And here is the first contender for this map!!!

Its called "The Tail Of The Dragon" 318 curves in 11 miles. Its fuggin nutz.




Easy to get first person videos of this. I will be on this road in less then a month on my 04 GSXR750. SO EXCITED!!!

Meaning someone could download a replay, load it up, and be able to drive within this replay. Being able to shadow or follow someone else could really be helpfull for the learning process. The car could have some opacity to it and you would not be able to get into collision with it. Maybe have the ability to slow the pace of the replay car down by a percentage to keep up with it. Learning breaking points and drive lines.

Would be sweet to be able to replay a league event and drive with them.

Whadda think?

(Sorry if this has been suggested before)

My 04 750 Suzi =D


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Ok, just a simple fun idea. LFS Tag!

There is basically a car/person that is "IT", that car has to make some type of phycial contact to tag the next person. So on and so fourth. It could be fun in the car park or something. You could really see where some aggressive driving and hand breaking would come in to play

This ever been suggested before?

http://www.blinkerfluid.org/video/T1inLaSource-2.wmv

Something is wrong here in this vid. Took me a second to figure it out. A VW BUS!!!

If you get a chance, can you build me a FZR with Porsche and some of its major race sponsors? Overall color of the car in white.

Mobil 1
Michelin
Shell

I'm looking for some examples to link to help.

Thanks you.

Stuck on 18 for a day now, read all of the clues on the game's forums. illepall

I started this yesterday, im on 15, been stuck on it for 2 hours. I read that its French writing? Lookin for clues and even a PM spoiler at this point. /sigh


EDIT* Got it.

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With the power and class of cars that its in, I think its a 911 Front end and a Ferrari rear.

Figure 8 track with school busses +1


Thats all that "Needs" to be done.

Quote from tristancliffe :

What is it with Americans and swearing recently. The number of people here saying 'shoot the shit' or similar is just shocking, and is a great indicator of the decline of intelligence.

Please, please learn a slightly more gifted way of explaining what you mean, rather than resulting to rude, often offensive, slangy terms.

To my mind shooting shit involved a pile of poo and a gun, but I guess you meant some form of discussion...

Dr Tristan calculates you have an IQ of 5.4

Sorry bud haha, thats a bit of Detroit in me. Just how we talk here(nobody gets offended). Ill try to tone it down a bit.

Quote from 56Hotrod :

I grew up in Tennessee. Went to college in Maryville, then the University of Tennessee. Gap is about 30 minutes from Maryville - and I visited it once a month or so. I now live in South Carolina and miss being close to the gap. I've had a whole lot of fun up there in various cars and my old GSXR-750...but I sold it to get a 2003 Evolution (Buschur stage III). Just got back last month from a trip up there in the EVO. Amazing ride - even though it was raining. Here's a full run (rainy) of the gap [150mb]:
http://www.steven-laura.net/Steven/Videos/dealsgap8.wmv

If someone made a track based on Deal's Gap...I'd be a happy man.

Nice Vid! To bad it was not dry for you guys. Good job at keeping it in the lines also. They(we) don't like lane crossers due to the fact they kill people. I noticed how your camera guy was a bit nervous and suggested to keep it slow. "Becareful of the leaves!" heh. I totally understand that reaction after my buddy told me he was very nervous when I was driving that truck.

Our first visit to US129 we were doing a run from the Gap to the overlook(where you started) in a tad bit under 11 minutes if I remember correctly. At this point we did not know how to drag knees(Michigan).

You mentioned KILLBOY at the start of the vid. Darryl and Lori are the married couple that run the photo site and have taken up to 12,000 pictures in on a weekend of all of the people visiting. They are some of the nicest people I have ever meet. We were fortunate enough to shoot the shit with them for a few hours after midnight on the Gaps deck. Ive seen how they drive that car, they are both very good, and nuts. Hes also very fast on his bike.

You are making this winter even longer for me, I wanna go back so bad. Glad to talk to people that have expirenced it also.

Quote from Becky Rose :

If anything LFS shares more in common with Everquest and World of Warcraft than it does other driving games.

Off topic:

omg, please don't mention the "E" and "W" words! I spent 5 years on the "E" word and 2 on the "W" word! Does that mean I'm going to make LFS the "L" word after a few years playing it?


/rocks back and forth in the corner of the room mumbling. :nut:

Quote from SamH :

R2P meets the shortfalls (skins being just one example) in the functionality in other race sims that just aren't ongoing issues in LFS.

Hello, I'm a newer Licensed S2 driver and am looking for a group of friends to begin driving with. 28y/o, clean driver looking for team! Once I seen LOTF my intrested peeked! My XFR and FZR are currently skinned as our US Flag. I currently live in the Detroit Metro area.

Please drop me a PM and expect my app on your site soon.

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I found it to be a pain in the ass to talk with people with the endless spam of the computer controlled info. With all of the entered/exit pits and vote spam its almost impossible to read anything typed because its pushed off the screen to fast. Would a seperate chat window or area that can be size changed be of intrest to anyone else?

One of the big draws for me with online play is being able to shoot the shit with everyone between races and practicing. Would be nice if it was a better system.

Quote from Jakg :

Reworked Viper?! sacriledge!

What? haha, It does! It has many of the same lines as a viper. /shrug

Check this thing out, never seen one of these, looks like a reworked Viper. Wonder how she handles.

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3rd Gear by Z-Trip

IMO, a fantastic slow motion movie song would be a tune called 3rd Gear by a group called Z-Trip. Its very mello and has that beat that would pace a car very nicely.

I am currently building playlists to race to.

NM, I got it, I'm a moron.

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To both of you, The Dragon, is in every way, the one of the single most amazing roads you will ever expierence in your life time. I say that with no hesitation or second guessing. The layout and elevation changes are so outta hand that you can actually see the headlights of the person infront of you. In a normal everyday car, supercar, or sport bike, it will be a blast. When we went up it the first time we had our bikes in the back of a 05 Ford F150. I was driving and my buddy was white knuckled the entire time he told me after. The road itself is in perfect blacktop condition with little to no dirt/gravel of anykind the entire lengh. The people on it and locals treat the road like its their home and keep it clean. Bring the family, camping, rapids, fishing sight seeing.

Not only the dragon but the entire surrounding area of the mountain range has even more roads and small towns to explore. The road through the national park is beautiful. Another road called The Cherohala Skyway starts very close to where the Dragon ends in Deals Gap. This is also one of my faves. http://www.cherohala.com/ I would bring the bike up to about 100mph and cruze for 38 miles on these long sweepers that seem to go on forever. You compleatly forget about anything else. I slept under the stars at Deals Gap and listend to the blowoff valves pop and rev limiters bounce in the mountains at night. I can't say enough about this place

As far as trucks, its not THAT bad, they are occational, usually only on the weekdays. If you really wanted to ride hard on the dragon, being there during a week day helps huge.

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Quote from al heeley :

It looks like one hell of a route though, must be a real blast on a powerful bike if you live to enjoy it all.

Yeah, last time we where down there two people died. One guy took the Gravity Cavity a bit to fast(2 Apex's) and got a face full of granite. We road right past him as he was laying in the ditch(TONS of other poeple already stopped to help him).

The other poor guy was on a Gold Wing, he was looking at the scereny a bit to much. He drifted into an oncomming pickup truck.

You have to take a bit of care for obvious reasons. There are no sand traps or run off areas, if you over shoot you hit mountain or go over. Also it take an ambulance about 45 minutes to get there. Ill push myself on the race tracks.

Once I read about the track editor/designer that should be released, the first thing I thought of building was a road (US129) on the Tennessee/North Carolina border. This road is named "Tail Of The Dragon" it is 318 curves in 11 miles in the smokey mountains. A friend and I have taken two 4 day trips down to this road with our sport bikes(Suzuki GSXR750) and have learned alot from it. This area is extreamly popular and this road is what attracts people from all over the world to come ride/drive it.

http://www.dealsgap.com/images/arielDragonT.jpg
http://www.grahamcountytravel.com/maps/DRAGONmap.gif

I dream about this road and eating it alive on a sportbike. It has consumed us in everyway possible. Unfortunatlly it is 11 hours away, but we still make the trip.

This would be a wonderful LFS user created track. :woohoo:

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Well, I just stumbled on the "LFS in the news" topic. Seen some of the places that it is comming up at. Review sites and some magazines, it would be sweet to see it at E3 though. zomg

I will at least be a new dealer of LFS to my friends and such.