfs "could use" a little bit more grip when the tires are superhot.. and i also think that they should blow at lower tempratures. But i dont think LFS tire physics are "that" unrealistic. But sure could use a little upgrade... but lets not forget that if they mess up the physics so that you cant really drift any more... lfs will die, cause its easily 50-60% who bought LFS just to be able to drift.

As most know there is a mod for LFS out.. there is a car added to the game. And one reason that the patch is delayed can be that they are changing the programming to render that mod useless... and frankly i couldnt care less about that car.

as a sidenote i can say i do beleive in making mods "allowed" to LFS as long as they are based on the ingame cars. I.E XRT with a bodykit, a wing, or no wing, or with scoops.. you know!?
the reason why "that car" is unnalowed is because its a licenced car... the XRT isn´t and thats why i think some mods on that one should be fine...