Quote from baSh0r :

Of course more sustainable energies are good but if we cut nuclear power sources we end up in the 16th century.

Last time I checked nuclear power has been a thing of the last half century, certainly not pre-industrial era... I also happen to know we Austrians aren't riding around on our horses in chainmail, and yet we don't have any (working) nuclear power plants...

I am all for nuclear power - just not fission... And it would have never taken off if the still unsolved problem of how to deal with the waste would not have been allocated to the general public... We will still suffer the consequences of half a century not dealing with it when we terraform our umteenth space colony...

Just as a reference, Dave Kaemmer is working on his new tyre model for over a year now... And Dave has a big investor and (thus?) access to extensive testing data, he even had a whole tyre testing facility at his disposal at one time! Scawen has only the data he can find with no investment from the outside and doesn't have a team of engineers to bounce ideas to... Still, both are out "soon"...

Scawen, you may (or not) know that I always understood and defended your position to delay something to make it right... I know from what I gathered about programming and tyre behaviour that you're wrestling with a hugely complex topic... Besides you, there are only 3 people in the whole world (one fourth retired) that have enough knowledge of both to be able to create a good racing simulator, so that speaks volume of the task you're working on...

That said, you get to say this only once:

Quote from Scawen :

I'm sure it would have been different if we had known in advance how long this development stage would take, I guess we could have tried to plan other releases in the meantime. But it has always seemed like I was near to finishing the tyre physics, so no change of plan was required.

It seems that you have fallen into the same trap again... We all - well, at least most of us - can understand that a plan changes or that an obstacle proves harder to tackle than it looks initially, but you're making the same mistake again... Once is human, twice in a row - doesn't reflect that favourably...

The story could be the only thing making it more than a generic shooter, and I fear it will be so crammed with hurrah-patriotism that it won't be enjoyable for anyone outside the USA...

Quote from menantoll :

Again, sorry bbman, I didn't mean my post to have a go at you really. I'm not that good with the written word.

No worries mate... I think we all fell in the same trap at one point...

Haven't seen a post in their forums disagreeing with the popular (better? ) opinion, so yeah, unanimous... I would hope it's ingame - maybe a mistake to express that only on the other forum - but past experience and the wording in the episode ("hotlap", "recorded in fall 2010") are quite overwhelming counter-arguments...

Quote from menantoll :

So consensus makes it true does it?

It's amazing how a number of customers who have no more information than the rest of us can post their opinion on something then all of a sudden it becomes FACT!

How many opinions does it take to make it true?

Yes, I reported the fact that unanimous opinion was that the sample isn't an ingame one... You said it yourself: these are opinions, nowhere did I or anyone else claim the absolute truth... Let's have the freedom to have an opinion, shall we?

Quote from Töki (HUN) :

^ dat Ford GT sound.

Yeah, consensus is that's the base recording they took of the real thing rather than ingame though... Why they would present something that probably has no relevance to the final product, no one knows...

I've never seen any repairs being done on an engine apart from maybe 24-hour races... And those weren't repairs on overheated/overrevved engines which is the kind we see in iRacing... That's (again) more towards game than sim to me...

Oh, and the engine isn't really stallable (yet) - you can only cut the ignition, else the mandatory anti-stall will save you... They already got some flak for not making it an option or tying it to the auto-clutch...

Quote from MadCat360 :

Don't worry. The tire model will fix everything.

And it will also make your ping 0ms.

If it's really as good as they're saying it is, then it will do away with tricks through tyre pressures...

Many things could be prevented by simply having another scrutineering after the race (as it is the norm in real series), as was requested by members for a long time now... Yes, there would be sour faces initially, but in the end I think everybody would agree it's for the better...

Quote from Swiss-Spirit :

Well yeah, basically "Eat this, you dumb Americans"?

Well, in this instance, they're right...

The middle east is still part of the Asian continent, you know...

But I agree, there is a plethora of tracks (and some very good ones at that) they're discarding when they're looking to Europe...

Quote from Seb66 :

Yeah this was a really great race even the SC was interesting

Yeah, next time they'll overtake the SC in the pits - would that be grounds for a penalty?

Quote from Forbin :

Nice thing about that effect is it's caused by your mirrors being convex, which provides a wider field of view.

So deliberately setting them to an angle with no point of reference must really help with depth perception, yes?

Quote from GreyBull [CHA] :

First meeting was incredibly dull for GP2 standards, I really wonder what the organisers were thinking when removing the only overtaking place, by taking that shortcut after T2.

After Bathurst, it's the longest lap for the V8s already...

Well, that's why you guys need to be reminded that something might actually be closer than it seems...

So... Gotten it yesterday, played for a few hours... The pedals are like an on/off-switch, I wonder why I bothered with configuring it to an axis anyway... Cruising is therefore almost impossible as holding a certain speed (except terminal velocity) practically can't be done...

Also, when you configured both the paddles and the H-shifter in TDU1 you'd be using whatever was available in the car, in TDU2 you have to choose either one or the other in the options, so you're shifting with the gates even in the F430, which is quite a leap backwards to 1... :banghead:

And the old trick of banging it into 2nd from 6th to turn a corner still works...

Where is the option "this is an utterly pointless poll as the devs are the only ones deciding how to distribute their game"?

Frankly, I worry when customers think they're entitled to choose how the vendor's business is run...

Probably didn't close properly - look in the task manager if nks.exe is still running and close it from there...

Hey, at least you can deinstall the game without worrying about the data on your system drive, eh?

Quote from Cornys :

I think 24 hours is too long for exciting racing anyways :P

So, Paris-Dakar is about exciting racing? Tour de France? Iron Man?

No Portimao makes Mr. Banana sad... :sadbanana

Quote from Mille Sabords :

Losing the fun factor and ease of access (5 minutes top, most of which are dedicated to installing and clamping the wheel - then jump in wherever I feel like without schedule and plans, and meet the racers I want to compete with).

This might be a sore point for you... In any given league, races are started only once an hour at best, many run only every two hours - higher licenced series with low participation even run only on specific days (to pool the few together)... You could fill the spaces with private testing, practice, doing a qualifying or time trial run or you could run another series altogether though...

Can't say much about hosted racing as I haven't been doing it, but hosting yourself might not your first choice, as it's $ 3.00 per event (up to 3? hours long)...

Quote from richard dk :

I drove my first LFS race last thursday and i`m gonna have my second race tonight... LFS is outdated and iRacing is still better...but LFS is still very fun.....

You make it sound like it's adultery to enjoy both...

I'll be trying to (finally) dive into the deep end with the FG01 after what basically was a season getting up to speed (more like getting/finding any at all)... Coincidentally, the new tweak made it behave a bit better now, so it'll be interesting to see how that pans out (also for me personally)...

So, gone gold... Anyone planning to get it? Make a LfS-group?

Maybe burned through his money again, so expect 1.3 in two years...